inwils

This is the first of three videos delving into the spirit world of the Animist. In this video, I look at the concept of the animist, how they fit into your existing campaigns and which skills they need to invest in. Further videos will look at spirits, spirit combat and how the animists operate within adventures.

https://youtu.be/-wmwHNcPfTk

Sorry, just had to share this with you all:

The opponent fumbles their attack roll and Hengist (party's tank) decides to take advantage of that and rolls his parry for that special!

I might be in the minority here, but we do use fatigue in combat. To make it easier it is whatever someone is doing, and this could mean just casting spells etc.

I like it because it really puts the pressure on to finish combat as quickly as possible. So people tend to use specials to make opponents helpless and then compel surrender or force the defend etc.

Also our Theist uses Vigor a lot and the sorcerer's go to spell is 'erit!' in order to tire the opponents.

Can't see us changing this in the future.

18 hours ago, lawrence.whitaker said:

Most Professional skills have a Standard skill counterpart that can act as a substitute at a penalty. In the case of Courtesy, then Customs or Influence, but at Hard or Formidable, reflecting the fact that they may lack of nuances required by the Courtesy skill.

I do agree that even where the player may be more eloquent than the character, a roll should determine the outcome.

I thought that might be the case, I was just wondering how the skill system scales at higher levels. I wanted to avoid characters just putting points into Influence instead of a courtesy skill, because it will have more 'uses'.

I know in some systems there is no default skill for certain advanced skills. I just wanted to really award the player who had invested in the skills, rather than letting someone who has a high influence skill make the roll over them. I think I will leave it to my players - that seem fair,

Thanks for your replies 

I always think that if a player has invested points into a particular skill then there should be an opportunity to use it in the game. Often, with social skills, players use their natural role playing ability to cover these skills. I really do try to insist that they have the opportunity to use a skill so that even if they role play a wonderful influence conversation, they still need to roll the skill to see if there are successful.

But I was wondering how people play professional skills. For example, as the title might suggest, courtesy? If the character does not have this skill - are they allowed to attempt to be courteous in a situation? Do these skills default to another with the difficulty increasing? I would really like to explore how other GMs play this.

If you have a really great method then please do let me know

Hi everyone,

When creating and running my sessions, I like to put in rumours and information that the players can gather from people they know. On page 22 of the CRB there is some information about how to run contacts and even within the passion section it would be possible to have contacts which they are 'loyal' to. 

I was wondering:

1) how do you run contacts in your sessions?

2) Do you use passions for this so that players can develop them?

3) When they interact with their contacts, do you ask for rolls for the social interaction, e.g. influence skill rolls?

Looking forward to hearing your replies

inwils

Hi everyone,

As the title tells you, episode 4 of the Mythras Matters podcast is now live.

This month has an interview with the creators of Mythic Babylon and I talk about experience rolls.

Enjoy!

inwils

http://www.buzzsprout.com/266482

Something a bit different from the usual rules videos. In this video, I ask questions to the player Mr Pickles about how he plays his character Bartleby the Theist.

Hope you enjoy

Interview with a Theist https://youtu.be/NICPje1WuqI

I have an interview with the author on the next Mythras Matter Podcast - published 1st July 2019 Looking forward to having a chat about this

On 6/2/2019 at 11:07 PM, kronovan said:

Good to know, the Waterlands adventures is the only Mythic Britain PDF I don't own.  I typically write my own adventures and campaign arcs, but I liked the campaign and adventures in the core book enough to begin with those - quality stuff. I'm curious to read, hear or view what Waterlands might add. 

I know Bill and Gryphea are in the discord chat so maybe ask them in there

On 6/3/2019 at 3:50 AM, jackleg2010 said:

A very entertaining episode. Looking forward to #3!

Thanks, appreciate letting us know.

Second Video on Brotherhoods and Orders - in this one I look at membership and ranks  - includes a snippet of an interview with Mr Pickles who plays Bartleby Fumus!

Ever wanted to be a member of a secret society? Always seen that infamous brotherhood but never managed to join them? Well in this video I give you an overview of the Orders and Brotherhoods in the ruleset which is Mythras.

The second video from my series about experience rolls in #Mythras - passions and new skills and spells!

https://youtu.be/NSkm-Lidk30

The Design Mechanism

Thanks everyone, really helpful

I'm interested how you all GM combat Traits - do you say that these automatically work or put in some sort of opposed or difficulty grades - I was thinking of implementing some sort of Taunt for our noble warrior, like a challenge of a battle cry which distracts the enemy from what they are doing and focuses their attack on him. #verynoble - thoughts?

You are all probably all well versed in experience rolls within the game, but I just wanted to share my latest video about them.

Feel free to share

thanks for taking the time to comment, much appreciated