Mythras Arrives! Plus Alien and The Electric State

 We did it! We started Mythras on Wednesday. The campaign setting is one I have used in the past for D&D 3.5 (some games I ran during the pandemic period), as well as D&D 5E and Pathfinder 2E. None of those were ever a perfect fit for what I wanted to do with the campaign, which was a fantasy allegory for the post-Roman collapse period around 450-550 AD. As it turns out, Mythras is a perfect fit.

I'm leaning in to story elements and beats that will showcase for the group the unique features common only to Mythras, Runequest and some other BRP titles. Stuff such as spirit combat and animism, the ubiquity of folk magic for those who wish to learn it, and a predilection toward humans as the norm with optional other species being exceedingly rare or exotic. The first combats will be design to teach the players in the group who are new to the potentially lethal vagaries of the Mythras combat system. 

Overall I am quite pleased, and this shift has distinctly energized my GM interest in a way that has been flagging for a while. 

On Saturday, my son will run another Alien RPG campaign as well! This one will use material from Building Better Worlds and will be a (presumably) slower paced colonization campaign, with less of the cinematic pacing. I am also excited for this, its really fun to play in my son's games, he has the GM's gift, and it is good to see that torch can be handed down to him. 

Further down the road I plan to run The Electric State RPG in the near future. This is a really intriguing low-key post apocalyptic alternate timeline setting, something Free League Games excels at. The ambience the game exudes is very tantalizing, and I am intrigued to see what I can do with it. After my son finishes his Alien RPG campaign, though. 

Interestingly, while googling for a link to the game I discovered there is a planned Netflix movie for The Electric State (here). Interesting....although from the trailer I see nothing about the virtual devices which are fairly important to the fall of humanity in the RPG, so I wonder how much the show will deviate from the source material.