Our Mythic Bastionland, Session 1

This entry is part 2 of 12 in the series Our Mythic Bastionland

So, we played our first session of Mythic Bastionland. I think I’ll be blogging a log of events, and I’m going to skip anytying that would be spoilers for stuff the players don’t know about, for now at least. Maybe once the series is wrapped up, I’ll post a separate post with accumulated background spoilers and comments.   The epic begins quietly, deep in the Merragon forest (on the western edge of the map I shared last time), sometime in the afternoon. Three knights appear, riding their steeds. The first is Sir Yorick Childermass, the least knightly-looking of the lot in …

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July/August 2025 Reading, Part 2: RPG Books

This entry is part 5 of 8 in the series Books Read 2025

I recently posted about the fiction and nonfiction I red in July/August here. That’s only half the story, though: I also tore through a bunch of RPG books this past couple of months—mostly at the end of June and going into August—and that’s what I’m going to discuss in this post.  (I’ve split this the two posts up because I know some people are more interested in reading about RPG books, and some aren’t at all.)

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Coming Soon: Mythic Bastionland!

This entry is part 1 of 12 in the series Our Mythic Bastionland

My turn to run a game has come up with my Sunday night group, and out of the options I offered everyone to choose from, the big winner was Mythic Bastionland. I’d fortunately just read the whole thing, and also had recently gotten a chance to play a one-shot of the game with my other group, GMed by the inimitable Jeremy Tolbert. After that, I felt like I had a pretty good handle on the game and that I could do it justice.  I really admire a few things about the design. For one, it has the same kind of …

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