Greetings Mythicists! I hope your July is going well and your zombie apocalypse Player Characters can run really fast!
Let me tell you about what's going on here lately ...
Website Updates
I'm working on a new look for the Word Mill Games website and the Patreon site. While this is not one of those "Oh wow!" kind of announcements, I'm still hoping that the new sites will be just a little more posh and a more pleasing browsing experience.
Compilation #8 POD Progress
I'm working on getting Mythic Magazine Compilation #8 into the Material Plane of existence. I see that the Amazon POD copy, or one of them at least, has arrived at my doorstep today so yay! I'll give that a look over. The DriveThruRPG editions are wending their way through the mail system, like Hounds of Tindalos making their way through extra-dimensional space to inevitably find me. Okay, maybe that was too obscure of a Lovecraft reference, but I've always liked the Hounds :)
... I've opened the package on my doorstep. It's a print draft of the Amazon paperback of Compilation #8. Wow, I hadn't realized just how large this collection is until holding it's heftyness in my hands! Issues #43-48 must have had some truly huge articles in them.
Oui, Mythic S'il Vous Plaît!
I agreed to a French translator and publisher to make an en Francais edition of Mythic GME 2e, so Mythic continues its march across the globe!
Micro Mythic's Adventure Crafter
I've gotten to the One-Page Adventure Crafter portion of Micro Mythic, and I've ended up making a few changes to the system. It's nothing drastic, but Mythic Role Playing 2e incorporates a version of the Adventure Crafter and I liked the changes made for that. It makes sense to bring those changes over to Micro and I want these two versions of the AC to closely match each other when the books come out. That should help tie everything together for players who decide to mix and mingle all the various books and systems.
Mythic RPG 2e Events & World History
I'm currently finishing up the Random Events section of Mythic RPG 2e, which is largely unchanged from Mythic GME 2e aside from some slight simplifying. I've also made some changes in the world creation system. That's pulled directly from Mythic Magazine #38, but it's getting some changes. One alteration is that the system isn't just for creating a history to your world, but also has a random rollable element to it for using that history during your games. For instance, if you need some setting lore, rolling one of the history boxes helps give context for what you learn. This lends the world creation system more relevance to adventures beyond just being used to build the world to get started.
Jorge's Art Magic
And finally, here's a look at one of Jorge Muñoz's images I'll use in a future book! Why am I showing this? Because it's lovely and why not :)
That's about it for now. I hope everyone is doing well! Happy adventuring :)
Comments (8)
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Bill · July 15, 2025
This is how I've been using the World History tool. My characters are always doing some type of discovery exploration, trying to find out why the world is the way it is. Going back to the World History tool allows them to connect the dots and anchor their story to what has preceded them. I will definitely have to check out Mythic RPG 2e for updates on all the tools and toys you've provided us.
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Tana Pigeon | Word Mill Games · July 15, 2025
That sounds awesome :) I think the world setting has a lot of potential to be an active tool during an adventure.
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Kik · July 14, 2025
I've been thinking, regarding the world building part of Mythic RPG 2e: do you know Traveller's World Builder's Handbook? If not, it's an absurdly crunchy 250+ pages long book all about world building (not as much in the sense of creating an History than in the sense of creating a realistic planet) which gets into gritty details, like atmosphere composition, how it affects sky color, government types and their impact on culture, etc. While I hope Mythic won't get nearly as crunchy (seriously, that book is ridiculous, full of equations and all 😅), I think it could be a great inspiration for someone building a world building system, giving you thousands of ideas to make a world realistic so you can pick maybe a few ones, if that's something you're after.
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Tana Pigeon | Word Mill Games · July 14, 2025
Thanks for the suggestion :) I have some older Traveler books with world and planet building systems in them, which are also very crunchy. I can only imagine what those systems blown up to hundreds of pages would be! Even though I don't make super crunchy stuff myself, I enjoy games that do. I haven't seen that Traveler book, but I'll pick it up. It's the kind of thing that just by virtue of browsing through it, I'm likely to get good ideas for aspects of a planet I hadn't thought of. I did something similar when I made the Society Crafter, looked up somewhat academic reviews of cultures to see what sorts of things they looked at then tried to distill that into something workable in the Mythic environment. Okay, I am now off to get the Traveller's World Builders Handbook :) I love any excuse to buy an RPG book!
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Jeremy W. Sherman · July 14, 2025
So excited for MRPG 2e and Micro Mythic!
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Tana Pigeon | Word Mill Games · July 14, 2025
Thanks Jeremy :) I know this is taking forever, but both books are shaping up exactly how I would like :)
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Eric Nicolaievsky · July 14, 2025
What platform are you using to build your site? :0
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Tana Pigeon | Word Mill Games · July 14, 2025
My current site is built using Rapidweaver from Realmac Software. I'm switching to their newer app, Elements, for the remake.
