Mythic Magazine #67

Yes, that's an error. Thank you for the heads up :)

Thank you so much :) And tropes are awesome, right? lol I peruse TV Tropes for ideas sometimes, and I almost always tumble down a rabbit hole when I do lol If you didn't notice in the conversation above with Matthew, there's an error in the Clues List for Emerging Powers. I'm working up a fix for it; an updated magazine file is arriving in a few minutes :)

Thanks Matthew, I'm glad you like it :) And thanks for pointing out the hybrid nature of Emerging Powers. I totally agree that combining systems can bring interesting results! I feel like I was able to make something unique with Emerging Powers, yet still use familiar tools, and that's by combining those familiar tools into something unique. We get the advantage of already half knowing how something works, while still getting something new as if it were a new mechanic. But it's not. But, it kind of is lol As to the Clue List, you are absolutely correct. That's my error. I'm going to fix that and upload a new file. This is how that came about ... I originally had 13 elements on Clues. I didn't want either List to be able to roll over. I wanted to skip the "... if you roll over then reduce Progress Points by 6 ..." rule. I had to fine tune each List so all elements were available at some point but you could never roll over. It started with 13 elements, recognizing what you noted about how Progress Points can only ever get up to 3 on Clues. Then I realized Unique elements could throw that off, so I boosted the elements from 13 to 18 because there are 5 Uniques. I overcompensated and forgot that Clues can only ever be rolled 4 times, and only up to 3 Uniques would ever be removed when a roll is made. So yes, the actual max should be 16, not 18. Also, I need to rebalance it. That mentor option shouldn't be at the tail end, they should be able to appear somewhere after the first Clue. Those are easy fixes, I'll post that in a bit. Thank you so much for pointing that out, and so quickly! :)

It makes sense, doesn't it? I've been expanding the breadth of what the Characters List actually tracks since MGME2e and I can understand what you're saying about the List sometimes being frustrating. In MGME2e I considered renaming the List to something else, to reflect that it should not only track NPCs but events, ideas, and desired outcomes. In the end, I decided to leave it the "Characters" List because I didn't want to make it too confusing. After all, listing important NPCs is still it's main function. So I've taken the issue up on the other end: If I'm not going to rename the "Characters List" into the "Anything Interesting That Isn't A Thread List", then maybe what I should do is redefine what exactly a "Character" is. It doesn't have to just be a person or creature that can talk with you. A Character can be a place, a vehicle, a community, an object ... or a concept or trope. Really, what is a Character in an RPG or any literature for that matter? It's an element in the story that the protagonist interacts with, and that can be just about anything. Interestingly, Micro Mythic takes this concept a step further and simplifies it, and I'm beginning to see the wisdom in that. It has just one List where everything goes on it, including NPCs, Threads, and anything else you think is important. It's a much more open concept and I'm liking how that works. Micro's emphasis on simplicity lets me get away with it there since developing granularity in a game can be hard since all those parts need to play well with each other, but simplicity kind of smooths all of that out.