Progress Journal, May 19, 2024

Greetings Mythicists! I hope your month is moving along smoothly, and your Player Characters are doing well :)

The Podification Of Things

Among stuff going on, I've had some progress with getting print editions appearing. Mythic Magazine Compilation #5 got the POD treatment on DriveThruRPG with softcover and hardcover editions.

I experimented with this one, releasing the softcover at one point, and the hardcover a couple of weeks later. In the past I've always released them all at the same time. While I liked making them available as early as possible, I feel like staggering their release caused some problems. Minor problems, but problems all the same. For instance, it meant that I had to release discount codes to PDF buyers twice instead of once. I try to avoid unnecessarily emailing you all when I can, so doubling up on an email isn't ideal. We shall see, but next time I will likely go back to releasing soft and hardcover editions at the same time.

Mythic RPG 2e Glee

You're probably sick of hearing this, but ... work on Mythic RPG 2e continues! I feel like I say this every time with a Progress Journal. I probably do, because it's true every time lol

I'm still working on the Characters chapter, which I am focusing a lot of attention on. Right now, I'm working on the section where you assign Descriptors and Ranks to your Character in generation. I'm liking the blend of freeform "make what you want" with point buy and randomization, if you want it.

App Fade To Black

The Mythic 2e phone app, unfortunately, is no longer available. At least, not at the moment. The developer had to close shop ... for good reasons, nothing bad ... but that left the app in limbo. I'm looking to find another developer to pick it up, and the app's designer is very supportive of helping to make this happen. So, the app will be back!

Compilation #6

Mythic Magazine Compilation #6 is almost ready to roll out! This includes issues 31 to 36. I'm excited because that brings us close to being caught up with the individual issues, and I've chronically been way behind with the Compilations in the past.

It will probably come out in June. If I gave it a push, it could come out in May, but I don't want it following too closely on the POD release of #5.

Mythic GME 2e Offset Edition

My plan to make a high quality, offset press edition of Mythic GME 2e stalled at the beginning of this year as I got swamped with other priorities, but it is still on my project map. It's one of those things I just want to do, if nothing else. I would really love to see the highest quality version of the book possible! Plus, it would be oddly thrilling to have a copy of the book with one of those little satin bookmarks dangling from it :) I've been actively working lately on getting this edition ready. It's been more work than I original anticipated because most images in the book have to be color corrected. Offset printing is less forgiving of things like ink saturation and really fine registration issues. It's coming along, though!

Compilation Of One-Pagers, Maybe??

So, let me get your feedback on this one. I want to do a special Compilation that just has all of the One-Page rulesets in them. If I did this, it would include new Big Examples, and some other new material about ways to tie the various rulesets together.

My question to you ... is this a good thing? The One-Pagers are already available in individual magazine issues. They can be found in various Compilations. One-Page Mythic even has its own, standalone treatment. So is a special One-Page Compilation overkill? And if not, what else could I include with it to make it more special?

An Engraved Wood GM Screen Would Be Cool

I went to a festival thing this weekend and ran into wood engravers who clearly are into roleplaying too. They had made a GM screen out of engraved wood, and it was very cool. I chatted with them, and now I want them to make a three panel screen, of wood, engraved with the Fate Chart, the Event Focus Table, and the most important Meaning Tables. Plus, slots at the bottom to hold books and a clip at the top to hold individual sheets of paper. So yeah, it's more than a GM screen, it would be useful as an organizer for solo play too.

If I do this, I'll show pictures of it. See what you all think.

I'll take this opportunity to thank you all for not just reading this far, but for being a Mythicist Patreon member :) Player support has made Mythic possible from day one, and that continues to this day! I'm grateful for your patronage, and I'm also happy that this has always felt like a group endeavor to me. I really enjoy chatting with you all, and your thoughts have gone a long way to shaping the direction Mythic evolves in. Thank you! :)

That is all for now! Happy adventuring :)