Progress Journal, Aug. 6

Greetings Mythicists! I hope everyone is doing well and your games are going strong :)

I've been hard at work getting Mythic Magazine Compilation #4 done. This one has been slow going for several reasons. It got bumped back as I worked on Mythic GME Second Edition. It also saw delays as I had to reformat much of the content because of formatting changes I've made to the magazine layout and Adobe changing its policies regarding what fonts it supports in InDesign.

Fortunately, #4 is now almost done! I expect it to appear later this month. Compilation #5 will follow shortly on its heels, maybe by a month or two.

I'm also working on getting my books out into more formats, to allow for more choice in how the material is presented. For instance, I recently added a coilbound version of The Adventure Crafter. It's available on Lulu (you can find it here https://www.lulu.com/shop/tana-pigeon/the-adventure-crafter/paperback/product-2kdew6.html). I'd like to make coilbound versions of all my books a standard thing, so I'm working through the catalog of older books and I plan to do the same with all future books.

I'm also working on Mythic Roleplaying Second Edition. The blue book got a second edition earlier this year (to an amazing reception, thank you all so much!) and now it's the red book's turn. This week I started sending pages to the amazing Mel, my line editor, which marks the stage at which a project starts to move fast.

Right now the book is about 250 pages long, although I expect this to change quite a lot. If anything, that page count will probably grow to 300 or more. This is going to be a big book.

I want it to focus on the RPG aspects of Mythic, so it will only use the most crucial components of the Game Master Emulator. I'm turning this into an RPG engine that will form the basis of the game, and perhaps form the framework for future settings-specific games.

It'll also contain sections from Mythic Magazine that are most relevant to it. For instance, I plan for the Event Crafter to be an important aspect of the RPG. I'm also incorporating a lot of The Location Crafter into it. The idea is for the book to be a self-contained toolbox to create any kind of adventure world you can think of, so I want it to have all the mechanics necessary to pull this off quickly and easily.

It's also going to have bits of Creature Crafter material and other things. I'm making alterations to rules to make it all blend together better.

The combat system will reflect "Mythic RPG Narrative Combat" from Issue #28. I'm also going to include a general magic system, pulled from issue #21. This will likely be expanded into a magic and powers system so you have the tools to create anything from fantasy spellcasters to superheroes.

It is still very much a work in progress but I'm excited at how it's coming together :)

Happy adventuring everyone!