: I've tried to introduce everyone I know to play Myth, but
: the most I've gotten are one or two multiplayer games
: that everyone enjoyed, but no one actually wanted to
: play online because they tended to get utterly
: dominiated.
: I once ran a summer GURPs game running the Myth rules
: (It's much easier to just make things up when it seems
: that the knowledge of the backstory courses through
: your veins)
: However, among my gamer buddies I've just been denoted as
: the crazy guy who's like 'we should play myth' and
: 'that guy who liked bungie BEFORE halo'... After I
: lose (as I usually do) in counterstrike or Halo, (the
: games that my friends mostly play) there are usually
: cries of "Ha! Go back to your Myth! It's the only
: game he's good at anyway)
: -General Pepper is not bitter
How frustrating. Never convinced anyone to try the single player campaigns? Shame on them, shame.
What kind of game did you play in that "Summer GURPS game"? That is, something set during the Wolf Age, or the "present", or what?
I've been giving (despite being only moderately fond of the system...not quite to my tastes) looking into getting the GURPS Myth book.
Frankly, while Halo and Bungie's other games may be alright (I've never played and have no real intention of doing so), Myth has converted me to the Ultimate Tr7th.
More seriously, it proves, to me at least, that "fantasy" is undependant on being unrealistic (magic may or may not exist in our world, but that doesn't make it unrealistic for existing in fantasy). It may well be different from our reality, but is not obligated to casually violate its nature and not replace the ignored physics with some mythological idea.
But I digress. I'd like to, though, play a Myth rpg...although there's one problem.
Myth is not a "hero friendly" world...if you represent it with any truth, being heroic is a great way to die. Sort of like Call of Cthulhu, but for different reasons.
Which may actually be a good way to approach it.
Seraph, long winded and inactive roleplayer/writer
