Ep 7 - The Mythical and the Mundane

Show notes:
We're joined by Kieron Gillen from https://oldmenrunningtheworld.com/ and designer of DIE: The Roleplaying Game https://rowanrookanddecard.itch.io/die-rpg
This episode also features a previously-recorded segment from our episode 3 guest, Jesse from https://beardmancerbungalow.blot.im/.

Mythic Bastionland was created by Chris McDowall https://bastionlandpress.com/products/mythic-bastionland-hardback-book-plus-pdf

Our intro music is "Medieval" by Ptibec https://openverse.org/audio/1f62fd74-2742-45de-b6eb-79f9dbbddb3a and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

Our outro music is "Medieval Victory Epic (Version 1)" by makesound https://openverse.org/audio/794859e7-c63c-466e-9f76-631e1e01e098 and is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0.

Timings:
00:00 Intro
03:21 Setting up the realm
06:10 Sparks when needed
09:31 Blorbiness and characters
14:17 Ageing and legacy
15:29 Narrative and story
18:00 Protecting the reality
21:09 Seers
22:15 A generational saga
27:48 Unresolved situations
32:23 Prepping myths and sites
35:57 Succession
37:26 Turning the wheels
38:58 Pursuits
41:27 Planning time jumps
43:59 The knights' reputations
44:54 Batman creating supervillains
47:30 Myths as problems
48:41 Domain-level play
50:58 Questing knights
52:47 Skipping travel
54:29 Feasts and Seers
57:21 Talking to stones
58:41 Sparks and improv
1:00:55 Ending the campaign
1:04:25 Jesse: Story Game / OSR
1:06:29 Kieron: Story Game / OSR
1:11:07 The Oath as GM principles
1:13:00 You be the Judge!
1:19:16 Outro

Discussed on the show:

• Kieron's comics https://bindings.app/shelf/1FLv6kLb
• Kieron's games https://kierongillen.itch.io/
• Amiga Power https://archive.org/details/amiga-power
• Speedball 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyX4BPU-Bao
• Blorb principles https://idiomdrottning.org/blorb-principles
• Stephen R Donaldson: Mordant's Need https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordant%27s_Need
• The Skim: Mythic Bastionland https://oldmenrunningtheworld.com/the-skim-mythic-bastionland/
• Pendragon https://www.chaosium.com/pendragon/

Find the hosts at:

• Brian https://luckroll.blogspot.com/
• William https://halfawormandabittenapple.blogspot.com/
• Horst https://blackcitygauntlet.blogspot.com/