This is by far one of the best explanations of mythic to eat I've seen! Good work. I would like to say two things, one you have the RPG you're playing so lean on those rules as your primary motivation forward, use mystic to e to expand the world to answer questions that RPG doesn't answer and to let the story unfold without you having to think about it all ahead of time. Part of the fun of solo role-playing for me is to see where the story goes and how it unfolds and not to think of everything and then just to see if my character can do them, sort of like an adventure path but more on rails. And finally I don't use the cast factor, I use the optional rule for that. Basically you just use the cash factor at 5:00 through the entire game because I don't like it going up and down it seems to always take control of the game for me instead of me having a more forward thing. Kind of like the week roles in staff forged! It just seems to always make the story go sideways and then this direction in the next direction the higher the chaos factor gets and the lower the chaos vector gets it just as like nothing seems to ever change!
It was great to have someone break it out a bit more for us. It can be such a mystery buying something that promises to be a "whole system" but we can't get a look inside to understand it a bit. Much appreciated. Feeling much more confident about the purchase now.
Excellent review. I am just in the process of reading the book cover to cover. I have arrived at the "great example". Now I have your summary to fall back on as well. I am in the process of creating my first ever character. I suppose it is about time to take plunge to start my first ever (solo) ttrpg game
@@theragamancers I am watching a few others and yours is still the best. You gave very clear and concise information. Great Job and thanks again for sharing.
A fantastic overview of the basics of Mythic. A couple of things I've noticed about Mythic that you didn't cover (though I agree with all of the things you said, and a lot of it is personal style) -If either NPCs or Threads are low at the start of a campaign (Or even 'There's a thread I'm going to want to add after the first scene, but I do want to play through a prologue where I know exactly how it will end'), don't sweat it. Threads and characters fill up _fast_ towards the start of a campaign. -This might be obvious, but if you're running a system where you get experience based on achieving long term goals, clearing a thread (due to your character succeeding at it) is a great prompt for doing that. Just note what session the thread originated in if you're running that sort of system if how long the thing has been in play matters for the system you're running. -If a scene is running long? That's fine. Sometimes what makes sense as a scene really is most of a session because there's a lot of moving parts, or it never feels natural to break the scene up. Some of the sessions I remember most fondly from my last campaign were pretty much a single scene. There's no 'right' or 'wrong' length of a scene, just do what feels natural. -Don't feel like you need to aggressively cull NPCs to keep your list in order, there's a suggestion in the book that if you're unsure if you should have an NPC on your lists or not, keeping them on and then removing them if Mythic says a random event should involve them and they don't make sense. Basically, if you're unsure, leave them on and let Mythic tell you if you should keep or remove when it's ready to.
This video was SO HELPFUL!! I’ve wanted to play RPGs solo for a few years, purchased a few, and could never figure it out. I had read of using Mythic, but couldn’t see how it would work, and didn’t want to have to purchase it. Now I’m all in! Thank you again! Thank you
"Follow the fun," that is kind off the best advice you can give yourself when playing RPG 🤗 thank you for giving such a detailed yet understandable summary of this system. I hadn't heard of it yet, but I feel it fits my needs very well.
Great overview. You made a great point about what to add to the lists. Only include things you're interested in. Seems obvious, but I have overloaded lists with anything that comes up and it's caused some frustration. Subbed!
Great recap! One of my players who GM's another online group just started asking about how to use Mythic once he realized I was using it to insert chaos into our campaign. I'll be pointing him to this video as an intro! Great job.
Thank you so much for this guide! Your explanation helped me to understand the system much better. Will you also make videos about other Mythic stuff, like the Location Crafter and the Adventure Crafter?
Thanks for your help! I used your video to help me get my head around the system, particularly when to use the fate chart, and now use it on my own solo RPG show. 🙏 Keep up the great work!
great video, helped me a lot! only thing i was missing was examples of how different mechanics can be used in an actual game - i'd love to watch your other videos and probably will, but it'd be nice to have examples here. with that being said, still an extremely helpful video, thank you!
Hey Royce! I've been away awhile but happy to get back to your channel. This was a fantastic overview of Mythic. Thanks for the great video and keep 'em comming. :)
Very nice video! Very informative. May I ask you if this system is suitable, in your opinion, to the free league Alien RPG? I’m really interested in it but I can only play it solo. Thanks
I'm not familiar with that system, so I can't comment specifically, but generally the only compatibility issues have to do with "meta-currencies" where the GM and the players can spend tokens to do specific things. If the system uses those, you'll just have to hack a workaround (which we usually have to do anyway and is part of the fun!)
Still fear to make mistake. And as I don’t trust my judgment easer, it make me stress a lot. But I also want to play and alone. But thanks fir the review.
this video was so good I was able to stand the intense vocal-fry. it usually drives me insane and makes me close any video, but this was so well formatted that I endured it. thanks.
Yeah, this still didn't help me. Instead of talking about theory, I'd like to see it ACTUALLY in action. It sounds fine for building stories (albeit simple ones), but not true solo adventuring. How would I use it on say, Temple of Elemental Evil? It doesn't sound feasible.
Cool, thanks for sharing this with us! I haven't heard of Mythic before. Tangetial but, why jump through the hoops to point us to an affiliate link and in the same breath go out of the way to say the video isn't sponsored? The whole point of disclosing sponsorship is to make clear there is a financial incentive for you to drive sales of the product. I'm not super bothered by this, I still found the video informative cause I never heard of this product before but maybe reconsider how you present things in the future so your first impression doesn't make it seem like you are talking out of both sides of your mouth.
I understand your question, but I see sponsorship and affiliate links as different things. The video isn't sponsored because no one paid me to make the video (unlike some other promotional videos on this channel). I'm trying the DTRPG affiliate program as an alternate monetization option to defray some of my costs for the channel. I decided to do this after I had already recorded this video, which is why it's not mentioned in the video itself, and I can see how this retroactive decision has caused confusion. For all my videos, when I use a product that's available on DTRPG I use an affiliate link. In other cases, I link directly to the creator's shop with no benefit to myself. To date for this channel, I have made $100 from sponsorships, $0 from affiliate links, and $0 from all other sources. So at this point this channel is still just a hobby for me, which is fine, because helping people with solo RPG and sharing my solo RPG plays brings me genuine joy, but for the long term, if I want to justify my time and expenses, I will have to figure out a monetization model. Hopefully this answers your question!
@@theragamancers Answers the question, thanks. Doesn't change what it looks like, but whatever maybe most people won't care or have my implicit reaction. Like I said, wasn't a deal breaker as far as watching the video, was just an unappealing start. Constant bombardment with advertisements and commodified content from creators is pretty exhausting. Obviously it isn't your fault that RUclips and social media as a whole encourages this.
I totally get it, and it's something that I wrestle with as a creator. I'm also not a fan of ads, but that's not something that I have control over on this platform. So I'm trying some different strategies to off-set my expenses. Thanks for the feedback.
Let me ask you Mr Stephen king, why can’t you just make it up as you go? Why do you need to spend $50 on a book that you will only use a few pages in??
The book is full of helpful play examples. If you just want to make it up as you go that's fine. But I found the Mythic structure helpful for introducing surprises and a game-like feel.
Cpt Nolan, This isn't a review. Also, he showed the hardback version of the book at the beginning of the video. It's a pity that you found this video disappointing.
This video will instantly become a reference for me, and probably others, to revisit often.
That's the hope! Glad you found it useful!
This is what I needed! Mythic walkthrough like this is perfect
Even as a veteran solo player and Mythic user, I found this video full of good advice and reminders! Thanks for making it!
You're so welcome, and I'm glad to hear that the video is helpful to a veteran as well!
This is by far one of the best explanations of mythic to eat I've seen! Good work. I would like to say two things, one you have the RPG you're playing so lean on those rules as your primary motivation forward, use mystic to e to expand the world to answer questions that RPG doesn't answer and to let the story unfold without you having to think about it all ahead of time. Part of the fun of solo role-playing for me is to see where the story goes and how it unfolds and not to think of everything and then just to see if my character can do them, sort of like an adventure path but more on rails. And finally I don't use the cast factor, I use the optional rule for that. Basically you just use the cash factor at 5:00 through the entire game because I don't like it going up and down it seems to always take control of the game for me instead of me having a more forward thing. Kind of like the week roles in staff forged! It just seems to always make the story go sideways and then this direction in the next direction the higher the chaos factor gets and the lower the chaos vector gets it just as like nothing seems to ever change!
It was great to have someone break it out a bit more for us. It can be such a mystery buying something that promises to be a "whole system" but we can't get a look inside to understand it a bit.
Much appreciated. Feeling much more confident about the purchase now.
Glad I could help!
Excellent review. I am just in the process of reading the book cover to cover. I have arrived at the "great example". Now I have your summary to fall back on as well. I am in the process of creating my first ever character. I suppose it is about time to take plunge to start my first ever (solo) ttrpg game
Hooray! I'm so excited for you!
This is probably the best explanation and example on how to use the Mythic Game Emulator. Thanks you clarified some things I was unsure about.
So glad I could help out!
@@theragamancers I am watching a few others and yours is still the best. You gave very clear and concise information. Great Job and thanks again for sharing.
You are very well-spoken and clearly know your stuff! Subscribed!
Thank you so much! Welcome aboard!
A fantastic overview of the basics of Mythic.
A couple of things I've noticed about Mythic that you didn't cover (though I agree with all of the things you said, and a lot of it is personal style)
-If either NPCs or Threads are low at the start of a campaign (Or even 'There's a thread I'm going to want to add after the first scene, but I do want to play through a prologue where I know exactly how it will end'), don't sweat it. Threads and characters fill up _fast_ towards the start of a campaign.
-This might be obvious, but if you're running a system where you get experience based on achieving long term goals, clearing a thread (due to your character succeeding at it) is a great prompt for doing that. Just note what session the thread originated in if you're running that sort of system if how long the thing has been in play matters for the system you're running.
-If a scene is running long? That's fine. Sometimes what makes sense as a scene really is most of a session because there's a lot of moving parts, or it never feels natural to break the scene up. Some of the sessions I remember most fondly from my last campaign were pretty much a single scene. There's no 'right' or 'wrong' length of a scene, just do what feels natural.
-Don't feel like you need to aggressively cull NPCs to keep your list in order, there's a suggestion in the book that if you're unsure if you should have an NPC on your lists or not, keeping them on and then removing them if Mythic says a random event should involve them and they don't make sense. Basically, if you're unsure, leave them on and let Mythic tell you if you should keep or remove when it's ready to.
These are all great pieces of advice!
This video was SO HELPFUL!!
I’ve wanted to play RPGs solo for a few years, purchased a few, and could never figure it out.
I had read of using Mythic, but couldn’t see how it would work, and didn’t want to have to purchase it.
Now I’m all in! Thank you again!
Thank you
I'm so glad I could help! The world of solo RPGs is exciting to explore. Happy adventures!
"Follow the fun," that is kind off the best advice you can give yourself when playing RPG 🤗 thank you for giving such a detailed yet understandable summary of this system. I hadn't heard of it yet, but I feel it fits my needs very well.
Love this - your explanation and the book. Great job!
Thanks so much!
Great overview. You made a great point about what to add to the lists. Only include things you're interested in. Seems obvious, but I have overloaded lists with anything that comes up and it's caused some frustration. Subbed!
Welcome! Enjoy the channel!
amazing breakdown. this is now the video i will point people towards.
Great! Glad to be of help!
I think this may be the best explanation of Mythic I’ve come across. Well done!
Thank you so much!
@@theragamancers I’m actually thinking about writing up a little cheat sheet for myself based on the steps you outline here.
Great recap! One of my players who GM's another online group just started asking about how to use Mythic once he realized I was using it to insert chaos into our campaign. I'll be pointing him to this video as an intro! Great job.
Thanks so much!
Thank you so much for this guide!
Your explanation helped me to understand the system much better.
Will you also make videos about other Mythic stuff, like the Location Crafter and the Adventure Crafter?
Great idea!
Thanks for your help! I used your video to help me get my head around the system, particularly when to use the fate chart, and now use it on my own solo RPG show. 🙏 Keep up the great work!
So glad I could help, and congrats, I'll have to check it out!
This was really helpful, thank you.
Glad I could help!
great video, helped me a lot! only thing i was missing was examples of how different mechanics can be used in an actual game - i'd love to watch your other videos and probably will, but it'd be nice to have examples here. with that being said, still an extremely helpful video, thank you!
You are so welcome!
This is super helpful Thank you!
Super great video friend. I needed a refresher on this system, and this was all that and more! Thank you.
So glad I could help!
Video was amazing, thank you! Ill 100% read the rest of the book now! Youve made a lot of things clear to me!
Glad I could help!
Hey Royce! I've been away awhile but happy to get back to your channel. This was a fantastic overview of Mythic. Thanks for the great video and keep 'em comming. :)
You're so welcome!
Thanks a billion for this guide!
You are welcome!
New subscriber. Keep going you're doing great!
Thank you!
I must have watched this video 6 times so far
Best dnd and solo rpg channel
Excellent video!
Thank you very much!
Very nice video! Very informative. May I ask you if this system is suitable, in your opinion, to the free league Alien RPG? I’m really interested in it but I can only play it solo. Thanks
I'm not familiar with that system, so I can't comment specifically, but generally the only compatibility issues have to do with "meta-currencies" where the GM and the players can spend tokens to do specific things. If the system uses those, you'll just have to hack a workaround (which we usually have to do anyway and is part of the fun!)
@@theragamancers Thanks a lot, so I understand this is doable. With a little help from our creativity, anyway 🙂
Still fear to make mistake. And as I don’t trust my judgment easer, it make me stress a lot. But I also want to play and alone. But thanks fir the review.
At the end of the day, it's just for fun! There are many ways to play solo, so whichever way is most fun for you, is the right one!
this video was so good I was able to stand the intense vocal-fry. it usually drives me insane and makes me close any video, but this was so well formatted that I endured it. thanks.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Excelent❤
Do not stop
☮
Yeah, this still didn't help me. Instead of talking about theory, I'd like to see it ACTUALLY in action. It sounds fine for building stories (albeit simple ones), but not true solo adventuring. How would I use it on say, Temple of Elemental Evil? It doesn't sound feasible.
There is a chapter on using Mythic with prepared adventures.
Cool, thanks for sharing this with us! I haven't heard of Mythic before.
Tangetial but, why jump through the hoops to point us to an affiliate link and in the same breath go out of the way to say the video isn't sponsored? The whole point of disclosing sponsorship is to make clear there is a financial incentive for you to drive sales of the product. I'm not super bothered by this, I still found the video informative cause I never heard of this product before but maybe reconsider how you present things in the future so your first impression doesn't make it seem like you are talking out of both sides of your mouth.
I understand your question, but I see sponsorship and affiliate links as different things. The video isn't sponsored because no one paid me to make the video (unlike some other promotional videos on this channel). I'm trying the DTRPG affiliate program as an alternate monetization option to defray some of my costs for the channel. I decided to do this after I had already recorded this video, which is why it's not mentioned in the video itself, and I can see how this retroactive decision has caused confusion. For all my videos, when I use a product that's available on DTRPG I use an affiliate link. In other cases, I link directly to the creator's shop with no benefit to myself. To date for this channel, I have made $100 from sponsorships, $0 from affiliate links, and $0 from all other sources. So at this point this channel is still just a hobby for me, which is fine, because helping people with solo RPG and sharing my solo RPG plays brings me genuine joy, but for the long term, if I want to justify my time and expenses, I will have to figure out a monetization model. Hopefully this answers your question!
@@theragamancers Answers the question, thanks. Doesn't change what it looks like, but whatever maybe most people won't care or have my implicit reaction. Like I said, wasn't a deal breaker as far as watching the video, was just an unappealing start. Constant bombardment with advertisements and commodified content from creators is pretty exhausting. Obviously it isn't your fault that RUclips and social media as a whole encourages this.
I totally get it, and it's something that I wrestle with as a creator. I'm also not a fan of ads, but that's not something that I have control over on this platform. So I'm trying some different strategies to off-set my expenses. Thanks for the feedback.
Let me ask you Mr Stephen king, why can’t you just make it up as you go? Why do you need to spend $50 on a book that you will only use a few pages in??
The book is full of helpful play examples. If you just want to make it up as you go that's fine. But I found the Mythic structure helpful for introducing surprises and a game-like feel.
Your thumbnail showed you holding the book. I didn't get to see the inside of the physical book in your review. Disappointing.
Cpt Nolan,
This isn't a review.
Also, he showed the hardback version of the book at the beginning of the video.
It's a pity that you found this video disappointing.
@@TomorrowsJo He did not show the inside of the physical book. It is a pity indeed.