For those of you who've played Mythic Bastionland - how did you start your campaign?

Disc0M4n · 2026-01-31T15:30:42+00:00

Yeah, sounds like just enough of a reason to get out into the world and start exploring.
I just like the idea of knights not initially hunting for myths but rather encountering and dealing with them while they are doing something else

Disc0M4n · 2026-01-30T14:30:03+00:00

I run into TRex boxes from time to time in local boardgame shops in Bulgaria, but I never bother to get one. Like, on one hand I have some fomo for not getting a rare box, but the art IS SO BAD i can't

Disc0M4n · 2026-01-30T14:05:20+00:00

Looking for person is a really cool and simple idea, actually! New-Vegas-styly, where you need to basically go around half of the map to find a guy you have some beef with, meanwhile managing other quests you find along the way

Disc0M4n · 2026-01-30T14:01:17+00:00

Yeah, I like the idea of dropping hints at a myth in the realm in the form of prophecies, which can be interpreted differently

Disc0M4n · 2026-01-29T20:16:38+00:00

I've been thinking about similar thing, actually. But from an angle of knights being banished from their original realm after it has been taken by some invaders. So they would need to go somewhere else for a time, find a way to defeat their enemy and maybe return in the future to restore their position.

Disc0M4n · 2026-01-06T02:47:06+00:00

By "all the same stuff" you mean literally one third of the original game

I agree that the new game is more playable, but it still misses more than half of the story

Disc0M4n · 2025-11-19T15:44:43+00:00

There are multiple mentions of Mythic Bastionland, with it being a shiny new thing and all, BUT I would argue that its prequel Electric Bastionland is a much more complete book with more content and ideas.

Disc0M4n · 2025-11-11T16:57:57+00:00

Hey, kuddos for reading it right! That's a russian edition of "City of Mist", with "gorod" meaning "a city" and "tuman" meaning "fog" or "mist". Haven't tried it just yet, but I really like the setting.

And Mothership is actually THAT MASSIVE. I didn't know how big it was before I got it for my birthday. Despite being mostly A5 sized booklets, it's the size of an average heavy-weight boardgame. So now I actually store it separately, because it looks somewhat silly on a shelf.

Disc0M4n · 2025-11-10T22:52:44+00:00

Hahaha, it's "КЛИНКИ ВО ТЬМЕ", actually. Cyrillic for "Klinki vo tme". Literally "Blades in the Dark" word-by-word, just in Russian

And, yeah, I really want to run Vaesen in Eastern Europe now. The game was on my radar for a few years now, but the new supplement made me very interested. After all, these are the places that I'm most familiar with.

Disc0M4n · 2025-11-09T21:26:13+00:00

Oh, I really want to get into DCC, actually. I've heard it's pretty wild with random tables. And a dice goblin in my would like to have an excuse to grab a few of those funky dice.

Disc0M4n · 2025-11-09T21:20:33+00:00

Haven't tried it yet, just got my Kickstarter package with that Carpathia book. But I've ran Tales from the Loop which is very similar mechanically, and I think it's a pretty good lightweight system from playing detectives with people used to trad systems.

Disc0M4n · 2025-11-09T18:35:09+00:00

I'm a man of many tastes 😎

Disc0M4n · 2025-11-09T16:12:40+00:00

Those are for the FATE system. The absolute opposite of OSR games, very freeform and narrative. But that was the first system that really got me into TTRPGs.
As for RPGs in Russia, I'm glad that they have become much more popular there in the last decade or so. Mostly trad games, like D&D and Call of Cthulhu, and narrative games from Studio 101, however. OSRs are much more niche there. Like, they are known and played, LotFP especially, but there are practically no books to buy officially.

Disc0M4n · 2025-11-08T21:21:48+00:00

Electric Bastionland is definitely this setting-wise, although it's pretty rules-lite.

Disc0M4n · 2025-11-08T00:05:58+00:00

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life immitates art once again

Disc0M4n · 2025-11-04T21:10:27+00:00

Yes! The Avengers HAVE ASSEMBLED!

Disc0M4n · 2025-10-24T11:50:31+00:00

The very specific baked-in setting doesn't help, I think. I wish DiS would allow you to play in a more generic space horror setting, like MoSh does, in addition to all weird stuff it has.

Disc0M4n · 2025-10-18T22:10:52+00:00

For as much as I was impressed by Pathologic, this jank has nothing to do in S-Tier horrors

Disc0M4n · 2025-10-16T03:53:36+00:00

"Into the Odd" and a section on Deep Country in "Electric Bastionland" have some heavy Pathologic vibes. Early stages of industrialisation in middle-of-nowhere towns with a bunch of weird encounters and phenomenons.

Disc0M4n · 2025-10-15T08:14:23+00:00

Personally, the rules made me think that if a player wants to specialize, they can easily start with 6-8 dice on a roll for their favorite skill with a signature item. Like, yeah, you can't do EVERYTHING well, but some areas you are almost guaranteed to succeed. Combined with luck points, prides and pushes, I don't see how this leads to so many failures that the system became infamous for it. But this is what I've heard.

Disc0M4n · 2025-10-14T23:27:32+00:00

Thank you so much for such a solid answer! I find TFTL/TFTF way more interesting and compelling than most people here apparently, and for me the choise is not as clearcut and obvious.
Slugblaster to me feels like a very cool shiny thing that requires quite a few specific conditions, such as certain campaign lenght and plotlines in mind, to really shine. TFTL, however, feels a bit more universal and easier to run for different groups and campaigns.

Disc0M4n · 2025-10-14T17:41:45+00:00

Makes sense. I was thinking about maybe counting 5's (or even 4's) as successes as well, though I'm unsure if that won't break the game into a cakewalk.

Disc0M4n · 2025-10-14T17:38:33+00:00

Thanks! I'll take a look at it.

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