Monday, January 12, 2026

Mythic Magazine Annotated Table of Contents 56-60 (Work in Progress)

Mythic Magazine (MM) Vol. 56

Solo Playing Styles, pg. 3 -13 (10 pages)

  • No charts, tables, flow charts, or worksheets (C,T,FC,WS)
  • Side bar References
    • "Getting Prepared for a Solo Adventure", MM Vol.4
    • "A Guide for New Solo Roleplayers", MM Vol 49
    • "Writing Fiction with Mythic", MM Vol. 43
    • "Mythic on the Move", MM Vol. 50
  • No Big Example
  • Summary: This article covers in broad strokes many solo playing styles and advantages they present. While not exhaustive (because it couldn't be), it paints a wide panorama of styles. This article is extremely entertaining as well, with plenty of gentle humor.
    Various styles included are: Shoot from the Hipster, The Journalist, The Novelist, The Frankengamer, The Inheritor, The Juggler, The Traveler, The Dimensional Shifter, The Serialist, The One Shoter, The Comforter, and the Omelet Maker.

Detail Check Revisited, pg. 14-25 (11 pages)

  •     Tables. No C,FC,WS
    • Detail Focus Table
    • Chaos Factor Influence table
  • No Sidebar References
  • Big Example
    • Fenog Needs a Gift
  • Summary: As the name suggest this revisits an old optional rule found in Mythic Variations 2, which has been brought up to date with the Mythic GME 2. It is designed to add context to places or things found during sessions.
    These contextual details are found on the Detail Focus Table and are: Courage, Good, Calm, Reassured, PC Focus, Thread Focus, Describe, No Extra Content, Active, NPC Focus, Wary, Anxious, Bad, and Fear. 
    • The Table is arranged so that the higher the number the more daunting the result, and the lower the number the more beneficent. The Overlap with Random Encounters is discussed in the article. 
    • An example of each result is included. 

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