To my surprise, the Armada Imperial Raider has been re-released. I have just ordered two (making three), which feels about right for my fleet. The Raider has a special place in my fleet, as I don’t like or have the light carrier or light cruiser, so these tiny triangles, along with the fighters and other small ships like the Devastators, are my small ship reps. Having one felt tokenistic. Three feels like a “flotilla”.
The little one, a work of art in its realm.
The other news is the imminent release of Mythras Destined (out now on TDM’s site, the 23rd on Lulu etc).
Mythras is on one hand the most progressive and comprehensive of the d100 family of games and on the other, possibly my least favoured, but the reality is, it is a living game, growing steadily and for many genre takes the mantle of the current leader in this space. Oddly, I still like the feel of the simpler and less polished Legend series, but things are likley to change.
As I have written recently, d100 games are my ground zero for role playing, Mythras/Mythras Imperative/Legend/RQ6 being the bulk of that if you discount my sizeable Call of Cthulhu collection. I have been aiming to have more than one way of playing each genre in the d100 universe and Destined adds just that for supers. It’s stable mate will be Superworld/The Big Gold Book, a much, much older game system, but likely surprisingly similar, as the writers are either the same people or have drawn heavily from Superworlds influence.
Destined feels like one of the better genres for Mythras, a game that can be a little crunchy for massed fights, but ideal for more granular ones and closes the loop in this space. As a fantasy game it excels as a heroic, monster killer game with real grit, fear even, but for simpler hack and slash games, it is a little gritty, dense and unforgiving, leaving room for its simpler cousins.
I can now do Sci-fi, pulp, fantasy, supers, super natural, historical, weird science historical and more in more than one way each.
Legend Samurai/Wuxia
Destined/Super World-Big Gold Book
M-Space/Bare Bones Sci Fi
Legend Vikings/Dark Age Cthulhu
Legend Pirates/Blood Tides/Clockwork and Chivalry/Clockwork Cthulhu
Mythras/Magic World/Legend/Bare Bones Fantasy/Openquest
Delta Green/The Laundry/Special Ops/After The Vampire Wars
Call of Cthulhu/Achtung Cthulhu/World at War (Cthulhu).
Devils Gultch/Aces High/Cthulhu by Gaslight
Luther Arkwright/Distant Worlds/BRP Pulp
Mythras Imperative/Basic Role Playing generic
Bold = Mythras family
Italicised = Simple systems (bare Bones etc)
Standard = BRP family.