If you think Traveller 5 is big. Take a look at Hero System 5th edition core rulebook.

Where can one purchase this game?

I can't normally watch gaming videos, but this is a nice, easy playthrough of a turn, without going into excessive details like some others do. Thanks, and looking forward to finally getting this to the tabletop this week.

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Tried reading through this. i always check creation and combat. its very hard for me to grasp Travellor combat. creation turned me off as its too much. to be fair im new to rpgs. The issue with these old games is gameplay example are either missing info or absent completely. i'd need to see it played or demo'd to understand. i have no idea how folk even play these old rpg games.

Really loving this RPG.. at least for concepts and adventures, Chris. I love this dark Arthurian vision. Already imagining a Mythic Bastionkand and Vermis mashup! Whoa! Good stuff, sir.

Amazing take! I am now playing the fantastic narrative game Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood by Devolver that is deeply entwined with an endemic card reading symbolism. What do you think about the application of divination principles in that one?

Thanks for the excellent video. I taught me to play in under 10 minutes. Mission achieved!

I just found this and I love it. After looking at the 3 "Ask The Stars" pdfs in the Google Drive, are the star positions and signs in a separate pdf somewhere?

You should make a glass of the Gutter Wretch's Wish Tonic

Dolphin mercenary: male (derogatory)

Very cool to see how a campaign would run in practice! I really like how the Myths provides structure, but still make everything emergent and unique for each campaign.

Oh, the changes that passed... This game sure has gone a long way... Also: 93 likes and 0 dislikes? Bro is so good at making games his like/dislike ratio doesn't exist. You'd expect some 5e-infused purist hater to come dislike, but nothing. Just good vibes and great game design.

I can't wait to play this game

At first I didn't get the art (that you actually used) but once you know the game you can't imagine it will anything else.

Strange, posted comment and it disappeared. Anywho, Chris I can't find a version of Isle of Lore that has the Overlay Markers. Where did you get it?

14:17 I can imagine! Where have you done layouts since? Love Into the Odd and the branch on the family tree of games it has sprung.

So fascinating watch this having read the most up to date version Mythic Bastionland and seeing the development.

I love Bastionland videos! Having an author review is great. "Into the Odd" descendants are really cool. I helped my friends Joe Williams and Kathy Williams in the early 1990s at GEN CON for their Lost Souls: a supernatural horror role-playing game about ghosts. The player characters in "Lost Souls" are recently dead. They start the game dead with unfinished business. Thank you for the awesome content!

The film you were thinking of when talking about The Zone is Annhilation, one of my favourites!

oh my god, when you describe how teddy's teeth get knocked out and he rolls some dice while miming spitting out teeth- i hope other people caught that ahahaha

Helpful playthrough. What did you use for the horror minis?

Love this series. To be honest the Unduluk thing does feel a bit like a quantum ogre. Not ideal, but not the end of the world.

I do have a question about the myth location. When the players enter a myth hex, it triggers the next omen. Correct? What happens if they decide to exit the hex, then enters it again? And do it again until they trigger the last omen this way? Does not make sense in the game world... But as a player, it does...

Awesome video! Where did you get the terrain from?

I think I'm going to try to turn the Doomsong sheet music into a Doom Metal song.

Would definitely prefer these in podcast format. Really enjoying the content, but I find it’s more listening with KZfaq playing in my pocket than being able to sit down and watch all of it.

Just learned of The Doomed on The Dungeon Dive channel. Great tutorial/play session. Thank you , Bastionland.

I’ve really been enjoying listening to the podcast and these videos. Any chance of a book detailing thoughts on game design? So many great games like Cairn and Mouseritter have been influenced by Into the Odd and Bastionland. I’m sure I’m not alone in wanting to read a game design book based on these concepts.

Hi - question. Not sure if it was answered somwhere, if so, sorry. what if players want to invest themselfs into encountered omen? Lets take en example with the river one from beginning of this video. Lets say players talk to the monks who offer bread to the river. They gain knowledge of what they are doing and want to press on with this myth. What should happen then? It feels natural that monks would send players somwhere, to the next omen of this myth maybe? Ask for something in return etc. My intuition is that than players could be directed to the this myth's hex, or at least somwhere wbere the next omen of this myth couls be encountered and potentialy start the whole adventure. Basicly it feels like the first question from players during omen would be "cool, where should we go or what to do next to get more knowledge of this myth". Do MG then should improvise the fixed location of next omen fron the list? Maybe direct players to nearest Seeker or smth? Amazing game, as a backer cant wait for backerkit and early pdf's! Game looks absolutly amazing, and Im huge fan of Into the Odd which I played already a few times (with Fallen Marsh module) with diffrent player groups in Poland :) love from our community, Chriss and keep on designing! :)

That hex map looks gorgeous! What did you use to make it?

Damn! I wished you’d filmed the entire skirmish. Oh well, great video nonetheless. Thanks for creating it

30:20 he takes damage, HP goes to zero, he gets a scar, and now somehow his HP goes to 6? how does that mechanic work in the world exactly?

A great introduction for Traveller... First comment, as I watch. As an player of the original LBB (Little Black Books) the reason they used 10=A is (1) using the concept of the UPP (also the UWP <Universal World Profile>) having a two-digit number renders the concept of the UPP / UWP worthless. Also, the 0-9 then A-F is a computer numbering system called hexidecimal. Having the UPP / UWP, once you get the hang of it, allows you to know the person / planet-moon by sight. Also, my "death" house rule was that you just stopped generating and used them as rolled. As a GM, I used them as an NPC later. Otherwise, there were player-generated tables and the one by Mongoose that has an alternative to death (injuries, etc).

I've been playing Cepheus Deluxe which is like Old School Essentials but for Traveller. It's based on a later version of the rules though, I had no idea the combat in the first ever edition was this complicated! I recommend Cepheus Engine for anyone wanting to get into Traveller as it's free and comes in a few different flavours.

you forgot to roll for promotion in your first term, your 1st term personal development skill as Brawling, on the mustering out table your first Gun or Blade is a physical object, a repeat can be taken as a 2nd weapon or a rank in the Skill. Nothing is Free in Trav if you don't get gear when you muster out you have to spend your cash or do without. that character you made would be a sort after Navigator, once hr hits the Gym and Books (Personal Development in LBB-3) could be a ok adventurer.

The Devourer did not need to make a recovery roll when the 1st nexus was destroyed, it was a free recovery.

Congrats on your wonderful game. a little doubt (because I'm a RPG novice): when I prepare an adventure, should I create the map of all the regions (bastion, deep province, underground) or just the region where I put the treasure? Thank you

When you lose your Animal Companion as the Talon Knight, the Torney Knight or the Snare Knight dies is there a way to get another?

Can't wait to preorder primeval i mean mythical bastionland in January

Great video, just received the book. Where did you get that terrain???

It just hit me that Conductor could refer to either the conductor of a train, or a conductor of electricity. Very cool.

Making my way through all of these... Missed the Mythic Bastionland Kickstarter by a day but keeping an eye on the page for a chance to order Mythic and Electric

What kind of actions can Companions (such as the Snare Knight's animal companion) (or Steeds) take? e.g., Can the Snare Knight's Vengeful Weasel attack in combat? Like I see in the preview that all beasts seem to have a Guard value which implies to me they can be involved in combat? But while "Charger" has a "d8 trample" and the "Hound" has a "d6 bite" listed, the "Riding Steed, Heavy Steed, Pony, Mule, Sheep/Pig" and the Steeds/companions on the Knights' pages do not have any attack/damage listed. Thanks!

I have to say, as much as I enjoy watching your play examples, that particular hex tile set you use makes extremely little sense to my eyes.

How to run the mighty newt point: "She turned me into a newt!"....."I got better"

Will the digital files come with an easy and quick 12x12 blank hex map pdf we can use?

Very well done video! Please make more! Made me want the game and that's what I did. I bought It!