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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8349478" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Well, yes, at high 'levels', basically. It generally involves a sort of going back in time, or reenacting history. I never really 'got it', because the same issue exists, that it is at best difficult in a game with that structure to produce a party that matches up with the story. I guess if your myths are entirely invented fantastical ones, then that isn't an issue, lore just always matches what you got!</p><p></p><p>However, if you were to say decide to recapitulate the story of Gilgamesh, then you need to find roles for the PCs (or if one of them is actually Gilgamesh, then at least the other ones, I guess one can be 'Enki'), but most RPG sessions involve several players. Obviously a game designed to do this could simply be designed for one-on-one play. Reimagining each myth as a multi-character story seems a bit forced though. </p><p></p><p>So, maybe if you are going to touch on substantially revisiting real-world myths, albeit perhaps recontextualized somewhat, the mythic figure(s) are not treated as PCs, perhaps? It is a question, for sure!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8349478, member: 82106"] Well, yes, at high 'levels', basically. It generally involves a sort of going back in time, or reenacting history. I never really 'got it', because the same issue exists, that it is at best difficult in a game with that structure to produce a party that matches up with the story. I guess if your myths are entirely invented fantastical ones, then that isn't an issue, lore just always matches what you got! However, if you were to say decide to recapitulate the story of Gilgamesh, then you need to find roles for the PCs (or if one of them is actually Gilgamesh, then at least the other ones, I guess one can be 'Enki'), but most RPG sessions involve several players. Obviously a game designed to do this could simply be designed for one-on-one play. Reimagining each myth as a multi-character story seems a bit forced though. So, maybe if you are going to touch on substantially revisiting real-world myths, albeit perhaps recontextualized somewhat, the mythic figure(s) are not treated as PCs, perhaps? It is a question, for sure! [/QUOTE]
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