FATHOM Maiden Voyage - an RPG

You've all heard the story before. Monster meets Girl. Monster captures Girl. Knight in Shining Armor rescues Girl.

And then there's this story.

The one where Girl shoots Monster in the face.

That's right, Mythic Scribblers! It's an RPG that's 100% monsters and maidens, and 0% damsel-in-distress. I'm rounding to the nearest hundred, but still... allow me to introduce my remix of the incomplete HAM2D6 ga brand new RPG with an imaginary drumroll and an actual title graphic that includes a copyright date just to make it look more official than it really is:

 

Oh, and about me. I was off-site for quite a while after my career got derailed. I FINALLY received an offer this morning for a full-time teaching job. Over the weekend, I was already considering running my RPG on this site, and the one thing that made me iffy about running a game at all was riding on today's interview. It was a second interview, and it turned out they made up their mind about hiring me before I entered the room. I was pleasantly surprised to be handed an offer letter as soon as I sat down!

So anyway, I am definitely up for running a game. I learned lessons from the past: mainly, to not have a long-term the-fate-of-the-world-is-in-your-hands plot. The game will be a series of island-hopping adventures -- stories that end. In fact, that's what I'll call each part of the game. Not "chapters" or "episodes," but "stories."

 

The game is rather experimental, but yes, I try to let players' decisions affect the game and hope that none of my NPCs steal players' thunder.

By the looks of things, the fairy player found a very clever way to stop the horde, and between strategy and lucky dice, it looks like all seven samurai will get out of this mess. (I expected some deaths, but tried to make zero deaths possible. One NPC has 1hp, and another would have been down to 1hp if not for the fairy player's tactic.)

If you want to jump in after this battle, we can just have your character conveniently located in whatever path the players choose. They're one boss-battle away from finishing the island.

Next island will be loosely based on [Popular Sci-Fi Movie from the 80s] or even more loosely based on [Popular Kids' Movie from This Decade], depending where players decide to go.

If you do play, just pick a heroine (by which I mean race/class), and I'll set up a Rolz account. (No one played a Huntress yet, active heroines are Fairy, Amazon, Oceanid, Monstress:Harpy, but there's no rule against playing the same race/class as another player.)

 

Regarding fate-of-the-world, that's a mistake I've made in past RPGs. It makes for a good hook, but kind of sucks when you realize it will take X months/years to finish the game.

A series of one-shots gives me the freedom to change my mind about the next level, and in fact, I come up with more than one idea for the next level and let players choose. Whatever isn't picked, I just let it go.

 

That's fine. Feel free to join now, join later, not play but read along... glad you like (and "get") the concept anyway.

 

I have it under the Mythic Worlds > Huntresses Attack Monsters! forum.