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A video explaining how inexperienced players can play MYFAROG.
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Mythic Fantasy Roleplaying Game is designed to be somewhat realistic or a simulationist, meaning that what you do in this game and the rules are designed to make sense, so there are some crunchiness to the system. However, the system is very modular, you don't have to use everything in the system. For example, I'm currently playing with my six- and eight-year-old boys, and we have left out the stamina rules, we have left out the morale rules, because it's much more fast and easy to play that way. And when I play with these kids, I pretty much have to, because they don't even speak English, so I have to help them all the time with explaining what the different skills mean and which attributes to use and so forth.
And when we play that way, it's very easy to play. We only have the skill checks, which is just a 3D6 versus a target number, and then you add some modifiers. And in combat, we use, of course, the hit points and armor value and the cut shock values. And that's it. And it works very well.
When you know the basics of this system by heart, when you know it well enough to play it effortlessly, you can just add the new rules as you go, one by one. And ultimately, you will probably be playing the game with all the rules and also all the optional rules. So the game is crunchy enough for experienced players, but it is also pretty easy to play for inexperienced players, and especially if they just leave out most of the rules, which they can, because the system is very modular.
And when we play that way, it's very easy to play. We only have the skill checks, which is just a 3D6 versus a target number, and then you add some modifiers. And in combat, we use, of course, the hit points and armor value and the cut shock values. And that's it. And it works very well.
When you know the basics of this system by heart, when you know it well enough to play it effortlessly, you can just add the new rules as you go, one by one. And ultimately, you will probably be playing the game with all the rules and also all the optional rules. So the game is crunchy enough for experienced players, but it is also pretty easy to play for inexperienced players, and especially if they just leave out most of the rules, which they can, because the system is very modular.