Showing posts with label Mythic Fantasy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mythic Fantasy. Show all posts
Thursday, January 24, 2019
Mythic Fantasy Review — Xena for Labyrinth Lord (Advanced)?
Even before I started playing D&D in '78, I was very interested in mythology thanks to the D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths. While D&D had some Greek monsters and such, it was primarily more based on Tolkien and more Northern European fantasy. Mythic Fantasy is a short rules supplement ($2.99 and 30 pages) for Labyrinth Lord (mostly the Advanced Edition) that provides Greco-Roman rules for characters and such. Somewhat ironically, written by someone with a Tolkien-esque nom de plume, Thredith Undomiel.
Three new races are introduced, the centaur, the satyr, and the nymph, though the latter has five subraces. These are not presented in race as class for as in regular Labyrinth Lord, but as 1e style races with ability modifiers and limits, special abilities, eligible classes, and level limits. They seem fairly solid as races, with centaurs having the most additional rules to account for their horse body. Nymphs seem perhaps too good, they don't seem to have any penalties, just bonuses, with high level limits as well.
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