This Week’s post is all about dying.

Old characters in Mythic Bastionland stand a chance of just dying off-screen between Ages.

But what happened to that person?

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11: The life was coughed out of their rattling lungs
12: Their body wasted away to bone and shadow
13: Gnawed on too much numbing bark for their pain
14: Strangled in wrath with little fight
15: Fell from a height and scattered their innards
16: Faded with their appetite, withered beside a full plate

21: Sank in a mire and not wholly found
22: Left to bleed on the roadside
23: A malady in their last meal turned their belly to rot
24: Trampled beneath horses
25: Spat out their blood in the night
26: Perished in weak murmurs, none heard or came

31: Burned in a fire brought by a neighbour
32: Torn apart by maddened hounds
33: Swollen to bursting by the old plagues' return
34: Smote by lightning atop a hill
35: Rode out with trembling hands, never found
36: Their mind was hot with raving till their soul slipped free

41: Slipped on the ground and cracked their skull
42: Lost their words, then their breath
43: Half-woke at dawn, still in their dream, dead by nightfall
44: Their body left clenched and contorted from wicked grain
45: Bitten by invisible mites, dying puffed and sputtering
46: Fell in a field, unable to drag themselves back

51: Wandered too far and grew cold, dying beneath their blanket
52: Found sitting stiff, watching the sky
53: Hollowed out by belly worms and left pale
54: Rendered silent by sun sickness
55: Bitten by a coughing wind, which spread deep
56: Dreamt too deeply, never to wake

61: Split open in a petty feud
62: Fed false herbs by will or chance, cold and blue
63: Hacked down by uncaring raiders
64: Choked on a bone at their evening meal
65: Screamed out their last breaths in the night
66: Drank deep of cursed water, leaving a yellowed corpse

Elsewhere

• Save vs Worm has finally completed a huge readthrough of the Fiend Folio

• Knight at the Opera looks at the fundamentals of resolving actions at the table

• Whose Measure God Could Not Take revisits one of my favourite types of dungeon room, an empty kitchen

Oh, and I’ll be Inside the Rookery this weekend talking about sandboxes.

Coming Soon

Over on Patreon I talk about the realities of running Mythic Bastionland.

How do you run a Mythic Bastionland one shot?

There’s some guidance on the “Starts and Scopes” page at the front of the book, but it seems to be a recurring question. I figured I’d share my thoughts, since I’ve done quite a few at this point.

Expect the full post here and on the blog next week.

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