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Jan 28, 2001, 2:58:18 PM1/28/01

The Mythos Digest Sunday, January 28 2001 Volume 04 : Number 033

In this Issue:

Frank montellano Re: New to Mythos
Mark Christopher Re: New to Mythos
dar...@uniserve.com Re: New to Mythos
Michael Mason PC games the death of rgs....
Janne Suominen Re: New to Mythos
David A Witchell Re: The Mythos Digest V4 #32
Olle Johansson Re: The Mythos Digest V4 #32
R Wardle Re: The Mythos Digest V4 #32
Gary J. Robinson Re: Wargames
Craf...@aol.com Re: Wargames
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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:08:44 -0800
From: "Frank montellano" <monte...@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: New to Mythos

Gary wrote:
> In any case this is off-topic for this list so I will stop posting
> about it. It would be a shame if there were no more Mythos but at
> least we got a lot of good Mythos products out of the whole CCG thing.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I am very interested to read of the
why's and wherefore's involving mythos. I would be willing to help
ressurect it. I doodle, and could be able to supply some artwork, even for
an on-line expansion.

I am a little of both. I liked to play magic and I was a fan of lovecraft,
so when I saw mythos I loved it immediately. I never played CoC, but I read
many of his stories and bought a few comic adaptations of them. Some of
these were very well done. monty.

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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:15:58 -0600 (CST)
From: Mark Christopher <tor...@io.com>
Subject: Re: New to Mythos

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Gary J. Robinson wrote:

The second one (in my case, anyway). I'm a Lovecraft fan and a wargamer,
so I viewed CCGs with disdain, though when I heard "Mythos" was in the
making, I decided that I'd give it a try (I also roleplay and am a fan of
Chaosium products, so I figured that it would be a well-designed game, and
am happy that it indeed is).

- --
Mark Christopher <*> | "The sky was full of stars, and every
tor...@io.com | star an exploding ship -- one of ours."
http://www.io.com/~torrin | -Commander Jeffrey Sinclair, "Babylon 5"

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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:35:35 -0800 (PST)
From: dar...@uniserve.com
Subject: Re: New to Mythos

> I am curious if most Mythos players are/were CCG players who wanted
> to try a different CCG, or whether they are/were Lovecraft fans who
> had no particular interest in Magic, L5R etc. but were willing to buy
> a Lovecraft-oriented CCG.
>
I was a bit of both. Primarily a lovecraft fan but also a ccg player. At the
time I was big into Magic and looking to play a new game. And lo and behold
along came Mythos.

Still hangin in for that next expansion

warren out!

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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:35:14 -0000
From: Michael Mason <michae...@mk-chamber.co.uk>
Subject: PC games the death of rgs....

On the subject of PC games vs. rpgs etc..

In the UK, Eurolog has for some time been organising conventions in which
both play a complimentary role. In the Eurolog area at cons you will find
table top wargames, board games, rpgs and PC Lans all sitting next to each
other, there will probably be some CCGs as well.

We try to encourage the diversity of gaming and also by bringing the
different 'systems' together we encourage some cross-pollenation of players.
For exmaple, this year we will be running Diablo II on the PCs next to
Diablo D20 D&D games - you tried it on the PC now try it on the rpgs..etc.

We will be doing something similiar when Atlas brings out the Rune rpg to
compliment the PC Rune game. And we will most definately be doing the same
when the CoC PC game - Dark Corners of the Earth - is released.

Mike M

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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:29:44 +0000 (GMT+00:00)
From: Janne Suominen <qur...@iobox.com>
Subject: Re: New to Mythos

My first glimpse of Mythos was in 1996 when it appeared in a catalogue as an oncoming product. It was described as a "Cthulhu-CCG". I played Mtg at the time but I was a great fan of Lovecraft and thought that a Cthulhu-style card game would be great. So when it became available I just had to get it. Later on Mtg faded away because Mythos replaced it. Mtg's fantasylands were never my thing. Lovecraft's fiction had a much stronger grasp on me. Nobody said it would be easy, though. Here in Finland, Mythos players are/were -very- rare, while Mtg seems as popular as everywhere.

T: Janne

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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 06:43:53 -0500
From: David A Witchell <d_wit...@juno.com>
Subject: Re: The Mythos Digest V4 #32

> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:22:07 -0500
> From: "Gary J. Robinson" <wig...@concentric.net>
> Subject: Re: New to Mythos
>
> <snip>
> I am curious if most Mythos players are/were CCG players who wanted
> to try a different CCG, or whether they are/were Lovecraft fans who
> had no particular interest in Magic, L5R etc. but were willing to
> buy a Lovecraft-oriented CCG.
>
> Gary

I was/am a CCG player who tries different games when the local game store
has
demo nights for them (not all CCGs, either). I'm not fond of horror (not
even H. P.'s
writing) or of RPGs (which you didn't mention but some people could be
CoC players
that heard about a CCG). Mythos simply was and is the most enjoyable and
fun CCG
that I've ever played.

David Witchell
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:57:04 +0100
From: Olle Johansson <Ol...@Johansson.com>
Subject: Re: The Mythos Digest V4 #32

I thought Magic was a terrible game when it came and didn't like the
fact that you had to spend loads of money to have a chance in
games. But then came Star Trek TNG CCG, which I bought because I liked how
it played and also liked SF. That game made me a Star Trek-fan, I was
only mildly interested before playing the game. Then came Mythos and
it had a game-play similiar to an idea that I had when Magic came, so
naturally I liked it. I also play the Call of Cthulhu RPG so I like
the mythos, even though I haven't read any novels even now. =/ The
third CCG I play (played) is Rage, the werewolf-game which I like
because it's so fast paced and I like some game functions in it, like
mooting.

- --
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/OJ

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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:05:59 +0000 (GMT)
From: R Wardle <R.Wa...@sheffield.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: The Mythos Digest V4 #32

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, The Mythos Digest wrote:

(wakes up from a long lurk)

I'd read a lot of Lovecraft and played a lot of RPGs, and Mythos was my
tentative entry into the CCG thing. I bought a lot of CCGs and in the end
the entire thing pissed me off immensely. I'm attempting to sell off the
remnants of my L5R stock and the MECCG stuff will be the next to go.
Mythos will stay because it is the best of the bunch by a long way (for a
number of reasons - theme, rules, accessibility and collectability),
but the CCG model is deeply flawed unless you are WOTC. I had way more fun
playing CoC for a bit last year thanI did with any CCG, and it was a lot
cheaper (2nd hand 2nd ed CoC rulebook!). I fully understand Chaosium's
desire to focus on rulebooks and literature.

I've not played a CCG in over 2 years now, though recently I was thinking
of putting one of my Dreamlands decks back together :) A move away from my
gaming group didn't help (hi Danny), and I now write computer games for a
living rather than dreaming up Mythos decks during slack periods at
university, so make of that what you will.

Robin.

(back to sleep now)

- --
Robin Wardle <rwa...@reflectionsinteractive.com>

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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:30:04 -0500
From: "Gary J. Robinson" <wig...@concentric.net>
Subject: Re: Wargames

As a final note, here is a list of board wargames published in the
year 2000, for those who think wargaming is dead:

http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX.cgi?1...@207.4V2aadv8fjR^60@.ee6bb77/11442

I am trying to get a Mythos game together this weekend. What do you
feel is the optimal number of players? I have played with up to 5 but
with this many it can be hard to get things done due to the number of
events people can play that affect you.

Gary

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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:02:12 EST
From: Craf...@aol.com
Subject: Re: Wargames

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In a message dated 1/26/01 12:32:38 PM Eastern Standard Time,
wig...@concentric.net writes:

> I am trying to get a Mythos game together this weekend. What do you
> feel is the optimal number of players? I have played with up to 5 but
> with this many it can be hard to get things done due to the number of
> events people can play that affect you.
>
> Gary
>
>

Actually, that may be one of the reasons you games take so long and seldom
finish with 20 points of adventures. Our group very seldom includes events
that aren't necessary for the adventure, except for "defensive" events
(Ythian Mental Contact, etc.).

In answer to your question, I think the optimum number of players is 4 - but
have played with anywhere between 2 and 10 players.

Russ Craft

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 Actually, that may be one of the reasons you games take so long and seldom
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