Mystics fight by 'interfusing' with scenery items. Combining skills is tremendously rewarding, and a major challenge at the truly brutal higher difficulties. Each weapon type, each skill, whether or not you dipped your hand in that strange fountain, changes what a person does on the battlefield. Classes matter, but no two hunters are alike. No no, Parelle was the one who-I could write about them all night. No! Logsa wasn't a Vine Sister, you're thinking of Lunantha, she joined them after Parelle left to form the Stone Maidens. That's why she's in the Vine Sisters story. Logsa didn't die, she just lost her leg! It's in all the pictures. But Edien protected the Thrush Rascals when Logsa was killed in the final battle against the Gorgons. No, Deestan found the library, they were in the Unbroken String together. Edien was the Thrush Rascal who found the Library of Light. Imagine in-world villagers hearing these tales, their details becoming jumbled in the retelling. That's why you'll replay the campaigns: you're creating a mythology. She'd never really got her time to shine, but now she's the leader of her own adventure pals, including one from a game in 2019.Īt its hardest it's a bloody, desperate war across multiple generations. One campaign even started with one of my B-listers from an earlier game, Parelle. The dead or retired become available as 'legacy' heroes that a later group can recruit as an already-skilled youth. She doesn't want to lose someone like that again.īut Uvwane lives on. When young Shay first levelled, she'd just lost her brother Uvwane, so of course she took a first aid skill over better magic. There are always good choices mechanically, but frankly you're playing it wrong if you're not prioritising skills that suit their personality. When you level up, you choose one skill out of a random four from a far longer list. Think like a hero who helps their youngers, not a tosser who hogs all the best gear.

Items you replace can't be redistributed, which seems illogical but means you differentiate everyone over being efficient, and give good items to weaker members who need them more. It's satisfying growing your fragile starters to champions, but it's using those old hands to protect and teach the young ones that's key. At its hardest it's a bloody, desperate war across multiple generations. The middle is a perfect blend of tactical and character-driven decisions. Lower difficulty levels are a robust roleplay with the drama in your hands. Wildermyth integrates all this wonderfully into its design. My latest retired to become a judge, imparting her wisdom to the daughter of the friend who died saving her life. A hero might fall in love, take up painting, or walk off one night, and return months later withdrawn and sad. Another group won fourteen years of peace between chapters. By the finale the world was saved, but permanently marred. And yes, that is the Sylvan Axe she’s carrying.I was too slow in one chapter, and never unravelled the enemy plot. the final one I’ll show, this is Eena Bravebee, Melbeld’s and Tembryn’s daughter. This is Tembryn Bravebee, another of my Mystics, she’s not really good enough to be here either, but she’s Melbeld’s wife: Īnd. This is Melbeld Oylenfox, who really doesn’t deserve to be here because he’s not really good enough, but he’s shown up in several of my campaigns and he also got the event where he ceased to age, so he’s an actual warrior who lasted through all 5 chapters: Maddish and Lilandra have seen me through many campaigns. This is Lilandra, who’s probably one of the only characters who actually deserves the reverence I place on all my old characters: What's to manage? They just sit there in my Legacy unless I call on them )īut mostly, I'm just a sentimental old fool who can't let “old friends” go )

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