"Who the hell is that?" the psycho says. "Heck not hell" she quips as the man Frank Heck enters, seconds before she stabs him in the throat.

That an all-American girl thinks of "the dusky highway between nuts and asshole" when hearing the word "taint" spoken by a psychopath next to her on a crashing plane strains credibility, to say the least.

Hit the button the moment I read EU friendly shipping. Thanks for making this possible.

Might I humbly point out my own take on this fascinating topic hexhog.itch.io/fucked-up-fa...

Now is the time to not spend another 2 weeks on questionable improvements, but one thing I learned from the playtest is that having the index numbers (d6 and d12) of Myths at hand is a good idea, so I adapted the Myth tiles a little (these are not the actual numbers for this Myth).

This is a ruin in a coniferous forest that is also a Curse location (the scribles along the border). The main terrain tile is the ruin, the trees to the left and right are a transparent overlay tile, as is the Curse. In this way, I can create landmarks in a variety of terrains.

I agonized a while over how to handle rivers. Make connectable tiles? But then each river tile also has a terrain type: rivers cutting through gorges, or meandering over grassland. This would have blown up the number of required tiles considerably.

I think the overall readability could be improved a bit by making non-navigable (water) tiles a more distinct. I also noticed that on pro maps, like Dyson Logos', mountain regions tend towards stronger line strengths.

When Chris McDowall himself played with his HexKit map, I noticed he had a hard time finding the Myths he rolled for, so I made sure those tiles are distinct. It was a bit difficult not to overload the map with line strengths, especially since every tile can have a barrier.

Even though my illustration skills are badly lacking, the final result is quite pleasing to me. The terrain illustrations are evocative of a general landscape type, but still leave enough rule for the imagination, following the "map is not the territory" idea.

My design goals were high readability, two-color maps with a layer system that allowed for easy conversion between player- and GM-facing maps. No larger filled-in areas so as to be printer friendly. And a grid system that supports snapping of map tiles.

I considered hand-drawing, but in Mythic Bastionland, you need separate maps for the players and GM, and this makes fully handdrawn maps a tough proposition. Affinity it was.

I tried HexKit (cone.itch.io/hex-kit), which is certainly an excellent tool, but the default tiles did not appeal to me, and many of the alternatives, including the fabulous Isle of Lore tiles (stevencolling.itch.io/isle-of-lore...) I found a bit too cute and quite unsuitable for printing.

Would love to order the 5 volume bundle, but 55 shipping inside EU? 🥹