Myth Wood
Game of Keeps
Pieces

1. Keep – Holder gets Rally, and control of all other pieces of its color.
2. Champion – Holder gets +2 armor, +1 weapon. May challenge the holder of the Keep piece for it.
3. Mage – Holder gets additional 10 Mp. May ask the Keep piece holder for a quest to get upgraded to the Champion Piece.
4. Paladin – Holder gets +2 armor. May ask the Keep piece holder for a quest to get upgraded to the Champion Piece.
5. Ranger – Holder gets Fire Arrow, or Fire Arrows if you already have Fire Arrow. May ask the Keep piece holder for a quest to get upgraded to the Champion Piece.
6. Soldier – Holder gets +1 armor. May ask the holder of the Keep Piece for a quest to be upgraded to Mage, Paladin, or Ranger piece.
7. Mercenary – Holder gets one extra life, can change sides for a price. May ask the holder of the Keep Piece for a quest to be upgraded to Mage, Paladin, or Ranger piece

Myth Wood
Game of Keeps
The Skulls

A holder of a Skull cannot be harmed by any of the piece holders of the same color. In addition, the holder of the Skull may command three times per scenario any of the pieces of its color to do as the holder of the Skull wishes.

The holder of the Skull must complete the commands the Skull gives it. If the Holder does not complete the commands the Skull will choose a new holder.

The Scribes of the Myth Wood have been busy updating and revising the handbook.  There are significant changes and additions.  Check it out.   We will be available tomorrow to review and answer any questions that come up.

Here is the Handbook

I’ve thought about this subject often over the last few weeks and it came down to just two questions really. What is the honor system and why do we use this instead of referees?

Simply put, the honor system is a system put in place by which the players referee their own battles and quests. The players are responsible for their own actions in the Myth Wood so too are they responsible for reporting those actions to the officials. The key to this system is the honesty of the players involved. Without an honest accounting of what happened, things fall apart at the foundation.

Dishonest players assume an unfair advantage over other players and by so doing, they encourage other more honest players to fall to dishonesty in order to combat them. It’s a terrible cycle that we’ve thankfully only seen a few times. Most likely, the player in question is referred to as an ‘Immortal’ as no amount of fair clean hits will take the player down. They just refuse to acknowledge that they have been defeated. Sometimes a dishonest player will attempt to question every battle or every hit when it involves their defeat in an effort to confuse the issue and either void their last defeat or ‘redo’ the fight. Sometimes though, redoes are necessary, it’s only when it becomes a primary battle tactic that it falls into the realms of dishonesty. Continue reading The Honor System →

In the L.A.R.P. Realm of the Myth Wood there have been many different magical weapons and item that have influenced events. I will now try to made a comprehensive list of them with a bit of a history on them as well as who is in possession of them now.

The Black Sword, Sam’El

When the Wizard Agamemnon trapped the Daemon Lord Sam’El in his fiery sword he had no idea he would be creating a powerful sentient weapon. The sword was a powerful weapon in its own right, now combined with Sam’El’s dark soul it is almost unstoppable.  Whoever knowingly chooses to pick up the Black Sword is instantly possessed by the personality of Sam’El, and granted all of the power of a Daemon Lord.  The Black Sword’s hold over its wielder can only be broken when the sword comes in contact with Agamemnon the White. In time the Sword will devour the soul of its wielder, thereby permanently turning the person into a standard Daemon. Then it will need a new wielder. At this point the Black Sword is being wielded by the Paladin Arsten. Continue reading The Magical Weapons and items of The Myth Wood →

With the warm weather of spring comes the itch to get outdoors and beat each other with weapons! LARP season is almost upon us again. The Scribes of the Myth Wood have been busy updating the handbook with clarified rules, new item descriptions, and even a new player class! Here is the link to the new version of the handbook. Pay special attention to the items scribed in red ink, they are the things that are new and updated. There even may be a few hints as to what to look forward to on the 16th.

Click Here for the Handbook v4.5

With the most recent updates to the handbook we have added 3 new classes.

The Mage is the base class that anyone can start out with.  At the next event we will allow anyone interested in switching to change to the Mage class.  They will not get to keep any old skills but will retain all experience points.  If you are interested let us know so that we can plan ahead.

“I like to believe the Myth Wood has a little something for everyone. Of course the options are not always apparent.”

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~ Agamemnon to Grimner, shortly after his arrival in the Myth Wood.

One of the most important things for any L.A.R.Per is character development. Building the character’s personality and making your character stronger while having a great time is the whole point. A big part of that is gaining the experience needed to level up. Each level opens new skills for your character and allows the character to embrace its class more deeply. To level in the Myth Wood you need experience points. The fastest way to get those is through a high kill count. However, not all of us are psychopathic serial killers.

So the next best is side-quests. A side-quest is anything that happens in the Myth Wood that has a story but is not directly connected to the main Scenario of the day. They can be as simple as getting something for a merchant or escorting a merchant to a given destination. They can be as complicated as finding several pieces to a puzzle or riddle whose solution opens a new story arc. The experience rewarded for completing a simple side-quest is often, but not always, worth the same as a single kill. Whereas, the more complicated side-quests may be equal to several kills. Continue reading On the need for Side Quests →