The Game: Man, Myth & Magic
I spent the day reviewing Man, Myth & Magic and it was rather fun. But not a game I am likely to play. So in these cases I use the game to help inform characters that I might be using in other games. In this case I am doing the human, still living version of a character that has so far only appeared in my games as a ghost.
The Character: Queen Boudica
Fans of the Ghosts of Albion RPG will recognize this name. Boudica is the Queen of the Iceni Celts living in western Briton at the time of the Roman occupation. So the time period is really perfect. I set this at 61 CE. If I am going to play a game in Roman Briton then I want to join the Queen as she burns down Londinium.
Boudica, or Boadicea, was a central figure in the Ghosts of Albion animations on the BBC and in the books by Christopher Golden and Amber Benson. She became one of my personal favorite characters in the RPG as well. While she is great fun as a ghost, getting the chance to play her as a still living and breathing human is too much of a temptation to pass up.
I am going to include a scan of the sheet with page numbers appended to it. This was one of the bigger (but by no means unique) issues with this game. You have to flip all over the place to get the information you need to create a character, let alone to play.
Note: Windows updated and now can't find my scanner. So here is an image from my phone.
For Boudica here I did not include any spells, though I could have. I didn't find any that fit well with the concept of her in this game. Plus she is technically not a spell caster here.
In any case, she is a fascinating character and I could stat her up in several systems and not grow tired of her.
Long live the Queen.
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