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A sad day for Minotaurians

olivier_legrand68 — 2013-05-07T18:55:27

Ray Harryhausen, the man behind the fantastic special FX of the original JASON & THE ARGONAUTS and CLASH OF THE TITANS movies (among others) has just passed away... 





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Historical M&M?

memnon624 — 2013-04-24T23:13:21

Has anyone ever done a low/no magic variant of M&M actually set in ancient Hellas?  It would need a few tweaks to characters and a good bit of research, but it might be quite cool . . .

Best,

Scott



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Scenario for the next webzine

olivier_legrand68 — 2013-04-23T14:14:33

Hello everybody

The next issue of our beloved MINOTAUR is making steady progress... but we still need an ADVENTURE for it.

Sadly, all my efforts over the last months to renew contact with our friend Andrew Pearce have failed - Andrew has left me enough material for the two next issues... but NOT the next parts of his "Spear of Tamro" trilogy. Which means we'll have to find at least another scenario for the next webzine. Of course, I hope to be able one day to publish the rest of the Tamro epic... but this is simply completely beyond my control as of today. But let's get back to the issue at hand.

Our fellow Minotaurian has sent me a very interesting scenario outline called "The Megara of Demeter", which I've just uploaded in the Files section. I'd like to turn this into a fully-fledged adventure for next issue; it has great ideas and a lot of potential, but Darren and I agree on the fact that it's more, in this current state, a "mini-scenario" than a complete adventure. I'm completely swamped in various o

Mazes & Minotaurs in hardback

lerman20 — 2013-04-13T05:10:25

I found this: 

http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=27992

followed the instructions and made a hardback Mazes & Minotaurs Player's Handbook as a birthday present for my stepson. 

Have I made the first Hardback version of M & M in existence? 

Has someone else done it first?

How many of you have printed out M&M? 





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Now this is a bit weird...

olivier_legrand68 — 2013-04-12T04:55:05

I've not had the time to read it in detail...

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/96389/3/marabian-knights/the-name-of-the-game



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Can't access the webpage for Mazes and Minotaurs

Jason — 2013-04-05T21:50:50

I can't seem to access the Mazes and Minotaurs webpage; Firefox keeps timing out and strangely it only seems to happen on my home computer. Any ideas why?
 



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Map of the Desert Kingdom ?

blakus_javus — 2013-03-27T00:08:35

Hello all, I am wondering if there is a map of the Desert Kingdom out there? There is a partial one in the adventure in MQ#5 which traces a path from Kebet to Zerzura, but is there a more comprehensive one out there?

(Recent arrival to M&M, great game. Campaign still in the planning stages).



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Praise for Tomb of the Bull King

olivier_legrand68 — 2013-03-22T11:36:32

Nuff' said...

http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/949765/free-perfect-10-what-are-you-waiting-for



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Google+ Community

Michael Richter — 2013-02-27T15:12:46

I've set up a Google+ Community for M&M.  It can be found at
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/110051269012605694212 for those who
partake in Google+.  If Olivier or another bigger name in the community
asks, I'll hand over the reins.

I just figured it couldn't hurt to expand awareness of the game.  :)

Mythic Items (A brief submission for the nest Minotaur)

lerman20 — 2013-02-15T02:17:00

Mythic Items
by 
Pat Mathis

I have noticed a disturbing trend in recent M&M modules. The monsters have hordes of treasure including various mythic items. This model of distributing treasure has been adopted from a medieval fantasy game, one of the recent imitators of M&M. This is not at all in the spirit of M&M and our source inspirations. 

In the original greek myths, often heroes were visited by the gods and given a quest and loaned powerful artifacts to help with that quest. It was expected that at the end of the quest, the hero would then return the artifacts of the gods they had been loaned. 
For example: Athena loaned Perseus her shield, Hades' helm of invisibility, and Hermes' winged sandals. (In Clash of the Titians he got a slightly different assortment of artifacts) 

This should be the usual model of mythical items for the Heros of M&M. At the beginning of  the quest, the god/dess or king or Priest/ess or nymph who sends them on the quest loans them a few powerful artifacts to help with the ques

News from the Labyrinth

olivier_legrand68 — 2013-01-22T13:22:22

Just a quick word to reassure those among you who might be worried by the lack of new M&M stuff during the last few months. I'll come back to M&M (and the next issue of the webzine) ASAP but right now, I'm completely swamped in real-life work, both on the "actual job" and "ninth art" fronts... but I'm not forgetting all you Minotaurians !

Shield wall - and stay tuned, same Minotaur-channel, same... uh, you get the idea - cheers.



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Sacred Healer without Greater Caducei

hoplitenomad — 2012-11-22T23:23:20

I just had a thought about being able to replicate the healing specialties of the greater caduei if a sacred healer did not have one available. A sacred healer would just double the cost to produce the affect.

Cure Blindess: 6 pts
Regeneration: 12pts
Restore Petrified: 24 pts 

Hoplite Nomad



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The Minotaur Needs You!

olivier_legrand68 — 2012-11-02T18:04:56

Hello fellow Minotaurians!

It seems like the second part of the "Spear of Tamro" adventure won't be ready for the next issue of the webzine - which I'd really like to release before 2013. Of course, as soon as Andrew's adventure is ready, it will be published in one form or another, perhaps as a standalone (and, of course, 100% free)... but this means that the next Minotaur currently has no adventure scenario and I would hate to break our long-standing tradition of including at least one complete adventure in each issue... so the bottom line is this:

I NEED A COMPLETE, FULLY-WRITTEN M&M ADVENTURE ASAP !

Volunteers should contact me at my usual e-mail address (see the "Contact Me" link on the main M&M website).

Shield wall ! :)




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dave harris — 2012-11-02T04:10:18

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Gazetter Real world Inspirations

hoplitenomad — 2012-10-21T02:57:42

Hello Olivier,

I have made a few guess as to the real world inspirations for some of the cultures of Mythika.

Would you be so kind as to name which cultures inspired which?  It would be nice to read up both the fictional and real world cultures.

Thanks,


HN



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Three Cities Gazetteer

olivier_legrand68 — 2012-10-07T11:33:59

Hello everybody

I've just added the "Atlas of Mythika" version of the Three Cities Gazetteer (originally published way back in Minotaur n°2) to the "Minotaur Classics" page.

http://mazesandminotaurs.free.fr/classics.html

It is essentially the same material, with a few corrections here and there (and a few stats updates to make it 100% Silver Jubilee-compatible). I've even added a few new paragraphs here and there - most notably the list of the Ten Tasks of Tharsus of Heraklia. :)

I intend to treat all the published Gazetteers in the same manner over the next few months.

Meanwhile, still working on the next issue of the Minotaur webzine (and still waiting for some very important material, so I can't really give you a firm release date here, other than "ASAP" :)).



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dave harris — 2012-09-25T21:28:27

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Names resource for V&V

Peter larsson — 2012-09-24T14:04:23

Norse-style names, approved by the Government of Iceland. Many of them are actually not that appropriate (Like Alexander or Adrian) so use with some caution (or total abandon, as you prefer)


http://www.rettarheimild.is/mannanofn?Stafrof=&Nafn=&Drengir=on&Samthykkt=yes
http://www.rettarheimild.is/mannanofn?Stafrof=&Nafn=&Stulkur=on&Samthykkt=yes

Best
Peter

The Last Argonauts

olivier_legrand68 — 2012-08-22T16:51:18

(Not really M&M, but close enough)

The first tome of "LES DERNIERS ARGONAUTES", a graphic novel trilogy which I have written (along with my friends J-B Djian and Nicolas Ryser), has just been released - it's in French, obviously. It is set in a grim version of mythic Greece and related the very last heroic quest of the great hero Jason, now an old and embittered warrior who has lost everything; together with a "Magnificent Seven"-like crew, he embarks on a desperate quest to end the "Silence of the Gods"... 

Needless to say, I am really, really delighted to share this information with you.

I have dedicated this first tome to my wife Sylvie... and "to all Mazes & Minotaurs players"... with the obligatory "Shield wall!", of course.

http://www.glenatbd.com/bd/les-derniers-argonautes-tome-1-9782749306513.htm
 



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Random Islands

2012-07-13T08:17:27

I've finally got round to converting the improved random island generator to RM&M. In addition to the updating of creatures, there are some clarifications and 10 new "interesting features" (constructions and natural features will both go from 2d6 to 3d6, resulting in a total of 36 possible tourist attractions).



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Names for Islands

2012-07-07T08:13:53

Maybe everybody already knew about this, but I found this handy Wikipedia page while prepping Cult of the Scorpion God (starting an OM&M game on realroleplaying.com). Let's face it, a Maze Master is going to need to name a lot of islands and you can't call all of them things like "Isle of the Angry Harpies", because (a) that sometimes gives too much away and (b) nobody really wants to call their home that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Greece



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