Myfarog: Mythic Fantasy Role-playing Game v. 3

by Varg Vikernes

MYFAROG (Mythic Fantasy Role-playing Game) (3.3 edition) is a fantasy role-playing game, with a setting based on European mythology, religion and fairy tales. The 3.3 edition is a MAJOR overhaul of the system, with numerous dramatic changes and fixes, compared to previous editions. The rules are very modular, meaning you can play the game rules light or rules heavy, as you please. The rules are designed to make sense, and to give the players the ability to immerse themselves in Thulê; a highly credible fantasy world similar to Middle-earth and the European Classical Antiquity (some places touching into the Viking Age or the Bronze Age), but yet different. In Thulê, sorcery and the ancient deities are real, and the world is inhabited by not only humans, but also elves, nymphs, dwarves, orcs, gnomes, halflings, ettins and trolls, as well as other creatures. This art-minimalistic 218 page core rule-book (with black-and-white interior) is an all-in-one rule-book, so it contains all the information you need to play the game (and to make your own adventures and campaigns) indefinitely. A digital high resolution map of Thulê can be found www.myfarog.org. Because the setting is based on real world locations (Lofoten and Vesteralen in Northern Norway) you can also use online map services, to get highly detailed and realistic maps of the world of Thulê, in any scale you want. NB! You need a set of polyhedral dice to play the game.

224 pages, Paperback

Published July 24, 2019

About the author

Varg Vikernes is a Norwegian musician. In 1991 Vikernes conceived the one-man music project Burzum, which quickly became popular within the early Norwegian black metal scene. In Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, director Sam Dunn described Vikernes as "the most notorious metal musician of all time".

"After creating in the course of four early albums an impressive body of art that essentially ended black metal as it was by raising the bar beyond what others could easily participate in, Vikernes was imprisoned for sixteen years for his alleged role in church arson and murder. During the time he was in prison, he put out two more impressive keyboard-based albums and several books’ worth of writings before falling silent around the turn of the millennium." (source: www.deathmetal.org)

Since then and after his release in 2009, he has authored several writings on Nordic/Germanic neopaganism and European nationalism from a primitivist and naturalist stance focused on cultural values in the community and family.

Reviews

[B. Barron]

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I hesitated to buy this book as the author is VILE! But I really wanted to see it and I cannot steal, even from someone I would not pee on to extinguish a fire. Didn't hurt that it was inexpensive.
Now I just have to wok myself up to reading it without having to scrub my hands with a Brillo pad.

[Ermintrude · Rating 5 out of 5]

Considering the low price, the level of detail, that this is the work of one man and not a firm and had no kickstarter funding it's an amazing effort. It has been criticised for being too crunchy and it is a bit crunchy but the same could be said for Ars Magica, The Dark eye and D&D 3,3.5,4,5 editions so, it's just a matter of taste.
If you're looking for an in depth fantasy trpg in a Nordic setting this is probably it.

[Shad Aijalon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Enjoyable but a little disorganized. Seems like it would be fun to play.