MYFAROG houserules

 

I played a bunch of Myfarog 2.6 back in the day, both in the default setting and using one I made myself. Given the fiddliness of the mechanics, I came up with a few houserules to streamline them somehow, which follow below.

Character generation

Civilians get an extra Trained skill and an extra Talent at level 1.

Combat

Cut and Shock effects are only rolled for if the hit was not a near-miss and if it dealt at least 2 damage.

Morale is only checked at the beginning of combat and when battle conditions change significantly.

Drawing and attacking in the same round can be done but at a -3 penalty to OV. Normal DV penalties for drawing apply.

Bleeding

Light and Medium bleeding wounds last for 1d6 10-minute increments or 1d6 minutes respectively instead of a flat 6. This is rolled individually for each wound. When a Medium bleeding wound turns into a Light bleeding after its effect ends, the duration of that Light bleeding is rolled separately.

Stamina

Stamina use during Combat is increased as follows:

Carrying out a charge costs 4 SP

Engaging in Melee costs 2 SP / round

Tactical advance costs 3 SP

Tactical retreat costs 1 SP / round

This Stamina houserule is the only one of these ideas I have yet to test out in play. I think it's worth trying out, though. The rationale behind it is that in all the games I have run or played in (easily over 50), nearly no character has ever expended their Stamina to become Tired (never mind the further levels of exhaustion) from combat alone. The only time that's ever happened is when I played a Sorcerer who was casting spells that required attacking, every single turn, in the context of a large skirmish.

Clearly, then, the default Stamina of 8 is too high for the purposes of combat. I considered the idea of reducing default Stamina to 6 or even 4, but then the other, non-combat Stamina expenditure values might need to be adjusted. This solution bypasses that problem.

If you try these ideas, let me know how you fared. Axes high!