The Journey of the Dead

Pyramid #3/38: The Power of Myth is now available from Steve Jackson Games, including my new systemless gaming article "The Journey of the Dead". Based upon the remarkable parallels between Egyptian, Greek and Norse descriptions of the trials of the newly dead, it suggests ways of incorporating this archetypal quest into your own role-playing game, no matter the setting or genre.

This is my second outing in Pyramid, the first being the campaign setting "Dominion" in #3/10: Crime and Grime. As usual, this issue is an intriguingly multifaceted affair, topics ranging from Baba Yaga to Babylon and bears. Yes, bears as a mythic archetype. And Baba Yaga in space. The real test of a myth is, after all, its flexibility.