Eric Hinkle wrote:
It seems to me that almost every American folk hero could be done as a mythic hero. Johnny Appleseed as a mythic druid, John Henry (and Paul Bunyan and Joe Magarac and so many more) as a mythic fighter/barbarian, Pecos Bill as a mythc gunslinger...
In fact, some friends of mine ran an adventure using the mythic rules at last year's Owlcon where 4 pantheons sent avatars of themselves (translation "mid-level mythic characters") into a newly discovered realm and fought over who got to be the gods of the new world. The four pantheons were the Greeks, Norse, Egyptian and American. I can't remember all of the "American Gods" but I do recall Johnny Appleseed (Druid), Paul Bunyan (ranger), George Washington (paladin), John Henry (fighter) and Annie Oakley (Gunslinger).
