September 2020 – Notes From Pavis

Mythras Character Skill Designer supports now Roll20 and helps select Combat Styles

The Mythras Character Skill Designer (CSD) (Tools.notesfrompavis.com now makes it easy to create Mythras characters skills and export them to Roll20 and Excel.

Mark your character stats on the screen and start selecting the options.

Currently CSD supports the Mythras Core in creating the skills. Select your culture and career from the choices. After that you can select professional skills (3 for culture and 3 for career and 1 hobby skill). This can now be exported to excel or json for further work. From the excel you can copy by hand the skills and values to your normal character sheet wherever that is.

You can select the json export file contents and open roll20 and add a new character with Mythras character sheet and copy paste (=import) the json content there.This will create a character sheet with these skills and with some tweaking you are ready to play.

You can now also check what weapons and combat traits you would like to have from a set of combat styles from various sources. After selecting the primary source – select the area and then select the combat style from available

For example you could select as primary sources Shores of Korantia, Campaigns and Mythras, then select area Campaigns – From there you can select Hammer of the Beast. Which shows as weapons Ball & Chain, Great Hammer and Barbed Javelin with trait Batter Down. Currently only a list of combat style contents is shown, no skill or weapon stats are shown. The names and categorisations might be enhanced in the future and there might be additional combat styles. These combat styles might be used as is or used as inspiration for creating your own.

The combat styles will currently be copied also to Excel.

Mythras Character Skill Designer Makes Exploring Character Options and Creating Characters Easier

There is a new tool in early beta at http://tools.notesfrompavis.com/

If you want to design characters relatively quickly Character Skill Designer is there for you to help with the skills part. It (currently) helps to create cultures and careers from the Mythras Core.

It gives the player quick way to design the skill set. In Mythras RAW there is a set of standard and professional skills available per culture and career. Each culture also has different careers available.

So enter the characteristics (Str, Siz, Con etc…) in the tool

So for example if your player has dreamed of being a Nomad Diabolist from Northern Wastes CSD lets him pick Nomad as the culture, Diabolist as a profession. After this tool let’s you select the right amount of professional cultural and career skills (which is max 3).

Next it let’s you see all the skills (including the standard skills that were not available with the culture/profession). The CSD calculates the base percentages for the skills and let’s you sort them by skill% to see how the skills fit players view and where to add cultural or career points.

The skill template has a note for each skill about whether you can use cultural or career points or whether it is just standard. When you are satisfied with the skill combination you can download that as a CSV file.

This will be developed further. There might be some bugs in the combinations, feedback welcome

New tool – Mythras Encounter Generator JSON UI for Roll20 and Campaign Logger Generator update

Mythras Encounter Generator is a tool for generating countless number of NPCs and Enemies to help out the GM and usually oppose the players. It is easy to use and generates either on screen, PDF or PNG format encounters.

But there are other format needs and so far they have been served by building perhaps a bit cryptic URL to generate the JSON. The spell has been cast. By popular request (thanks Bilharzia and others at Discord) there is now a user interface for those who need the JSON format from Mythras Encounter Generator.

Mythras Encounter Generator JSON

This can be useful for those who want to copy the generated enemy to other places for example Roll20.

Select from the left Mythras Encounter Generator JSON and you will after a short while see the below screen.

Select the tag you want

Within the tag you can search for the name of the enemy if you want.

Select the number of enemies (remember Roll20 wants to have only 1 at the time)

Select the enemy.

Select from the automatically generated list the small blue icon to copy the JSON to clipboard.

Paste the content to program you want for example Roll20.

Tool is available here at tools.notesfrompavis.com

Previously this was only available for those who figured out how to use this with URL format

Gloranthan and Mythras Color

At the same time the tools.notesfrompavis.com generators got a new interface.

It still contains all the generators

City Bad Night Encounter Seed Generator
Coin Stash Glorantha
Random place and region names
Fonritan Background
Fonritan Person
Fonritan Female Person
Maslo Agimori
Monster Island Tribal Taboos Broken
Orlanthi names
Savage names
Poisons for Mythras
Port Today
Fonritan Rumors
Sartar Background
Gloranthan Ships for ships and Shieldwalls
Fonritan Town rumour generator
Tribal Combat Units for ships and Shieldwalls
Tropical Diseases
Vadeli person