New Version of Visual Tactics of Choosing Special Effects available

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Tactics of choosing visual effects is a one pager helping to choose the effects originally published here

Choosing offensive special effects is here and defensive special effects here.

The new version is updated with the feedback of users. There is now a blue asterisk on all the special effects that will be opposed immediately by the opponent

Offensive Special Effects
Defensive special effects

Wild Hunt, Spriggan and other Faerie Creatures Crash into Mythras Encounter Generator

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Last set of faerie creatures from the Bestiaire Faerique. It is a fantastic tome of monsters and encounters in the lands of Faerie made by folks at http://d100.fr/jeux/mythras/ 

Here are the missing ones:

You will find all the Faerie creatures from the Bestiare Faerique with tag: Faerie The creatures in original bestiaire have fixed character stats, I have modified them here to be more varied, so you will get a bit different creature at each generation

You will find more about Mythras Encounter Generator here

MeG Explores Fairyland Creatures

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Few more faerie creatures from the Bestiaire Faerique .It is a fantastic tome of monsters and encounters in the lands of Faerie made by folks at http://d100.fr/jeux/mythras/ 

Duergar – The Evil Dwarf

Fachan – Fairy

Filborg – Island Giant

Filborg – Island Giant Noble

Fir darrig – The Faerie Trickster

Fomoire – Nether Demon

Gwragedd Annwn (Lake Fairy)

Jack-In-Irons – Giant

Fuath – Water Fairy

Leanan-sidhe – The Fairy Muse

The creatures in original bestiaire have fixed character stats, I have modified them here to be more varied, so you will get a bit different creature at each generation

You will find more about Mythras Encounter Generator here

Mythras Encounter Generator Fares Deeper into the Lands of Faerie

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Continuing to delve into the Bestiaire Faerique .It is a fantastic tome of monsters and encounters in the lands of Faerie made by folks at http://d100.fr/jeux/mythras/ 

Here are ten more of the creatures of the Faerie. You can find all of them with tag Faerie. The tome contains several variations of each.

Beithir – Lightning Lizard

Black Annis – Hag with Iron Claws

Capelthwaite, the Black Dog

Black Dog

Boggart – Evil Household and Swamp Spirit

Brollachan (Faerie)

Brownie (Faerie)

Buggane – Ogre of the Isles

Cailleach Bheur – The Blue Hag

Daoine sidhe – Faerie Noble

The creatures in original bestiaire have fixed character stats, I have modified them here to be varied, so you will get a bit different creature at each generation

You will find more about Mythras Encounter Generator here

Mythras Encounter Generator Makes a Trip Into Lands of Faerie

Bestiaire Faerique is a fantastic tome of monsters and encounters in the lands of Faerie made by folks at http://d100.fr/jeux/mythras/ It contains about 30 creatures from folklore, rules for faerie magic and several new creature abilities.

Here are the first few creatures from the bestiary added to Mythras Encounter Generator

Athach – the strong faerie

Aughiskey – the terrible watery horse

Banshee – the harbinger of doom

Baobhan Sith – a variation of a vampire

Barrow-Wight

The creatures in original bestiaire have fixed character stats, I have modified them here to be varied, so you will get a bit different creature at each generation

You will find more about Mythras Encounter Generator here

Bestiaries usable with Mythras (updated November 2024)

Here is a probably incomplete list of monster sources (bestiaries) usable in Mythras.

Almost any d100 game creatures can be easily dropped into Mythras with minimal or no modifications. Mythras Encounter Generator has already stats for majority of sources.

Mythras books

  • Core rulebook about 60 creatures plus and in addition large number of spirits 
  • Monster Island about 100 creatures plus and in addition spirits and walking gods 
  • Mythic Babylon 40+ creatures
  • Classic Fantasy 80+ creatures
  • Worlds United 30+ creatures (overlapping partly with above especially Monster Island)
  • Lyonesse 35+ (partly overlapping with Core rulebook)
  • Bestiaire Faerique (30+)
  • Weird of Hali (45+)
  • Book of Schemes (10)
  • Unearthed Companion (77)
  • Mythic Polynesia (10+)
  • other books have few in addition

If you can get your hands to copy of RQ6 Adventures in Glorantha 86+ creatures and spirits in addition. If not they are all in the RQ bestiaries below and statted in MeG

Legend

Things one can readily use are any d100 books with minimal mods 

  • Monsters of Legend 1 – 80+ overlapping with Mythras Core, Mongoose books and RQG Bestiary
  • Monsters of Legend 2 – 60+ – not in MeG yet

Chaosium

Any RQ or RQG book of any era for example

  • Runequest – Glorantha Bestiary 200+
  • the old Glorantha Bestiary (overlap with RQG Bestiary)
  • Gateway Bestiary
  • Anaxial’s Manifest 45+ (Jonstown Compendium)
  • Borderlands campaign (overlap with RQG Bestiary)
  • Malleus Monstrorum – 160+ – not in MeG yet. Call of Cthulhu, needs restatting to fit the power curve

Historical books – maybe hard to get:

Mongoose

  • Mongoose RQ Monsters (160) (overlap with RQG Bestiary)
  • Mongoose RQ II Monsters (145+) (overlap with RQG Bestiary and RQ Monsters)
  • Mongoose RQ Clanking City (about 10) overlaps with some of the Mongoose Monster books
  • RQ II Monster Coliseum (115-120) (overlap with RQG Bestiary and RQ Monsters)

MeG

Mythras Encounter Generator has stats for 4250+ 4500+ encounters including all of the above (except Book of Schemes, Unearthed Arcana, Mythic Polynesia, Legends 2 and Malleus Monstrorum at the moment), if something is missing it is easy to add.

In pdf only I have seen in the past

Big Damn Book of Monsters 448 pages of D&D monsters statted for BRP – which could be used in Mythras. These have no stats in MeG so far. from the blurb in it “I did, however, do my best to convert most of the critters from an old school Monster Manual I, Monster Manual II, and Fiend Folio to be playable in my favorite Roleplaying System. I did use characteristics (that I agreed with) from current sources as well, to try to maintain some consistency, but this was not always agreeable.” This book is no longer available from any source.

Monks of the Order of the Mountain Temple come to MeG

Took a look at indomitable Raleel’s work on cults after our extremely selective invite only summit of Mythras Inner Circle in the last vestiges of northern summer in Helsinki.

Raleel has created a load of useful cults that are easy to drop in any fantasy / sword and sorcery campaign in Mythras. I promised to put some of this to MeG right away. Here is the Way of the Vulture based on Raleel’s Mountain Temple monk – a wuxia inspired monk.

I added to MeG all the weapons that the monk order brought in – very nice wuxia style weapons. I added as well the two new combat styles into MeG. The pictures of the weapons are at Raleel’s site. I will be adding these into the combat style cards shortly as well.

Student of the Way of the Vulture

Disciple of the Way of the Vulture

Master of the Way of the Vulture

Sage of the Way of the Vulture

As a party I added

The weapons will be visible while creating new npc’s if you select “All” for weapons.

The corresponding “Student,Disciple,Master and Sage” are visible also in the lists for selectable cults – if you want to create your own variations.

You will find more info on Mythras Encounter Generator here