Author: hkokko

Well – obviously he/she is not unladen if she/he has a backpack full of loot and rations unless he/she/it is very strong.

Few player characters always want to use the toughest armor they can find and it can be tough to figure out how that affects the speed that they can walk, can they even run, how about jumping over that ravine. Can they even move at all. How much do their skills suffer. What if they are wearied from Fatigue. What if they drop the leg braces and the backpack. What if they enter jungles of Monster Island. How about if they drop the armor altogether and keep just the weapons or some of them. What if they roll a critical on their athletics while doing the move.

Now there is a version of FES calculator that combines the RAW rules, Monster island jungle rules and all the movement related rules from the RAW to calculate all of this.

It makes it much easier to see all the effects that encumbrance, terrain and fatigue make. The aim here is to make movement speed also count – when escaping One-Eye the Carnosaur you do not have to be the fastest but faster than 2-4 of the slowest ones. You should also be make the hard decisions what to drop to escape easily from game mechanics point of view.

The encumbrance and fatigue can make drastic changes to the speed and skills. This tool aims to help the use of them to support the game session.

The calculator handles the movement rates from 3-8, armo penalties from 0-29, athletics skills from 0-120 and swimming skills from 0-80. Why these limits – well it turned out to be way more convenient to calculate and test the movement rates outside Excel in Python and these are the limits I chose for a starter. So there is a data sheet of 250.000+ lines generated with excel and this makes the Excel a medium sized beast for the computer. Might work on that later… The version probably requires a recent version of Excel as it uses some formulas that might only exist in Excel.

There are few things one needs to input

• Strength
• Constitution
• Dexterity
• Intelligence
• Select current fatigue level from a list
• Athletics skill
• Swimming sill
• Select whether armor is worn or not
• Select all the equipment one wants to either wear or carry from the list

After these FES carries out the calculations and creates a table for results

The colors yellow and various shades of red indicate something to note about the effects.

There are four columns for different scenarios: Fully loaded, Without Backpack and the similar ones for Fully loaded in jungle and without backpack in jungle.

After filling out the FES – you can save a copy for each player character and start using it. During the scenario – when fatigue, speed or encumbrance matter – change the fatigue level and select whether you wear armor or not. If you are not satisfied with the numbers – drop or add equipment by adding or changing the item count number of each individual line you want or need to change in the equipment list. Only the orange fields are meant to be changed.

This will evolve with feedback plus there are already things in the roadmap for supporting combat styles etc on this one.

If you find mistakes or improvement needs please do not hesitate to contact.

Here is another example:

The Fatigue, Encumbrance and Speed calculator exists here. It replaces the old Encumbrance Calculator and Monster Island Fatigue Calculator. Many other charts for Mythras exist here.

Mythras Encounter Generator (and its previous branding) has been in existence now for about 9 years – since 2013. I wrote my first post about it in September 9, 2013 and it had been in existence a few months before.

MeG has generated 649 256 NPCs since the early days.

Today there were four new encounters created

• Aru-Jumbie
• Progadu Mind-eater
• Astorwal Courser – Wizard’s Guardian
• Chaos Giant Champion

The 4000th public encounter was the Astorwal Courser. Altogether there are over 8300 templates in MeG – a little bit over half are private templates.

There are 59272 additional feature items in 408 categories (like Abilities, Curse Spirit Abilities, Basic Poisons, Exotic Poisons, Saxon names, Avenue of Delights Effects and so on).

Some of these NPCs belong to one of the more than 180 cults or sorcery orders of which there are more than 620 different ranks detailed.

The main link to Mythras Encounter Generator remains

Most if not all Cthulhoid creatures from Weird of Hali are now in the MeG.

To ease the work of hard working (and lazy GMs) in Mythras Mythras Encounter Generator can now generate most if not all Cthulhoid creatures from Weird of Hali…

Here is the last installment of MeG updates for Weird of Hali Cthulhu creatures.

• Gnophkeh

• Hound of Tindalos (Weird of Hali)

• Kyrrmi – the sorcerers familiar

• Lake Monster

• Shambler from the Stars

• Shantak, the scaled Pterodactyloid

• Skim, The Flying Disc

• Yag-Kothaun Sorcerer

• Xin, Swarm of Sorcerous Crabs

You will find these with the direct links above and also with keyword “Weird of Hali”. Many of these encounters would also work with fantasy campaigns for example Monster Island. 

You will find more Weird of Hali goodness and here and of course the rest of the Mythras Encounter Generator is explained here

Ia Ia Ia.

To ease the work of hard working (and lazy GMs) in Mythras Mythras Encounter Generator can now generate more Cthulhoid creatures… Here are the next part of MeG updates for Weird of Hali. Just ten more of the Weird of Hali creatures remain without statistics in MeG – will be rectified in near future.

This update contains nine cthulhoid beings to generate

• Behinder

• Black Dog of Nyarlathotep

• Colored Gases

• Culverin

• Dark Young of Shub-Ne’hurrath

• Flat

• Floating Globe

• Formless Spawn of Tsathoggua

and because everything is better with tentacles, here’s plenty:

• Tentacle Monster

You will find these with the direct links above and also with keyword “Weird of Hali”. Many of these encounters would also work with fantasy campaigns for example Monster Island.

You will find more Weird of Hali goodness here and of course the rest of the Mythras Encounter Generator is explained here

The venerable Mythras Charts and Tables page has been revamped to make it easier to find the proper chart.

Now it is in table format and structured by different areas. Currently there are 60 rows in the table pointing to 1 or more resources. It also contains a link to more info if available

The areas are

• Combat – Flow
• Combat – Healing
• Combat – Parrying
• Combat – Reach (Optional)
• Combat – Situational Effects
• Combat – Skills, Movement
• Combat – Special Effects
• Combat – Weapons
• Combat Styles – Examples
• Combat Styles – Traits
• Encounters
• Magic
• Magic – Folk Magic Optional
• Magic – Setting – Glorantha
• Magic – Theist, Folk Magic, Animist – Setting – Glorantha
• Magic – Sorcery
• Magic – Spirits
• Movement
• Skills
• Skills, Movement, Combat
• Skills, Combat
• Travel
• Travel (Setting – Monster Island)
• Commerce (Setting – Monster Island)
• Setting – Monster Island

You can find the Charts and Tables page here as always.

The new Destined supplement for Mythras is full of interesting material. There is one new special effect there that could be added optionally to your normal special effects. That effect is Distract and it has been added to the normal special effects charts. It is similar in tone to Press Advantage but it is different in tone and has a different tactical effect when Press Advantage is not useful.

Its selection is now in both of the visual (mind map) style sheets and also to the normal Offensive/Defensive Special Effect quick reference sheets.

Visual Defensive Special Effects

Visual Offensive Special Effects

Offensive Special Effects

Defensive Special Effects

Progressive Folk Magic provoked a few questions both in live play and in reddit and I added clarifications based on some of those in the new version of the Progressive Folk Magic V1.1. The mechanics themselves are not changed.

“You could constrain Progressive Folk Magic so that one can only buy a spell if one has the right level of folk magic skill already. Each level of the spell after initial purchase should also be considered a new deeper level spell for buying or accessibility purposes (who teaches it). You may need to buy them in order.“

Healing Wounds chart is updated with the progressive Folk Magic rules

All the old versions of charts have been marked with a yellow sticker that there is a new one available. Charts and Tables post should now be linked to newest ones

Folk magic is described as petty magic available usually to most folk. This has led to design decisions that folk magic spells in RAW are ‘fixed’ in strength and placed low in the ladder of magical strength. It can also be stronger like it was in history of the game. If you want variable folk magic spells from AiG you could use these  rules.  To keep the relative strength of the magic systems aligned the spells variability is controlled by the Folk Magic skill level required and INT required.

Bear in mind that this makes the folk magic spells significantly more powerful (and also weaker in the lower end of intensity) and take this into account on your campaign’s magic levels. 

You might also want to constrain the intensity attainable per spell to certain cults and/or cult levels. So for example Healing intensity 1-3 are available to everybody and Healing 4 to shamans of any cult.  Healing intensity 5 or higher is only available to Healing cult or Healing Cult’s Priest level. If you use progressive version of the spell it replaces in its technical effect the RAW version.

Caster does not have to use full intensity available.

The spell table shows how each of the spells are modified by intensity. Those spells not on the list stay fixed as they are.

With this system for example:

Bladesharp adds dice bonus to blade weapon damage. Only dice bonus is magical. For example intensity 4 would give +1d4 added damage and cost 4 MP. It would require 61% in Folk Magic skill and at least 10 INT

These rules distilled from AiG are used with permission and are slight modification in presentation from the original.

The spell table and skill/int table is in here

Other useful charts would be in here

Mythras Encounter Generator strives to help the busy GM in creating creatures for Mythras campaigns easily.

Weird of Hali – a gateway supplement to Mythras is full of Cthulhu creatures and other goodness (mad scientists, cultists, poisons etc). Here is a first set of Cthulhoid creatures in MeG format.

What if your PC’s benefactor turned out to be Valusian Serpent People Infiltrator whose carpet turned out to be Shoggoth,Household and whose trusted servants were actually a tribe of blood thirsty Voormis Warriors. If you wait too long to escape the Flying Polyp could find its way in. In the outskirts of the mountains the mining operation was actually a Mi-Go enterprise – protected by Mi-Go Warrior and the reason for the odd dwindling of the fisheries is that a colony of Deep Ones has appeared.

There are other shoggoths as well – the normal Shoggoth,Adult and the mighty Shoggoth,Antarctic. There is also a Cthulhoid Ghoul. Other Cthulhu creatures in the MeG (with stats from other sources) _ Nightgaunt and Shoggoth

The MeG contains currently 3966 published templates for NPCs and monsters for various campaigns – the content is crowdsourced and it is easy to find creatures or add new ones. There exists also tools to get the info in json format and insert that into roll20 or Foundry

The encumbrance calculator makes it easy to calculate the effect of encumbrance. This can be especially important when the players want to use heavy armor but their character or drag along multitude of equipment.

The following changes are in the new version:

Sheet has new look and feel.

• it shows the selected worn armor, its ENC and APs
• it shows the selected carried armor
• it shows the selected weapons
• it shows the selected equipment
• and finally it shows the amount of loot ENC carried

The ENC limits are shown in a different way.

The effect on skills is shown and highlighted in more compact way.

With the CON added it shows how often to roll for endurance outside the fights.

Same, more importantly, shows how often you need to roll for endurance within the fight.

All the armor / material combinations from the standard book are included. The name informs the material.

If you select more from the worn armor than human has locations – it will give a warning message at the top. Same goes if you forgot to select all.

The armor rows show selectors for Milieu eras (prehistoric, ancient and so on) – so you can select the appropriate armor.

Material examples for each armor piece show various materials and there is a link or explanation for armor kind.

It should be now quite effortless to calculate the encumbrance.

The link is here Unfortunately it requires now Excel 2019…