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City Quarter Generator which generates city quarter for Mythic Constantinople era cities and generic fantasy cities now has the first versions of Gloranthan City quarters. There are two versions – Orlanthi City Quarter and Fonrit City Quarter.

Currently the Orlanthi City Quarter generates temples from the Storm Pantheon. Fonrit one generates from Ompalam pantheon. For this first version the probability of gods are even for the city quarter. There are only gods from a single pantheon in the city quarter. Major Temples are more rare, others are evenly distributed to appear. This also may change in the future. There might even be other pantheons appearing.

The contents of the temples are defines by Mythras ruleset – substitute your own favourite distribution and kinds of priests there. For example acolytes seem to come and go in the rulesets.

These would be most likely suitable for larger cities with tenements, multiple professions and stores and multiple temples. My campaign is in Fonrit where this seems to suit well.

Example of Fonrit City Quarter

Example of Orlanthi City Quarter

You can find the tool here

A fellow Mythras fan asked me if it would be possible to create a city quarter generator based on Mythic Constantinople rules.

Here is the first version – it can only do Constantinople and only poor city quarters. More will probably come later and I will most likely do a more sword and sorcery oriented version later on.

The system is based on generating nodes. After generating a few nodes for a part of a city quarter you will draw the streets and alleys around them and then start sketching out the shape of the buildings. You can save the resulting files as .png files and then draw the needed roads, buildings around the nodes.

The tool can be found here

So you always wanted to fight the Ska in Mythras Lyonesse. Really think you are able to do that. Here are some combat styles to practice. Beware – Ska are both intelligent, highly tactical as well as strategic and really strong in both individual and mass combat.

Here are 28 combat styles prevalent in Lyonesse – there are others but this is a starter.

You can find them in the pdf folder for Lyonesse with the rest of the combat style cards.

The full set of Combat Style cards is explained here. There are now almost 200 of them.

As the year’s first post here are a few Lyonesse encounters.

Bearded Gryph

Hulk of Cam Brakes

Heceptor

Natrid

Screamer

Ska Warrior

Unicorn

For spirit beings only few links are put here as direct links. Rest of them can be found via MeG search for example with tag: Lyonesse

Darklings

Small Lesser Darkling Greater Elder Ancient Elder

Willawen

Small, Lesser, Willawen, Greater, Elder, Ancient Elder

Merrihew

Small, Lesser, Merrihew, Greater, Elder, Ancient Elder

Quist

Small, Lesser, Quist, Greater, Elder, Ancient Elder

Hyslop

Small, Lesser, Hyslop, Greater, Elder, Ancient Elder

Main page for Mythras Encounter Generator (MeG) is here – more than 3400 ready made templates for NPC – to be generated with just a click of a button

Here is a starter set of resources for a Mythras GM. This is a subset of all resources available at NotesFromPavis blog.

Combat

• Interactive Combat Flow summary
• Visual Combat Modifier Charts
• Mythras Skill Roll Evaluator
• Healing and Wounds

Combat – special effects

• Tactics of choosing special effects – next generation – one pager version
• Offensive special effects summary
• Defensive special effects summary

Combat – others

• Mini charts
• Combat Style Cards (more than 170 of them)

Encounter generators

• Mythras Encounter Generator (MeG) – read this first how to speed up generation of enemies and encounters
• Mythras Encounter Generator (MeG) – almost 3400 NPC/Monster templates and hundreds of parties to quickly generate encounters
• Mythras and Gloranthan generators for GM
• Mythras Encounter Generator JSON finder tool for roll20
• Pregenerated characters
• Taverns

Other sources

• Mythras Charts and Tables (links to many others)
• Gloranthan Cult one pagers
• Parry and passive blocking to stop also known as “Shields are awesome”

Here is an item from my Mythras Monster Island Campaign. It is the very rare copy guide to Hummingbirds of Monster Island. It was carefully researches by brave ornithologist Dhatamuzzin – who was lost in his latest travel to upper reaches of cloud forest in Komombo area in search of new subspecies of Prophet Bird. He used large part of his considerable inherited wealth to finance expeditions to inner Monster Island. His collection of bird feathers is beyond compare and is now being cared for in a private museum in the provincial capital.

The book contains first hand observations of the rarity of the birds, their living areas and delicateness of the birds for feather removal. It also contains market value researched which might fluctuate mightily. There is a Mandahi and Varanri Shaman curses put on Dhatamuzzin for his over zealous research in the vicinity of tribal holy places.

The link is here

There is a small update on combat style cards. It contains now the Meeros Doomed combat styles. I added also a few Dwarven Combat Stylesinvented for Glorantha. I also updated all the cards separating all firearms related special effects to be applicable only for firearms. In addition there is now a strangle special effect from Fioracitta.

The new styles are for Meeros:

and for Dwarven

They can be found on the combat style card folder

Here is an example of Nidan Iron Dwarf Rifleman

The rest of the charts exist here.

There are other useful charts here

Here are close and ranged combat modifiers visualization charst.

It shows various close and ranged combat modifiers in visual form.

Other useful Mythras charts are here

Useful tools for Mythras exist at tools.notesfrompavis.com and gm.notesfrompavis.com (works currently best with Chrome browser)

New small tool in tools.notesfrompavis.com Mythras Dice Roll Evaluator. Give it a skill and augmenting skill. It calculates those pesky details of resulting skill and various difficulty grades and crits & fumbles. My small contribution to the destruction of in your brain math skills.

After using the result based visualization and listening to feedback – here is an update on how to select the special effects.

Changes are

• it fits into a single a4 – one for offensive and one for defensive special effects.
• strangle special effect from Fioracitta added
• all the special effects that are firearms only – marked so

How I use this – I printed it out and put it under plastic protective sheet – one to each side and a stiff cardboard in between. Now it is easy to keep on the table, text is big enough to see even on a4 and you are looking only at 1 a4 instead of 4.

Here are the defensive special effects and here the offensive special effects.