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Mythras can be considered as a very flexible toolkit for setting up your campaign. This gives enormous power to shape the campaign rules to fit the campaign content and mood. It also gives new GMs a question: Which options I need to setup and how do I communicate which rules are in effect. Mythras has a large array of settings and scenarios which bring in additional and optional rules and systems. YMMV – Your Mythras May Vary but what can I change and are there any consequences of the change.

To answer this question there is a new tool NOMCORSS (NotesFromPavis Opinionated Mythras Campaign Optional Rule Setup Sheet). It is an excel sheet which gives the GM a worksheet to select which optional rules are in effect in his/her particular campaign.

The first version is for before firepower age campaigns and should contain all RAW options and some popular Mythras house rules and setting rules that you can select for your campaign.

Version 1.4 contains now almost 230 rule selections one can do –

Contains optional rules to select from: Mythras RAW,Mythras Companion,Ships and Seawalls,Monster Island,Firearms,M-Space,Old Bones Setting Up Tasks,Adventures in Glorantha,Shores of Korantia,Bird in the Hand,Taskan Empire,Sorandib,Assabian Rites,Lyonesse,Mythic Britain,Mythic Britain,Perceforest Logres,Waterlands,Perceforest,Mythic Rome,Mythic Constantinople,Fioracitta

There are now very many tool selections that you can do. Excel filters will be your friend – filter by category, perhaps then by topic. Remember all the edits are done on the first (Main) sheet (do not sort there). All the sorting should be done on Display sheet.

To help you select here are a few tips and an additional feature. First – select which of the magic systems you want to use. They are the rows marked with orange ones. If you select one or couple of them (by selecting from the green column any choice that is not “No” and not starting with “Standard RAW” – all the choices for any magic system rule choices will be marked “Optional Magic System Chosen”.

Now start selecting any of these “Optional Magic System Chosen” rules. There again if you select an option that is not “No” and not starting with “Standard RAW” the column named “Was there any optional rule chosen (rules that are standard in RAW count as False)” will be automatically marked True.

On the display sheet – there is also a column “Was there any optional rule chosen (rules that are standard in RAW count as False)” Filter by using standard Excel filtering (in Excel the title of the column will contain dropdown” and select “True”. This will now show all the selected optional rules.

Here is an example of opinionated setup for campaign tools.

If you are starting your first campaign with Mythras – you can accept the default rules or just tweak a couple. Tweaking increases color but may increase learning curve for new players. Take a look at judgmental prework effort for GM and learning effort for players columns. You can always add more options later. Mythras is fun with the opinionated defaults as with many of them differing from the defaults.

Due to obscure but documented Excel bug – please do not sort anything on the Main tab. Do all the sorting on the Display tab.

There are now very many tool selections that you can do. Excel filters will be your friend – filter by category, perhaps then by topic. Remember all the edits are done on the first (Main) sheet (do not sort there). All the sorting should be done on Display sheet.

Just select for each of the rows in green column if you want to change the rule from the opinionated default. If there is nothing to select then write to the yellow column row. You can add your comments on the yellow row anyway.

You need to have own the various supplements it refers to if you want to use the rules mentioned here (every rule option reference points to the supplement and page).

Print out the display sheet to your players if you want to.

The tool is here.

Here is an example of my campaign’s selections

This tool will be updated later on…

Mediterranea Mitico is a Spanish language setting for Mythic Mediterranean. It contains cultures and settings for nations and tribes around Mediterranean in the ancient period.

I translated the combat styles from it for the Combat Style Encyclopaedia. Combat Style is a combination of weapons that a culture or organisation trains to be effectively used together. Combat Style usually include one or much more rarely more than one Combat Style Traits. Combat Style Cards are quick reference cards which show examples of such styles together with weapon statistics and how this combination of weapons interacts with Combat Special Effects. 

Here is the list of the Mediterranean Mitico styles

Carthaginian Hoplite	Mediterranean – Carthage
Libyan Horseman	Mediterranean – Carthage
Punic Sorceress	Mediterranean – Carthage
Sidonian Marine	Mediterranean – Carthage
Celtic Berserker	Mediterranean – Celtic
Clan Warrior	Mediterranean – Celtic
Highland Hunter	Mediterranean – Celtic
Auriga	Mediterranean – Egyptian
Egyptian Infantryman	Mediterranean – Egyptian
Sais Archer	Mediterranean – Egyptian
Citizen Hoplite	Mediterranean – Greece
Cretan Archer	Mediterranean – Greece
Ionian Peltasta	Mediterranean – Greece
Macedonian Horseman	Mediterranean – Greece
Protector of the Heliopolis	Mediterranean – Greece
Balearic Slinger	Mediterranean – Iberian
Bastetano Warrior	Mediterranean – Iberian
Turdetano Archer	Mediterranean – Iberian
Desert Hunter	Mediterranean – Nubian
Kushite Archer	Mediterranean – Nubian
Napatian Warrior	Mediterranean – Nubian
Bully of the Bunch	Mediterranean – Other
Ebon Mercenary	Mediterranean – Other
Holy Man	Mediterranean – Other
Mede Horseman	Mediterranean – Persian
Persian Royal Guard	Mediterranean – Persian
Philistine Raider	Mediterranean – Persian
Sparabara	Mediterranean – Persian
Equites	Mediterranean – Roman
Roman Legionary	Mediterranean – Roman
Velites	Mediterranean – Roman
Nomad Headhunter	Mediterranean – Scythian
Scythian Raider	Mediterranean – Scythian
Scythian Spearman	Mediterranean – Scythian

There are now 619 Combat Styles and 108 Combat Style Traits from the following sources.

Here are the combat styles for Mediterranea Mimic:

Mediterranean – Carthage	Carthaginian Hoplite
Mediterranean – Carthage	Libyan Horseman
Mediterranean – Carthage	Punic Sorceress
Mediterranean – Carthage	Sidonian Marine
Mediterranean – Celtic	Celtic Berserker
Mediterranean – Celtic	Clan Warrior
Mediterranean – Celtic	Highland Hunter
Mediterranean – Egyptian	Auriga
Mediterranean – Egyptian	Egyptian Infantryman
Mediterranean – Egyptian	Sais Archer
Mediterranean – Greece	Citizen Hoplite
Mediterranean – Greece	Cretan Archer
Mediterranean – Greece	Ionian Peltasta
Mediterranean – Greece	Macedonian Horseman
Mediterranean – Greece	Protector of the Heliopolis
Mediterranean – Iberian	Balearic Slinger
Mediterranean – Iberian	Bastetano Warrior
Mediterranean – Iberian	Turdetano Archer
Mediterranean – Nubian	Desert Hunter
Mediterranean – Nubian	Kushite Archer
Mediterranean – Nubian	Napatian Warrior
Mediterranean – Other	Bully of the Bunch
Mediterranean – Other	Ebon Mercenary
Mediterranean – Other	Holy Man
Mediterranean – Persian	Mede Horseman
Mediterranean – Persian	Persian Royal Guard
Mediterranean – Persian	Philistine Raider
Mediterranean – Persian	Sparabara
Mediterranean – Roman	Equites
Mediterranean – Roman	Roman Legionary
Mediterranean – Roman	Velites
Mediterranean – Scythian	Nomad Headhunter
Mediterranean – Scythian	Scythian Raider
Mediterranean – Scythian	Scythian Spearman

I would like to reach the authors of Mediterranean Mitico but have not found a route for that. If somebody knows how to reach them – please let them know I am trying to reach them.

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

Mythras Encounter Generator Difficulty Levels Refactored and Many Other Things As Well