Notes From Pavis

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

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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

https://notesfrompavis.blog/2021/11/18/encounter-difficulty-levels-refactored/

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…