My friend Antalon from the Mythras forums wrote an essay on how to be a great player in the Mythras roleplaying game. Here goes: —- I Game Master nearly exclusively. I am, however, a bad player. By this I mean that when I am let loose as a player, I just act an arse! Almost instinctively I look for ways to disrupt, betray and connive against my fellow players and the Game Master’s world, plot or adventure. (What inner trauma this reflects is for a different occasion!) As I consider my own behaviour, it got me thinking about how the players I have now, and over the years, have played at my tabl ..read more

Here is a Mystic order I did for my character in my friend Antalon’s campaign – Ormsfell Range. Order of the Claws of the Dragon Martial school of mysticism – Dragons in human form Mythos and History The Order of the Dragon’s Claw has an ancient and revered history steeped in the pursuit of Draconic Knowledge. Founded as a martial school of mysticism, this organization embarked on a quest to harness the hidden wisdom of dragons. Their journey began with the discovery of a cryptic Draconic script, a language believed to contain the very essence of dragons. There are areas in the document that ..read more

My friend Antalon from the Mythras forums wrote an essay on how the Game Master could handle movement rules with action points in different situations. These are rulings not rules. These have been in use for a long time in his campaign and work well. 3 March 2024 Mythras uses both very specific movement rates, in metres, but also leans heavily into abstract combat, ‘Theatre of the Mind’, and Game Master judgement for determining outcomes of movement in combat. It also applies a per Round (5 second) measurement to allowable movement distance, whereas combat Turns focus the a ..read more

Sorcery in Mythras has for a long time enjoyed tooling support in the form of Sorcery Calculator. It has come to my attention (after starting my first Mystic character) that Mystic may need tool support as well for for both slightly mathematically challenged and for those mastering the game for others – therefore often busy. Here is a first version of the Mystic Calculator. It knows all the calculations involved in creating a Mystic Path for a character and it may also help GMs to design their Mystics properly or even run them properly. The calculus takes into account all rules in RAW involvin ..read more

Mythras Imperative has been released under ORC rules. The indomitable Raleel has created SRD version of the newly released Mythras Imperative. Raleel’s version of the SRD has links to MeG and Raleel asked me to create or update few entries in MeG to match the creatures mentioned there. Here are the updated or new ones: Crocodile Horse Minotaur Shark Xenomorph Alien Dragon You will find more about Mythras Encounter Generator here ..read more

Here is a hyper linked version of Visual Offensive and Defensive Special Effects. Click on the special effect name and you get to a page where you will see a single page explains the special effect. Examples below. Both the defensive and offensive special effects are now on the same file. This file is meant for online use. There exists separately Combat Offensive and Defensive Special effects in condensed form to print out. See Mythras Charts and Tables page. One handy way of using is to print out the mind map forms on paper and then separately the condensed format and keep it near. Other way ..read more

Sometimes the opponent is significantly weaker or stronger than you. Then the raw strength and size starts to matter in some of the special effects where brawn is involved as this could be considered contest of strength. Here are the updated visual tactics Defensive Offensive Fighting against a gorilla or the strongest and biggest man of the town with this ruling could now become a quite iffy position but also a new lever in tactics. The big one might rely on his strength and start to use predictable special effects that rely on their superior strength and size – the weaker and smaller one c ..read more

Image created with Midjourney 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 EffectsDefensive special effects ..read more

Picture made with Midjourney 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: Leprechaun Llamhigyn y dwr – Water Leaper Merrow – Aquatic Faerie Nuckelavee (faerie) – Demon Centaur Phouka – Shapeshifting Faerie Selkie – Seal Folk Spriggan – Faerie Guardian – Small form Spriggan – Faerie Guardian – Gigantic Form Wild Hunter Wild Hunt Pack Dog Wild Hunt (party) You will find all the Faerie creatures from the Bestiare Faer ..read more

Image created with Midjourney 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 ..read more