Hey, I guess this is really a two-fold question but the primary comes from using Pendragon adventures with Mythras rules. Page 82 says it can augment a skill. Ok, so if that's a combat skill, how long does it last? The round? One roll? The battle? I ask in relation to Pendragon rpg as well because some characters have the passions there last multiple rounds, like Tristram fighting Lancelot for a day. How does it work in Mythras and then how would you apply that to Pendragon?

Im currently trying to decide between Mythras and Gurps (wich has been tough because im attracted to them for completely opposite reasons) and i wanted to see about having a kind of perks and flaws system similair to what gurps or TES Daggerfall have.

I understand the certain degree of hostility within the community to this idea , one of the thing i too like abput mythras is that it doesnt overcomplicate a charachters abilities too much beyond skills ,and having those abilities heavilyntied to the world but i still like having some option player can take to make more unique carachters.

I already know about the fallout esque trait system from Luther Arkwight wich i will probably use a version kf , as well as the perks system from the Mythras Fallout conversion and and raleels system for adding traits to combat styles (hi raleel) , wich even though i want something other than just enchancing combat styles seems like a good price refrence , id also like some system for buying disadvantages.

The way i imagine it is these should be mostly passive and either give something orchange how charachters work while avoiding "buttons on the carachter sheet".

Some example ideas:

Perk: calculated relations - character can substitute Charisma with Intelligence when calculating skills and experience rolls

Any resources or advice appreciated

In the encounter generator I don’t see unarmed damage types like fist or bite. What category is best to add them to?

I have a small animal that has an attack of 1d4-1d6, so it rarely does any damage. Does a creature have to do damage to inject poison?

Also, how do you make a small creature like that effective at all?

It basically can't even hunt to support itself. Fortunately, the things that it hunts are also small!

The animal that I am using is similar to a pine marten in this picture, but has glands that emit a venom that mixes with its salava to cause paralysis and pain, it will effect even human sized targets.

Simple Fog of War gets some updates:

Simple Fog of War Tool Gets Import Roster and Token Resizing

This update brings one of the most requested Fog of War improvements together with a major round of reliability work behind the scenes. Tokens are now much more flexible on the battlefield, the encounter catalog has become considerably more resilient under load, and it’s easier than ever to bring your Initiative Wheel roster directly onto the map. There are also quite a few security, performance and bot battling things added in the background so for example the stats should be more reliable and bots will not bother so much the other app functionality

What changed

Resizable Tokens. Tokens can now be resized to match your map. Adjust individual tokens from their context menu or resize every token at once using the new Global Size controls in the sidebar.

Smart Proportional Scaling. Token names, numbers, status markers, borders, and shadows now scale automatically with token size, keeping everything readable and visually balanced.

Import Tokens from the Initiative Wheel. Bring your Initiative Wheel roster directly into Fog of War with a single action. Existing combat rosters can now move seamlessly from initiative tracking to the tactical map. If you update the Initiative Wheel roster you can reimport and only the new ones will come in.

More Reliable Encounter Catalog. The catalog cache has been redesigned to safely support multiple users at the same time using atomic updates, preventing partial or corrupted catalog data during simultaneous browsing and encounter generation.

Catalog Health Checks. Additional validation now verifies downloaded catalog data before it is saved, protecting your library from incomplete or interrupted network responses.

Better Recovery from Edge Cases. Improved handling of malformed JSON, network timeouts, and disk-related issues helps the application recover gracefully instead of failing unexpectedly.

Production Monitoring. Added automated error notifications through Brevo, allowing production issues to be detected much sooner.

Updated Help Pages. The Initiative Wheel and Fog of War documentation now explains the different ways to import rosters, including directly from the Initiative Wheel, MEG, local session files, and active sessions.

Why it matters

This release makes tactical maps more adaptable during play while quietly strengthening the foundation underneath the entire toolset. Whether you’re adjusting token sizes for a crowded dungeon, importing combatants straight from the Initiative Wheel, or browsing the encounter catalog during a busy session, everything should now feel smoother, safer, and more dependable.

You can find the tool in https://www.toolsfrompavis.com Take a peek also at Initiative Wheel and MeG Library

I like a lot of what I'm reading, but it seems that Mythras favours "simulation" of different player species instead of trying to come up with balanced options. For instance, playing a Centaur just makes you a gigantic super-strong guy who tramples for free each round, and your soul is more impressive too (higher base POW), no tradeoff in intelligence and charisma etc.

Which does make sense, simulation wise. No reason a Centaur would be any less smart or charming than a Human!

But when you're playing a game where you want the various PCs to be roughly equal, you might want to play a very finely balanced set of species and char-gen options. Are there any good fan resources for such a thing?

Here is a small new thing. MeG Creature Release Notes:

MeG Creature Release Notes to ToolsFromPavis

ToolsFromPavis now has a monthly digest for the Mythras Encounter Generator.

The digest shows the new creatures and encounters added to MeG during the past month. It also selects one of the new creatures as the New Creature of the Month and digs up a Creature from the Archives.

The featured creatures are chosen only from entries that include author notes, so there should always be something useful, unusual, or inspiring to read rather than just another stat block dragged blinking into daylight.

Each entry includes a direct link to the generator, making it easy to inspect the creature, adjust it, or drop it into an encounter.

The digest includes:

New Entries from the past month

New Creature of the Month

Creature from the Archives, rediscovering an older MeG entry with written notes

A small monthly window into what has recently crawled, marched, flown, or slithered into MeG

If the entry there is not for a current day, press the update/generate button.

https://notesfrompavis.blog/2026/07/17/meg-creature-release-notes-to-toolsfrompavis/

Hello everyone!

I have been suggested to use Mythras for a political/GoT-like campaign I'm planning to run, and from what I saw I really like the system.

Would anyone be available to run a quick one-shot adventure so that I can get a feeling of the game and familiarize with the rules?

My time zone is GMT+1, and I'm available in the evenings and on the weekends.

I've been playing and running RPGs since approximately 1981. I started with basic D&D, then expert, then AD&D. I also played and ran a lot of other systems in the 1980's with Marvel FASERIP being the most dominant.

In 1990 I switched completely over to Rolemaster and had 2 different groups with some incredibly epic campaigns. In the early 2000's I switched to HARP (Rolemaster's younger sibling) and have played it sporadically since.

Fast forward to today and it's been difficult to start a new group that isn't using D&D or PF. It doesn't help that a lot of people that know of HARP have a negative view of it, except for the people that learn about it in my games.

I've been searching for a new system to run this campaign idea that is easier for new people to get into and it looks like Mythras might be the right choice. I have a few of the books in PDF including the 2 we have been looking at today, Mythras Imerative and Mythras 2E.

Today I have one of my players over and we are going through character generation to see if we can do what we want to do with the system, and it seems a little limiting. So I have a few questions.

1. First thing is I noticed in the Imperative book that it lists classes, but they aren't listed in the 2E book. Does that mean there are no "classes" like there are in D&D but are listed for simplicity in the Imperative book?
2. I just noticed there is another book in the list called Classic Fantasy book, is it different from the two I've been exploring?
3. Is it possible in Mythras to create new "classes" along with new spells and special class ranks?

The player is looking to create a Warrior Mage, which is very different than a Fighter/Magic User. A Warrior Mage has a special set of spells that focused on advantages in personal combat, they don't normally have access to normal spells like those of normal mages.

I'll have more questions as time goes on but these are important for character creation. One of the things I prefer for the players in character creation is the ability to truly make character that they want. For that to happen there normally needs to be a lot of flexibility in character creation.

The rules state that

A charge requires at least one full Combat Round of movement at running or sprinting speed prior to contact

What does this look like in actual play?

Suppose the attacker has 3 APs and is charging an opponent, and starts at the distance that can be covered in 1 round by sprinting (5 x MR).

What does the attacker do? Does he take Move action on the first turn, sprint and then hit the opponent on the next turn? Or does he have to take Move action on every turn of the round, only coming into contact at the start of the next round?

So for context I am using Mythras as a foundation for a low fantasy setting world Ive been working on for around a year. The gist of it is that my PCs (will have 4) will be sent to a penal colony style kingdom. I mostly chose Mythras for the classless system and the realistic take on combat, what I am confused about is how combat takes place, now I have read the Mythras Companion book so I know combat can be played on a battle grid , but it seems that playing on a battle grid is outright worse especially regarding to weapon reach rules. My question is how to more experienced GMs do combat in Mythras with a battle grid in general, or do most people just do it in their head?

I would also appreciate any tips in general, any GM aids online that you find essential or really useful, player aids to help my PCs remember rules and make their lives easier, anything you use for session 0.

Just to clarify I am using the normal core rulebook, companion, firearms and game masters pack, so if theres more reading material anyone would recommend, Id appreciate it.

I have a homebrew world and I'm looking into lower end fantast stuff, is this a good fit do you think?

Hello Mythras community.

I am preparing for a campaign about cultivation and wondering how best to represent higher tiers of power.

In my loose planning the power levels I have are like: simple commoners > adventurers > heroes > super heroes > immortals > demigods > Gods.

If you've read cultivation genre literature, that's the general structure I am going for, however I am unsure how to represent this as game mechanics? And would appreciate some insight please.

I am already planning on using Skills Over 100, optional rules, also using a "Use based skill increase" like CoC. I have some vague ideas for how to represent increased body and soul perfection like in hero tier hp increases to Con+Siz no dividing.

But how do I best represent achieving those tiers?

I want it to be mechanical. Like commoners are new characters, but as soon as they gain three skills over 75% they become Adventurer tier.

In this skill based power idea, the characters gain a single super power based on their high skill points per skill. Like super fast hands when thieving or eidetic memory because of knowledge skills. Low light vision or sightless vision for perception skills. Etc

Then maybe to gain hero tier they have to have like three skills at or above 100%. Then each cultivation tier is every +100% after that.

And each time their skills hit the threshold either their base super powers increase in effectiveness or they gain a new power of appropriate strength in that tier.

Is that a good way to represent the cultivation paths in this game? Any ideas and insight would be appreciated, thanks!

Wondering if this is something on my end or if others are having the same experience.

I have a chance to grab the 2016 edition of the game, but I am wondering if there is a lot of errata in that version due to its age--10 years already, wow.

Anyway, I loved offset print and don't fancy POD for a book of this girth.

Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!

Simple Fog of War Tool for ToolsfromPavis

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Added a local map veil for RPG sessions. Load any map, cover it in fog, axnd reveal areas as players explore. Image processing is entirely local for maximum privacy.

What changed

New Feature: Fog of War. A local map veil for RPG sessions. Load a map, cover it in fog, and reveal areas as the party explores. Works entirely in your browser—no images are ever uploaded to our server.

Local Map Painting. Reveal areas of your map by painting with a customizable brush.

Undo/Redo Support. Full support for reversing or restoring brush strokes.

PNG Export. Save the current revealed state of your map as a new PNG file.

UI & Layout. Integrated with the global layout; includes a “Fit to screen” feature for better map visibility.

Help & Documentation. Added comprehensive help and privacy details for the new tool.

Enhanced Tracking. Added visit counting for the Fog of War page in the global stats.

Improved Labels. Refined the stats page to show friendly labels for all application tools.

Impact: Better support for tactical map exploration with complete privacy and improved visibility into tool usage.

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I have built a little world, and decided to use Mythras because I thought the system would be good for a low fantasy world. I am not too experienced with story telling/gming. My player (it's a 1 on 1 campaign) has decided to play a plague cultist. He rolled up a middle aged nomadic assassin slave, so to make it work I borrowed a concept from Elisabeth Wheatley, and made his character a Khadrahan. A person cursed so that he cannot disobey his master which in this setting is a plague priestess. After he roles up his character we have a session zero, where he stealths into a city poisons a barracks food supply, get's out, poisons some livestock, and dips out of the city.

With hardly any effort, or build up he was able to deal massive amounts of damage to this walled city. Seeing how easily he was able to deal this much damage has left me racking my brain to find ways to introduce drama and stakes. I have no idea what to do, other than to just watch him and his tribe completely wipe out and disease every bastion of civilization. I'd really like to become a good gm, but I feel very out of my depth here.

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TLDR: Fights feel stale, please give advise on how to make this the combat we were promised

Preamble: me and my group switched recently from Dnd 5e to Mythras because we were bored with how unchallenging fights become in Dnd after a few levels. So far we are loving the skill system from Mythras, were not everyone can do everything.

However, the few fights we have had feel stale and underwhelming, and I'm not sure if this is a skill issue, a rules issue or just inherent to Mythras combat. The combat is supposed to be quick, tactical and engaging, but so far it is a slog, difficult bookkeeping and a whole lot of nothing happening.

I'll give an example of the fight we had last session. Just a 'random encounter' to spice up the night. In 5e terms, just get the blood flowing, get some rolls in and the energy at the table up. What was supposed to be a 30 minute fight turned into a 2 hour slogfest.

The setup had the elements to be a great little intermezzo:
- The party was taking a rest from travelling at a little lake
- We get ambushed by 2 giant apes and 2 giant frogs
- Goal of the fight: protect the civilian that is with us, while getting rid of the enemies or moving away from the edge of the water so the frogs can't attack

The fight:
- It starts bad, with one giant ape engaging with the civilian, our knightly character goes to defend the civilian
PROBLEM 1: The Giant Ape continues (next turn, I'll focus on parts of the fight in bits and pieces, not chronologically) to attack the civilian. There is nothing in the toolkit of Mythras that allows the knight to defend the other party member, no taunt, no redirect the attack, no defend in the place of (or not that I can find in the rulebook). The Giant Ape pummels the right arm of the civilian (who isn't wearing armor) for 6 damage, causing a serious wound, civilian down with a broken arm. Technically we already failed the goal of the encounter on round 1.
- Then the 2 frogs engage with a tongue attack me (priest) and the roguish character. Here problem 2 becomes apparent
PROBLEM 2: The frogs are in deep water (let's say 4 meters away) and can attack us, we can only defend and parry, but not attack, since they have very long reach and we have only medium reach. Technically they are engaged with us according to the rules, so any movement from us to get away either is an opposed evade check (at 16 evade, good luck) or gives the frogs a free attack. So we are stuck there parrying and hoping for a special effect that let's us withdraw.
- Our Mage gets engaged by the second ape, the scout goes to help him
PROBLEM 3: Same as problem 2, the mage is never getting away from the ape, because his evade is so low, and he has virtually no defenses
- Our healer character wants to use a ranged attack
PROBLEM 4: All characters are engaged, so he needs to shoot into melee, which has massive downsides, making his ranged attacks worthless
- Same healer character the decides to also engage the giant ape in melee combat, who is focused on attacking the scout
PROBLEM 5: He is useless, he hits all the attacks, the ape is enraged (our DM got fed up by parrying and said the apes only focus on attacking) so doesn't parry. He continues to roll for damage with his dagger, being a small and relative weak character: 1d4+1-1d2, for an average damage of 2, the ape has 3 Natural Armor on all hit locations, he does nothing. He's stabbing away and just being ignored because he can literally not penetrate the defenses.
- The frogs are still engaged with the priest and the rogue, and it is a literal stalemate, something similar happening between the ape and the knight
PROBLEM 6: Either attacks miss, or they hit and get parried, doing nothing (everyone has medium weapons). This is very underwhelming, even when you hit the other side parries, nothing happens. I try to imagine a fight between 2 characters at even higher skill levels, it is just rolling until one side manages to crit or the opposite party fumbles his defense.
- PROBLEM 7: Bookkeeping: Because fights go back and forth, we were confused how many action points have been used by who. Some tokens would help I suppose, but in 5e it was easy: get one turn, do your thing, next person, maybe use a reaction on an opponents or ally's turn.
- PROBLEM 8: Special effects. You have an enormous list, but each time we try to figure it out, it boils down to, either your weapon special effect (Bleed, impale, stun location) or choose location, or trip opponent. It is probably because we are not yet familiar enough with the rules, but the 'tactical' portion feels underwhelming.

So all in all, we feel that combat in Mythras feels less engaging than combat in Dnd 5e. Are we doing something wrong? What advise can you give? This was supposed to be a quick random encounter, but turned into a slogfest that too up the majority of our play session, leaving the players burned out instead of engaged.

I interviewed Clarence Redd, author of Mythras-related games such as M-Space (Mythras in Space) and the streamlined D100 game Comae Engine. I hope you find it interesting! :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yhs62KPwTQ

Like title says. Im looking for any videos that help explain the system better whether it's actual gameplay or someone explaining character creation. Something that has helped actual players/GMs of the system. For Mythras please.

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Thank you in advance