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  1. First attempt at having the route order in trade routes. This is only noting the bigger stops - there might be others. Genertelan caravan routes missing. Did some of the below already have names somewhere I did not notice. 

    Trading Routes

  2. it is marvel of a book. so many campaign ideas can be drawn from it, so much background. I have just used GtG, Prosopaedia and Revealed Mythologies with some other stuff to flesh out the continent part of my campaign now that we have moved from Loral to Kanem Dar in Afadjann... Obsidian is a wonderful tool for campaign management

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  3. Starting to look at traveling cross longer distances. Has someone done already a travel time matrix or database for travel time between various cities and towns etc - something similar that some modern travel books have. I am of course mostly interested in Pamaltela especially Fonrit, Umathela, Jolar, Maslo, Errinoru

     

    for example Hombori Tondo to Garguna x days and so on

     

     

  4. How Big Is the Creature Anyway – SIZ Matters in Mythras
     
     
    Mythras SIZ is not linear when compared to many other stats. For example normal human is 2d6+6 on the SIZ and that is between 59-70 kg in weight. Normal Kaiju in Monster Island is SIZ 70 and that weights between 10,8 and 11,7 tons. 
     
    Here is a first attempt at making it easier at the table to describe visually the size of the creatures
     
    First a short table
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    Then a longer table comparing the SIZ against human, horse, Tyrannosaurus rex, elephant, Kaiju in Monster Island and your average blue whale
     
    The entire table is available in excel format here
     
    https://notesfrompavis.blog/2022/12/19/how-big-is-the-creature-anyway-siz-matters-in-mythras/
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  5. NOMCORSS V1.5 Mythras Campaign Rules Setup Tool Goes to Mythic Babylon and Does Classic Fantasy
    Mythras system is truly a toolkit. NOMCORSS (NotesFromPavis Opinionated Mythras Campaign Optional Rule Setup Sheet) tries to gather together all the Mythras rules options from all of the Mythras supplements with sensible (perhaps opinionated) default options.
     
    Version 1.5 contains in the order of 40 new rulings. – the new supplements added are Mythic Babylon and Classic Fantasy.  There are now more than 260 rules which have options that you can select – some with multiple options.  
     
     
    https://notesfrompavis.blog/2022/11/27/nomcorss-v1-5-mythras-campaign-rules-setup-tool-goes-to-mythic-babylon-and-does-classic-fantasy/
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  6. NOMCORSS Mythras Campaign Rules Setup Tool Does Fioracitta, Mythic Rome,Mythic Constantinople and gets UI facelift

     
    Mythras system is truly a toolkit. NOMCORSS (NotesFromPavis Opinionated Mythras Campaign Optional Rule Setup Sheet) tries to gather together all the Mythras rules options from all of the Mythras supplements with sensible (perhaps opinionated) default options. Version 1.4 contains now more than 30 new rulings. – the new supplements added are Fioracitta, Mythic Rome and Mythic Constantinople
     
    There are now close to 230 rules which have options that you can select – some with multiple options. 
     
    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. 
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    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. 
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    It is an excel sheet which gives the GM a worksheet to select which optional rules are in effect in his/her particular campaign. 
     
    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).

     

    https://notesfrompavis.blog/2022/09/25/nomcorss-mythras-campaign-rules-setup-tool-does-fioracitta-mythic-romemythic-constantinople-and-gets-ui-facelift/

     

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  7. NOMCORSS Mythras Campaign Rules Setup Tool goes Lyonesse, Perceforest and Mythic Britain

     
    Mythras system is truly a toolkit. NOMCORSS (NotesFromPavis Opinionated Mythras Campaign Optional Rule Setup Sheet) tries to gather together all the Mythras rules options from all of the Mythras supplements with sensible (perhaps opinionated) default options. Version 1.3 contains now almost 200 (well 194) rule selection one can do – the new supplements added are Lyonesse,Mythic Britain,Mythic Britain,Perceforest Logres,Waterlands,Perceforest. 
    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. 
    It is an excel sheet which gives the GM a worksheet to select which optional rules are in effect in his/her particular campaign. Excel is starting to be somewhat unwieldy and will need to be refactored. 
    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).

     

    https://notesfrompavis.blog/2022/09/24/nomcorss-mythras-campaign-rules-setup-tool-goes-lyonesse-perceforest-and-mythic-britain/

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  8. Mythras Campaign Setup Tool Goes to Thennla and takes a Bird in the Hand

     
    Mythras Campaign Rules Setup Tool helps GMs to select and communicate rules chosen from an array of Mythras supplements. NOMCORSS is now at version 1.2 and has the options found in Shores of Korantia,Bird in the Hand,Taskan Empire,Sorandib and some of the Assabian Rites in there. There are now 120+ selectable rules with a few having more than 2 options for each. 
    The display sheet shows now also “default” Mythras RAW options in gray, Not in use in red and the rest in green. 

    Tool can be found here

     

     

    https://notesfrompavis.blog/2022/09/19/mythras-campaign-setup-tool-goes-to-thennla-and-takes-a-bird-in-the-hand/

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  9. 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.
     
    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 house rules and setting rules that you can select for your campaign. 
     
    Here is an example of opinionated setup for campaign tools.
     
    https://notesfrompavis.blog/2022/09/17/mythras-campaign-rule-setup-tool/
  10. Combat Style Encyclopedia Goes Mediterranean

     
    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. 
    Armies and Enemies of Dragon Pass
    Blood Rock – Scenario
    Broch Goddarth – Scenario
    Campaign – A Monster Island Campaign
    Campaign – A Mythic Britain Campaign
    Campaign – Fan material for Hyborean campaign from RangerDan
    Campaign – Gramnaster’s Sengoku campaign
    Campaign – Notesfrompavis Glorantha Campaign
    Campaign – Sofia of the Ironlands’s Campaign
    Design Mechanism: A Bird In the Hand
    Design Mechanism: Adventures in Glorantha
    Design Mechanism: Arakoline Tribute
    Design Mechanism: Book of Quests
    Design Mechanism: Fioracitta
    Design Mechanism: Hessaret’s Treasure
    Design Mechanism: Khakun Shrugs
    Design Mechanism: Logres
    Design Mechanism: Lyonesse
    Design Mechanism: Meeros Doomed
    Design Mechanism: Monster Island
    Design Mechanism: Mythic Babylon
    Design Mechanism: Mythic Britain
    Design Mechanism: Mythic Constantinople
    Design Mechanism: Mythic Rome
    Design Mechanism: Mythras
    Design Mechanism: Perceforest
    Design Mechanism: Shores of Korantia
    Diadochi Warlords
    Fioracitta GenCon Scenario
    From Mythras Reddit
    Mediterranea Mitico
    Mjollnir’s Medieval Renaissance
    RQ Vikings
    Savage Swords Against Necromancer – Scenario
    Stupor Mundi – Alephtar Games
    Unapproachable – Scenario

    Weird of Hali

     

     

    https://notesfrompavis.blog/2022/07/21/combat-style-encyclopedia-goes-mediterranean/

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  11. Combat Styles Combine And Go Encyclopaedic
    Combat Style Cards have been gathered into a single Encyclopaedia that is now 830 pages long. The Encyclopaedia contains Combat Style Traits and all the new indices in a single volume.  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. At the start of this document there are indices showing what styles are used in what areas and what organisations etc. Pick a combat style from these for your character or NPC and use this as a quick reference during the game. There is a table of content by area and table of contents is clickable so one can easily reach the combat style wanted.  This encyclopaedia contains following parts
    • table of contents for encyclopedia
    • combat style traits list
    • Combat style indices to browse by different ways for inspiration 
      • Styles by kind
      • Combat Style Traits by kind and combat styles used
      • Combat Style Traits by area and combat styles used
      • Weapons and Areas and Combat Styles where they are used
      • Combat style traits and combat styles which use them
      • Combat styles by kind and area
    • Areas and their combat style cards
    These will now update always together and you will know the latest version by the date in the cover.  Separate combat style card files in the folders will be phased out.
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  12. 30 Combat Style Cards added for Tozer – Old Bones Stomping Grounds
     
    Combat Style Cards aim to give players (and GMs) an easy way to access all the special effects and other info associated with their weapons and combat style at a glance. 
    There are some very nice sword and sorcery scenarios and additional tools material available from the stalwart Old Bones. Many of them are placed in Tozer, an area that can be readily transplanted to most any Sword and Sorcery campaign. 
    I created combat style cards for the 30 currently existing combat styles in those publications.They are of course indexed as the already existing styles. They include also couple of nifty Combat Style Traits that I will add to the encyclopedia of Combat Style Traits soon. 
    Here are the styles and they can be found in the Combat Style cards directory
    Briarwood Thief
    Claurin Knife-Thrower
    Claurin Mercenary
    Crafton Commoner
    Dureshi Commoner
    Dureshi Herder
    Dureshi Mercenary
    Grath Herder
    Heavy Pit Fighter
    Hilimyan Householder
    Light Pit Fighter
    Mountain Forester
    Mountain Guard
    Mountain Herder
    Mountain Miner
    Mountain Smith
    Mountain Villager
    Pit Keeper
    Street Rat
    Tinisford Villager
    Tough Temptress
    Tozerian Charioteer
    Tozerian Commoner
    Tozerian Farmer
    Tozerian Infantry
    Tozerian Socialite
    Traveling Ground Fighter
    Traveling Herder
    Traveling Horse Warrior
    Wealthy Fop
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  13. Combat Style Cards Goes Beyond 550 Combat Styles and Gets Indexed 
     
    Combat Style cards, a player (or GM) aid for Mythras has been updated.  There are now 551 Combat Styles and 107 Combat Style Traits. The output has been tweaked with additional comments and weapons and the new Distract special effect (from Destined) has been added.  There is now a few indexes to find a style suited for you stored in the _Common Lists and Summaries folder
    • Areas And Combat Styles Practiced There
    • Combat Style Traits And Combat Styles Which Use Them
    • Combat Style Traits By Area And Combat Styles Which Use Them
    • Combat Style Traits By Kind And Combat Styles Which Use Them
    • Combat Styles By Kind And Area
    • Combat Styles By Kind
    • Weapons And Areas And Combat Styles Where They Are Used
    New Combat Style Cards include  
    Eastern (Japanese) Combat Styles from Gramnaster’s Sengoku Mythras campaign 
    Yari Ashigaru Yari Samurai Nodachi Samurai Eastern Bandit Mounted Samurai Sohei Travelling Monk Shinobi
     
    Renaissance styles from Mjollnir’s Medieval Renaissance campaign 
    Arte del combattimento del Maestro Fiore de Liberi  Arte dell’Abbraccio  Brawling  Brawling,Sailor Common Defense  Coraiocht  Dagger Fighting,Italian (Arte della Daga) or German (Dolchfechten) Fechten und Ringen von Meister Liechtenaur  Knife Fighting, Spanish (Lucha con Cuchillo)  Knife Fighting,Italian (Arte del Coltello) Knightly Art of Combat  Manus Nigrum Peasant Levy  Renaissance Pugilism Stick Fighting,Quarterstaffing  Swordsmanship, Hungarian  Swordsmanship, Spanish (La Verdadera Destreza)  Swordsmanship,English  Swordsmanship,French (Lutte des Épée)  Swordsmanship,German (Fechten)  Swordsmanship,Italian (Arte della Spada)  Swordsmanship,Scottish  Trained Guard Trained Mercenary, Balkan (Stratioti)  Trained Mercenary, German (Landsknecht – Doppelsöldner)  Trained Mercenary, German (Landsknecht)  Trained Mercenary, Scottish (Gallóglaigh)  Trained Mercenary, Swiss  Trained Militia, Archer  Trained Militia, Infantry  Trained Militia, Turkish (Akinci)  Trained Militia, Turkish (Sipahi) Trained Soldier, Turkish (Janissary)  Woodland Hunter  Wrestling
     
    Styles from John Holmes’s Bird in the Hand scenario for Monster Island 
    Jungle Explorer Grimsand Mercenary Hired Thug Grimsand Street-Tough Long Arm of the Law
     
    The styles from Book of Quests 
    Beast Handler Bodyguard City Guard Dirty Rotten Scoundrel Gartharis Assassin Gartharis Hunter Gartharis Scout Gartharis Sworn Warrior Gartharis Warrior Glorified Soldier Imperial Knight Mercenary Moor’s Warrior Never Fight Fairly Noble Layabout North Vale Warrior Realm Thug Slaver Sneak Street Fighter (Daggers) Street Scum Streetwise Bruiser Vale Crossbow Skirmisher Vale Light Infantry Vale Longbow Skirmisher Vale Men-At-Arms infantry Vale Mounted Knights Vale Warrior
     
    Styles from scenarios Arakoline Tribute and Khaki Shrugs – Thennla 
    Beastman Warrior Kismek Archer Kismek Lancer Taskan Citizen Infantry Taskan Swordsman Thennalt Hunter Thennalt Skirmisher Thennalt Thane
     
    Some missing ones from Perceforest 
    Footman Perceforest Huntsman Perceforest Tilting Yeoman Militia
     
    Some from my own campaign 
    Way of the Iron Fist Beaked Dragonewt Bodyguard Beaked Dragonewt Spirit Warrior
     
    And a few built for Vikings from RQ Vikings
    Viking Berserker Viking Raider Dane Raider
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  14. Numbers Post: 4000th Encounter at MeG – Mythras Encounter Generator

     
    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
     
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