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so was curious is anyone running anything mythras there?

thanks for the help clarence, im super excited about mythras and especially M-Space but i am afraid i am not as rules savvy as some of you here, and i dont always "get" things that seem simple so i appreciate the help.

@Matt_E is the ebook, "Guidelines setting up tasks", a more thorough understanding of conflict pools? sorry if it isnt im still new to mythras and all and figuring out some of mythras fiddly parts still confuses me sometimes.

awesome that is just what i was looking for. 3 quick follow up questions. 1st i was under the thinking that you only used characteristics for conflict pools but you can use skills than? 2nd if i am correct in understanding the conflict pools stay lowered until they "heal" back like hitpoints? i had not realized this as i thought it was a temporary pool just until the conflict was over with. if this is the case than those skills that are affected by said characteristic, in this case dex, would they be affected by the lowered characteristic? 3rd if approaching the ship they get a critical than i can have that add something to help them with the other 2 conflicts they are preparing to do, the lowereing the man down and the guy hanging from the rope?

So for this saturdays adventure of M-Space the players are on a mining colony on a moon with a habitat dome and the mining town is made to be kind of synth western. the antagonist has the mine foremans daughter held in his mansion and the players need to fly with their shuttle over to the house lower someone down to get her and than get out alive. i am envisioning 3 conflict here. so 3 sets of conflict pools. the first would be stealthfully getting the small shuttle over the house without attracting any attention in late afternoon. The second part would be in lowering someone down in a harness with a laser torch to cut through the window bars and get the girl out and haul her back up. complications can arise if they are seen there will be retaliation probably gunfire etc. the third part will be in evading and escaping because by this time i am sure they have attracted some resistance, do you really think a bunch of murder hobos will do all this quietly without any attention? sounds easy right. i want to use the conflict pools that mythras and especially M-Space uses. im not sure how to incorporate the conflict pools and than what to do with them. also how do i incorporate more than 1 person into the conflict pools to keep everyone happy and feel like they are all doing something. i have 6 players but im guessing only 4 will be involved with this as the rest will be at a barn dance with the courtesan of the group. in the book its using characteristics as the conflict pools but im not sure what to use for the scenario i have planned. my thoughts are this, for the first conflict pool it would be a players __________ as a pool? i would have someone on sensors rolling against the opposing using __________ pool for ground based sentries? so the players would roll sensors (to see something coming /pilot to maneuver out of sight etc) skill and if they succeed they take away from the sentries pool. the sentries would roll their perception skill and if they win they take away from the players pool? for the second conflict pool it would be the guy on the hoist in the harness using dexterity as his pool. and the sentries if they have not noticed them using their perception against the player ______ pool? for the third one i am assuming it would just be a race. any thoughts would be helpful. also is there a way for the results from one conflict to complicate or compliment the next pool. for example if they did really bad in the first conflict it adversly affected the second conflict which they do well at which than compliments the third conflict pool to help them. than for any advice, still new at this but learning

have another question as this came up while my group and me were discussing last weeks game of M-space last night. One of my players has picked up Military Body armor for his Head, chest, and abdomen. he has light Body armor for his left and right arms and left and right legs. Normally the penalty for light body armor for a full suit is -10% to physical skills, and for military body armor -25% to all physical skills for a full suit. so how should this be applied since it is a mixture of the penalties what should the penalty be for his physical skills? i was going to go with -25% since the majority of his armor is military. your thoughts?

as im not super familiar with classic fantasy, does this module need classic fanatsy or will just the mythras core book suffice to use it?

so rounds in mythras are different from rounds in RQ than? i thought that in mythras a round was the amount of time you spent with a AP so a action point was equal to 5 seconds?

so after reading through from RQ Firearms i have no idea how many turns equal a round i thought that rounds was the same as a turn. for example from page 12 they say that a flintlock pistol takes 4 rounds to reload which would be 20 seconds if 1 round equals 5 seconds from the mythras book page 5. thats extremly fast for a flintlock imho. for loading a clip in most semi auto weapons they say 3 rounds about 15 seconds i dont claim to be very knowledgable about firearms but i would have trouble trying myself to fully load my glocks clip and have it ready to shoot in 15 seconds. once again just my 2 cents. @g33k my copy of firearms list firearm load times as loads so may the original poster has an older version? or im not understanding the question and am way out in left field here and if im misunderstanding Opiyel i apologize to making it even more complicated

i dont have the pdf in front of me but mayby they are talking about blunderbus or flint locks i think they have several eras of firearms listed and it may be for those or something that missed editing. sorry i know not an answer

@Opiyel sorry i only browsed through the posts above but if you omit the "any standard skill or those professional skills gained as part of culture or career" and change it to "assign a final 150 skill points" than it works. thats what we did in my game i started i dont know how it affects the the game long term but it made my players happy and i prefer to think of M-Space as a toolbook kind of like the BGB you use what you want to out of it to make the game what you want. as matt said above you can pick some careers from the mythras core book. i also used courtesan as one of my players wanted to play a companion ala firefly. just my 2 cents "Assign a final 150 points between any Standard skill or those Professional skills gained as part of Culture or Career"

sounds interesting ill have to check out your other book for that odd 2d6 system and mayby farm it for ideas

sorry forgot here is the pdf cards layered Form no border.pdf

here is a example of some cards i made. when you cut them out they are 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 poker sized cards. if you put them into plastic sleeves for cards you can make custom decks for your players for items, special effects, or even contacts. they are layered so you can turn off the background and form fillable. the first line is for a title. the second one is for description and the top section is clickable for a jpeg so you can add your own picture for whatever you are wanting to put in. hopefully they will be useful for the gms out there. i see so many people on here that put alot of time and effort into this system in the hopes that it will help people enjoy the game they love so these are my tribute to them because i have gotten so much inspiration and reading from the things they have put together and made available to everyone.

Conclusion from 2nd game. Picking up from the last session Captain Tiberius and Engineer Damon had taken a power generator through the umbilical dock to the disabled Catholics ship thinking they could temporary get their life support back up and running until they could figure out what was wrong with their ship. However once aboard they were met with 4 armed men holding assault rifles and wearing light body armor. Back on their ship The Davenport, the Companion Serenna and Twitch the medic were playing checkers while waiting for the captain when the ships sensors sounded an alarm indication someone had locked onto the ship and fired missiles at it. Serenna attempted to contact the captain to no avail, seemed like there may have been a comm jammer being used. She immediately jumped into the pilots seat while Twitch jumped into the gunners seat. They withdrew the docking tunnel and started evasive maneuvers. Two small attack ships flew in and attempted to attack the old freighter. A battle ensued on the outside with the outcome questionable. Meanwhile inside the Messinius Tiberius and Damon stood face to face with 4 pirates. Tiberius attempted to talk them out of this and was making headway in trying to buy the pirates out by asking how much they were getting paid (5% of the take a piece) He offered them 1000 credits to sign on to his ship as he was in need of a couple of good guns for a job he had. One of the Pirates a dashing middle aged Terran argued with the other 3 pirates about taking the credits as the amount they were getting paid was a pittance compared to what the captain offered. All of this is happening while outside a ship to ship battle is being waged and 30 catholic monks are on their knees with their hands behind their heads held hostage by the pirates the captain is attempting to buy off. Finally one of the Pirates has had enough and opens fire on the dashing middle aged turncoat pirate. (One of our players) A gunfire ensued where gravity was lost everyone started floating around guns were going off people were being shot and the hull was pierced by gunfire. They still had no idea what was happening outside. Outside The Davenport was taking damage and still had 2 missiles slowly gaining on them. Serenna managed to maneuver the ship near one of the fighter ship and it took one of the missiles in the engine disabling it. Now it was up to just the Davenport the leftover fighter ship and a missile. It was anyone's battle now. Twitch managed to shoot down the other missile with his anti missile array and damage the other ship enough to where the hull breached. They started repairs immediately as several areas of their ship were damaged and the hull had been breached. Back on the Messinius Tiberius managed to shoot one of the pirates with a “Drop Foe” Special Effect. Damon was covering the captain by laying down suppressive fire and the now friendly pirate who would later introduce himself as James D. Hunter, Merc for hire, was floating through the mass of priests and shooting at the other 2 pirates left. At this time (one of our late players showed up) 2 more pirates step out of the engine room seeing what is going on a older scarred veteran in full military body armor turn on his fellow pirates and in a moment of surprise crits him in the head with 2 maximum damage. Dropping him. While this is happening the other 2 pirates are taken down. Tiberius and Damon not knowing this new man in armor hold fire but take cover. Their new crew member James floats over hugs the man in armor and tells him they have signed up with a new crew. A distorted voice echoes out of the armor simply says “what about the 2 pirates left alive” Tiberius tells him they will secure them so that the monks can hand them over to the Terran military at the next outpost. The man in the armor introduces himself to the captain as Alpha Zedd, takes his helmet off looks at the captain and shoots the 2 wounded pirates in the head. He turns around and walks away getting his stuff and some valuables he had picked up from the ship. With the battle over they help the monks repair their engine patchup the holes and using their medic stabilize any that are wounded. Six of the priests died during the gravity free firefight. And 12 more were wounded. The priest who had spoken to them introduces himself to the Captain as Brother Darius he tells them that although he doesnt have any monetary reward for them him and his brothers appreciate their help. They all than pray for them explaining to the lord in their prayers that the crew of the Davenport, even though they are all Belters and will burn in hell because of what they are unclean and tainted they will still pray so that their suffering will not be so bad. (we had spoke about this when we did world creation. The catholics believe that anyone born in space does not have a sould and is unclean and therefore will go to hell when they die regardless of what they do in their life). He than brings forth a small tattered object and hands it to the captain. It is a small worn out bible made from actual paper. He tells them that it came from his ancesters on the colony ship from earth. He wishes them well and they depart. Once back on the Davenport Damon asks the captain to come to engineering. The Captain introduces the rest of the crew to Alpha Zedd and James D.Hunter. Tiberius and Damon open the strange black case that Damon stole from the Scientist/doctor he knew from Terran. They find a 5 year old girl in stasis within the box. There is a file that thye cant get into labeled XV1357246. They captain freaks out a bit about having a child popsicle on board and Damon didnt tell him. They store it in a hidden cargo hold and they jump back into cryo tubes and continue their journey to Lugus. Once there Marion Morrisey joins them and tells them they need to take the shuttle down to the moon enter Lugus and find out where the shipment is and when its leaving so they can figure out how to steal it. She has a contact on the planet they can get a hold of and he should be able to help them. Meanwhile the companion Serenna starts scanning the people on the planet who might be a match fro a promising client. She finds only one and he ha a low rating with the guild due to never using the services before. Serenna sends s beam to the man and asks about meeting with him to possibly negotiate a stay date with him during the captains stay. They jump in the shuttle and head to the moon. Lugus the colony sits under a encased dome as the atmosphere on the moon is unbreathable. The dockmaster asks their business. Serenna takes the mic and tells him that she is a companion here to meet with the mines owner Etienne du Bujac. Immediately they are granted access. Once there they are greeted by what could be considered and old west town with the exception that the building are made of duraplast and the sky over head is only a synthasized representation to make them think of Terran. Bujac meets Serenna at the docks with a hover carriage and takes her for their meeting to discuss the date. The rest of the crew head to town. The thing they notice right away is that there are lawmen everywhere at every corner at every building. The townsfolk look beaten and battered, they cring everytime a deputy glances their way. They make it to a tavern and once inside all 3 of them Tiberius Alpha and James, (Damons player had to quit he had to work in a couple hours and needed sleep) and saddle up to the bar to get something to drink and ask around about some answers. A tall skinny woman brought them over a bottle. She introduced her self with a smile as Sally she owned the tavern and would be happy to help them with any of their needs. Tiberius told her that Marion Morrison sent them here to find Grady Hopkins. She got a strange look in her eyes and smacked his mouth telling him to shut up. She than grabbed his hand and led him upstairs. Once up there she threw him towards than bed than sat down next to him and started bouncing on it to make noise. She told him that Marion Morrison owned the town up until 5 years ago when she strangled and beat to death the sheriff with a rock. She was sent to the prison planet and no body has heard from her since. She told Tiberius that she didnt believe that Marion did that but he had to be careful because Etienne owns the mine and town now ever since Marion killed his grandfather. She filed in some information such as the shipment is the colonies last chance before its shut down. Etienne has run it into the ground buying substandard equipment and working the men to death in the mines. Accidents have quadrupled since he took over. He rules this town like a concentration camp. Anyone that doesnt do as he says is either beaten thrown in jail and than sent to the mine to work out their sentence. She warns about crossing him and also about mentioning Marions name. Downstairs Alpha and James are enjoying a drink when a womans voice demands they turn around. A woman dressed like a man and wearing a sheriffs badge tells them she is fining them and confiscating their firearms and a knife. After she leaves Tiberius comes down and and they call Serenna to head back towards the shuttle to get some answers from Marion on the Davenport. Thats where we ended this session. We are still getting used to the rules especially the Special effects but overall we are enjoying the rules. I had alot of hesitation about the special effects because i always thought that that part was for the GM. I know M-Space only uses the simplified version of Special Effects but for me its baby steps lol. When i first started gaming (80's) The Gm had everything put together you made a character and jumped into the adventure. The Gm would tell you what happened if you rolled a nat 20. I have found over the last 5 or 6 years the trend of allowing the players to have input in the adventure like what happens when they hit someone well or added flavor to the adventure by spending a bennie etc has increased Exponentially. Ive especially liked it where the GM and players all start the game by first sitting around and developing the scenario and world in which thye live in. I think this gives the players alot more "buy in" into the world instead of just another cookie cutter fantasy realm. well enough of my my ramblings and i hope this will provide some entertainment for anyone that reads it.

here is a copy of the form fillable layered pdf for the ship and planet sheet i did. if you use the layers tab you can turn off the cool background for printer friendly printing. the white spot if you click on it you can add a jpeg picture in it. hope it proves useful to others. M-Space - Ship Form Layered.pdf M-Space - Planet Description Form Layered.pdf

Tiberius Shepard – Captain/Pilot Serenna Saffron – Companion Twitch - medic Alpha Zedd - soldier (wasnt able to show) James D. Hunter - soldier (wasnt able to show) Damon Lerchwing – Engineer Conclusion from 1st game. Started the game with Tiberius, Serenna, Twitch and Damon all arriving on New Terran to pick up a new Electromagnetic Resonance Inducer that had been acting up and needed to be replaced. Damon went to a ship recycling yard looking for a part for the ship with Tiberious. He wound up talking the guy down but had to remove the piece himself saving 1000 credits. He than headed back to the ship where he seen something in an alley. A scientist he used to know from the station he grew up on he seen talking to 2 large chinese men with tatooes. Damon wound up with a large case that contains something. It is locked and he has 3 successes at opening it he needs to decrypt 2 more times to get it open. He also has a small data stick which is encrpted both taken from the unconscious scientist that he knocked in the back of the head. Damon went to the ship to deposit the part as well as the case and data stick from the doctor. He than spoke with the captain and was on his way to the broken rose to meet up with the Captain Tiberious and meet their client. When he ledt he noticed there was a docking lock on their ship disabling it from leaving. The reason said they owed 1000 credits for docking fees that were overdue. He tried to unsuccessfully get ahold of Tiberious so left to the tavern. Once there he met Marion as well as Serena who was now sitting at the table with Marion. Serenna asked about the ship and wanted to book passage off planet. Serenna said goodbye to Katherine a good friend from her guild as she was packing to leave. The mistress (lady in charge) askd her to leave because her clients were being murdered and they were being found with weird messages like :serenna is mine and no one elses” etc. While she said her goodbyes to Katherine she noticed a shadow in the hallway which was brightly lit that seemd to be growing regardless of the amount of light. Katherine told her to leave and she did through a secret door where high profile clients left from. She ran through a room where a lot of clients were enjoying themselves 8 sisters and 8 clients. The shadow grew behind her and seemed to be following her faster so she ran through them. There were screams behind her but she ran to a laundry shoot and jumped in arriving in a laundry room where she ran outside into an alley when she seen a black ball with flashing leds that seemed to be counting down drop down the shoot. Once in the alley she made her way to someplace to hide the “broken rose” a tavern in a seedy part of town. Several rough looking sorts attempted to harrass her but she was befriended by a older woman named Marion Morrisey who asked her to sit at their table for a bit. Tiberious and twitch left the ship to meet up with Damon but was stopped by the local LED officer because Tiberious was trying to conceal his pistol. The officer noticed it and reminded him that guns were not allowed on planet. Twitch and him went inside where twitch hid it on himself and they both walked out waving to the officer. Twitch later gave Tiberious his pistol. Tiberious and Twitch left from the the ship recycling yard and headed towards the ship when they came across 2 large chinese men barechested with scimitars. The street got deathly quiet and a large area opened up around the men as well as twitch and Tiberious. Evidently the men were hired by the Wah Ching Tong to find Tiberious and bring him back to answer for his crimes of stealing the ship and its cargo some years ago. The leader seemed to not care whether he came alive or dead. His comanion a big tattoed man attempted to show off his scimitar skillsswinging it around in a devastation arc of destruction if it were to hit. Tiberious said to hell with this and tried shooting him. To both his and the scimitar weilders surprise the scimitar blocked it. He tried again and the guy blocked it. Twitch meanwhile had snuch up behind the guy and hit him with a dose of something from his first aid kit. It knocked the guy out but used up most of the first aid kit. Tiberious seeing his chance shot the leader down in the street and than walked over to the unconscious scimitar weilder and shot him as well. The Broken Rose tavern, Serenna Marion and Damon watch as 2 men dressed in dark grey turans and slacks with Fedoras and dark wraparound sunglasses on. The men dont order anything just sit in a booth and stare at Serenna. Damon orders some drinks and sends a couple their way. The men look at the drinks but continue to watch their table. The group of ruffians try to harrass the 2 men and without a word turn around and walk out. Tiberious and Twitch walk in after blending in with the crowd after the gun fight in the street. They sit down and negotiate with Marion. She wants them to steal a ore shipment from the moon Lugus which circles Dagba. She tells them the owner of the mine was a prominent man during the war working for the NTA and that thye gave the mine to him for his duties during the war and now its in serious financial ruin. Its one chance of staying afloat is this shipment. Marion figures if she steals the ore she can buy the mine back for the Outer Planets and Belters everywhere. She offers them a ¼ of the profit. Serenna bargains for passage onto the ship. They all leave as sirens are coming closer from the LED. They notice that the entire tavern is empty and there is a large LED force outside. They leave through a back way and make their way to the ship. On the way damon explains about the hold on the ship they pay the 1000 credits and disembark. Serenna is told to pick any room she wants that the crew isnt in already. She takes one that is larger than the rest but has some crates in it. Unbeknowst to her it is Captain Tiberious room he has been remodeling to move into but hasnt moved into it yet. He finally realizes that he cant win an argument against her and lets her have the room. Serenna asks Twitch to scan the networks for word about the murders on terran that happened at the Guild house. They could not find any mention of it but when asked to research some of obituaries from that day they found the 8 companions listed as dead of natural causes. Also there was a notice of 2 Men shot dead in the street and also a visiting scientific dignitary shot to death as well. They were looking for Tiberius for information about the 3 murders. Marion settles into a guest room and they all enter Cryo beds for the journey to Lugus. Sometime during the journey the captain is awaken by the ship because of a distress call. A small passenger ship on its way to the New planet the Catholics call Jerusalem is having malfunctions and loosing Life support. Tiberius wakes the crew and Serenna. He contacts the ship who tells him that their engineer went down to the engine room to make the repairs but something happened and now the doors are locked and they cant get in. Tiberius tells the they are on their way. They make it to the ship its called the Messinius. They extend the docking Umbilical and Tiberius and Damon open the doors to enter the ship once there they are greeted by 4 armed men pointing assault rifles at them, while at the same time Serenna and Twitch tell him they have 2 fast moving ships inbound that have targeted them. We ended it here.

this is an example of what i was thinking of what do you guys think do i need to add anything or change anything?

something similiar to this. form fillable with a background that is layered so that you can click on it to turn it off for printer friendly printing. also the square will have a clickable spot so that you can add a picture of what your planet looks like. http://www.frostbytebooks.com/#downloads like the "alt character sheets" found here for M-Space

excellent idea because i ussually over think things and try to come up with every possible scenario the players will try even though rationaly i know i will never be able to anticipate player and what they will do in a game, its what makes pen and paper role playing games so much fun i guess.

So i am working on a sheet for creating planets and probably one for creating aliens within the M-Space worlds. what are some things that you think should be on there? for planets star type, planet size, system name its in, whether it has life on it, climate, atmosphere, for aliens size, limbs, physical description, habitat, intellect (animal or human) tech level, language, habitable (oxygen breathable etc), communication (verbal, sign langauge)

double post sorry

looks great

okay thanks i appreciate the reply from both of you

so when they earn an experience roll does it apply to all the skills or just oneof the skills in the styles? or are they even considered skills anymore. in your example the smuggler that has street fighter. does his experience roll apply to street fighter in which blaster,dagger,and unarmed are all included?