r/Mythras

Ah, I don't know about you, but I missed Horia and his articles. We were talking a couple of days ago about how we will most likely welcome in the near future another writer to the team to help us with some reviews so that we may provide them a bit more consistently, especially as we dive into heavier systems.

Horia said that he wished he could help a bit more, but reviews aren't really his area and he only wrote one quite a number of years ago for an old blog in Romanian. Blog that no longer exists.

Still, the bells started ringing in my head, the lightbulbs lit up and I took my explorer's hat, worked on my best Harrison Ford impersonation and jumped into a digital archeological adventure!

As you are now reading this post, you are safe to asume that The Wayback Machine came in clutch and I managed to find Horia's old article! Hooray!

We translated it, revamped it slightly to fit our review structure and huzah! A wonderful review of Mythras!

Honestly I did get the game a couple of months ago and I have been meaning to give it a try for a while, but I got slightly intimidated by the combat and put it off. After going over Horia's thoughts on the game and seeing how much he glazed it, I am thinking about jumping in and starting to read it with the first chance I get. And in my books, that's the mark of a good review, so for those of you on the fance about it or simply curious, do give it a read, for it might be just what you need to muster the will to try it out!

Hi, I just re-read parts of Mythras core rules, including ward location (passive block). First I have to admit that I remembered it incorrectly how much of the damage is blocked but now I know that it works just like when blocked the normal way.

Now, the real question. Let’s say that character A uses target shield wards a location that just happens to be hit by character B using a shortsword. As per blocking rules, all damage is blocked. But as there has been no parry roll and the attack was obviously successful does this mean that the attacking character B still generates 1 (or 2 in case of critical success) special effects?

Thanks in advance!

I am working on my own game world, and have created my own Pantheon of gods. I am creating some custom miracles, and I'm using a few as they are.

Is it permissible to use the text from the book describing the miracles that I am using? Or should I say reference the rules for this?

I may make this information available, but it would be offered free.