Mythras Core (Apr 2018) & Worlds (new)
Tuesday 20 August 2019

In August 2019 we presented
two offers featuring
Mythras, the d100-based FRPG (previously published as
RuneQuest 6) by
The Design Mechanism. We revived and renamed our April 2018
Mythras Core Bundle, with the rulebook and early supplements, and added an all-new companion,
Mythras Worlds, with recent sourcebooks and adventures like
Mythic Constantinople and much more.
Lawrence Whitaker and Pete Nash of The Design Mechanism originally published their rules set as
RuneQuest 6, one of the best editions of this classic game; we presented it in February 2014 and again in December 2014. In July 2016, after the
RQ license lapsed, the Mechanism rebranded the game as
Mythras. The renamed and updated
Mythras core rulebook has new interior artwork and layout, along with some new Special Effects, small tweaks to the rules, and Spirit Combat Effects — though if you bought the original
RQ6 rulebook, you don’t need this rebranded version.

The company explained the new name on
Tapatalk: “Why did we choose ‘Mythras’ as a name? First, the game has always been about adventuring in mythic landscapes, with characters shaping their own stories, creating their legends and forging their own myths. It comes from the authors’ deep love of real world myths and ancient stories and so is the natural starting point for a new name. Next comes Mithra or Mithras, a deity found in Persian, Greek, Roman, and Celtic mythologies. Mithras is a god of warriors, a divine protector of oaths and covenants, a protector of cattle and of waters. In the Zoroastrian Avestas, he is described as Mithra of Wide Pastures, of the Thousand Ears, and of the Myriad Eyes. Bringing these two sources together gives us
Mythras, a game concerned with myths, protectors, oaths, great deeds, and wonderful stories — the perfect name for our game system.”
Today
Mythras enjoys a wide range of supplements and adventures featuring swords and sorcery, history and myth, science fiction and urban horror. (In 2018 The Design Mechanism announced a new license to adapt Jack Vance’s
Lyonesse trilogy as a new standalone RPG based on
Mythras.) These two bargain-priced collections covered everything from classic dungeon-crawling fantasy to science fiction to mythic history —
lots of history.
1. MYTHRAS CORE [from April 2018]

This resurrected and renamed April 2018
Mythras Core Bundle had the core rulebooks and early supplements and adventures. There were
five titles in this revived offer’s
Starter Collection (retail value
$41.50), including the 304-page
Mythras core rulebook, three adventures —
Madness & Other Colours,
Xamoxis’ Cleansing, and
A Gift From Shamash (that last one is even science fiction!) — and the 336-page
Classic Fantasy supplement (Old School dungeon crawls in
Mythras!).
Those who paid more than this revival’s threshold (average) price
also got this offer’s entire
Bonus Collection with
eight more titles worth an additional
$57, including
Mythic Britain (and the
Mythic Britain Companion),
Mythic Rome (and the
Mythic Rome Maps), the
Classic Fantasy Expert Set with high-level spells and Cthulhoid psionic monsters, and three
Classic Fantasy adventures:
G1 These Violent Delights,
M1 The Terror of Ettinmarsh, and
N1 Tomb of the Mad Wizard.
2. MYTHRAS WORLDS [all-new]
This all-new
Mythras Worlds Bundle added marvelous campaign worlds that range from
Mythic Earth to the modern-day
Vampire Wars to the fantasy setting of
Thennla. Note that the sourcebooks and modules in this new
Worlds collection require the books in the
Mythras Core collection.

There were
five titles in this offer’s
Starter Collection (retail value
$41.50) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including the modern supernatural campaign setting
After the Vampire Wars;
The Fenix Papers, a collection of Mythras articles by the game’s co-designer, Pete Nash; two
Classic Fantasy modules,
G2 The Lonely Lighthouse and
M2 Moonspike Tower; and the
Mythras GM Screen.

This offer’s
Bonus Collection added
nine more sourcebooks and adventures worth an additional
$68, including
Mythic Constantinople (plus its companion adventure
Life’s Long Consequences and the
Mythic Constantinople Map Pack); the
Mythic Britain location sourcebooks
Logres and
Waterlands; and three Thennla sourcebooks —
Shores of Korantia,
The Taskan Empire, and the
Thennla sourcebook, along with two Thennla adventures —
Khakun Shrugs and
The Arakuline Tribute.
Ten percent of each payment (after gateway fees) for these two
Mythras offers went to the charity chosen by The Design Mechanism, the
Electronic Frontier Foundation.