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Paperback. Condizione: New. A collection of Mythras rules for combat, conflict and character creation and much more.Like all good stories, Mythras has grown in the telling. As the game has expanded through supplements and settings, the rules have evolved to include a variety of additional systems that, while not essential, may prove useful to Games Masters and players alike.The Mythras Companion collects some of these rules together. Much of the material has appeared elsewhere, but some of it is new: Social Conflict and the Chase rules, for example, were written specifically for this supplement.All the material herein should be considered optional. None of it replaces the mechanics found in the Mythras Core Rules, and Games Masters are, as ever, encouraged to use what suits their game style, modify what they need to, and discard or ignore what they don't.What's inside?- Tactical Combat - Social Conflict - Sanity and Corruption - Vehicles - Races and Chases - New Character Creation Options. Please note that this edition does not include colour images.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A long time ago, in an evil empire far, far away, the Emperor Sool demanded that those who offend him should be punished in a most vicious way. So were created the Sool Statuettes, and their maker was none other than Loric Nygh, a suave and cunning magician who had developed ghastly engines of sorcery for just such a purpose.Baldomeer the Vain, a famed collector of antiquities, has supposedly come into possession of a Sool Statuette. His great rival, Serjedny the Immaculate, does not believe that the Sool Statuettes exist any longer, and that what Baldomeer has is a fake. He intends to expose him as a fraudster, but to do so he needs the help of some capable people. People like the adventurers.Madness and Other Colours takes the characters into the dangerous world of an insane sorcerer and those who still worship him. They will face all manner of horror as they attempt to get to the bottom of the mystery of the Sool Statuettes and their mysterious creator.A Mythras scenario for 4-6 competent and strong-willed characters.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. The tribute of the Arakuline Tribe of the northern reaches of the Taskan Empire was lost to bandits many years ago. Now, it is believed to be found, held in the midst of the Tumbrian Forest, well-hidden and well-guarded. The characters are persuaded to mount an expedition to recover this long-lost prize, the heart of which is the fabled King Boar Shield.But the forest belongs to Voka the She Wolf and her powerful allies. Can the characters negotiate such threats?The Arakuline Tribute is set in the world of Thennla. Access to either The Taskan Empire, Shores of Korantia, or the Thennla Sourcebook will be advantageous.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A thrilling supplement for Mythic Britain set in the extensive fenlands of 5th Century Britain.The fenlands of eastern Britain, where Celtic and Saxon tribes clash, and where old enmities between Britons do not always mean a united front against a common enemy.The spirits are quiet. The goddesses shackled. And a murder has been committed.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. There's something rotten in the town of Advent.Advent - the last civilized place in The Realm before one crosses into the barbarian lands of The Long Riding. Many years ago this was a lawless place of warring clans and murderous bandits. Advent has grown since then, but little has changed. It still attracts the dregs, the runaways, the refugees, the desperate, the unforgiven.Perhaps this is why Zarand and his gang of robbers thought Advent was a good place to lie low. To plan the next job. To find the fabled treasure hoard of the barbarian chief, Hessaret.But naturally, nothing is ever as simple.This might just be Zarand's last job.Hessaret's Treasure is a Mythras scenario set in The Realm, the lands described in Book of Quests. It provides a side chapter for that campaign, or, as is intended, a scenario in its own right. While useful, Book of Quests is not essential for play, and this scenario can easily be slotted into many fantasy campaign settings. It is suitable for a party of up to six reasonably skilled adventurers looking to make a name for themselves and not afraid to get their hands dirty.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Gwynedd.the Shame of Britain This war-torn land has been the target of near-constant conflict for centuries. The native tribes have all but vanished, replaced by successive waves of Roman, Irish, Manx, Silurian, Pict, and Ordovician invaders, all of whom covet its fertile valleys and gold-rich mountains. It has been twenty years since a king ruled a united Gwynedd: eight contenders compete for the Oaken Torc of Gwynedd, divided into two major factions and a handful of minor ones. Only strife rules here, abetted by the interference of foreign powers and secret conspiracies at the heart of its princely courts; and it seems that Gwynedd is not destined for peace. This campaign book for Mythic Britain describes the clans, cabals, and coteries that fight for Gwynedd's throne, employing the rules detailed in Mythic Factions; along with the history, geography, and motivations that drive the conflicts. The adventure "Quarrelling Princes" adds another chapter to the Mythic Britain campaign, concerning Arthur's attempts to recruit Gwynedd into the Alliance of Britain. Three other adventures are outlined: "The Flooding of Maes Gwyddno" has the characters racing to save a land from the sea; "The Head of Bran the Blessed" sees the adventurers questing for a mystic artifact; and "The Madness of Ynys Mon" explores the cursed heart of druidic power in Britain.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A mysterious tower randomly appears on the outskirts of Nevermind, an isolated rural village.adventurers and soldiers have been sent to investigate the tower but none that have entered ever return. Now it is the turn of the characters' intrepid party.Sometimes the toweer's appearance is fleeting; lasting only an hour or two, at other times it lingers for up to a week or longer.All manner of strangeness occurs when the tower appears: livestock, and sometimes villagers, go missing and weird creatures are spotted in its vicinity.What will they find in the tower? hootWhat power controls it? What trouble does it have in store for them and Nevermind?This is a challenging Classic Fantasy module designed for Ranks 3-4, and a very competent party of 4-6 adventurers, with a decent mix of brains, brawn and magical capability.Trouble in Nevermind is 40 pages and complete with all maps, encounters, new monsters and a new magical class.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. An abandoned Russian drift station in the Arctic ocean. What was its purpose? Where are the personnel?The Agency needs to know, and it is sending a team to investigate.What they discover will change the world. Forever.White Death is a Science Fiction and Espionage scenario for Mythras and other percentile roleplaying systems.Fully compatible with Luther Arkwright, or useable in any modern day espionage campaign, White Death includes rules for Sanity and six pregenerated characters.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Gothic Horror comes to Mythras in an adventure where characters go in search of a fabled sword.Hired to accompany Jesra Vorak, an infamous warrior of Greymoor, the characters find themselves on a journey into the sinister realm of Ravenholm, in search of Jesra's family sword, Salvation. But dark forces are at work, and soon the characters are drawn to face an ancient evil held within the ominous Sorrow's Keep.This challenging module brings Gothic Horror to the Classic Fantasy range as the characters go in search of the fabled sword named Salvation, and find themselves travelling deep into sinister Ravenholm. The scenario is complete and ready for play, introducing intriguing NPCs and new monsters to face.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Take your Classic Fantasy characters to the next level with The Expert Set.This expansion adds new Rank 4 and 5 Arcane and Divine Spells to the rules, and provides corrections and clarifications on several areas.The Expert Set also features a new foe in the shape of the abominable Mind Slayer and offers new rules for psychic abilities.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A new Mythras campaign scenario for Destined. Awakening deep in the forest.No idea how you got here.Who the hell ARE you? Who the hell are these others.?Something's not right. There's something strange about how you feel.No time. Danger! Armed drones, searching, hunter-killers. You have to run.Run like Hell. Towards the lights, distant lights of the city.Maybe someone there knows who you are; what you are. Maybe they have answers. But right now, run.Run like Hell. Nascent powers are awakened in a group of unsuspecting individuals, and immediately they are fighting for their lives. Where can they find answers? Who can they trust? Does Gemelos City hold the key?Throughout this adventure, you find yourself at the mercy of chance and memory loss. Which doesn't help with controlling your powers.But who can you trust if you don't even remember who you are?Power Outage is designed to introduce new players to superhero roleplaying, but makes a fine start to any superhero campaign. …

Paperback. Condizione: New. Explore different parts of the Mythras combat system with newly devised, exciting encounters.Mythras Combat Modules provide a self-contained encounter designed to highlight and explore different parts of the Mythras combat system. The modules suggest how new tactics and certain Special Effects can be used together to achieve a specific result, and aim to encourage creative use of the combat rules that will translate into standard game play.BREAKING THE HABIT focuses on situations where Choose LocationHead may not be the best default choice, and where the use of weapon length, height, and other Special Effects will be of much more use. The module is ideal for introducing new players to the nuances of the Mythras combat engine.TAKE COVER! takes ranged combat as its subject, and shows how skilful tactics, judicious use of cover, and the application of different Special Effects can be used to deal with the most challenging of situations.BRACE YOURSELF! examines how to tackle non-humans in a combat situation. Pitting four heroes against a giantess and her pet - a grizzly bear - the module looks at the tactics used by both sides, and provides insights and options on the most effective combat techniques.Please note that you need either the Mythras Core Rules, or Mythras Imperative to make best use of these modules.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Welcome to the desolate Sea of Dragons coast, on the northernmost reaches of the Duchy of Bethany. Several adventures await the intrepid party, including an exploration of the Lonely Lighthouse, now derelict, and strange events in the nearby Blue River Valley.This introductory adventure for Classic Fantasy is designed for three to four characters covering the standard class range. This module provides many hours of adventure and is complete with maps, NPCs, and a sheet of paper figures for use in encounters.Please note that the cutout figures are greyscale in the printed copy but full-colour versions are provided on the free PDF.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. 'Many years ago in Mytherranea, before the stars had names, when daisies were still called days' eyes, and the moon stayed up all night to keep the darkness company, there lived a race called redbits.'So begins the tale of Rensal, a small creature trying to make sense of a big world. Running along one day, Rensal bumps into the Tall One, a wise and mysterious redbit who loves to talk. Over tea, toast, and berries, the friends discuss life, love, creation, dreams, death, and everything else that lies under the sun.This is a book that gets to the heart of what it is to be young, of the joys and sorrows and confusions of childhood, and of the questions that continue to be pertinent even when we are full-grown - how we live, how we love, and what - if anything - it all means.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Daily rituals for those who are engaged in intensive study of the Cabalistic Tree of Life.This book is intended for daily use as an alternative to the form of discursive meditation taught in the knowledge lectures of the Order of the Golden Dawn, and specifically for those who are engaged in intensive study of the Cabalistic Tree of Life.It may also be found suitable for practice on a more occasional basis, such as once per week, as a helpful addition to the regular meditations taught by the Order.A litany such as this falls somewhere in the space between ritual and meditation. Like a meditation, it works primarily with consciousness rather than with the subtle energies directed in magic; like magic, it is in some sense a performance, in which performer and audience are one.Meditative attention on the symbols and concepts is important for the litany to have its proper effect, but so are the vocal and performative dimensions that give magic its power.Regular practice will teach each initiate to find a personally appropriate balance between these themes.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A beautifully illustrated Mythras Adventure for Monster Island A Bird in the Hand is a scenario set on Monster Island. The characters become involved in a quest to assist a lizardfolk tribe, and a struggle against a malevolent evil threatening to dominate life on the island.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A deeply honest, searching examination of psychotherapy based on the experiences of a young sceptical trainee  meeting his first patients. "Why is psychotherapy different from talking to a friend?" Hazanov asks. "Because generations of self-interested therapists told us so?" In the spirit of Mikhail Bulgakov's A Young Doctor's Notebook and Sandeep Jauhar's Intern, this sparkling collection of ten linked short stories, set in New York city, follows Hazanov as he navigates the maze of psychological theories he's been taught, facing the alarming dissonance between them and the tragic reality of his patients' lives."How does psychotherapy work? And why do people not get any better?"Frustrated by fancy jargon and unrealistic depictions, Hazanov is on a quest to dispel the myths of psychotherapy and discover its essence.In The Fear of Doing Nothing Hazonov illuminates the intimacy, vulnerability and messiness of the therapeutic encounter, providing his answer to the question of what psychotherapy is.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A witty and concise return to the very beginning of English history.England. 871. The land is overrun by Vikings: the unrelenting, impervious, bloodthirsty Scandinavian assailants who have instilled terror across early medieval Europe.For the kingdom of Wessex, prospects look bleak following the deaths of two of their kings: one by murdered by arrows, the other tortured to death, with his lungs ripped out.Worse still, the Saxons are now led by a young man barely out of his teens, more interested in God than fighting for his kingdom.But within a matter of years, England is transformed. Alfred - the only English king known as 'the Great' - has forced the Vikings out of half of England, and his descendants will go on to unite England within the decade.The period covered in Saxons vs. Vikings - popularised by TV shows such as Vikings and The Last Kingdom - was one of revolutionary change: the creation of England as a nation state, the implementation of Alfred's first national law code, and the establishment of an education system alongside immense architectural development.This fascinating introduction to the early days of England also covers the period before Alfred, such as ancient Britain, the Roman occupation, and the Dark Ages, exploring defining historical episodes in English history such as Boudicca, King Arthur, and Beowulf.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A Haliverse fantasy: A whisper from Carcosa.Five years have passed since Brecken Kendall met the shoggoth she nicknamed Sho and began to discover the unnerving realities hidden behind the stories of iconic weird-fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft.Now Brecken and Sho live in Arkham, Massachusetts, where Brecken juggles the demands of her day job with the early stages of her career as a Baroque composer and musician. She helps Sho stay hidden from the human world, raising six unruly shoggoth broodlings.The mysterious powers and uncanny beings she encountered five years back have faded into the background of her life, and so has the Radiance, the powerful and secret organization that seeks to exterminate shoggoths and all other Eldritch beings.But strange forces are moving through the narrow streets of witch-haunted Arkham, as Brecken is drawn into a tangled web of plot and counterplot in which the stakes are hidden and friend is indistinguishable from foe.At the heart of the conflict is her latest musical project, a Baroque chamber opera based on the brilliant and haunting play The King in Yellow. As the opera moves toward its first performance in Arkham, the Radiance is in motion and so are its enemies, the secretive warriors who serve the Yellow Sign.But other things are also stirring.the living darkness that the old books call Nyogtha, The Thing That Should Not Be.and the Great Old One Hastur, the King in Yellow himself.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A cli-fi thriller in a gritty futureMeet Jerry Shimizu. He's a tough, two-fisted fixer who works for the boss of Habitat Four, one of five Japanese refugee communities built on abandoned oil platforms off the coast of the United States in a hard-edged dystopian future of technological decline and climate chaos. His beat is Shoreside, the bustling, brawling, anything-goes temporary port on the beach two miles from the Habitats.He's trying to bust a robbery ring that's preying on Shoreside gambling money when he encounters a mysterious woman with strange mental abilities. Before long he's having to dodge hoods sent after him by Shoreside's crime lord, agents of the US government, and spies from its archrival, the European Union. Does all this have anything to do with rumors of a secret supercomputer project in the now-abandoned country inland from Shoreside -- a project that once left a string of corpses behind it, and now might yield a fabulous trove of old world technology? Jerry's going to find out.if he can survive long enough.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Occult detective Ariel Moravec investigates an ancient artefact and a disappearing dog.When Ariel Moravec and her grandfather are called to investigate the provenance of an ancient relic at the Heydonian Museum, it hardly has the makings of a thrilling or dangerous case.But mysterious happenings are afoot across town; there have been sightings of a shadowy dog that disappears when photographed, and as she goes about her business, Ariel has the distinct feeling that she is being followed.Drawn deeper into the case, Ariel can't help but wonder what relation these happenings have to Leonora Blake, Dr Moravec's deceased tutor of magic, who penned the mysterious novel 'The Carnelian Moon'.As it approaches full moon, Ariel and her grandfather race against unknown forces to unveil the conspiracy surrounding the relic before it disappears forever.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A journey forward into the past.The year is 2065. Decades ago, the United States of America fell apart after four brutal years of civil war, and the fragments coalesced into new nations divided by economic and political rivalries.Most of the post-US America is wracked by poverty and civil strife, with high-tech skyscrapers rising above crowded, starving slums.But one of the new nations, the Lakeland Republic of the upper Midwest, has gone its own way, isolated from the rest by closed frontiers and trade embargoes.Now Peter Carr, an emissary from the newly elected administration in the Atlantic Republic, boards a train to cross the recently reopened border into Lakeland territory, on a mission that could decide the fate of his nation.Ahead of him lies a cascade of experiences that will challenge his most basic assumptions about economics, politics, and the direction history is moving.Alone among the post-United States republics of North America, the Lakeland Republic has achieved prosperity and internal peace, and it's done so by modelling it's future on the past.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A Haliverse fantasy: A legacy from the Eldritch past.Asenath Merrill, sixteen years old, spends her summers studying witchcraft in the village of Chorazin and her nights traveling the uncanny kingdoms of the Dreamlands.It's all perfectly ordinary, if it so happens that you belong to one of the secretive cults that worship the Great Old Ones, your mother comes from Innsmouth and has tentacles for legs, and your grandmother is the Black Goat of the Woods herself.When Asenath encounters a mysterious girl in the stone circle atop Elk Hill, however, her prosaic existence begins to stretch and blur into patterns she must struggle to master.A century before, a family tragedy in the little Massachusetts town of Dunwich spun out of control and nearly plunged the world into chaos. Four centuries before that, armed men came to the Norse settlements in Greenland and slaughtered every person they could find, leaving a legacy that still troubles the family of Asenath's new friend. A secret from the ancient world connects those events with the girl.Asenath will need all her courage and her fledgling powers as a witch in training to unravel the mystery - and open the way to her own unguessed destiny.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. The greatest empire in Thennla, ruled by the Iron Simulacrum, the magically animated viceroy of the Immortal Emperor. Yet within the empire treacheries abound. Beyond its borders, new kingdoms arm themselves in readiness. When the Emperor ascends to Heaven, who will emerge victorious?Welcome to the Taskan Empire. Welcome to the Age of Treason.The Taskan Empire is a setting for Mythras based in the world of Thennla. This supplement is the companion volume to Shores Of Korantia.Note: this is not a standalone game. Games Masters and players will need access to the Mythras rules, although other d100 systems may suffice.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A Haliverse fantasy: In the Shadow of Hob's Hill.Brecken Kendall doesn't plan on becoming a composer. She also doesn't expect to encounter one of the eldritch realities H.P. Lovecraft borrowed for his weird fiction.A sophomore at Partridgeville State University on the edge of the New Jersey pine barrens, she's trying to leave behind the bitter memories of her childhood and get a degree in music education.Lovecraft? He's just one of the authors discussed in a class she's taking that semester, where she learns about the polymorphous monsters called shoggoths. Those are nothing but an old legend, she thinks.until a young shoggoth, traumatized by a night of fire and death, appears in the kitchenette of the converted garage where Brecken lives.A lucky chance - or is it more than that? - allows Brecken to communicate with the creature, and she decides to give it the food and shelter it so desperately needs. Over the weeks that follow, an unlikely bond grows between them.Brecken will need all the help the creature can give her, for her plans for her future are shattered by the awakening of an unexpected talent for music composition; her selfish and abusive boyfriend is seeking power in strange tomes of eldritch lore; the secret organization that annihilated all but one of the shoggoths under Hob's Hill is still hunting for survivors of that terrible night; the living darkness the old books name Nyogtha, The Thing That Should Not Be, is weaving its own cryptic plans.And from beyond the boundary where curved time meets angular time, the terrible Hounds of Tindalos have scented their prey.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A novel of the deindustrial future.More than four centuries have passed since industrial civilization stumbled to its ruin under the self-inflicted blows of climate change and resource depletion.Now, in the ruins of a deserted city, a young man mining metal risks his life to win a priceless clue.That discovery will send him, and an unlikely band of seekers, on a quest for a place out of legend, where human beings might once have communicated with distant worlds.to a place called Star's Reach.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. The first mystery novel in the Inspector Canal series.Psychoanalysts make the best detectives! When it comes to divining motives, deciphering ambiguous pronouncements, detecting delusions, and foiling the tricks memory plays, famed French analyst Jacques Lacan - turned self-proclaimed retired Inspector Quesjac Canal - is second to none (apologies to Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, Edgar Allen Poe's Dupin, and Umberto Eco's William of Baskerville).Reluctantly drawn into helping hapless New York City police detectives with crimes reported by luminaries like Rolland Saalem, music director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and involving prominent personages like Tobias Trickler, Mayor of New York City, and Sandra Errand, Vice-President for North American sales at YVEH Distributors of Spirits, Canal solves cases that are anything but what they appear to be and mends tears of the heart and soul at the same time.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A Haliverse fantasy: A legacy from the Eldritch past.Asenath Merrill, sixteen years old, spends her summers studying witchcraft in the village of Chorazin and her nights traveling the uncanny kingdoms of the Dreamlands.It's all perfectly ordinary, if it so happens that you belong to one of the secretive cults that worship the Great Old Ones, your mother comes from Innsmouth and has tentacles for legs, and your grandmother is the Black Goat of the Woods herself.When Asenath encounters a mysterious girl in the stone circle atop Elk Hill, however, her prosaic existence begins to stretch and blur into patterns she must struggle to master.A century before, a family tragedy in the little Massachusetts town of Dunwich spun out of control and nearly plunged the world into chaos. Four centuries before that, armed men came to the Norse settlements in Greenland and slaughtered every person they could find, leaving a legacy that still troubles the family of Asenath's new friend. A secret from the ancient world connects those events with the girl.Asenath will need all her courage and her fledgling powers as a witch in training to unravel the mystery - and open the way to her own unguessed destiny.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A race for survival.Twenty years have passed on the colony world Eridan since the end of the war between the warrior mystics of the Halka and the heirs of the tyrannical Planetary Directorate.With the Directorate and its lethal battle-drones gone, the Halka have turned all their strength to the struggle against the cannibalistic Outrunners, so that Eridan can finally be made safe for human settlement.Yet new forces are moving as the last Outrunner bands are hunted down, and one of the survivors, an Outrunner girl whose body contains an artificial symbiotic life form, may hold the key to Eridan's survival.As strange signals arrive from space and dissension spreads through the ranks of the Halka, the girl, the symbiont, and the last heir to the Directorate's secret knowledge must reach Journey Star, the starship that brought humanity to Eridan.What they find there may begin a new era for Eridan.or could it destroy the Halka and everything they hope to defend..…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Personal reflections on faith and psychoanalysis from a leading British psychoanalyst.What is it that lies beyond our knowing, beyond our imagination and beyond our understanding: beyond the reach of either science or philosophy? Might there be some unimaginable energy, some incomprehensible wisdom and purpose, that will forever remain beyond our comprehending?Patrick Casement explores the questions that arise repeatedly in the minds of all those who have faith, or an interest in faith. Some of the pieces in this collection are from the early part of his life, before he became interested in psychoanalysis, when as a young man he considered ordination. These are followed by reflections from later life, looking at his life's journey and how faith and psychoanalysis have been entwined throughout.This collection is offered to the reader in the hope that some of it might resonate in the minds of others who have been asking similar questions about life, and why are we here. …