Create Your Own World!

The Elthos RPG Core Rules Book - The Elthos RPG Rules are designed to minimize grunt work, enable coherency, and facilitate creativity. The 80 page book includes a Table of Contents, an Introduction to the Philosophy of the Elthos System, Gamemaster Advice on running the system, Rules on everything you need to know to build your World and run your games, including Character Generation, Skills & Mystic Powers building, Combat, a wonderful set of Optional Rules, Example Combat with weapons and magic, as well as printable Elthos Character, Combat Tracking, and blank Hex Map & Square Map Sheets for your convenience, plus three handy Appendices, and a handy Page Index. It also provides the (optional) Tactical Combat rules that I devised in the early 1990's for those who like to get down to the nitty-gritty. Needless to say it's been reasonably well tested over time, though frankly I'm pretty sure I will never really be done tinkering with it. Nor should you be! This is a rules framework designed for GM tinkering. The books also feature my own homespun artwork that I created for my various Elthos Campaigns along the way. It's a nice system, and not that difficult to learn. There's even a few innovative ideas in there as well (at least they were innovative in 1978 afaik, and in some cases they may still be innovative). What I can say for certain is that my players and I have enjoyed it a lot over the years... and you might, too.

The Elthos Rules and the Mythos Machine are designed to work together to provide Gamemasters an elegant and well structured environment for creating Worlds and recording your game stories. However, that said, the Elthos Core Rule Book is designed to be a stand alone product that can be used completely independently of the Mythos Machine for those who do not happen to like computers. I understand completely! So the book is here for you either way. But for those who do happen to like computers the Mythos Machine can be a truly amazing tool to help you keep your RPG games easy to manage and well organized!
I hope you will like what Elthos RPG has to offer and find many years of enjoyment herein!
- Mark Abrams