Basic GM Features Allows Gamemasters to create their own Worlds. Create and manage your own races, character classes, weapons, armor, equipment, spells and miracles that match the vision you have of your World. Your world is truly in your own hands! Save time and energy creating Characters using the Mythos Machine's automated Character Generation methods. As Gamemaster you can choose how you want Characters to be Generated in your World. Random Rolling, Allocation or a hybrid of both. You configure the settings to suit your preferences. Your players can log onto the Mythos Machine and generate as many characters as you allow for each of your Worlds. Every World can have completely different configurations, so you can experiment as much as you wish to find the best configuration for you and your players.

The Gamemaster can use the Elthos Web Application to Create and Edit Characters in accordance with the Elthos ODS rules. With the Web Application you can:

• Description You can add descriptions of personality, looks, social class, and select the character's religious and cultural outlook.
• Select Race Characters can be of any available Race, each of which also has Requisite limitations. So Dwarves require A high Strength.
• Select Guild Classes Standard Aventure Guild Classes can be assigned to each Character in accordance with their Requisites. Each class has Requisite requirements associated to the Class. So, Theives must have a high Dexterity. Warriors must have a high Strength. Clerics and Warlocks must have high Wisdom (or intellect).
• Select Skills & Powers Skills and Mystic Powers are available to Characters of the Freeman, SpellChanter or Clerical Classes.
• Select Equipment, Weapons, Armor Characters can be equiped based on how much Money they've got.

The Gamemaster can also manage Adventure Groups in their Worlds by adding or removing Characters, as well as Auto-Generate random NPC Character groups. The Mythos Machine is based on the Elthos RPG rules, as defined in the RPG Core Rules Book. The Rules Book is available on DriveThruRPG and through the Elthos.com Book Shop. There are period sales, so stay tuned. Provides a coherent and expandable structure for you to create your World within of whatever depth, complexity or genre you choose. Create new Places, Campaigns, and Adventures, and record what your Player Characters during their Adventures. Store them online and get handy printouts, including the images and maps you upload. Provides the number crunching and records keeping aspect of the system. Why lose track of who won what experience for what when, and where those magic rings disappeared to... the GM's Toolbox is designed to help you manage all of that information for your world. Among the many time saving features of the Mythos Machine is the ability to create Races, Classes, and Race-Class specific Armors, Weapons, Spells, and Powers, and then Auto-Generate entire Groups of NPCs according to the defaults you've defined for them. So in 30 seconds you can have a group of 20 NPCs completely outfitted as you your configuration demands. Players can record their own Character's history in their Player Details, as well as their Character's Description, Personality, Goals, and Secrets. It's a great way for Players to fill in the details and never forget what happened to that Ring of Invisibility again.

However, for GM's the feature gets much better than that. GMs can add the history of the Characters as the story progresses, record every significant action in the game, and in the process calculate Experience Gains and keep track of Alignment changes over the course of the Characters careers. The true power of this utility doesn't show up for some time, but later, when you really have forgotten what happened to that Vorple Sword of the Witch Lord, the search features within the Mythos Machine kick into high gear and save the day for your game. It's truly fantastic. Players can run a few reports, and the best of them is the one where they can see what you've granted them permission to see about your World's places, histories, campaigns and adventures.

There are a much greater diversity of reports available to Gamemasters. Here's a list of some of the GM Reports...

• General Resolution Matrix The chart that does it all... Resolve how successful any character's efforts are using any skill or power with the GRM.
• Combat Matrixes for competing Adventure Groups See at a glance which Adventure Groups outclass their opponents in color coded glory for both Physical and Mystical combat.
• Character Statistics Quickly and easily get a bird's eye view of any Adventure Group in your World with this handy report.
• World Print Print your World in convenient packages for taking to the game. The prints are "Game Packs" which contain your World's Places, Adventures, Characters, NPCs and Monsters. "Game Packs" can include as much or as little detail as you decide with simple checkbox selection options. Bring printed your "Game Pack" to the table, or you can access it online during the game for even more functionality and convenience. You can provide "Game Packs" for your Players so that they only have access to the information appropriate for their Characters.
  
  The report optionally allows you to include:
  
  
  • Show Campaigns
  • Show Adventure Groups
  • Show Images
  • Show Adventures
  • Show Character Basic Data
  • Show GM Notes
  • Show Events
  • Show Combat Matrixes
  • Generate Random Encounters

Collaborate on World Building with other GMs! The Mythos Machine allows you to easily and efficiently share elements of your world with other Gamemasters on the system. Have a unique and awesome idea for a Weapon you think other GMs might appreciate seeing? Make it public and it will be available to other Gamemasters to copy into their Worlds. Have a great idea for a Mountainous Village where the an ancient brood of vampires dwell? You can share it. Or you can browse other Gamemaster's shared items and freely import their shared things into your World! It's a share and share alike system for everything that people want to make Public in the system, though if you want to keep your Elements private, you can do that, too. The Mutual Collaboration Society is here to help all GMs help each other build amazing Worlds.

Free Marketplace GM Features The "Marketplace GM" option is perfect for GMs who want to try out Elthos RPG the wonderful and fascinating adventure Worlds their fellow GMs create to see how the system works and just jump right in with their RPG friends.

The Worlds Marketplace is where your fellow GMs (and you, if you wish) can host their own Worlds for sale at a price they set. Each World will be unique according to their configuration, and limited only by their imaginations. You can purchase as many worlds as you wish, and play them with your friends. However, you will not be able to modify the Elements (weapons, armor, equipment, powers, etc.) of Marketplace Worlds, but will play them As-is according to the author's design. That said, you will be able to create Characters, and add as much as you like to the history and events of that world, making it your own as you play it.