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Mythos Machine, a web application owned and operated by Elthos, lets game aficionados create and maintain their own RPG Worlds & game characters Read More

A quick demo of the Campaigns, Adventures and Events structure within the Elthos RPG Mythos Machine Read More

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Hi Hi... I have my Patreon pretty much set up ... but I'm worried about my Rewards. The problem I think I have is that I'm offering things that will consume my time in a way that if I get s… Read More

Just a something I felt like talking about on a lark, with my camera settings on "Weird Color" for the fun of it. The discussion has to do with how I use my Elkron Alignment Correspondence s… Read More

I have left the Elkron and their workings deliberately vague because I don't want to create too much Setting for the Mythos Machine. The point of the project is to encourage other people to… Read More

Warning: Super Boring Stuff Ahead. If you're not into the Technical Geekery of Web Hosting feel free to ignore this post. But it is part of the process I am going through to establish… Read More

Elthos RPGMythos Machine Newsletter Hello Elthos World Weavers!We Are Live! Happy Birthday Elthos RPG Most of you don't know, but Elthos RPG was actually created Feb 6th … Read More

The Recap: Three members of the Miller clan, Shnoggle Miller, JB Miller, and Emitt Snow (a cousin of Shnoogle and JB), live by the sea at the old Mill House. Their lives are usually dull… Read More

Recap: Three members of the Miller clan, Shnoggle Miller, JB Miller, and Emitt Snow (a cousin of Shnoogle and JB), having rescued Princess Gwyn from the hands of the monstrous Satyr and bl… Read More

Elthos RPG Mythos Machine helps you create your own RPG Worlds, doing the number crunching so you can focus on the creative aspects of the game. To try out the Ongoing Open-Beta please chec… Read More

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A quick report on my most recent (and current) game experiment ... We played the first Elthos Meta-Game last night. It's a competitive/collaborative World Building game in which GMs play th… Read More

Ok it's been a while since I posted here so I want to just put a quick note up to let folks following me here know that yup, yup I'm still working on Elthos and making progress (albeit back… Read More

We have completed Round 4 of the Primordial Age and these are the Celestial Island results thus far ... With the help of my very awesome play testers we were also ab… Read More

These are the completed set for Round 4, including the complete Celestial Island Map as of the end of Round 4. Tonight, if all goes well, we will play Round 5. But before we begin, to help… Read More

I had a problem with the business model of the Elthos RPG Mythos Machine that for a long time stumped me. But I think I, with the help of my friend C.D. (I don't know if he would wish to be… Read More

So far the Primordial Age has passed over 500,000 years with the Elkron fashioning mountain ranges, great rivers, fertile lands and forests, and a number of Enchanted lands. In the 400,000… Read More

So I went to my friend's house for Thanksgiving. There were 7 of us. My friend's 3 children, ages 14, 17, and 21, and the middle son's girlfriend and her brother. Whole Foods has a wonderful… Read More

Elthos RPG News I have finally, after quite a long time of jostling many things into place (in particular the Mythos Machine) gone ahead and requested my two introductory Elthos RPG Rules B… Read More

Someone on G+ recently mentioned that they encountered Elthos a while back and thought it is "the world's ultimate Fantasy Heart-breaker".  While not entirely surprising, given the very… Read More

Well, everything has gone as I expected it would, albeit somewhat slower than anticipated.  24 years to produce my first software servoce isn't too bad... if you look at it from a certa… Read More

Well this was a rigorous month for Elthos. The short and sweet update (and probably boring albeit accurate) is that most of my time since last post was spent working on cleaning up data on… Read More

In my world of Elthos dragons are large, magical, intelligent, flying fortresses with massive attacks and, typically, an army of minions ... they are also secretive, and build fortifications… Read More

I had a nice time chatting with Tenkar about Elthos RPG and the Mythos Machine ... here's the interview ... Many thanks to Tenkar for the interview! You can find Tenkar's Tavern on the Web a… Read More

Today I want to talk briefly about the design of the Elthos RPG Mystic Power System because I think it may have some features that people don't know about, but might like. There's two aspect… Read More

This thread, started by Tim Baker on Mewe today, covers some important points about the Mutual Collaboration Society of the Elthos RPG Mythos Machine. I thought I would post it to my blog f… Read More

Many thanks to Jerry McDonnell, Goblin's Henchmen and Tod Foley for their help and advice along the way.  This ad will be published in Megadungeon #4, coming out soon Read More

Just a quick note to tell you what Elthos things I've been working on lately. I updated the marketing website (not exciting I know, but it is helpful to the project, so I bear with the gr… Read More

There once lived a squirrel in an enchanted forest high in the boughs of an oak tree.   She was a merry little thing and her name was Chippy.   Chippy's Birthda… Read More

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I started working on Elthos in 1978.  I did a light skim of Men & Magic, and took it from there.  Here were my three primary design goals. 1) What rules system will make my li… Read More

What I'm trying to accomplish with my Elthos RPG Armor Class system, and how I've gone about it. In Brief - Armor has four components: - Armor Class Modifier - Damage Absorption - Dexte… Read More

Ah, so I was thinking about how to present the story of my players as they adventure through my brand new "The Way of All Flesh World". However, as I was about to launch into one of a numbe… Read More

As you may know, I've been working on Elthos RPG since 1978 when I created the original Elthos RPG Rules.  I have been GMing my homebrew system ever since, and after 40+ years am tickle… Read More

I got a Wacom CTL-470 Tablet.  It's an older, simpler model... an elegant weapon for a more civilized age. So, you can guess what comes next ... I shall of course be posting some… Read More

Alignment has always been a problematic feature in D&D, I think. The rules were kind of vague on the topic, but they alluded to what the purpose was. The way it seems to me it was suppo… Read More

I think you folks know I've been working on Mythos Machine for a really long time, very steadily, but I could not quite manage to get much interest in it. The concept has always been the sa… Read More

The great thing about the Elthos Project, from my point of view, is that it's very light weight for me to maintain it.  It costs me almost nothing to run the site.  Just the cost o… Read More

Well, we had our first COVID-19 game session, and it went well. We defeated "The Fear" and instead had a great time playing online instead of our usual around the living room table game. To… Read More

How I use the Elthos RPG - Mythos Machine to create my own Worlds, and in particular how I use the World Things Holes Report to help me ensure that my World is well designed and has everythi… Read More

Latest Elthos RPG Mythos Machine News After a super flurry of updates, enhancements and bug fixes, I got through my rather long CrimsonScorpion Feedback List, and was then ready to get to w… Read More

A little video I created to explain Elthos RPG Mythos Machine.:) Read More

"The Way of All Flesh" is my current (and first) Cosmic Sci-Fi RPG Campaign using Elthos RPG and the Mythos Machine. The adventures thus far have been recorded on audio, but not released (du… Read More

People ask me all the time, "Hey, what RPG System should I use after the End of the World, man?" I always tell 'em, "You know, there's always Elthos RPG.  Its light weight 1d6 system m… Read More

Top 10 White Plains Blogs, Podcasts and Youtubers Contents [show] ⋅About this list & ranking White Plains Influencers Fingent | Ideas to Motivate Business Growth This Podc… Read More

Two heroes showed up (out of five) for our Sunday Night Elthos RPG "The Way of All Flesh" One Shot.  They leapt straight in with pre-generated characters. They start out in the ye… Read More

 Happy Gygax Day!Here is my offering ... a new free book in the Elthos RPG DTRPG Store!Elthos RPG - Actual Play Run Through on DTRPG!Thanks Gary for so many years of creativity, friends… Read More