Project Mythos

[vale perch]

This is a compendium based around major mythogies of our world. This book will contain everything from monsters to feats to new subclasses. This will be my first ever community inspired compendium. Every week I will create a poll and the top 2-4 answers will be implemented.

<@&634107343180660739> Project Mythos has its first poll up and ready.

Please select 2-3 of the ones you want in the book

[timber gulch]

I want slavic if for only for the fact that I am very biased and think we have some amazing stuff to pull from. And I wanna see rusalkas and a utopiec in this.

[vale perch]

Alright lets see how to poll works out so far it is greek/roman, Japanese, egyptian, and(either slavic native american, chinese, or norse)

[timber gulch]

Also kinda hoping that eversky's isn't forgotten lol.

[vale perch]

It won't be this is just a fun pet project

[timber gulch]

Got it! Some mythological stuff is welcome either way.

[vale perch]

Yeah

[timber gulch]

What will this be about by the way? Classes, subclasses monsters, races or something else?

[vale perch]

This round of voting will be for the new race the Mythborne which will have 4 separate versions

Kinda like dragonborn

[timber gulch]

Ah got it, would be down for a couple of races down the line since I am a big proponent of unusual races :v but I am fine with anything.

[vale perch]

Yeah they are going to functiona as Demigods but mythborne sounds way better

[timber gulch]

Probably yeah, and maybe a bit less pretentious lol.

[vale perch]

Exactly and that way I can use titans and giants and all other things

[timber gulch]

I'd love to see something for titans and giants, they are very cool and they aren't brought up too often in my opinion.

[vale perch]

Yeah and I will most likely have greek stuff lol

[vale perch]

<@&634107343180660739> only 36 hours remain until the poll closes and the mythologies for the race mythborne is chosen

[pure raven]

Doing that only pings those that have messaged in here fyi

[viscid gull]

unless it breaks, and pings everyone.
But yes you need to advertise the thread in a channel if you want to ping.

[vale perch]

Ah ok I apologize

[vale perch]

I really didn't mean any harm thx for telling me.

[viscid gull]

not a problem xD
when I say everyone, I mean everyone with the role - at which point it'd add everyone with brewers to the thread is all.

[vale perch]

Oh ok! Thx I am not so good with the whole discord ping system I just scroll and type lol.

[timber gulch]

Same brother, same.

[vale perch]

Oh yeah forgot to ask, which ones did you vote for?

[timber gulch]

Slavic and Egyptian,
With Japanese being the last.

[vale perch]

It is safe to say people want their Japanese race. I think I gonna have one of the subraces be kitsune born, and another Oni born

[viscid gull]

end of the day, personally, I think greco-roman, norse, japanese and egyptian stuff is done a lot, to the point it's almost overdone.
Then celtic and chinese stuff - but less than thos 4.

[vale perch]

Yeah, but hey aztec stuff is still up. And you never really see any of that.

Poor Slavic tho only 3 votes 😬

[carmine maple]

i'm just not familliar with that mythos, whereas i have some familiarity with aztec and would love more of it

[vale perch]

You betcha there will be a Quetzalcoatl born subrace if Mayans win a spot

[normal grotto]

Native American culture also has quite a few unique things to it

I actually went to a powwow once during an anthropology class

[vale perch]

Agreed it also gives me an excuse to make a wendigo

[normal grotto]

Mayan/Aztec would get kind of fucky with characters because they have some really dark gods

[vale perch]

Yeah that is why I love it, and also can create great narratives. Like going against your divine blood

[normal grotto]

and i’m too unfamiliar with chinese/hindu as I just haven’t read up on them much

Yeah

[vale perch]

Well the main thing to take away from Chinese mythology is the monkey king

[normal grotto]

Well everyone knows the monkey king

that’s in the same category as greco/roman, norse, japanese & egyptian

[vale perch]

And the Jade emperor, having mythborne of those two would be cool

[normal grotto]

Huh I guess i’ve learned a bit more about Chinese myth than I thought

[vale perch]

Yeah that's why I am going to dive deep and use things that no one would really expect.

[normal grotto]

They’re pretty big sources so i’d say for trend following:
Greco/Roman, Norse, Japanese & Egyptian

For narrative development:
Aztec/Maya, Native American, Greco/Roman, Chinese

Bonus points if you make custom ones by drawing from one from each category

like Greco/Roman + Native American

[vale perch]

Well this will be a compendium so don't sell stuff short because there will be magic items, feats, subclasses and much more so just look out. Because I already have a Monk subclass in mind "Way of the Shikigami"

We just need to get through the race part of it.

[vale perch]

Forgot to mention love your homebrew forum. Thought of doing that with my eversky stuff.

[viscid gull]

[sour oyster]

ya know greek/roman are probthe 2 largest, and they absolutle Are completely different

[vale perch]

How?

[normal grotto]

Greek and Roman have some subtle differences, but are actually largely based off of each other

Nearly all Roman gods have a direct Greek variant, the names are even interchangeable

[sour oyster]

how what?

they are relevant yes. But the lore is incredibly diverse and both immensely complex

[pure raven]

The romans stole quite a lot of their mythology from the greek tho, so they are auite similar

If im remembering correctly

[normal grotto]

Complexity doesn't change that Roman is heavily based off of Greek

It is a known fact, Roman Gods are identical to the Greek ones with rare differences

They do have the Numen at some point, and after then Christianity (iirc) which I believe is what leads them to accept the latter

but a large portion can be directly compared to Greek Gods/Goddesses

Like Romans reinterpreted most Greek Gods/Goddesses to planetary names such as Jupiter for Zeus

[sour oyster]

Agreed it's based off. And a lot is duplicated. Thanks

[vale perch]

I mean for this bout of voting I was grouping them in because their gods are the same except different names

But look out for the mythborne coming out soon.

[sour oyster]

its ok no worries. Its your thing. And I’m sure it’ll be great

[vale perch]

Alr thx time to get writing

[vale perch]

So the Greco/roman Mythborne will be separated into three categories, Olympian Blooded, Titan Blooded, and Underworldblooded. These three categories will house the subraces.

An I have a prototype ready for review

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DgbvQZJzxFTXWW1Aj4jVVdBRyjor7XhDZXZhyy8-IeE/edit?usp=sharing

[carmine maple]

Have you ran everything through DB?

[vale perch]

Yep and it looks pretty balanced. Granted I would like outside perspective

Because 1 set of eyes is always biased

[vale perch]

Well everyone I have been hunched over a computer typing out everything the Mythborne race is completed.

Here is the updated version

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DgbvQZJzxFTXWW1Aj4jVVdBRyjor7XhDZXZhyy8-IeE/edit?usp=sharing

[normal grotto]

How come the greek ones have features as if they were a class

doesnt that eat a lot of DB budget

[vale perch]

Idk I just like it

[vale perch]

And plus i want them to feel like they are born of mythological beings.

[carmine maple]

yeah sorry, that's not how races work
am going to bed now, can check the specifics tomorrow

being mythical doesn't justify breaking the rules

[vale perch]

Dang ok I will fix

[timber gulch]

It's a neat idea but unless you are going for races as classes it doesn't really work.

[vale perch]

Give me maybe a day or two and they will be fixed

[timber gulch]

Roger that.

[normal grotto]

Some races do have leveled abilities, but it's usually in the form of a feat I believe.

The ones that do have leveled abilities it's a one-two punch line I think.

Like you can cast gust, at this level you can do x.

Or it just gives the feature more uses.

[carmine maple]

I'm really against racial feats
feats are a reward for experience and accomplishement, not being born special

[normal grotto]

Being against them doesn't change the fact that they exist and are a entirely fair balancing mechanism for something that may or may not grow with you

for example dragonborn I feel does this quite well.

[timber gulch]

Personally I am a big fan racial feats, they can really spice a race up.

[carmine maple]

they exist
not really, were more of an XGE side project that was discarded post-Tashas
fair balancing mechanism
no reason not to open it to all races
may or may not grow with you
holds true for everything

[normal grotto]

Did fizbans come out before or after tasha?

[carmine maple]

after

[normal grotto]

First point you made is moot

pretty sure fizbans added more

[carmine maple]

ah yes, the dragon book added dragon feats

[normal grotto]

Those are what I was referring to

[carmine maple]

but no, those aren't dragon exclsuive feats

any race can take them

[normal grotto]

That's what I mean though

for the sake of a mythical content pack they could have feats

for that entire group, not just Zeus gets lightning

[normal grotto]

So really, I do agree with you but also believe it doesn't hurt to have a couple unique ones

like for every 4, have one unique one for that category.

[carmine maple]

that's completely separate
which, on that front, I would agreed is a fine addition

[vale perch]

Ok all <@&634107343180660739> this will be a compromise for this argument, I will make a feat for these races(it will be kinda like Strike of the Giants from Bigsby's Guide to Giants) however the pre-requisite will be your character to be abt lvl 4-5, and also gaining an ability of said level that will allow you to go through a different challenge to obtain this feat for free, so it is earned.

<@&634107343180660739>

[carmine maple]

why double ping?

honestly looking forward to it

[vale perch]

Sorry it said it didn't work on my end apologies, also I hope this solves this argument in my forum lol

[vale perch]

Alright so I have revamped the formatting and splitting it into mythologies, so right now we have the Greco Roman mythborne and the new feat "Gift of the Olympians"