The long awaited 'Book of Schemes' is now available to buy.
A complete city, and inspired by the medieval city-states of the Hanseatic league, this book is not a fairy tale. It is not about heroes and heroines. It is certainly not about standing up to and overcoming evil. This book is about...
To usher in the Year of the Dragon, we're holding a New Year sale, reducing all items bought on our webstore by 15% (https://thedesignmechanism.com/) from 12 midnight, 1st January, until 12 midnight on the 7th January. So if there's a book you've been holding back on, or want to make a new year...
The new, revised, expanded, ORC-licensed edition of Mythras Imperative is now available - just in time for Christmas.
While the game and mechanics are fundamentally the same, we've tweaked a few rules, made errata corrections, and fully integrated rules for firearms, vehicles, new character...
Casting the Runes, our Gumshoe-powered game of Occult Investigation, based on the works of M R James, features in the latest Bundle of Holding! Get your copy - and a whole host of great gaming material - at a superb price as a Thanksgiving or Black Friday treat...
The pirate calling himself Triton has laid siege to The Golden Horn, paralysing sea traffic into the Queen of Cities. Meanwhile, in a small monastery a mute slave has sought refuge from a terrible tragedy; elsewhere, an old and determined cult is seeking the return of a treasure stolen several...
It's here...
Classic Fantasy Imperative introduces roleplayers to old-school dungeoneering and high adventure through the lens of the Mythras rule system. A complete game, with all you need for play (barring dice), Classic Fantasy Imperative provides full character creation, with four classes...
Two new - and long anticipated - releases, now available!
Mythras Factions
Mythras Factions provides rules for creating and running factions of any size or complexity; from street gangs to international corporations. These can then be used as backdrops within a Mythras campaign, or even used as...
Naturally we're aware of the strength of feeling in some quarters. The TDM team is discussing things, but we are not going to rush to put out a message in case of causing further problems.
Paul StJohn Mackintosh, who wrote 'Casting the Runes', will be producing a Mythras version. It'll focus heavily on using Mythras for investigative games, which is something the rules can do, but we haven't explicitly tackled so far. Plus an Edwardian setting with a cleave towards folklore/folk...
Kia orana! May health be with you!
This, the traditional greeting of the Oceanian people, can be heard throughout a region covering a vast triangle with sides measuring over 10,000 kilometres. At the three corners of this triangle lie the Hawai'ian Archipelago in the north, the continental...
The Predestination Engine & Other Stories is our first scenario collection for Casting the Runes. These seven investigations take the characters across the United Kingdom at the turn of the 20th Century, from London to Edinburgh, and involve them in hauntings, summonings, strange rites, macabre...
I’m doing this right now, running a Cthulhu campaign with Mythras. I’ve made a few tweaks to the skills list, but otherwise it runs straight from the book, with Firearms and Arkwright sanity rules as bolt-one when needed.
There are a couple of scenarios in the works.
We hear you. We'd like more adventures to help flesh out the settings too, but most proposals we receive are for more settings, despite us trying to encourage more scenarios or expansions to existing settings.
Meeros does pretty well actually...
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