Game Master Reference

CR / APL math, XP budget per encounter, treasure parcels, and difficulty categories.

Trap CR, construction cost, Perception DC, disable DC, and sample trap stat blocks.

Spiritual hazards, trigger conditions, reset logic, and how to make a haunting feel distinct from a trap.

Build pursuit scenes with obstacles, movement pressure, and branching paths instead of reducing them to a single roll.

Vessels, crews, siege pressure, boarding actions, and the practical questions that matter when the battlefield is a ship.

Terrain types, weather, natural hazards, extreme temperatures, and environmental damage.

Short-term benefits, long-term cost, addiction pressure, and how to frame these elements responsibly in play.

Volcanoes, tsunamis, undead uprisings, and other large-scale threats that reshape terrain, priorities, and survival.

Downtime pacing, between-adventure activities, retraining, and how to keep the campaign calendar moving.

• Downtime Overview
• Downtime Activities
• Retraining
• Campaign Clocks

GM-facing guidance for pacing item crafting, managing access to formulas and components, and protecting treasure balance.

Campaign-facing guidance for pacing domain play, deciding when kingdom turns matter, and turning realm pressure into adventures.

• Kingdom Building
• Settlement Stat Blocks
• Kingdom Events
• Mass Combat
• Full Kingdom Rules

NPC stat block shortcuts, gear value by CR, and the practical differences between NPCs, cohorts, hirelings, and monsters.

Trusted intermediaries, fixers, informants, and recurring allies who turn reputation into actionable help.

Relationship rewards, favors, and a ready-reference gallery of NPCs you can adapt into allies, patrons, rivals, and local fixtures.

Advancement tracks, combat roles, and practical guidance for running bonded creatures without slowing down the table.

Delivery tricks, scouting pressure, shared spells, and the limits that keep a familiar useful without taking over the scene.

Summoner companion rules, evolution choices, and direct access to the eidolon builder tool for fast experimentation.

Scope, danger, escalation, and table expectations when the party operates above ordinary adventure scale.

Arc design, milestone pacing, and the narrative scaffolding that keeps mythic stories coherent.

Choose campaign tone, symbolic motifs, and recurring patterns that make mythic play feel intentional.

Use trials, rewards, and symbolic victories to gate mythic advancement without reducing it to pure combat math.

Optional subsystems adopted at session zero — alternative damage tracks, combat variants, magic subsystems, campaign-level systems, and the Technology Guide.