FAQ & Quick Reference

Lore

What is Ancerra?

Many lineages, backgrounds, professions, class options, and magic abilities may reference Ancerra. Ancerra is the primary planet in MythCraft’s current default campaign setting.

Skills

What does an asterisk mean next to a skill?

Skills followed by an asterisk are tool-dependent, meaning that you cannot utilize them to their fullest extent without the relevant type of tools.

Talents, Abilities, and Features

Do I need to take a class entry?

While most adventurers gain classes at some point in their career. You do not have to take a class. You could choose to simply keep taking specialization talents and/or magic talents and focus on abilities granted outside of class talents.

What is a Capstone?

Classes also have several talents with the Capstone tag. Capstone talents are especially powerful ways to define your character. You can only ever have one Capstone talent.

What does (X/Rest) mean?

Note that many abilities can only be used a certain number of times and have a recharge. 2/Rest means that you can use an ability 2 times, regaining it when you Take a Rest. Similarly, AWR/Recoup means that you can use an ability a number of times equal to your AWR, regaining all expended uses when you Recoup. You can always use an ability at least one time, even if your relevant attribute is 0 or less.

If my feature or ability recharges based on my attribute, and that attribute is zero, does that mean I can't use it?

You can always use an ability at least one time, even if your relevant attribute is 0 or less.