Articles and discussion on Roleplaying including Shadow World, Forgotten Realms.
One of the ideas I’ve been playing around with are bestowed abilities from a characters God. Channeling spells are already premised on the idea that a God imparts powers to a Priest; and we use a mechanism called “Invocation” that allows a player to beseech their god for aid but I’m thinking of something different …
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Please forgive me for the over-generalizations I’m about to make. Once upon a time the GM was all powerful and inaccessible to all but the most earnest and devout of supplicants. He reigned over his world with detachment and poise. His players enjoyed his forbearance in allowing them to adventure in his world. All was …
Continue reading “Ways of Adventure and Social Scripts of Gaming”
The latest version of Rolemaster contains a very interesting and useful section (2.8, to be exact) on Customizing Magic in an RM game. As inspiration for this consideration, I’m recommending that every RM gamer, if you don’t already have it, pick up Chivalry & Sorcery’s Magicks & Miracles. It’s free, after all. If you’re like …
Continue reading “Chivalry & Sorcery’s Gorgeously Detailed Magickal Vocations”
This is the second of my posts on Zweihänder’s mammoth Game Mastery ‘chapter’. The first bit that sticks out is the world building rules. So far I have been somewhat critical about how Zwei can be both setting neutral and yet detail races, magical sources, gods, religions and to some extent monsters. The last will …
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Step 1: Decide PC Race My best understanding of C&S is that the system prefers a human-centric milieu, with the option of “outsider” PC “Races.” Because of the mention of Elves and Dwarves, it appears that these outsider Races are what can be expected. Notes such as these suggest the sorts of fictive qualities that …
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One of the criteria I set myself for my starting adventures for RMu was that the creatures had to exist in all versions of RM, right from RM2 to RMu. Once you take into account that I writing for 1st to 5th level, this has lead to a rather refined list of available monsters. The …
For this article, part of an ongoing series, we begin to examine Against the Darkmaster’s (VsD’s) Character Creation as detailed in its QuickStart rules. VsD uses the six Stats associated with Middle-Earth Role Playing (six Stats, that is, as long as we ignore the always-fun Appearance) and most d20 systems. Honestly, I prefer this to …
Continue reading “The Stats, Kin and Cultures of Against the Darkmaster”
This is the first in a series closely modeled after Peter R’s read-throughs of such games as Zweihander (sorry for the missing umlaut, all) and HARP. I’ve recently adopted the playtest of Against the Darkmaster (abbreviated as VsD) for my tabletop home game, and I’m also running VsD via play-by-post for a few folks on …
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First, I did set a goal to not delve too deep into rule making for RMU or RM in the coming year. However, I do read the RM Forums and there is a ongoing discussion about additional Talents (and Flaws, though “surprisingly” those are obviously less discussed). And yes, for the purpose of this post …
Continue reading “Clarification Needed. When did Talents and Flaws become part of core RoleMaster?*”
This is obviously another Zweihänder post. I am trying to rattle through them a bit faster than I did the HARP read through for two reasons. Firstly, if you enjoy them then making you wait is not a good thing. If you don’t enjoy them then keeping them coming back for months is equally not …
Continue reading “Zweihänder Read Through – Skills & Talents”