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Welcome to 2019! Peter and I usually do a look-back and a look-forward at year’s end so I thought I would start the process. First off, I spent some time looking over the past year; due to my work on opening a new business, my blog output dropped off considerably; I think I only posted …
We nearly all suffer from something called Unconscious Bias. This is where we are much more likely to believe things that we agree with and disbelieve things that we don’t agree with. In games and especially when you are reviewing a game we tend to think that rules we like are great and rules we …
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So, I think I have enough of an outline to create the wagon/caravan starting adventure based upon yesterday’s post. Another cliched starting adventure is starting the party in some sort of jail or prison. This cliche has the advantage of pretty much forcing the characters to trust each other as if they are on the …
The Cardinal Rule of Adventure Design A good adventure should maximize meaningful player decisions. Matthew J. Finch Yesterday I was obviously not that enamoured with the idea of “caravan guard” as an adventure backdrop. I admit that it can be done well. The best example I have ever seen of the caravan guard was the …
This post is inspired by a SubReddit I found on Reddit. It’s called Unpopular Opinion. The beauty of that sub is that someone is allowed to express their opinion there, specifically because it’s unpopular, without fear of reprisal. It’s a ‘safe haven’ (as safe as any opinion on the internet is able to be) for …
It’s been quite a long time since I delved into my BASiL project and in the interim there has been several interesting threads over at the Forums that have made me reconsider (again) the scope and nature of spells in Rolemaster and FRPG’s in general. In my mind, I’ve divided spells into four rough classifications: …
I wanted to write something a bit different as we have had a lot on house rules and a load of HARP but they are both rather niche and possibly divisive. Next weekend I was supposed to be running my RMC game. This was going to be a major session with the conclusion of a …
So assuming we stick with the 2 second house ruled round, which I would like to, we don’t want people to bleed out too fast. I really like Hurin’s suggestion that bleeding 1-3hits/round will clot. If we can keep that I will be happy. The criteria would be that the character much be inactive for …
Before we start I want to set out two core concepts. These rules are based around No Profession. Characters will only be buying skills once. (Thereafter training and experience will take over.) So I am quite happy with the RMU cultures rules and free skills ranks. I do think that GMs should tinker with the …
I don’t know how many of you know of this game? To cut a long story short what Against the Darkmaster (vsDarkmaster for short) is is MERP plus house rules rebranded and launched as a new game. It is so new that we only have the public play test, quickstart adventure and pre-gen characters to …