With the ICE Forums apparently self isolating, means there is no where for people to ask questions, sign post other fans to great/interesting/amusing resources or any of other things that we used the forums for. To that end, I want to extend the blog to anyone who wants to use it. A blog is not…
Recently I have spent quite a lot of time hanging out on the Castles & Crusades discord server. The C&C crowd are really nice people and many of them have a strong affection for Rolemaster. I was chatting yesterday about virtual Gen Con and the sentiment was that they would jump into a Rolemaster game…
For those of you that are enjoying a holiday and long weekend despite the pandemic and social distancing, we wish you the best in these trying times! Due to the out of service status of the Rolemaster Forums, ICE is a bit of a “black box” right now, but nonetheless things still seem to be…
It was sad news this week, that GenCon has been cancelled. I saw someone on Discord (Marc maybe?) saying that it should be pushed back to October rather than cancelled but that isn’t so easy. These convention halls do not lie empty all year. Every week there is someone running something, and right now I…
Back in 2016 I wrote this BLOG that I want to revisit a bit due to some recent work. I wanted to start a discussion on combat in 3D environments with a focus on 3 “terrains”: underwater, aerial. and zero g. While there are specific challenges to each of these, they all share 1 specific…
This month’s Director’s Briefing suggested that there could be special printed materials for the organised play games at GenCon, should the con go ahead. I have been lurking on the fringes of many discord servers and the feeling is probably 50/50 that it won’t happen and equally 50/50 as to whether people will attend even…
I’m not sure that’s a good title for this blog post, but I’m writing this “on the run” but look at that picture. To me, that could have been my roleplaying group back in the early 80’s. How about you? If that seems familiar it’s because A LOT of Rolemaster players are in their 40’s…
If you want to get your daily dose of Rolemaster, HARP, or RMu, there is now a well supported discord server. Follow this link https://discord.gg/YBrepAB And it will take you straight there. If you haven’t used discord it is pretty much the IRC, Internet Relay Chat, of the 90s brought up to date. There are…
Another cloudy day of stay-at-home quarantining, so I thought I would throw this out to our faithful blog readers! Please respond in comments by #, answer as few or many as you would like. Favorite magic item. Do you have a favorite item found in a RM book or module or something you made up…
While the purpose of by “spin cycle” blog articles is to re-purpose MERP and other modules for use in Shadow World, Assassins of Dol Amroth (AoDA) is an excellent module for quick, easy to run adventures in any setting. Cover Art. First, the cover is another great Angus McBride piece, showing a female assassin ready…
If you hadn’t seen the headline already, D&D was the best year in the game’s 46 years. You can read more about it HERE. Some interesting takeaways: 39% of players are female and sales of the introductory boxed edition increased by 300%. Now, we can all comment once again on “what if’s” and marketing and…
