Articles and discussion on Roleplaying including Shadow World, Forgotten Realms.
As you’re here, I know you’re familiar with Rolemaster, and I’m here to tell you about HARP. HARP stands for High Adventure Role Playing, and while it shares many things with RM it is its own game.
Currently, HARP has six books available: Fantasy, SF, SF Xtreme, College of Magics, Martial Law, and Folkways.… Read the rest
For those taking note, my blog volume has decreased substantially over the last month or two. Luckily, we have new bloggers that can help fill the gaps as well as bring different perspectives to all things Rolemaster and RPG’s. Unfortunately, my schedule doesn’t free up for another month or two and I’m going to limit myself to shorter posts that are geared towards generating discussion rather than me presenting my own solutions.… Read the rest
I was going to blog about something completely different today but as we seem to still be in dissecting rolemaster mode and Brian has the hood off of Spell Law I thought I would stick my oar in as well.
So as you all know I have been reading the 7th Sea rules.… Read the rest
Of all the 50 in 50 adventure hooks I wrote my two favourites were Mating Season and Call That A Knife.
This week’s offering is Call That A Knife.
Call That a Knife? sees a strange woman pulled out of the sea at a port.… Read the rest
Love em or hate em, you cannot escape charts in Rolemaster. This feature, more than any other, distinguishes it from other surviving game systems. I cannot have a conversation about modifying or even understanding the game system without talking about charts and their impact.… Read the rest
I posted my first entry to this website a few weeks ago and implied that I was going to write more, at least about spell lists. That has not happened.
Instead, amidst the slowly expanding but disorganized mess that I did write, I found a few other things I wanted to talk about which I believe provide necessary context.… Read the rest
I used to have a GM that would start the first game session with dishing out about 5 pages of questions about your character. The format was sort of question followed by about 10 lines of space then next question and so on.… Read the rest
This week we have a two goodies for you. The May edition of the fanzine, issue 13 or Year 2 issue 1 depending on how you want to think of it. We also have our latest 50in50, The Red Stone Circle.… Read the rest
Welcome to the fourth part of my Spell Law Series. In Pt. 1 I discussed Spell Law and BASiL in overview. In Pt. 2 I delved into the mechanics of the Essence realms, Pt. 3 into Channeling and now is Pt.… Read the rest
This is not about what you think it is going to be about.
The experience rules in RMU and in HARP offer experience for minor and major personal goals (HARP) or Minor, Moderate and Major personal events (RMU).
So as a GM how do you know when your players’ characters has achieved a personal goal or event?… Read the rest