I am not going to post every day about this, but the first few days are the most interesting.
On day one the booklet was on the front page of DTRPG on the newest releases and on the latest free/PWYW lists.… Read the rest
#NavRPG 24hrs in
Navigator RPG Playtest Live
Today is a big day in the life of Navigator RPG, although it will barely cause a ripple in anyone elses lives.
There is a live playtest version of Navigator RPG up on DriveThruRPG.com.
It went live shortly after midnight, this morning.… Read the rest
Update Time
Yesterday City of Spiders, one of the first 50in50 adventures became a Silver best selling title on Drivethrurpg.com. That is no mean feat. We still get sales of those adventure hooks most weeks. It won’t be long until we get a raft of them going silver.… Read the rest
2 Page Random Adventures?
What is that quote?….
Aspire2HopeGM
There are only 7 plot devices for every metastory. Perhaps you only need a D7
I always think of adventures as all being variations of “Put the characters in a hole, throw stones as them as they try to get out.”
Your plot is the hole, the stones are the encounters and the characters attempts to climb out is the story we tell over the campaign sessions.… Read the rest
Simple Fantasy Adventures
Take a look at the post below from Stargazer’s World. SFA is a retro clone of Lord of the Rings, which was a simplified MERP which was a simplified RM.
I don’t see SFA as a direct threat to RMu. It is an 18 page free pdf game.… Read the rest
Itchy Adventuring Finger
When we [BriH, Edgcltd and I] wrote and released our 50in50 adventures we studiously avoided including any explicitly Rolemaster Stats (I was naughty and created a new monster or two along the way) to make them system neutral.
Since we released them we have sold over 2,200 copies.… Read the rest
Random Toys
I was playing a game (rpg) this weekend and it had some rather nice random adventure tables. The way the rules were written had it so you needed to roll one of every polygon dice. The first roll you give you a fact and direct you to a sub-table, the next roll gave you the next fact and moved you on to the next table and so on.… Read the rest
The Mirror Tells Her Lies
Way back last year sometime I did a direct comparison between RMu, RMSS, RMc/RM2 starting PCs and those of other d100 systems like vsDarkmaster and BRP.
In all cases the starting skill bonuses were within a handful of percentage points of each other.… Read the rest
RMU Update: No Maneuver Chart Required!
Perhaps the most common criticism of Rolemaster over the years is that it is ‘Chartmaster’: overly reliant on charts for basic actions. I think everyone should rejoice to hear that RMu has now dispensed with the need for a chart to handle basic movement.… Read the rest
Action Economies: Pathfinder 2 vs. RMu
Pathfinder 2 launched at Gen Con this weekend and I was lucky enough to play it there firsthand. The thing I liked the most about it was the action economy, which I think gives Rolemaster players (especially RMu players) a lot of food for thought.… Read the rest