We have two new things for you this week!
Thar’s Rustlers in Them There Hills is one of my 50in50 creations. The crux of this encounter is that the villains simply know more than the players and make best use of that knowledge.… Read the rest
Rolemaster Ambush Skill: How Could it work?
In the original Rolemaster, Ambush was one of the skills that worked differently than others. I’m sure at the time, they were just trying to fit a square peg in a round hole to get the desired result, but actually it was quit brilliant and should have been pursued in greater detail for other skills.… Read the rest
City of Forgotten Heroes
This is not one of our 50in50 adventures, no, rather this is a sort of crowd sourced adventure. So if it is crowd sourced then technically I am not saying that there will be this monster at this location, no, you will suggest that monster goes there and this one here and so on.… Read the rest
The Tree of Sighing Blades
This is a very late post for our latest 50in50 adventure.
The Tree of Sighing Blades is an unusual and special tree, and its sap has special properties that are greatly desired. Harvesting the sap is not easy, though, as the leaves of the tree are very sharp and constantly fall and swirl in the air, apparently seeking out any who try and making it a dangerous proposition.… Read the rest
Inherent ability or skill: another look at Perception.
Back in December I wrote a post about Perception and whether is was even a trainable skill. I think a lot goes into “perception” ( alertness, visual acuity, intuition, reasoning) and the way it’s used by Rolemaster makes it an incredible skill that covers a huge expanse of ability.… Read the rest
HârnWorld
As I mentioned last week in my settings post I have been given a selection of HârnWorld materials to look at by Columbia Games Inc.
As always I am a bit late to the party as it appears that most of you are already familiar to some extent with Hârn whereas I am rather new to it as a setting.… Read the rest
Rebel Without a Chance
In Rebel Without a Chance, the characters come across a halfling village where many of the residents have been mentally dominated by a half-orc that they rescued. The remainder are trying to free themselves. The dominated residents will try to get the characters to leave the village; if they stay, the characters will not know for certain which halflings are affected, and therefore potential enemies.… Read the rest
Thrown Weapons in Arms Law. A critical component of combat.
A recent thread over at the RMU Arms Law Beta Forums discussed the viability of thrown weapons. The general impression is that thrown weapons aren’t used regularly by most players; according to the poll over 60% of player use thrown weapons 0-20% of the time.… Read the rest
Revenge is inevitable. The blowback of a murder hobo party.
Today I wanted to talk about unintended consequences of game play and connect two previous blog posts about “Newman Groups” and “Murder Hobos“.
Let’s be honest, PC’s in Rolemaster and other RPG’s kill a lot of people and creatures!… Read the rest
For whom the setting tolls
One topic that we keep coming back to is RM’s setting. There is nothing inherently wrong with a generic fantasy set of rules but it does set any single game at a disadvantage in the gaming market place.
The reasons why generic is a disadvantage is twofold.… Read the rest