Articles and discussion on Roleplaying including Shadow World, Forgotten Realms.
Eventually, things in adventuring go wrong, and you need to deal with them when they do. I will focus on falling, likely to the character’s death, and the various charts and equations for dealing with the impact.
Things were going fine for a while, but now you’ve tripped over something near a ledge, lost the reigns of your flying mount, or been pushed out the airlock in atmosphere.… Read the rest
I doubt if many of you ever used Google+, it doesn’t seem that many people did. Having said that they did have half a billion regular users so it is a sign of the times when I can use ‘not many people’ when referring to half a billion.… Read the rest
The adventuring chapter starts with an overview of skill resolution and when you should or shouldn’t roll a skill tests. It the goes on to describe the typical skill test types, all or nothing, percentage, bonus and resisance roll. The last is what we would consider an opposed test.… Read the rest
Before we start I want to set out two core concepts.
So I am quite happy with the RMU cultures rules and free skills ranks.… Read the rest
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 play with so far.… Read the rest
Back in 2013 I submitted to I.C.E., and they accepted, my manuscript for “Priest-King of Shade”. There was no formal agreement, but at the time, product output was slow, RMU was just getting rolling and Terry was open to third party submissions.… Read the rest
… Read the restThe heroes of stories and legends often have extraordinary
abilities , unique magical powers or secret, special
knowledge. Collectively, these are referred to as Talents.
Talents are purchased with Development Points.
Certain Talents may only be purchased during character
creation, like Blood Talents, while others may be learned
any time a character goes up a level.
So here are the three uses I have for Stats…
There are lots of features of the HARP skills system that will seem similar. We have the rule of diminishing returns where the the first ten ranks give a +5 bonus, the next ten +2 then all ranks after that give +1.… Read the rest
OK, so I thought I would take a break from my HARP series today and write about RMU for a change.
This is inspired by the comment made by Aspire2Hope on the post RMU to Infinity and Beyond.
So as you all know my RMC house rules do not use levels or professions.… Read the rest