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When I was writing “Priest-King” a few years back, I ended up locating the module in SW Agyra and started fleshing out the geographic area. The land to the immediate south was Chaal-chu and in Terry’s description (Master Atlas p.34) was this fascinating tidbit: In an (apparently) unique and frightening aberration, there are Half-elven Eritari …
Continue reading “Turning Tropes Upside Down: Feral Elves and other thoughts.”
RMU has established a tool kit that balances out race, class and creature creation by assigning DP values to skills, abilities and attributes. It’s very detailed and typical RM! A currently running thread on the RM Forums is about Race balance, and more specifically Elves. We discussed Elves here on the RolemasterBlog, and it’s also …
Continue reading “Elves, Elves, Everywhere! Elves in Shadow World and fiction.”
I’m not a fan of Elves, but I am a fan of Shadow World. Can those two feelings co-exist? Fiction has exposed us to many portrayals of Elves but one constant is that Elves are very long lived or immortal. In a past RMU discussion, the immortal “trait” was discussed: how do you subscribe a …
In the Forgotten Realms there are five races of elf, High, Grey (or Moon), Green (or Wood), Sea and Drow Elves. For most people I guess the High, Grey and Green equate pretty much with Moldar, Sindar and Silvan. For the purposes of this discussion I am going to ignore the Sea Elves as they …
Continue reading “How Drow Elves compare to other elven races”
This is part 2 of my previous post on Kulthea astronomy and might be my longest post yet–though most of the content will be AI generated. While fleshing out Kulthea’s solar system mechanics further is a goal unto itself, my real purpose is tied into the mechanics of the Essaence flows. I’ve blogged about this …
I was reading this blog yesterday and it got me to thinking about the topic. Do I try and write adventures with “memorable situations” (cool setting, unique creatures or plot twists), or do great gaming memories derive from something else? It wouldn’t surprise me if pop culture subtly influences GM when writing material. Shouldn’t an …
If you are like me (mid 50’s) and have been playing Rolemaster and using Shadow World since it’s release in the late 80’s, the publication of the Emer box supplement was a huge step forward for the Kulthea world setting. By 1990, there were over a dozen Shadow World products, but until Emer, only 2 …
Continue reading “Shadow World Review: Emer, The Great Continent”
One of my frustrations to completing ongoing projects is that I tend to jump from one work product to another. I started on my “Channeling Chronicles” but got distracted into BASiL Mentalism and then I started reworking BASiL Essence. The positive news is that I continue to create content, but I would rather finish one …
Stolen credit? Brian, what the hell are you talking about? Well first, there is no such thing as a new idea and certainly there are brilliant writers and developers in Hollywood…but..some of us at the Rolemasterblog might have stumbled upon some of the “plot sauce” that backed the largest grossing movie: Avengers: Endgame. First, I …
Recently there has been an uptick in discussions about Shadow World’s Navigators on both the forums and the discord server. I thought I would write a follow up to my previous blog that I wrote back in 2016, found HERE. Navigator Cost. Given the importance of Navigators and the original concept of the Essence Flows, …
Continue reading “GM’ing Navigators in your Shadow World campaign: Stick to the Code. pt 2”