In response to Peter’s most recent discussion of the Bard, I offer this new Bard base spell list, Mockery. Although I designed Mockery for RMU, I believe you could use it for earlier editions. If you try to do that, I recommend changing any instances of the words ‘action point’ to a -25 modifier per…
What is that quote?….There are only 7 plot devices for every metastory. Perhaps you only need a D7 Aspire2HopeGM 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…
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. Writing adventures is a bit of a…
Hurin write a forum post about how most of the RMu professions shape up. I have a little thought experiment to keep you all amused. (I have included some Sci Fi, modern and post apocalypse stuff here because I know people have turned RM to all sorts of settings and I personally have used this…
For May’s Fanzine I needed something to fill the gap between when the previous adventure ended and the adventure featured in that issue started. With the recent posts about Lazy GMing I decided to take the lazy way out but it had some interesting spin-offs. I started with a suggestion along the lines of have…
So assuming we stick with the 2 second house ruled round, which I would like to, we don’t want people to bleed out too fast. I really like Hurin’s suggestion that bleeding 1-3hits/round will clot. If we can keep that I will be happy. The criteria would be that the character much be inactive for…
So this time I am really wide open to suggestions! What I have done in the past and certainly want to keep is the 2 second combat round. I use this in RMC and it works perfectly. I have eliminated all notion of flurry of blows. Every attack is discrete. Short combat rounds have a…
Before we start I want to set out two core concepts. These rules are based around No Profession. Characters will only be buying skills once. (Thereafter training and experience will take over.) So I am quite happy with the RMU cultures rules and free skills ranks. I do think that GMs should tinker with the…
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. I also use…
I have literally 5 minutes to spare so I thought I would get in a quick blog! As RMBlogs reader have seen, activity is WAY DOWN on the blog and even the RM Forums are pretty slow moving. Let’s chalk it up to the dog days of summer, real life commitments and a temporary lull…