Now that the Rolemaster Forums are back up and running, I thought I would index the various Shadow World files I’ve posted there and some notes on updates and editing I have in my queue. This is partly for me, to help keep track of things, and partly as a quick guide to these file…
but probably slowly. It is great that the ICE site is back up and running, and it looks like they preserved most of the data, everything important at least. It is also great that RMu seems to be still making progress. I think it was about this time two years ago that I last got…
The ice forums are back up! Now we have three active places for rolemaster players; ICE forums, this rolemaster blog, and the discord server. Hopefully they will all remain active and help grow our small but passionate community.
…is it better to cook and fumble, than to not cook at all? OK, so this has come up on two different discord servers in the past month. Rolling skills for what I call non-critical outcomes. I want to take Heathrow Airport as an example. Heathrow is quite busy with aircraft. It has approx. 480,000…
I am coming up to speed with the second wave of 50in50 adventures. I really wanted to do something Robin Hood and/or Arthurian in nature but the subject matter demands more than the short format adventure allows. It could well be a future project, but now is not the time. Last week I spent a…
Last week I was putting together the latest Rolemaster Fanzine. I had written one adventure and when I was looking back at it, the issue seemed a bit light, so I wrote another adventure dedicated to Siltoneous and Majyk, who suggested the monsters. In the past twelve months, I believe I have written and published…
Recently I have spent quite a lot of time hanging out on the Castles & Crusades discord server. The C&C crowd are really nice people and many of them have a strong affection for Rolemaster. I was chatting yesterday about virtual Gen Con and the sentiment was that they would jump into a Rolemaster game…
For those of you that are enjoying a holiday and long weekend despite the pandemic and social distancing, we wish you the best in these trying times! Due to the out of service status of the Rolemaster Forums, ICE is a bit of a “black box” right now, but nonetheless things still seem to be…
It was sad news this week, that GenCon has been cancelled. I saw someone on Discord (Marc maybe?) saying that it should be pushed back to October rather than cancelled but that isn’t so easy. These convention halls do not lie empty all year. Every week there is someone running something, and right now I…
Back in 2016 I wrote this BLOG that I want to revisit a bit due to some recent work. I wanted to start a discussion on combat in 3D environments with a focus on 3 “terrains”: underwater, aerial. and zero g. While there are specific challenges to each of these, they all share 1 specific…