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One of the things I like about the Forgotten Realms setting is that unlike so many other settings the non-human races are not ghettoised. Take middle earth for example, if you are looking for a dwarf then they are pretty much allowed to live in Erebor or the Iron hills. Need and elf? That will …
Spell Law is, in my opinion the best and most polished of all the Unified Rolemaster (RMU) books released so far. So far I cannot find anything I don’t like about this text. Every version of spell law has a section on how to handle conflicting spells or particular effects and this section in the …
The spell casters from two out of the three realms of magic, essence and channeling, have relatively simple to learn ways of storing power in inanimate objects. There is a fourth ‘realm’ known as Arcane that can be utilsed by any realm that also has this ability if and only if as a GM you …
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Khelben “Blackstaff” Arunsun is a major player in the culture of Waterdeep. He is described in the source material as interfering in events often years into the future. To this end ‘my’ Blackstaff is going to be a Seer. The sourcebooks describe him as just a ‘magic user’ but Rolemaster gives you plenty of different …
Probably the most significant NPCs for any game set in Waterdeep has to be the Lords. SPOILER ALERT! I am going to talk about the D&D and Rolemaster levels and classes for some very significant NPCs so if you don’t want to know don’t read it. We really have to start with Piergeiron. According to …
I did say on Friday that I was going to try to tweet live updates as the gaming weekend progressed. I managed a grand total of zero tweets. The problem was that there was never a convenient time to tweet and if my players had kept picking up their phones to text or tweet I …
These are the two races/creatures I discussed last week as being both tied deeply into Drow culture. These two are in my opinion near perfect low level monsters to throw at beginer parties. Why? Well if you look at their stats below they have a low OB, low-ish DB and not many hits. So they …
A while I ago I created a direct comparison between a Wood, Grey and High Elf and a Drow Elven fighter (see my previous post on Elven races). As part of my commitment to Rolemaster Unified (RMU) I started to look at adding Drow to the list of races provided in Character Law. The way …
You have just got to love those Drow. They are the very model of political correctness and inclusivity, in fact they will make a slave of almost anyone! Well actually that is not entirely true, they blame surface elves for almost everything (as do I) and the only good elf is a dead elf in …
To illustrate this post I wanted a nice image of a Drow with their stylised hand crossbows which is the absolutely iconic drow weaponry. Every image I could find that was useable seemed to be anatomically challenged. So here is our ‘internal organs probably relocated elsewhere’ drow sporting the crossbow of choice. Before I get …