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At the risk of repetition, many of the generic elements of Shadow World were simply the inclusion of general Rolemaster material in earlier books to support the RM rules. If you were to parse out Terrys “canon” work, it’s clear that his material is more specific to his world setting than fidelity to RM. In …
Welcome to my new blog topic: “Can It” or “Canon” where we explore some elements of Shadow World that might not quite fit Terry’s vision and be dumped, or alternatively should be fully embraced as official SW material. Today we are going to discuss Krals, humanoids that were first introduced in Vog Mur and then …
I have been neglecting the blog recently. My own RM campaigns have been on hiatus. My face-to-face game hasn’t been played since Feb 2020, which is no surprise. My VTT game hasn’t been played in two or three months now. I am playing a druid in a Shadow World RM2 game, and a cleric in …
So I thought I would branch out into non-Rolemaster territory; mostly because I’ve been reading a lot other blogs and I have been thinking about my early years of roleplaying. Like many rolemaster players in their late 40s or 50s I started with D&D and worked my way through other games and systems in the …
I am playing a (now) 3rd level Druid in a Shadow World game. We started out in Haalkitaine and then traveled southwards towards a place called Swink. So far, excluding the humanoid races, giant rats, harpies, goblins, and we are on the hunt for trolls. The humanoids that have fallen to the fighters’ blades have …
Summoning is a concept that I’ve always been fascinated by in the fantasy genre, and yet never quite able to put my finger on in terms of how it should play out in terms of mechanics. I think that it’s a great niche of spell casting that can add flavor to a game system, so …
Synchronicity, being what it is, has brought together one of my blog topics and some current discussions floating around the web. In particular the racist nature of dark-skinned fantasy races that also are inherently “evil”. Over on the RM Forums there is discussion about the dark-skin – evil duality. However I am more interested in …
Continue reading “Rethinking Inherently “Evil” Races. (Updated 2/14/21)”
It’s been a few years since I’ve posted up a Christmas themed spell-list. Since it’s been a particularly trying year and the ICE Forums are down once again I thought I would post one here on the Blog. I’m finishing up a usable version of Chapter 5 of my “Legends of Shadow World” tournament module. …
Continue reading “Happy Holidays with a BASiL Stocking Stuffer!”
For the first time in what seems like months, we get two blog posts out in the same week! I also published the Fanzine [Issue 43] last Friday and it is a double adventure issue. I returned to the Undead this time. It seemed fitting seeing as the US was going Hallowe’en crazy, as normal. …
I got a bit more of Pilot written this weekend. In many ways it is slow going, in others it skips forward pleasantly. So far what we have is the 10 stats that you would expect. Stat bonuses use the ‘Hurin’s Rule’ of (Stat-50)/3. Temps are all 100 and and the absolute maximum value for …