While I’m working on the Shadow World: Book of Essaence, I dropped a quick Shadow World Combat companion book of alternate combat notes from my S.W.A.R.M. ruleset. For those that read this blog regularly, a lot of the material was posting on this blog over a decade ago and has been consistently used in my Shadow World campaign.
Optional Initiative was one of my earlier posts back in 2016!
Optional Encumbrance and Armor Rules
Matt’s Shadow World Combat Styles
I updated some items, added my own Combat Styles and put it together in a more comprehensive package for my group to use. Like the Book of Channeling, this is a slow but steady process of consolidation of my Shadow World material. Much of it is in our “red book”, a monster Master Atlas that’s now at 476 pages!
The Shadow World: Book of Essaence is putting together a ton of my material that can found on this blog and the the Rolemaster Forums: history and development of magic, Ka’ta’viir, Earthwardens, Dragonlords, Gods, Primal Magic, Arcane Magic, Elven Magic, Dark Magic, Magic development by the Eras, new spell lists, magical languages and spell list assignments by language and a few key artifacts. It’s turning out to be a much bigger project than I anticipated! I had hoped to have it up by now, but life keeps interrupting and these smaller projects like Book of Channeling and Combat Companion was needed for my gaming group.
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