@HeyeBodo statische Manöver in #Rolemaster. Dient in meinen Augen nur dazu, Spieler vom SL-Entscheidungen anzweifeln abzuhalten.

@artikid I have a friend on a message board who is an absolutely flack for #rolemaster Reading through the old manuals, it was doing amazing things at the time... but with the most stilted language I've ever read. Like, 3.x levels of specificity of language that was abandoned at a moment's notice.

Contrary to the reviews, the stat lines in Characters are serviceable for most. The mages are underspecified (what lists‽), and the Levels for a few are nuts.

RoleMaster Levels are 3x D&D scale, so I mostly think these are fine, BUT. Gimli should be 15 or so, Lego-lass 15-21 not 28 WTF! LoME1 & 3 say Lvl 8 for both, that's too low.

I'd probably make the Cave Troll Level 21, he's physically & skill superior to any of the fighters.
#rolemaster #merp #middleearth #ttrpg

Unterschiedliche Spielkulturen?! Wir feierten auch die open-ended #Rolemaster / #SpaceMaster rolls. Die unwahrscheinlichen Würfe „erzeug(t)en“ immer wieder unfassbare/epische Szenen. Ohne verliert ein System direkt an Zuspruch.

Dann hätte ich noch 2x #RoleMaster weiterzugeben:

@Jackgiantkiller most of #Rolemaster suggested campaigns on Middle Earth are either within SA or FA (4th), so as not to fall in the "everyone wants to interfere with #LotR storyline" factor.

Some of the most brutal (and mind ya, it's Rolemaster) campaigns are Fourth Age aftermath of LotR. The Northern lands, in particular, abound with forgotten terrors.

@auguryignored I'm going to suggest #SavageWorlds. I've run fun fantasy games from just the main book, and the Fantasy Companion has a lot of what you're looking for.
*#Hackmaster, another favorite, has a fairly good skill system, and is definitely on the crunchier side. It also emphasizes that PCs start as regular folk, not superheroes. Also? Free Basic book.
*It's old school and takes a bit to get into, but #Rolemaster is a crunchy toolbox. A friend suggested it and I've been digging in.

I recall, a while ago, introducing #RoleMaster to a friend who's sort of a tech dweeb. He was unimpressed by the relatively lengthy process of creating a character.

Context: Rolemaster has HUNDREDS (maybe thousands, who is counting, anyways) of skills, in a VERY detailed progression system. All rules optional, but they are there.

So, usually creating a character, AFTER you defined them notionally (personality, mindset, physical traits, etc) takes about an hour or so, fleshing out the initial "gimme" bonus childhood/apprenticeship levels and skills. This, on paper and pencil.

So, he set out to do the ONLY sensible thing: write his own electronic character sheet. Naturally.

That took just over THREE HOURS, and both delayed the start of the game itself, ate over half of the extended gaming session, and distracted him from the point of #TTRPG gaming, which is to be engrossed in a narrative and its development, etc.

Oy vey

@jtskywalker I'd venture pretty much everything but the very core rules of ANY system are up for grabs on modifying at GM discretion.

I ought to know. I play #Rolemaster (2nd edition, the ONLY edition). It's RUUUULES, on top of rules. And EVERYTHING is optional, even the Stats and Physics. Just most players (and GMs tbf) are not inquisitve enough to even consider that notion, which is PRINTED ON EVERY BOOK.5

For a while, I played level-less, which in RM is a daunting proposal, until you figure it out. I permanently incorporated Resistance Rolls ("RR vs") based on relevant stats as level, instead of the standard rule of character lvl (which is dumb).

Have fun!

@zorrobandito I've always run my RM games (a year or two with every decade's new release) live, there's too much paperwork & charts to really be fun online. But I haven't run live since the plague and may not again. Plus I no longer live near the old group.

So I need to work out procedures and tools for online, maybe look into the digital assistants ICE sell.
#rpg #ttrpg #rolemaster

@zorrobandito the partly released #rolemaster unified is really great, played beta for a few years and now migrating to release.

It's really a good modern version of RM, making gameplay more streamlined without missing the core values of classic rolemaster.

(Art sucks in these new books, sad but true, but it's not the art that you are playing...)

Highly recommend it

@zorrobandito There is a new edition, RoleMaster Unified, they have 2/5 books for it in print now. I'm reasonably pleased by what they've done so far, the mechanics are good, the writing's fine, art's mediocre. Shadow World remains one of the best settings ever written.

I don't know if there's a coming new age of RoleMaster dominance, but I prefer it to many others.
#rpg #ttrpg #rolemaster