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The rolling for getting a spell list for a caster was only with the early version of RM. IIRC, from RMC and beyond, as you spend dev pts in a spell list, and each purchase of the spell list skill made it so you can cast spells up to that level (instead of a 'chance' to cast that list). > I agree with the being able to cast spells that you know & suffer the (neg 10)/lvl of the spell above your character level. I use the same in my games too. I taught myself RM way back in '86 by using the blue Character Law & created a character following the book. The rules follow the same concepts over and over, so once you get a grip on that, the games becomes easy. There are a of options available and makes it look intimidating by the sheer volume of charts, books, etc. There aren't that many rules themselves > You have to create your character based on 10 stats & you use development points (DP's) to buy skills > The class you choose will make some skills easier to develop and others harder. Ex: a Fighter develops weapon skills for low DP cost, and could choose to develop Open spells at a high DP cost. A Magician, conversely, can develop spells for low DP cost, and skills like weapons, body development (ie. hitpoints) for a high DP cost. The class makes it easier/harder to develop certain skills. To try to do 'something' in the game, you have a d100 roll + your skill bonuses (which includes your stat bonuses) + bonuses/penalties for circumstances = success or failure. > For combat --> you have d100 roll + offensive/defensive bonuses + bonuses/penalties for circumstances = Look on the chart for your weapon vs armor to find the damage you do Once you have this part down, the game is very scalable as the characters level up. You dont have the same power jump issues that D&D has at higher levels. I do acknowledge/reiterate that there are a of options so that is why it seems complicated. You can choose to use those options or not. I grew up starting with the blue book D&D. RM is still my favorite game system out there (RMSS specifically), and I have every version & most of the individual books for all the versions of RM. I am currently learning the nuances of RMU now since it came out recently. I came across your video today SageMaster. Thank you for posting it. 🙂 BGH

WOTC is a company, ICE is a hobby project of some dedicated fans. Portraying ICE as this evil corp is just idiotic. „Take the power back from those five unpaid dudes, who run Rolemaster in their spare time. Remember, you have the power“ 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Haha, that is 26 years ago! What a thing to complain about. RMSS/FRP was a huge step up in many ways and problematic in others like every new edition is. The company is now a hobby project by like 5 people, to be so sour is just laughable. Pete Fenlon and Coleman Charlton tried everything to save in the late 90‘s. Splitting Spell Law was great for players at the table (OSE does the same btw). ICE went down because they lost the ME license. Dumbest most childish take imaginable.😂😂👍

My mother bought me a Girders & Panels set when I was a kid in the 70s. I spent many, many hours building buildings with it.

These were the best construction toy ever: way more realistic than Lego, easy to snap together, could make skyscrapers, bridges, cranes, with roadways, etc. I can't believe they don't make them anymore. They should bring them back and offer more sets for more projects, with the ability to integrate with model trains and Motorific cars. Don't kids still want to build skyscrapers, bridges, and futuristic cities?

These are a lot older than the 80s. I still have a set from the 60s.

it has been so long, I forgot the name of that set. My grandparents had a set of them things, eons ago, such fun times. 3D printed textured panels would be a major change from the original clear plastic sheets with print/paint on them, would be interesting to see someone do that. the overlapping on the verticals may need some work, can't over lap 3D printed stuff as easily as the printed/painted cellophane sheets on them pegs that hold the panels. P.S. not the food packing cellophane sheets, go to an office supply outlet, go to the 3-ring binder section, and look at the clear plastic binder things you put papers into, that cellophane (it's got some rigidity to it).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girder_and_Panel_building_sets

Kenner girder and panel construction sets. Out of production since 2016, see above link. Still have some of the red stuff and roadway in storage. We also have the water treatment set that pumps water through tubing and tanks. Scan the parts and 3D print out a few hundred pieces for your own use. You could print out castle walls, entries, drawbridges..etc on cardstock, cut out and punch holes to fit them.

I remember having something like this in the late 60s in the UK. The I beams were yellow plastic and the panels with windows were grey with the lower parts being red or blue you fitted the to a grey base with holes for clear plastic six sided connectors, I’d love to still have it

The order would be like 1000 vertical supports, 2000 horizontal beams, 200 stone panels, 200 wood floors, 30 stairs, and 1 pit trap. I then would be going to a model train store and buying $100 worth of terrain.

You would buy 10 sets with 100 special attachments and I wouldn't see you all day. The Game of Thrones people could build Castle Black on the wall. I would like to see that build.

Sorry the sound is too low for me to hear this.

Hello, I'm coming back here to let you know that the link given by the esteemed owner of the channel does not seem to be working. The site seems to have gone down, currently you can only access the site through another link... I tried to copy and paste that link in this comment but apparently TH-cam automatically deletes my comment if it contains a link. With that new link you can only see the images that contain several tokens together but only in low resolution... when you try to click on that image to obtain a high resolution/larger size the link simply seems to be broken.

A few days ago I was remembering you, because of what you were saying about the advantages of paper miniatures, because I found the supplement book "Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Fold-Up Figures" (from 1984 if I'm not mistaken). Even better than what is usually found because they are not just to have the flat token/template but each character comes with 3 poses (back, sideways and front) to form like a prism with a triangular base. I hadn't seen that kind of paper miniature before. Thank you for sharing this material, the benefits of 3 decades of the internet I suppose ;D

Hmmm. Can't find the site.

Pretty much all of the D&D rules makes no sense. The arbitrary rules they put in place have no logical reasons to be there... it's like they told themselves, we need to put restrictions on everything, regarless if it makes sense or not. And most of their restrictions make no sense. Gods are a good example, they should not even have stats IMO... god's magic should be pretty much wish level abilities. The idea a human can go to a god and fight him makes no senses at all. They should be on a completelly different scale where only other gods and maybe very powerful celestials and demons should have any change of doing anything against a god. In my homebrew world, I have not yet created stat blocks for gods, but when I decide to do it, they will be like level 1000. Gods should be able to destroy a city with one spell IMO. Hence the term, The wrath of god.

Shared.

Thanks for finding this. I had it downloaded years ago but lost my collection.

Here is the link: www.seven-wonders.co.uk/paperfriendsindex.html

Being faithful to outcomes is essential to enjoying solo roleplay.

Which module(s) got them in trouble? Was it Ardor of the South with its star astrologers? Or something else. Even their continent map included more land to the East and South than in the 1st-3rd Age Tolkien book maps. I thought it was because of the deal the Tolkien Foundation was planning to sign with Hollywood studio, it was going to include the production of games and memorabilia so I.C.E. lost their permission. (?)

For the herbs they probably used stock art. After losing the Tolkien approval because the Jackson movies were to be produced, they must have lost a huge part of their revenue. I've looked at other 3rd party monster manuals and often I don't like the monsters they present because they are too unusual or weird. Even some monsters in the AD&D Fiend Folio and Monster Manual 2 are probably rarely used for the same reason. Those books used suggestions from Dragon and White Dwarf magazines, plus monsters introduced in TSR modules to make them "official" by putting them in the hardcover manuals.

Haven't heard anything about Rolemaster for a long time.

How about you tell us how you really feel about the book.... lol

I liked that book, still have it. It even has the vampire bunny in it from Monty Python.

15:18 this is a cool little write up on a battle and some new magic items. An adventuring party vs. a merman sea lord and his minions. Very cool. Ogre sack, magic club, necklace of protection, net of drowning.

In my world, dwarves farm mushrooms for their livestock to eat 😁

Have you heard of Lightmaster? I just heard about it, but haven't looked into it yet. It's a Rolemaster retro clone, but converted to d20. If so, what are your thoughts?

I remember one of those Creature books had an excellent short story about an adventuring party fighting a merman sea lord and his minions. Describing the battle and the magic items used Ogre sack, magical club, a necklace that gave protection, net of drowning.

Hi, I really enjoy your videos. I've been a fan of Rolemaster since the 80s. It's definitely my choice for high fantasy campaigns...I've gone through all the editions but I still stick with Rolemaster 2e. I just wanted to ask you how you manage the percentages of actions that players must spend per round? Have you tried the technique of aligning the percentages continuously? Example: In the first round my character decides to charge his longbow 80%. He has 20% left and must wait for the GM to come back to him for his remaining 20%... given to him with 20% he decides to shoot (50%) but does not have enough percentage so it is postponed until 2nd round where he fires and he has 70% left in the second round considering the 20% remaining from the first... When the GM comes to him , he has 70% left. He decides to recharge his longbow 80%. Which pushes him back to the 3rd round and he remains 90% action in the 3rd round given the 10% difference. He decides in the 3rd round to draw his charged longbow but at -10. Etc Etc... With this system a player can only say one action at a time... Hope i am clear

Companies don't care about the greed per se. It's the woke activists. They'll make regular decisions they know will lose them money but they'll do it so for their new woke religion. That's why they do it.

what annoys me most, dnd characters are just as capable on max hp or on their last 1 hp

DND is TTRPG for newbies

Nice to see a video about tabletop RPGs that isnt DND, rolemaster is my go to system (2nd edition with all the companions) i've even made an interactive excel sheet to make quick characters or keeping track of your main chars skills

Yay! Someone knows I.C.E.! I'm subscribing then. I have Future Law.

Like you I am a centrist/moderate. The left is now so far left that we feel like far right be being in the center. I refuse to apply any woke / mental illness politics into my world (real and fictionnal). If someone lives a woke life, they can do so away from my table!

It is so sad that the left has become so predictable. I agree with you that they will twist anything that they see. It will be a boring game if you remove all that they have issues with.

Seriously, I mean this in the least offensive way possible, but I can hardly believe we watched the same video. It doesn't feel like you engaged with a single thing Pointy Hat was talking about, or that you even understood the basic problems with pantheons in role-playing games. I wonder if it has something to do with the crunch, like how STEM-heads don't get literature and the humanities. You seem to have tackled the issue almost entirely from a numbers angle, like a quantitative analysis - how powerful, chances of interactions, etc. but didn't engage with the underlying metaphysical, philosophical or literary aspects at all, and left verisimilitude and roleplay totally out of the equation. Also FWIW Deism is not "God has too much else going on to engage with you specifically all the time," as if he's some overextended single mother struggling with a toddler, a teenager and a 9 to 5. It's that God is a Watchmaker who sets the world on its course through mechanical laws. He doesn't bother interacting because he has no need or desire to; everything is going according to his mechanistic designs.

Thank you! Very interesting! Greetings from Germany!

Love the kids game comment 😂

I always just added the excess to the damage at a 1:5 ratio.

Your statement about solid lead absorbing through skin is incorrect. No idea if kead even causes cancer. However the lead topic comes up in a more professional group of hoobyists often enough, some have gotten tested over the years. No they did not have any more lead than normal showing up.

True, but i still prefer metal or plastic minis. I also enjoy painting them.

We used rolemaster rules but the warhammer world , ran an initial campaign alongside our Wfb tabletop wargame campaign so the two coincided .

D. A. Fox even said that corpos and himself got together to shut it down, this losing decades of history to our hobby. All that old TSR stuff, Indie pubs, etc all gone now because they don't want it around being competitive

One facet to this topic often overlooked is that the 'law' allows copyright holders/publishers to steal content paid-for by the consumer back from them with no recourse. For example; DRM music or Region Locking DVDs or withdrawing online functionality for computer games. + the whole no-repair, planned obsolescence topic So it is interesting how the publishers are allowed to be morally corrupt, but the little guy downloading a pdf is framed as a terrible scourge.

That is a cool idea, and it could really change things. Maybe a stealthy hobbit Nazgul could actually enter Rivendell. I would laugh seeing the undead pony that the hobbit Nazgul chasing after the victim. A killer Shetland pony....

This video encapsulates why some ie more people don’t play RM. I love the game but when you mention needing a calculator…people’s eyes glass over as doing math isn’t a fun part of any game.

Look into torrenting. The information is out there, just search for it... I'd also recommend a VPN.