[some shit] wrote on Nov 17^th, 2013 at 8:33am:

The trick I've found is if you're trying to download a report - download it to email first, then take the email version of the sheet.  Works wonders every time!

Distributed wrote on Nov 17^th, 2013 at 1:41pm:



Puny thing... there's more than 7K Spells in Rolemaster ( yes I counted them 20 years ago 300+ lists with an average of 28 Spells per list [ Ok, that include all the Companions, Spacemaster Psions, Shadow World Essaence Spell Lists, and all the Special Spell lists and individual spells I could find ] ).... and 200+ Skills and a lot of classes.
( there's no Feat though )

I'm talking of officially published spell lists... I stopped there, it took me long enough to create ( read : code ) the postscript files for all the lists with all the spells and all the book references and then print them.
At that time Internet was... Emails and Usenet. ( and yes there were some unofficial spell lists in the mailing list and the forums... but as there wasn't any archive at that time they are lost now )

Starkjade wrote on Nov 17^th, 2013 at 5:02pm:

More time than Traveler and nowhere near as fun!

Flav wrote on Nov 18^th, 2013 at 3:17am:


Famous last words.  The person who was constantly pushing that game on our little group kept saying the same thing; he didn't mention excel, though, and didn't describe anything as "fluff."  He did keep mentioning that we could die at any moment, no matter how powerful we got, which was kind of counter productive...

Flav wrote on Nov 18^th, 2013 at 3:17am:


Cool, a game with built-in eugenics!

Starkjade wrote on Nov 18^th, 2013 at 2:17pm:


Really, Rolemaster once you're past the I love Tables stage is easy, you can play it with the following tables :
- The Generic Moving Maneuver Table
- The Generic Static Maneuver Table
- A Fit them all Attack table
- A Fit them all Critical table

Characters with 10 to 15 Skills that are important to adventuring. ( Hide, pick locks, disarm trap... you know the usual suspects )

( Yeah I know you can also call it MERP if you want  Though there's still more tables in MERP )

Excel sheets are just useful if you want to bother with all the fluff ( it avoids the painful hours of recalculating everything every time you level ), but if you don't care about the fluff and just bother with the mechanic, you don't needs much.

As for the death ( or similar) at any time yes, it can happen, it's rare though... Extremely rare
In 30ish years of RM I've seen it happen twice.

One time one of my player threw a Trident while climbing a stair ( just the right weapon to do such a thing  ) at my evil NPC Sorceress that was casting an Instant Death spell on one of the party...He rolled high enough in the hit and in the critical that the Trident ended in the Sorceress throat, ending the spell before it was cast. ( and getting me into Full Adventure Damage Control mode as they shouldn't have been able to kill her, especially at that stage )

At the other time, it was in Spacemaster ( Rolemaster in Space ), I managed to get my hands on a piece of extremely high tech called a starship ( it was a small freighter, but of a technology so advanced that it was worth... A lot ). I was trying to sneak through a Star Fleet with that freighter... in Full Cloaking, with so much Electronic Warfare running that it was almost impossible to see me... Much less manage to lock a weapon on me... My wicked GM stole my dices and started to make the rolls in front of me... He rolled 514 to see me ( even after the -200+ he had to do it due to all the ultra advanced tech that freighter had ), then he rolled a 416 to get a lock on the ship. And the crowning, he rolled 614 to the attack roll... Lets just say that my nice invaluable freighter had just become a huge piece of scrap and that I was lucky to manage to actually land with the wreck that was left.  [ Yes I STILL remember the rolls, because the probability to get those rolls is so remote that our GM went straight to get a lottery ticket when we took a break [ out of 22 Rolls he rolled 19 Rolls over 95 on a D100 ] ]

And last... Death has always been something relative in Rolemaster. ( Resurrection is such a useful spell )

Starkjade wrote on Nov 17^th, 2013 at 5:02pm:

2 days

Ninja's and Superspies....hell, any Paladium game can take that long, or longer.  Fastest I ever got one done was 16 hours.  Started at 8am, finished at midnight.  I was so proud of myself.  I would buy 60 page notebooks for individual characters.  I still ran out of room on my Tinker and my Ninja.

Aeolwind wrote on Nov 18^th, 2013 at 5:57pm:



Sounds... fishy.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

Flav wrote on Nov 18^th, 2013 at 3:17am:


sounds like character creation *is* the game in that one.......lol.

euphrasyne wrote on Nov 19^th, 2013 at 2:53pm:



I'll let everyone else risk that.  I always do after an update. fricking Jotmon took a bullet.  thanks.  I guess.