On Rolemaster, part five
Last time we left our hero, Heliana was facing off against a sergeant sent by her uncle to make sure she didn’t survive another day. We are taking a whistle …
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On Rolemaster, part four
When we left Heliana, the hero in this ongoing journey through the classic Rolemaster role-playing game, we had just finished creating her character and killed off her family. Oops. Here …
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On Rolemaster, part three
Last time we left Heliana part way through character generation. She is now Level 0, and living a happy life roaming the wild woods around her ancestral home, much to …
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On Rolemaster, part two
Rolemaster is traditionally viewed as being something of a complicated system to learn, play and understand. To an extent that’s true, in that you do have to learn how to …
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On Rolemaster, part one
Ask me what the greatest role-playing tome of all time was, and I’ll say the D&D Rules Cyclopedia without hesitation. But ask me what the best fantasy role-playing game of all time is, …
On Rolemaster, part one Read MoreHow to generate a Rolemaster playtest character. Badly.
If Rolemaster was a person, it would wear a tweed jacket with patches on the elbows and smoke a pipe. Unlike other rules systems which try to follow the latest …
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Rolemaster, The Other Open Playtest
Rolemaster? Yes, Rolemaster. The RPG of my late teens, and (in my humble opinion) one of the greatest fantasy games ever made, is currently undergoing an open playtest. It aims …
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1. Choice Core D&D offers 7 races and 11 character classes – that’s a combination of 77 different starting points for a beginning character. The problem is that one choice …
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