April 2002 News & Updates

News Archives April 2002

Tues, Apr 30

New on the Links & RPG Resources page: Created by Robert Wenner, The RMPROT Character Generator for Rolemaster and Spacemaster is sure to make your character generation much easier! Based on MS Excel, it's a free download.

Mon, April 29

New Rolemaster Moments: Miserable Rogues Are Hard To Find! by Kasper Krag Andreasen, and Keg Oil by Stefan in Europe.
New on The Author's POV pages: Check out some very cool computer-generated 3D Shadow World Art by Terry K. Amthor.
New on The Author's POV pages: Posted more Spacemaster Interlude fiction (from Robotics Manual) by Robert J. Defendi.

Fri, April 26

New Press Release from Beantree regarding the ICE online store— they're the folks who built our lovely new and totally secure database-driven shopping cart.
New: Better late than never I say, but we've chosen 3 winners from the March Rolemaster Moments! I will email the 3 winners listed below to let them know they have won 1 ICE product of their choice. I also want to thank everyone who submitted RM Moments!
The 3 Rolemaster Moments Winners for March are:
- Michael Coyne — "An Eye for an Eye"
- Roberto Zaghis of Italy — "Prepare to die, you sc… THUD!!!"
- Robert Swanson of AB, Canada — "I'll Never Be Able to Live This One Down..."

Wed, April 24

New: Now you can download b&w PDF versions of our 2002 Product Catalog and 2002 New Product Release Schedule form The Vault.

Tues, April 23

Updated the Tournament Support page with a new Tournament/Demo Result Form. It's available in 2 formats: MS Excel (you can fill it out on your laptop at your tournament and email it back to us), and .PDF (print it out, fill in by hand and fax or mail it to us after you event).
Updated the Tournament Calendar page: Now you can read the post-event reports submitted by the GMs.
New: If you purchase ICE Games on eBay you can pay for them through our secure online store—I created a link at the bottom of the main store menu titled eBay Sales for that purpose. Have fun bidding!

Mon, April 22

Updated the Links & RPG Resources page with a ton of new links in these categories (some categories are new too): Conventions, Game & Miniatures Companies, Retail Game Shops and RPG Resources.

Friday, April 19

Some great Fan Art: Guardian Beast by Steve Goss, and Orc for ICE by Patrick Frisch.
New Rolemaster Moments: The Demise of Umil the Beloved by Jophiel Wiis; Of Dwarves and Forges by Alexander Rabas; and 1 / 10 000 by Martin Joabsson.
New Answers to the Question of the Month: It's All My Brother's Fault by Cindy Speer.

Sun, April 14

A Must-See RPG Site! Pardon us while we gloat a bit...but ICE just got it's first official award on the website redesign!!!

As quoted in the email I received April 9: "Due to the excellent work done with the recent revamp of the ICE home page, as the Editor of the Rolemaster Section of the RPG Gateway, I am pleased to present you with a Gold Wyrm! Your site has also made the top 50 list at RPG Gateway, congratulations again!. Keep up the good work!"

In addition to the aforementioned shameless bragging, I also want to take this opportunity to thank all of you--our awesome fans--for continually supporting ICE and making our new site, online store and Official ICE Forums the big successes they are! You folks are the best and we treasure each and every one of you!! *sniff, sniff*

Sat, April 13

New on the Links & RPG Resources page:
- Xingaria
  Xingaria is a fantasy pen & paper roleplaying world compatible with Rolemaster system based on Tolkien's The Silmarillion, The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings.
- Shrooms
  Created by Raymond G., this site is home to a new fantasy cartoon character named Shrooms. He's something between a Toadstool and an Elf, and the comic is part slap-stick, part humor. In English with a Norwegian counterpart coming soon. Very funny!

Fri, April 12

New Rolemaster Moments: Just a simple tree that did nothing to me by Josianne Morel, and "I Smell Gold" by Alan
New on the Links & RPG Resources page:
- Phantasie -- A great German Rolemaster site created by Alexander Dotor. It has character sheets in German as PFG downloads, and lots of reviwed links to other german and english pages.
- Pax Imperialis
  A Spacemster world set in our old Spacemaster setting. Great fun!
- Silent Death Site
  Ceated by Stephen R. Wilcoxin, this site is chock full of errata, ship lists, options checklists, leagues, a message board and more!
New on theICE Errata page: Silent Death Errata by Stephen R. Wilcoxin.

Fri, April 5

New: Spacemaster Fiction by Robert J. Defendi on the Author's POV page.

Thurs, April 4

New: Answer to Q of the Month: It Started As a Hobby by danskmacabre
New: Rolemaster Moment: Archer Spotted Tail Elk by Stephen Lowrie
Updated: I've re-organized the Links & RPG Resources page and alphabetized the links within the categories so it's easier to find what you want. If you have any great links I can add to this page please send them to me!

Wed, April 2

New: Answers to March's Question of the Month: Oddest Character & Most Interesting Item by Andrew Hauger, and The Whole Group Was Odd... by Rosario-Patric Mullen.
New: Rolemaster Moments: I Was a Human Sorcerer... by danskmacabre
Updated: Contact Info and Customer Service pages. I added a new email contact for Domestic and & International Sales Inquiries; added new information on Shipping Methods, Rates & Times.

Tues, April 2

New: The Official ICE Online Forums are up and running, so check them out and post to your heart's content! Please note that the permanent link to the ICE Forums will reside on the Forums & Mailing Lists page.
New: Errata, Silent Death Dracula ship sheet (originally left out of House Colos) can now be downloaded from the ICE Errata Index page.

Mon, April 1

New: ICE Event: Silent Death Astro Smash Demo in BC, Canada April 19
New: Question of the Month for April: Why do you play roleplaying games?
New: Answer to Question of the Month for March: The Dwarf Paladin Wannabe by Marko Marinkovic.

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