August 2003 News & Updates

Thurs, Aug 28

» New to The Vault: Added to the Shadow World Vault page: Emerian Timeline—Player's Version Created by Ward Miller: "The official Version of the Shadow world timeline has a great deal of GM-only information in it. I have taken the liberty of creating a version of the timeline that excludes all the sensitive information. It only covers the last century or so, covering what the average person would know about events in EMER ONLY." Thanks Ward! 78K PDF file

Thurs, Aug 21

» New to The Vault: Rolemaster/Spacemaster Character Generation Spreadsheet 2 Submitted by Ivan Lindstrom, this is Jonathan Dale's RM Char Gen Spreadsheet updated for the Spacemaster titles Future Law and Privateers: Races & Cultures.

Tues, Aug 19

» New Rolemaster Moment: NEVER let a NPC become a PC... by Marian.

Fri. Aug 15

» New to The Vault: Alchemy Training Package Created by Roy Altman, this 5-page training package was originally published on The Guild Companion website in Feb 2003. 84KB PDF file. Rolemaster Character Sheet Created by Aki Heikkinen of Finland, this is a 2-page PDF char sheet for Rolemaster. 662KB PDF.

Thurs, Aug 14

» New to The Vault: Weather Generation Spreadsheet (this link takes you to Darryn's website) Created by Darryn Glass, this Excel 2K (should work in '97 and .NET also) spreadsheet will aid the GM in creating random weather "patterns" for their gaming adventures. It uses the formulas and tables from GM Law. Through true weather "patterns" are not created by this spreadsheet, it will create fairly decent weather for a given day in a given area. Some of the features are:

» New to The Vault: Rolemaster Random Notes Created by Ward Miller, it is a collection of random notes I think will help gamemasters in the Rolemaster system. Available as a 5-page PDF or a 5-page Word document.

» New to The Links page: www.rpg-tools.com Are you in need of tools for your gaming session? What about the planning stages? Maps? Weather Generation? Character management? Combat Managers? Here you will find links and downloads to various tools that will help you with most of your gaming needs. Submitted by Darryn Glass.

» New to The Links page: Thanks to Johan Wärlander, we now have a list of 4 gaming stores in Sweden (on the links page under "Retail Game Shops"): Collector's Point - Samlarbilder & Spel, Gamers Vault, Hobbygames and Spel & Hobby.

» New Sneak Peeks: Spacemaster GML interior art sketches by Mike Jackson.

Tues, Aug 12

» New to the ICE Online Store—Oldies But Goodies!: Every once in a while we find a stack of older books in the warehouse and we want to make them available to you! Please note that these older titles have very limited quantities and as such they are first come first serve, so take advantage while they last. The current good oldie: Sea Law.

» New to The Vault: ST# 1130 Sea Law Ship Counters - Included in the original 1994 release of Sea Law, but no longer available from ICE, the ship counter sheet has been scanned by our good friend Brent Knorr and turned into a PDF for download. 1 page, 3.38MB color PDF. I also added a new section to the Rolemaster Vault page called Rolemaster Counters & Hexes. If anyone else has scans of old counters or hexes that are no longer available please email them to me and I'll post them along with the Sea Law counters.

Fri, Aug 8

» Updated Vault Pages: To make navigation easier, I've divided the Vault into 7 pages. Well, technically it's 8 pages if you consider the main Vault page as the first page. I hope this helps!

» New to the Welcome Wagon: The very awesome Alexander Dotor of Darmstadt, Germany has taken our 5-page How do I play Rolemaster? PDF article and translated it into a German version! He also included some partial tables as examples so his translated version is now 9 pages long and 1.9MB in size. Thanks Alexander and please continue to translate whatever other articles you want and I'll post them on the website!

Mon, Aug 4

» New Rolemaster Moments: First Impressions, People! by Sean Pritchard, of Vancouver, BC, A Monk's Special Move and Probably the most evil character I ever encountered… by Marian (she's been busy writing these last couple of weeks!)

» Update to our Shipping Options: Please note that UPS 1-day, UPS 2-day and USPS Express Mail do NOT ship to P.O. Boxes or military APO addresses. We have quite a few wonderful customers who are posted overseas who order from us regularly and we need to make sure they know we can not use the above listed options to ship their order. The next fastest option for military customers with APO addressses is USPS Priority Mail. You can see the detals on our Customer Service page and you can also download the Customer Order Form and Shipping Rate Chart 4-page PDF which has all the details.

Wed, Aug 6

» New Rolemaster Moment: First Aid a la Keller Dyson by Sean Pritchard of Vancouver, BC

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