March 2005 News & Updates

ICE RPG CruiseCon is Back On For 2005!

This time it's even better because kids under 2 cruise FREE!* AND you get 2 more days, 2 extra ports, etc... for only $50 more than before! This is a unique vacation opportunity to join your favorite ICE VIPs and other fans for 7 days of gaming, seminars and a relaxing cruise vacation: 7 Night Western Caribbean Cruise departing December 3, 2005 from Houston, Texas aboard the Norwegian Dream. For more details and to sign up please visit www.DeepBlueEvents.com.

* You pay nothing to the cruise line for the little ones, but you are still responsible for the taxes and port charges which will be approximately $198.00

Thurs, Mar 17

» New Rolemaster Moment: Dungeon Charades by Tim Bowman - Vancouver, Canada.

» New to the Shadow World Vault: Shadow World Primer By Guillaume Maurice: "This is the 'Shadow World Primer' that has been around for a while ( mostly through the shadow world mailing list ). I've finally dug it out from my archives as it seems that more and more people were looking for it." 8-pg PDF file.

» New to the Silent Death Vault: Starcraft Design Worksheet —By Scott MacNeil. A simple blank Excel 2000 spreadsheet, similar to the form within Silent Death: The Next Millennium rulebook, for designing your own custom starcraft. Complete the information on the sheet, the point and slot costs are calculated for you. Includes a completed sample, formatted to print on a single letter sized sheet of paper. MX Excel spreadsheet.

Wed, Mar 16

» New Rolemaster Moment: Cracks “Cool” by Chris Locke.

» Happy Birthday to me: The Webmistress is 37 today!

Tues, Mar 8

» New to the Rolemaster Vault: A couple new items from Richard Runyan: Standard Universal Measurement Equations-5-pg PDF file and Master Skill Summary Table. Edgar Leo has also updated his Rolemaster Combat Manager to v.2.0: This freeware program is compatible with Windows 9X and XP. Just download the ZIP file, unzip it, and double click on RMCM.exe and you're off! Here are the updates for version 2.0:

    1. Some minor bugs have been detected and fixed.
    2. The help file (the one you hung on your web page) has been enhanced from ".txt" to ".html" format.
    3. Some tools have been added: the XP Calculator and the Encounters’ Simulator.
      If you like, you can take a look at the .htm Help file before installing this utility. ZIP file 1.58MB.

» More New Stuff in the Rolemaster Vault: No less than 3 items from Rafael Koch:

    1. Painless Profession: It is a slave-warrior-profession inspired by the Unsullied in G.R.R. Martins "Song of Fire and Ice"-series. This one is play-tested and can be quite a demanding roleplaying-experience if in the hands of a non-powergaming player. 1-pg PDF.
    2. Half-Dwarves Race: It is a crossbreed between humans and dwarves and specially adapted to fit into my gaming world called Madavar. PDF file.
    3. Closed Essence Dislocation Spell List: This is an ssence-based spell list dealing with the creation of sub-realities and is called Dislocation. It is mainly a NPC-spell-list, although players can do nice things with it... PDF file.

Fri, Mar 4

» New Errata for Rolemaster: Mentalism Companion ST#5814 Mental Spells - When Mentalism Companion was reprinted, several things were cut—specifically the Mental Control (assault) and Mental Control (defense) skills—but the references were left in. This 3-pg PDF contains the 3 pages that had been cut from the reprint.

Thurs, Mar 3

» New to the Rolemaster Vault: What Is Rolemaster? by Brent Knorr (in the RM Articles section)—This 5-pg PDF is a great, brief overview of Rolemaster RPG. The Rolemaster Combat Tester (in RM Utilities section)by Jörg Jahnke has been updated to version 1.0 from the original 0.8.

» New Rolemaster Moment: Then you're dead by Diego Pope from Spain.

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