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Hello all. My name happens to be Brian.
Well this is the funniest, strangest, or just the most weird moment that we ever had.
On this quest we had my cousin's character Elwin (a man from Rohan who was a fighter) and Elbereth (a high elf cleric), my characters Brian (a High elf sorceror) and Large (a dwarven ranger), and my friend's characters Daniel (a high man ranger) and Rhoton (a troll warrior). By the way at this time the average level was level 20.
The sun went down and we decided to camp for the night.
The GM asked about watches and I replied we would have standard watches.
The GM rolls a bunch of times. Ok all goes quiet 'til Brian's watch says the GM. He makes a bunch more rolls at which time I am worried but confident, after all, my character was a 20th lvl Sorcerer, what could kill me in one hit?
The GM looks at me and says your character is eaten whole. "What ! Nothing could kill a high lvl sorcerer that quick," I replied.
GM: A lake worm (look into creatures and treasures II for details) has swallowed you whole.
Me: Don't I get a chance to defend myself ?
GM: Ok, you will take an 'E' Acid crit until you die and be at the max negative to cast spells because you can't use your hands and every time you open your mouth more acid enters it.
Me: *groans* But that's not fair! I have worked a year on this character.
GM: Sorry but these things happen.
I make some rolls. Spell fumble, rats ! Just my luck.
GM: Ok now that you have done that, I have to roll the Acid crit.
GM rolls the acid crit and rolls a 99 on the 'E' table. Death !
The next morning Elwin, Elbereth, Large, Daniel and Rhoton awake to find Brian gone. After much discussion it is thought that something must have happened to him but they can't figure out what, so they take his stuff and go back to town.
That was our funniest, strangest, or just right down weirdest thing that has ever happened to us.
I thank you for the time and effort.
A moment of silence and sadness has come over our group this month. Our dear friend and GM of our long running game had to move away from us this month because of job reasons. I felt it only right to write this as a Rolemaster Moment because it is the ending to a perfect rollercoaster of a ride with him.
Our group has been playing the same very rich, story line and plot for over three or more years now and it feels as if we have truly reached a bittersweet end. His lively sketches, props, and over story telling has made our gaming time with him a very rich and memorable one. We all have shared many laughs and good times over the years of playing but most of all we have all become better friends for it.
We had to cut our story short with him and it seems as if there just wasn’t enough time to finish the story the way it should have been done. Even though we have started a new story with our new GM and friend with wonderful characters to play out, we will not forget the wonderful time we have had with our friend over the years. So here is to our Game Master, Our Story Teller, but most of all Our Great Friend! Good Luck Bruce! We shall have an Ale for you and always remember those damn rabbits and the Yashu!
A few years back, I was trying to introduce a friend of mine to Rolemaster. All he had ever played was D&D, and I was really building up Rolemaster as a superior system with more flexibility, and not as much focus on hack-n-slash grab-the-loot gaming. I asked my gaming group if they would mind joining myself and my newbie friend for a game. I gave them some character construction basics, but nothing too detailed. After all, this would be a throw-away game just to introduce the newbie to the game.
Well, the newbie and I made a standard bard, wrote up a little background, and awaited the arrival of my friends. Unbeknownst to me, they had all gotten together and conspired to make Spacemaster characters instead. Their background was that they were a tourist ship that had crash landed on the fantasy world I had set the game in. When they arrived and told me, there was nothing I could do. We did not have time to remake their characters. So, off we went.
In addition to my nice, normal bard, I had an oriental human tourist, two transhuman big game hunters, their human servant, and a snee tour guide. For those who do not know what a snee is, think of the alien in the Aliens movies. Yep. Tour guide. He wore a purple sequined suit and had a hat that read "Your Tour Guide". The tourist had a camera which did stun criticals to the people in the picture, while the big game hunters decided that halflings (as well as various monsters) would make a nice addition to their collection. Everywhere they found halflings, they would try to capture and pickle them, while the snee kept trying to eat them.
They had a great deal of fun trouncing into my fantasy world and upsetting things, but I refused to be "beaten" by them, so I adapted the plot to fit what was going on, and we ended up showing the newbie just how flexible the Rolemaster system could be. The game ended up being one of the most memorable I have ever been involved in, and loads of fun. The newbie was hooked.
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