While playtesting the beta version of the Unified Rolemaster, one of our forum members has brought up the question “how would wearing two armors work?”
He goes on to give the example of a troll, AT6, wearing plate, AT10. Despite the original question being focussed on the beta test, a number of forum members have given their two cents about how they deal with situations such as these in their games whatever version they use.
What would your ruling be? How would you deal with this in your game?
Have your say on the ICE forum.
Shadow World Emer III available now in print
Shadow World Emer III is available now in hardcover and softcover formats from RPGNow. You can even get a print copy and a pdf copy together for a reduced price.
Now you can see this all-new region module for the continent of Emer in all its printed glory.
Southeast Emer as You’ve Never Known it Before!
BUY IT NOW
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Director’s Briefing – March 2014
Welcome to the thirty-third Briefing and the third scheduled Briefing for 2014.
Encroachment fully underway
My real-world battle with the lectures and assignments continues. There’s been some Dirty Fighting tactics from my opponent – having the students infect me with some unpleasant throat malady and cough caused some unexpected activity penalties. Despite this, I’ve moved from a presemester starting position of 36 lectures and 6 assignments/exams to create to 14 lectures and 2 assignments/exams with 6 of the lectures in outline form. My expectation is that with marking thrown into the mix, the melee will continue some ways into April, but I can see a finishing line.
Shadow World
Emer 3 has been available as a pdf and at a discounted price. Some errata in the pdf were found – they have been corrected, so if you were an early purchaser, just visit your OneBookShelf account and redownload the file. Terry has created the print masters, which were duly approved by OneBookShelf and LightningSource, and Terry and I have received and checked the proof copies from the US and UK printing facilities respectively. We are happy with both softcover and hardcover versions, and you will find them available for purchase from OneBookShelf.
The introductory price offer for Emer 3 in pdf thus comes to an end. However as an experiment, we are offering a modest discount on pdf+print bundles of Emer 3, so there is a saving still to be made if you buy the pdf and a print version at the same time.
Many thanks to everyone who has bought Emer 3 so far – it has already become a Silver seller on RPGNow.
Terry has been doing his own time-slicing, shuttling between Eidolon and Emer 2 for the enhanced editions, and adding new Shadow World adventures as a third distinct strand of activity. And he has another editorial pass on the next iteration of a third-party sourcebook to do.
Rolemaster
There were some glitches in the RMSS/FRP dataset for the Rolemaster Combat Minion, so we are awaiting on their resolution before making it live.
Progress is being made on Unified Rolemaster and I will be using some of my time-slices to produce a “Heisenberg uncertainty” countdown for the forums.
HARP and HARP SF (and spacemaster)
I am pleased to report that interest has been expressed in OCR / text extraction of old Spacemaster Imperium setting products, and in HARP SF setting sourcebook(s). I will be contacting people as soon as I can to get this organised and running.
I am also happy to see further commentary on future expansions for HARP SF and Tintamar, and again this will be followed up as soon as I get the opportunity.
Cyradon
The final draft of “M for Murder” still requires my attention, but some of the HARP Bestiary team have been seconded to bringing the monsters given in Cyradon into compliance with the new monster creation rules, so this will assist in progressing the entire Cyradon line.
Until next time
Back to battles and time-slicing. The next scheduled Briefing will be in April.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
Director, Guild Companion Publications Ltd.
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ICE Forums on Tapatalk
The ICE forums are now compatible with Tapatalk, the mobile app that makes keeping track of your favourite forums quick and easy.
You can subscribe to receive notifications, check for unread posts, private message, everything you can do on the forum on a simple to use mobile app.
You can find out more about Tapatalk by visiting their website or simply download the app an search for “Iron Crown Enterprises”.
of course there is nothing to stop you enjoying the forums in the good old fashioned way, but now it’s even easier to keep up with what’s happening on the go.
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Iron Crown Enterprises’ Newsletter – February 2014
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I must admit that ordinarily February isn’t my favourite month. It is the Monday of the months. The memory of Christmas and New Year has faded, the hope and promise of a new year have dwindled to be replaced by the creeping sensation that it is in fact exactly the same as the new year and the summer is still a long way off. However, this year has been different…
February has seen new releases, information about upcoming releases, exciting news and updates and I for one am unreasonably excited about the coming months and what they will bring…
Catch up on what you’ve missed with this month’s Director’s Briefing.
ROLEMASTER
This month saw the release of the long awaited Rolemaster Combat Minion.
Rolemaster Combat Minion is a web application used by the GM to help track combat encounters. It speeds game-play considerably by performing all necessary dice rolls and table look-ups. It also handles all end-of-round upkeep, keeps track of all PC and NPC/creature wounds, and performs perception, move & maneuver and attunement rolls.
While the software itself is available for free, the data tables for Rolemaster Classic is now available through the OneBookShelf Network.
HARP
In this month’s Director’s Briefing Guild Companion Publications’ Director, Nicholas Caldwell posed the following questions which we would like your opinion on:
1) would you be interested in a HARP SF Imperium setting sourcebook and possible followups?
2) irrespective of the answer, do we have any fans with time and software on their hands to do the OCR / text extraction over the next few months so that we can more easily restore the Imperium (as a HARP SF setting perhaps and a definite future unified Spacemaster setting)?
3) Would you be interested in “thematic” sourcebooks for HARP SF and the Tintamar universe that focus on a style of play such as military, exploration, trader, covert ops, etc.
Visit OUR FORUM and have your say.
SETTINGS
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past month, you can’t have missed the release of the brand new Emer III setting material for Shadow World. A huge thanks to everyone who has bought and reviewed it and played a part in helping it attain ‘Silver Pick’ status and keeping it in the RPGNow top 10 for over a month.
If you haven’t yet got your copy you can buy it now from RPGNow for just $18.
In addition, I am pleased to announce that the master files for Emer III have been accepted by OneBookShelf/Lightning Source and we are expecting the proofs to be delivered in the very near future. Barring any problems with the proofs, we are hoping to have the hardcover and softcover copies of Emer III available VERY soon.
PARTNERS
Here at Iron Crown Enterprises, we want to provide all our fans with everything they need to get the most out of their gaming. That is why we support a suite of e-support packages. You can read all about them on our brand new e-support page on our website.
One great piece of news which we received this month was that the brilliant XP Tracker for Rolemaster will soon be updated to work with iOS7.
XP Tracker is an easy to use app that removes the need for scratch paper in gaming. Normally you have your Character sheet, core books and tons of scratch paper that you use for notes and calculations. XPT was created to help speed up gaming while allowing you to track everything on the fly.
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Emer III discount ending soon!
Get your copy of Emer III for the discounted price of $16 from RPGNow before the 22nd February. The normal price is $18 and time is running out!
Emer III reveals the mysterious rainforests of Khûm-kaan and the plains of Onar in the Shadow World, the official setting for Rolemaster. It brings the southeast of the continent of Emer to life with intricate details and a collection of stunning maps and imagery.
Get your copy now
Emer III contains:
- Two Jerak Ahrenreth Citadels: the Tower of Vour and the Ahrenæk, home of the Artificer A’kesh.
- The Lost City of Zæn, including ancient Jinteni magic/technology: weapons, portals and more.
- Maps and descriptions of the two ‘Isles of Glass,’ homes to the Green Dragon and the Seer.
- The secret hives of the Krylites.
- New maps of the region with dozens of new locations and cultures. New details on the Isle of Jade.
- The timeline, updated and advanced several years with new intrigues and wars.
- 25 pages of adventures and adventure ideas.
- Encounter charts for hostile rainforest creatures—and plants! New herbs and creatures.
- Stats for both Rolemaster Classic/RM2 and RMSS/RMFRP systems. Also a new Fantasy Weapons Chart.
- 210 pages total, including an extensive index.
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Director’s Briefing – February 2014
Welcome to the thirty-second Briefing and the second scheduled Briefing for 2014.
Encroachment begins
As I expected, my real-world job has commenced its encroachment upon my evenings and weekends, with a sneak attack known as exam and assignment marking (including second marking for colleagues which was an unexpected bureaucratic ambush). I am now in a standard melee, battling it out to build lecture material and new assignments faster than I have to deliver them.
On the long-term plan of gaming software through student projects, my combined business/IT degree passed its second hurdle and subject to validation (third hurdle) should commence in September 2015.
My GCP time will now shift into a time-sliced regime of contractual necessities, project phase organisation, and draft product review.
Shadow World
As I hope you are all aware, Emer 3 is now available as a pdf at an introductory discount of 16 USD (full price of 18 USD from 22 Feb). Terry is collating the minor errata and we will update the pdf in the next couple of weeks – if you buy before the update, just go into your OneBookShelf account and redownload the file. The print versions will incorporate the errata corrections and will be available either at the tail end of this month or in March.
Terry is himself time-slicing on Eidolon and Emer 2 for their enhanced editions, so I am expecting that I will be reviewing at least one of them in March. I have some contractual necessities still to sort out regarding the third-party sourcebooks.
Rolemaster
The RM Classic dataset for Rolemaster Combat Minion is now available for purchase from OneBookShelf. The Rolemaster Combat Minion engine is a free web app that coupled with the dataset, will streamline your Rolemaster combat encounters. Attack results can be calculated with full table lookup – no more crossindexing on attack tables and flipping to a critical table – and all wounds applied, tracked and saved to your own database of PCs, NPCs and monsters. This is a revolution in the Rolemaster gaming experience.
You can try an evaluation version free of charge – so give it a go and see if the RCM is a game changer for you.
The RMSS/FRP dataset will be released in the next week or so, assuming no snags with the go-live of the RM Classic dataset arise.
HARP and HARP SF (and Spacemaster)
On the ICE forums, there have been a number of interesting discussions regarding the old Spacemaster Imperium setting and future avenues of expansion for HARP SF and its Tintamar universe.
The Imperium setting remains a popular universe for Spacemaster fans, not only in discussion threads, but also one that continues to generate sales through the collection of rule books, supplements and adventures that we sell as scanned pdfs on OneBookShelf. Terry Amthor, one of the cocreators of the Imperium setting, has expressed interest in being involved again with it. Resurrecting the Imperium as a Spacemaster setting has two issues – the first that a unified Spacemaster rules system does not yet exist, the second that the existing setting is buried in those pdfs. The first issue should eventually be resolved and HARP SF could also be used as the rules engine; the second issue is a need for some serious OCRing and text extraction of the existing pdfs. I have two questions for you as fans – 1) would you be interested in a HARP SF Imperium setting sourcebook and possible followups? (Post your thoughts on the ICE forums) and 2) irrespective of the answer, do we have any fans with time and software on their hands to do the OCR / text extraction over the next few months so that we can more easily restore the Imperium (as a HARP SF setting perhaps and a definite future unified Spacemaster setting)? Post your thoughts on the ICE forums.
In another forum topic, the suggestion has been made about “thematic” sourcebooks for HARP SF and the Tintamar universe. Instead of, or perhaps in addition to, sourcebooks on a sector of space such as the Federation Sector or the Nexus Sector, we should have sourcebooks that focus on a style of play so military, exploration, trader, covert ops, etc., and support this with material for the Tintamar universe, which could potentially be used in other settings. This is an intriguing possibility – what do you think? Post your thoughts on the ICE forums.
Cyradon
I have reviewed the final draft of “Escort Duty” and it was (as I expected) really great. It is now in “safe” mode, awaiting finalised monster stat blocks. The final draft of “M for Murder” still requires my attention.
Until next time
My time-sliced life continues – my hope is that I will have sufficient time slices to get some manuscripts reviewed, some contractuals completed, and TGA#4 checked over before handover to layout phase. The next scheduled Briefing will be in March.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
Director, Guild Companion Publications Ltd.
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Rolemaster Combat Minion – Out Now!
Rolemaster Combat Minion is the most recent addition to the Rolemaster family and is available now from RPGNow for just $20. Rolemaster Combat Minion is an e-support package for those wanting a simple & fast way to manage combat encounters.
Buy it now
“Minion” is a free web app to help GMs process and track combat encounters and stats/health/wounds. It streamlines the entire combat process, including initiative, combat calculations, attack and critical tables. It can be used on any desktop PC or tablet with a normal web browser.
This license unlocks the entire set of weapon and critical tables for the RM2/Classic Rolemaster rules for use with the Rolemaster Combat Minion a free web app. You can evaluate the application for free by visiting the site before purchasing the tables from RPGNow.
Features include:
- your own database of PCs, NPCs and monsters (create/edit/clone)
- initiative sequence fully automated
- attack results calculated by the software with full table lookups
- all wounds applied, tracked and saved by the software
- encounter log showing the entire sequence of combat actions
- save & restore your database of PCs/NPCs/monsters
- create and install custom attack and critical tables
- compatible with all current versions of rolemaster
- Free web app includes 6 combat tables:Broadsword, Short Bow, Shock Bolt attack tables, and Slash, Puncture, Electricity crit tables
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Iron Crown Enterprises’ Newsletter – January 2014
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2014 has got off to a brilliant start. We’ve already released one new product (see below for details) and we’ve got a whole load of other stuff in the pipeline which is going to make 2014 a year to remember.
Catch up on what you’ve missed with this month’s Director’s Briefing.
ROLEMASTER
We are now moving very close to the release of the brand new e-support package the Rolemaster Combat Minion.
Rolemaster Combat Minion is a web application used by the GM to help track combat encounters. It speeds game-play considerably by performing all necessary dice rolls and table look-ups. It also handles all end-of-round upkeep, keeps track of all PC and NPC/creature wounds, and performs perception, move & maneuver and attunement rolls.
While the software itself is available for free, the data tables will be made available through the OneBookShelf Network in the not too distant future. In the time being you can read more information and take a look at a few previews of the software on the dedicated Rolemaster Combat Minion thread on our forum.
HARP
Following the release of HARP College of Magics and HARP Martial Law at the tail end of last year, we’re now working on a number of other HARP products which we hope to see released this year.
It is hard to say precisely when the upcoming products will be released but we expect one of the first releases to be The Guild Adventurer #4 which will contain a lot of HARP material.
In addition to this, in the not too distant future we are expecting to make an open call for HARP SF content. Once we have put together an outline for the call it will be announced on OUR FORUM and in the Director’s Briefing and Newsletter.
SETTINGS
This month has seen the release of the brand new Emer III setting material for Shadow World which for a limited time only is available for just $16 from RPGNow (offer ends 2/22/14, normal price $18).
Emer III Contains:
- Two Jerak Ahrenreth Citadels: the Tower of Vour and the Ahrenæk, home of the Artificer A’kesh.
- The Lost City of Zæn, including ancient Jinteni magic/technology: weapons, portals and more.
- Maps and descriptions of the two ‘Isles of Glass,’ homes to the Green Dragon and the Seer.
- The secret hives of the Krylites.
- New maps of the region with dozens of new locations and cultures. New details on the Isle of Jade.
- The timeline, updated and advanced several years with new intrigues and wars.
- 25 pages of adventures and adventure ideas.
- Encounter charts for hostile rainforest creatures—and plants! New herbs and creatures.
- Stats for both Rolemaster Classic/RM2 and RMSS/RMFRP systems.
Buy it Now
PARTNERS
Genghis Con XXXV
Our friends over at Cloven Fruit Games are heading to Genghis Con XXXV in Aurora, CO on the 16th February to run a game. If you are in the area and fancy popping along you can join them for a game. There will even be prizes including some HARP SF products and an exclusive print version of AfterWorlds (which isn’t even available to buy yet).
The convention runs from the 13th February to the 16th and hosts a whole range of great games.
Convention Support
If you’re heading to a convention and want to run a game, get in touch. We’ll do our best to give you all the support you need to run a great game.
If you’re involved in running a con we’d like to hear from you too. We can’t support every convention out there but we’re always glad to hear about what is going on and to spread the word on our social media sites.
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Emer III OUT NOW!
Emer III is out now and available for the introductory price of just $16 from RPGNow (Normal price $18, offer ends 22nd February).
Emer III reveals the mysterious rainforests of Khûm-kaan and the plains of Onar in the Shadow World, the official setting for Rolemaster. It brings the southeast of the continent of Emer to life with intricate details and a collection of stunning maps and imagery.
Get your copy now
Emer III contains:
- Two Jerak Ahrenreth Citadels: the Tower of Vour and the Ahrenæk, home of the Artificer A’kesh.
- The Lost City of Zæn, including ancient Jinteni magic/technology: weapons, portals and more.
- Maps and descriptions of the two ‘Isles of Glass,’ homes to the Green Dragon and the Seer.
- The secret hives of the Krylites.
- New maps of the region with dozens of new locations and cultures. New details on the Isle of Jade.
- The timeline, updated and advanced several years with new intrigues and wars.
- 25 pages of adventures and adventure ideas.
- Encounter charts for hostile rainforest creatures—and plants! New herbs and creatures.
- Stats for both Rolemaster Classic/RM2 and RMSS/RMFRP systems. Also a new Fantasy Weapons Chart.
- 210 pages total, including an extensive index.
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