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SageMaster
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Roleplaying hobbyist that is building a fantasy RPG, and it is not a D20 clone.
Scribe: under used profession with potential.
I love the scribe profession because it doesn't follow the tank, healer.. set. The Scribe could be a perfect blend of knowledge and skill to keep your group going on long campaign. Literally someone to manage supplies and wealth gain.
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Can't handle bad results.. Don't play RPG's!
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Watched a video today from "wizards and Wordslingers". The host tried to justify special rules for handling low combat results. Jim stated that if you get a critical it is special and you should get automatic favored results. I believe if you cant handle getting a low roll, then you shouldn't be playing the game. Jim stated that he would not be happy p[laying a game where you use actual dice re...
Add quirkiness to your RPG....
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Sometimes the GM or players can be too serious when it comes to the game. Add some quirky classes or professions to keep some lighter aspects to your game.
TTRPG's Go Big
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I have roleplayed for over 30 years, most of that time playing Rolemaster by ICE.
Understanding and Fixing the RANGER. how Crunchy would solve the problem.
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I have roleplayed for over 30 years, most of that time playing Rolemaster by ICE. Time and time again I see how Skill based games are better than crispy games.
Map Making advice. Have the maps work for you.
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I have made several maps over the decades, I find simple colorful maps for TTRPG's more useful. The fancy artistic maps that people sell books on how to make are a waste of your most valuable asset... TIME.
Bob world builder going activist at Gencon.
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Bob has been campaigning against 'Rules Complex' aka Crunchy games. Now he is going to be a part of a panel at GenCon, "ADVOCATING" against crunchy games. Very negative mentality toward the crunch, attacking crunchy, not supporting crispy games.
Adding Alchemy to Your TTRPG
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Alchemy is a great concept to add to your TTRPG. But it can only work in a crunchy game system due to the complexity of Alchemy itself.
Book Review: Alchemy Companion In it's Crunchy Goodness
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Alchemy companion is an excellent book to have as a reference guide into Alchemy. It doesn't matter if you are playing D&D, Rolemaster, Pathfinder, or Gurps, The information in this source book will help you out.
AI Art in Roleplaying
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I have roleplayed for over 30 years, most of that time playing Rolemaster by ICE. The use of AI art can be a positive force it opening possibilities for better games and product. Make sure credit is given to all that deserve it.
Girder & Panel Castle ... What I want now!!!
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Girder & Panel Castle ... What I want now!!!
Book Review: Creatures & Treasures 1
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Book Review: Creatures & Treasures 1
Online Gaming is to dangerous now..,. Sony shows the danger.
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Online Gaming is to dangerous now..,. Sony shows the danger.
If Consent checklists.. then Code of Conduct Contracts.
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If Consent checklists.. then Code of Conduct Contracts.
House Rules: Bringing a PC Back to life?
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House Rules: Bringing a PC Back to life?
House Rules: What level to start PC's
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House Rules: What level to start PC's
Iron Crown Enterprises: My opinion about ICE...
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Iron Crown Enterprises: My opinion about ICE...
Shadow World: What whole Kulthea would look like.
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Shadow World: What whole Kulthea would look like.
Book review: Arcane Companion Rolemaster module
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Book review: Arcane Companion Rolemaster module
What changes would I make in Middle Earth. For a homebrew RPG.
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What changes would I make in Middle Earth. For a homebrew RPG.
Working of RPG collection, my short backstory.
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Working of RPG collection, my short backstory.
Disrupting the RPG group. Things that can destroy a Roleplaying Group.
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Disrupting the RPG group. Things that can destroy a Roleplaying Group.
Dwarves are too One dimensional Response to Grungeon Master
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Dwarves are too One dimensional Response to Grungeon Master
Yes, they have potential to do many interesting and novel (hah) things! Cartographer is another one I find interesting.
Yes, That can be fun to play out. "No, I haven't been there. But I remember the name on a map and there is a stream nearby where we could camp for the night and water the horses."
The ultimate nerd profession for a nerd.
This is (part of) why Dark Sun is the best D&D setting ever. They totally rewrote the book on Paladins with the Templar class.
Do you like D100 / Basic Roleplaying?
@@SeekersHollow I played Rolemaster for a couple decades.
@@SageMasterRPG ok, I guess Rolemaster is D100 based? I just started with this hobby about 5 months ago. I'm considering getting into Rolemaster in the future. Would you recommend starting with RMU? I'm interested in a variety of games, but I find "crunchy" games to be the most satisfying, even if they take more effort. Currently starting to learn GURPS.
@@SeekersHollow Rolemaster unified was released last year and the reviews have been good. I play rolemaster 2nd edition all the books are out of print and very expensive. If you are moderately computer savvy you can download 2nd edition fairly cheap. I love 2nd edition, I have done 2nd edition book reviews. Yes it is crunchy, but worth it in my opinion.
@@SageMasterRPG Thanks! I'll probably grab RMU to start, and if I find that I really enjoy the system, I'll start collecting some of the 2nd edition books to go with it. I'll watch some of your 2nd edition reviews.
Stop leaving five dislikes on my videos.
Just like a spoiled little teenager, you attack people without reason. I said I was going to walk away from your drama, and I did.
Stop leaving five dislikes on my videos.
Haven't watched any of your crappy videos in weeks.
Stop leaving five dislikes on my videos.
I haven't been on your channel for a couple weeks now, you have many people that don't like you.
@@SageMasterRPG Pay him no mind, mate. He's just very bitter because no one lies him. Just block the cry-baby fool like he does to everyone else.
@@scepticskeptic3794 I have handled him before. He loves to lie and play the victim card.
@@SageMasterRPG 100% man! :) He always paints himself as this 'honest guy' but he's one of the most deceitful people I've ever come across in the RPG community. And when you eviscerate him in his comments and call him out on his BS, he quickly scarpers and shadow bans you! Truth hurts as they say! LOL
Excellent video, can't be clearer about the topic! I love the term "crispy games", I'm going to start using it, haha.
If they can call our games crunchy, we can call their games crispy.
"He doesn't think that should happen. Holy fuck!!" I love your rants. I have this same pet peeve, but it's funny hearing it from someone else. 😂
I tend to agree with you. I play Powers & Perils and the deadly hits scare me... whether it is the risk of my character's weapon breaking or getting hit by a deadly and getting one-shot, especially from a rear or surprise attack.
Our table played Curse of Strahd for 5e and we voted on using the "Crunchy Crit" house rule for both players and monsters. It was a tonne of fun (for us), and there were moment where player characters almost got downed from full health. I am somewhere in the middle in this. House rules are fine, but they are at play, they should apply to everyone at the table. I do find low-damage crits to be a bit anticlimactic, but if the "Crunchy Crits" are at play, it is only fair that I get hit with crunchy crits as well. How people play depends between tables. No table is for everyone and noone enjoys every table.
Believe it or not, this book was my intro to Rolemaster. I worked for the printing company that produced it, back in the day. My manager knew I played RPGs and gave me one of the 'sample' copies. Had no idea what I was reading... naturally, I had to go buy the red box the next week. I was hooked....😊
That is a dark twist. How do you play a good necromancer?
Simply the necromancer fights for the good guys. He can use dead evil soldiers as zombie soldiers. He could resurrect the important people for a short period of time. The murdered king is brought back to life to name his killer and then who should replace him as heir.
that'll be a good manga to read
Yep, if you've got a good table and engaged players, your doing awesome.
This guy Sagemaster has 4 sock accounts, between those and his main account his has been leaving five dislikes on all of my videos. YT has been removing them, I already confronted him on this and he has not stopped. I just thought you may want to know what this guy is really like.
@@condordm Any idea why he'd do that?
@@yourseatatthetable He doesn't like what I have to say about the old school TTRPG community. So he does this to try to stop me.
@@condordm Sounds like a petty thing to do. Not everyone likes the old stuff, and many have never experienced it, which is what it is I guess.
Do they actually still make roll master books?
They are making the latest edition called Rolemaster unified. The 2nd edition that I play has been out of print for a couple decades.
I was unaware they were printing a new addition of the game, but I didn’t know they had taken the second edition after print
Some of these skills are really cool! Some of them would work really well in the Cepheus system as well.
Should have done it in your black kilt...
Awesome video, I watched all of Bob's video ands you are right, he seems to shun any difficulties to RPG's. He appears to be a lazy GM that shouldn't GM. Did you give the video the Odessa treatment?
Yes, he got the Odessa treatment, but just to reduce the length of the video.
No need for a calculator, it is just basic + and - calculations. Been playing Rolemaster for 30years or so, started at 12 years old, and rhe math was newer that hard.
I remeber differently, you develop individially (like broadsword) weapon skill.. but you get 1/2 the skill with all one handed edged weapons. (That rule is in the rulebooks)
And 1/2 the skill ranks I mean. So if you have 16 ranks in broadswod, in fight you have 8ranks in dagger aswell.
As an Agile Practitioner Professionally this was a great video. ❤
Where is the rule that adds +15 for armor type?
Basic AC is that number 1-20 on the weapon sheet. If want bonuses like +5, +15 it can be achieved in many ways. Few examples: superior material will give you bonuses in armor, either to defence bonus (that is substracted from enemy attack) or/and to movement. Superior smithing can give you +bonuses, or magical bonus.
@@SinSorrowEU Thanks! I'm looking at the part at 17:00 where it says AT 20 gives a +15 defensive bonus? Or am I understanding that wrong?
@@dtandersen IF I remeber correctly. 17-20 are plate armor. 17 is breast plate only. If adding leg and hand graves its now a 18. 19 is half plate (plate armor but chan armor in some places like joints) and 20 is full plate. And if someone wears full plate, it is useally high quality so really common to have at least some bonuses to defencive bonus. I may have some things wrong as I have played 1st and 2nd edition mixed, so not 100% accuracy
thank you for doing this!! From Sweden with respect!
Nice video. Appreciate that you took the time to do this. ❤😊
Great video. You said a bunch of things that I've been thinking for a while. Not just TTRPGs, but in video games as well, in recent years players seem to be focusing on the story aspect more than the game aspect. I hate this because it seems like they are trying to subvert a genre. If they truly like a genre, they shouldn't criticize the very fundamentals of what defines the genre. Nowadays I see gamers mock the defining elements of the genres they supposedly are fans of by referring to these beloved foundations as "tropes" that need to be done away with.
What I would like to know is why do people who like rules-lite games even play RPGs? Why not just play Candyland or tic-tac-toe or something? Those games have hardly any rules and they are simple enough that even rules-lite advocates could probably understand them.
Give me crunch, give me rules. If I want light... I'll go sit around a camp fire and make up stories. Just my preference for what I want to play. People should just play what they are interested in and not listen to others. Try something new to you, even it if is old. My favorite RPG is Powers & Perils ;)
Yes exactly, Bob, what do you have to say for yourself?
I wonder if Bob is a liberal. They like to campaign against people playing games they want. Liberals demand that people can only play games a certain way.
Woo Hoo, Chartmaster! One of my favorite games I've literally never played! Seriously, nice to see someone talking about OG Rolemaster - crunchy as hell, but it had massive amounts of ideas and world building concepts to plunder.
One I never picked up, too bad.
Too many of them. thank god for PDF's.
@@SageMasterRPG Amen to that
Hello! Can I ask where can I find rules for weapons and armor durability/resistance? I'am looking for simulationist/realistic rules... I already known those of Dark Sun, and I liked the distinction between part/sections/pieces separate armor rules. But I would like also rules to simulate the cumulative wear and damage of weapons and armor. If I can't find anything... I guess I'll have to invent something inspired a bit by the Battle Brothers weapon breakage percentage mechanic.
@@the_epipan Arms law by Iron Crown has some charts that could help you. You can download the pdf pretty easy.
@@SageMasterRPG Really, thank you very much for responding. I have been trying to find people on my own who know about the subject, authentically, and I found a traditional armorer with years of experience with swords and their history who told me that a sword made of good iron, or steel, could reach last 2 years of lifespan (but of course, it depends on the amount/frequency of use, and even during times of war the battles could be spread over time with spaces of several months. So this average lifespan data gives me some idea but not too much). On the other hand, another person told me that a copper sword, or even a bronze one, is not viable with a longer length than a short sword due to the low hardness of the metal (same reason why there could be no viable rapier swords made of copper or bronze, as they would not withstand even one or two clashes and would already bend or break) and loses its edge quickly; Another person even told me that a copper sword could last you about 5 uses and you had to get another one (I suppose he was referring to uses in battles... or use it to cut several tree branches or things like that), but I don't know who that last one was... so I can't be sure if he really knew about the subject, and he didn't clarify if he was referring to the sword breaking or simply losing its edge. In any case, with a copper sword or spear/arrow heads, is relatively easy to make a clay oven almost anywhere and in that improvised oven reach the temperature to remelt the copper sword or dagger to recover it even if it had broken (which It cannot be done with swords made of good iron or steel, since these are made by hammer blows on an anvil and once the pure metal of an iron or steel sword was achieved, in medieval times there were no means to reach the temperatures of more than 1000 degrees Celsius to melt iron or steel). The thing in the Lord of the Rings movie where elves put the pieces of Isildur's sword back together is NOT realistic, at least in the way they show you that the elves did it... if they had made the elves go to a volcano to melt the pieces of that sword in the lava it would have been realistic. I'm going to look for that Arms Law to see those rules, when I find them and read them I will come back here to tell you what. Meanwhile, if you can specify which edition this Arms Law is from, I would appreciate it. Or are they in all the editions?
Re: all your chi stuff Have you seen anima: beyond fantasy? It's based on rolemaster (although truly, it is much more simplified)
The rolling for getting a spell list for a caster was only with the early version of RM. IIRC, from RMC and beyond, as you spend dev pts in a spell list, and each purchase of the spell list skill made it so you can cast spells up to that level (instead of a 'chance' to cast that list). > I agree with the being able to cast spells that you know & suffer the (neg 10)/lvl of the spell above your character level. I use the same in my games too. I taught myself RM way back in '86 by using the blue Character Law & created a character following the book. The rules follow the same concepts over and over, so once you get a grip on that, the games becomes easy. There are a of options available and makes it look intimidating by the sheer volume of charts, books, etc. There aren't that many rules themselves > You have to create your character based on 10 stats & you use development points (DP's) to buy skills > The class you choose will make some skills easier to develop and others harder. Ex: a Fighter develops weapon skills for low DP cost, and could choose to develop Open spells at a high DP cost. A Magician, conversely, can develop spells for low DP cost, and skills like weapons, body development (ie. hitpoints) for a high DP cost. The class makes it easier/harder to develop certain skills. To try to do 'something' in the game, you have a d100 roll + your skill bonuses (which includes your stat bonuses) + bonuses/penalties for circumstances = success or failure. > For combat --> you have d100 roll + offensive/defensive bonuses + bonuses/penalties for circumstances = Look on the chart for your weapon vs armor to find the damage you do Once you have this part down, the game is very scalable as the characters level up. You dont have the same power jump issues that D&D has at higher levels. I do acknowledge/reiterate that there are a of options so that is why it seems complicated. You can choose to use those options or not. I grew up starting with the blue book D&D. RM is still my favorite game system out there (RMSS specifically), and I have every version & most of the individual books for all the versions of RM. I am currently learning the nuances of RMU now since it came out recently. I came across your video today SageMaster. Thank you for posting it. 🙂 BGH
WOTC is a company, ICE is a hobby project of some dedicated fans. Portraying ICE as this evil corp is just idiotic. „Take the power back from those five unpaid dudes, who run Rolemaster in their spare time. Remember, you have the power“ 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Haha, that is 26 years ago! What a thing to complain about. RMSS/FRP was a huge step up in many ways and problematic in others like every new edition is. The company is now a hobby project by like 5 people, to be so sour is just laughable. Pete Fenlon and Coleman Charlton tried everything to save in the late 90‘s. Splitting Spell Law was great for players at the table (OSE does the same btw). ICE went down because they lost the ME license. Dumbest most childish take imaginable.😂😂👍
This guy is like that neighbor you got along with for years, then one day you forgot to bring your trash can in and the neighbor goes ape-shit forever.
My mother bought me a Girders & Panels set when I was a kid in the 70s. I spent many, many hours building buildings with it.
These were the best construction toy ever: way more realistic than Lego, easy to snap together, could make skyscrapers, bridges, cranes, with roadways, etc. I can't believe they don't make them anymore. They should bring them back and offer more sets for more projects, with the ability to integrate with model trains and Motorific cars. Don't kids still want to build skyscrapers, bridges, and futuristic cities?
These are a lot older than the 80s. I still have a set from the 60s.
it has been so long, I forgot the name of that set. My grandparents had a set of them things, eons ago, such fun times. 3D printed textured panels would be a major change from the original clear plastic sheets with print/paint on them, would be interesting to see someone do that. the overlapping on the verticals may need some work, can't over lap 3D printed stuff as easily as the printed/painted cellophane sheets on them pegs that hold the panels. P.S. not the food packing cellophane sheets, go to an office supply outlet, go to the 3-ring binder section, and look at the clear plastic binder things you put papers into, that cellophane (it's got some rigidity to it).
My thought on that was a small notch in the texture panels. So that the left side always fit over the right side of the panel to the right. Then because the over lapping texture fit into a groove, it would be stronger.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girder_and_Panel_building_sets
Kenner girder and panel construction sets. Out of production since 2016, see above link. Still have some of the red stuff and roadway in storage. We also have the water treatment set that pumps water through tubing and tanks. Scan the parts and 3D print out a few hundred pieces for your own use. You could print out castle walls, entries, drawbridges..etc on cardstock, cut out and punch holes to fit them.
I remember having something like this in the late 60s in the UK. The I beams were yellow plastic and the panels with windows were grey with the lower parts being red or blue you fitted the to a grey base with holes for clear plastic six sided connectors, I’d love to still have it
The order would be like 1000 vertical supports, 2000 horizontal beams, 200 stone panels, 200 wood floors, 30 stairs, and 1 pit trap. I then would be going to a model train store and buying $100 worth of terrain.
You would buy 10 sets with 100 special attachments and I wouldn't see you all day. The Game of Thrones people could build Castle Black on the wall. I would like to see that build.
After I spend two weeks creating the blueprints of that castle.
Sorry the sound is too low for me to hear this.
Hello, I'm coming back here to let you know that the link given by the esteemed owner of the channel does not seem to be working. The site seems to have gone down, currently you can only access the site through another link... I tried to copy and paste that link in this comment but apparently RUclips automatically deletes my comment if it contains a link. With that new link you can only see the images that contain several tokens together but only in low resolution... when you try to click on that image to obtain a high resolution/larger size the link simply seems to be broken.
You must type a statement first then you can insert a link. I checked my link and using good ole windows 10, it is working.
@@SageMasterRPG Master, when you told me this I thought it was my problem because on my usual old and trusty notebook I still use Windows 7. But I have already tried with a PC with Windows 10 and using the link that you gave I still get the same problem: error message about the site cannot be found. And searching on Google I see that I am not the only one who has had this happen, in a forum I found the alternative of using something called waybackmachine: an extension to the link that is placed in front of your link starting with "web archive" (I can't put the link because RUclips automatically deletes my comment) and with that I can access to the website but it happens to me that I can only see the images in their small version since when I click on them it gives me the error message again. So I can only save those previews of the images.
A few days ago I was remembering you, because of what you were saying about the advantages of paper miniatures, because I found the supplement book "Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Fold-Up Figures" (from 1984 if I'm not mistaken). Even better than what is usually found because they are not just to have the flat token/template but each character comes with 3 poses (back, sideways and front) to form like a prism with a triangular base. I hadn't seen that kind of paper miniature before. Thank you for sharing this material, the benefits of 3 decades of the internet I suppose ;D
Hmmm. Can't find the site.