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Yes, they have potential to do many interesting and novel (hah) things! Cartographer is another one I find interesting.

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?

Stop leaving five dislikes on my videos.

Stop leaving five dislikes on my videos.

Stop leaving five dislikes on my videos.

Excellent video, can't be clearer about the topic! I love the term "crispy games", I'm going to start using it, haha.

"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?

that'll be a good manga to read

Yep, if you've got a good table and engaged players, your doing awesome.

Do they actually still make roll master books?

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?

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)

As an Agile Practitioner Professionally this was a great video. ❤

Where is the rule that adds +15 for armor type?

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.

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.

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.😂😂👍

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).

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.

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.

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.