Flipthrough: Against the Darkmaster (Open Ended Games 2020)
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Thanks for the overview! This looks like a "must have" game. I am still quite fond of the old Iron Crown Enterprises game and this has the appearance of being a possible successor to those products.
Hoping maybe this will get ICE moving on a new edition of Rolemaster too. Glacial pace over there.
I have been playing in an online epic campaign that has been going for almost a year now and it is amazing. It is a much improved successor to the Iron Crown MERP and Rolemaster games.
Actually sold my 2nd edtion MERP stuff a few years ago. Had TOR at that point and figured it fit Middle Earth better regarding theme. However, I always appreciated Rolemaster and HARP so planned on eventually getting those (again). After seeing how cleaned up VsDarkmaster is compared to the old MERP rules, it's much better layout, and the tools it provides to make your own customized setting with similar themes, I ended up ordering this last week. Good timing on your flip-through as I've not seen the physical book, it's yet to arrive.
After my brief perusal of the PDF, I'd like to see some more monsters added in the future but I rarely get my fill of such options in any RPG. It has enough to last awhile and modify before feeling the need to homebrew some.
Stats names may be because they wanted strong, thematic words rather than the generic, cliche words used by the majority of games. I'd say stats that evoke theme and flavor is drastically more important than being chosen for the letter they start with
You are determined to drag me back to my RPG roots with all these videos first your Hârn videos then paladin warriors of charlemagne and now this one not forgetting the Traveller stuff as well
You should do a comparative video on character creation within each system and what works best and why
Character creation videos are in the works; I already have two for Mongoose Traveller.
My game world was designed around this premise. Ordered. Cannot wait to run it.
Looks great, beautiful book, love the illustrations. Seems to solve some of the problems I had with running MERP. All I need now is some kind soul to script a Roll20 character sheet in English and good to go!
Glad to see you covering this. I got my copy a few weeks ago. I am wrapping up a year long MERP campaign, so this is very much of interest to me.
What a great game. I’ve run several sessions, and it never disappoints.
Ahh! MERP, transporting me back to 1984...
Nice video. That's one good looking book. The art is very nice and it seems well thought out. Anything that builds upon/takes off from MERP is worthy of attention, in my book. MERP is fantastic, and its supplements the best in the genre, so those are big boots to size up to.
I'd be interested in hearing your OSR opinions, the good and the bad of it all. Cheers.
Blind guardian and rolemaster, peanut butter and jam
Hi Ardwulf! I watch with interest your wargaming content, but I love your RPG videos. I wasn’t aware of the existence of Rolemaster or Against the Darkmaster befor this.
Exceptionally good overview. I wasn't sure this was the right addition to my shelf, but having seen enough of the content and consistency of quality throughout, I'm VERY interested. Publisher should put you on commission :-D
d5 is one half of d10, which you have as part of the percentile pair.
After having played TOR a few times, I really felt it was way too stiff and structured. Then I see there is a new Merpish game. Easy, drop that harmless TOR stuff and go back to those glorious criticals!!!
This definitely looks fascinating.. Thanks for the review .. Would love to see more breakdowns ..hopefully since this was over a year ago you've already made them!
I'm really looking forward for this book! It seems to me as a tribute to the classic fantasy genre that is so lost among current titles - in addition to having influences, references and game mechanics that I much prefer! At the moment a late pledge of the crowdfunding here in Brazil is about to begin. It'll be awesome!
This was an excellent review. Thanks. I'm an old Rolemaster / MERP gamer from the 90s, and I can see the inspiration here. Really helpful vid.
Damn! I need another RPG like I need a hole in my skull, but I love MERP and this looks pretty damn cool.
Agreed, more AtD stuff. This pushed me over the edge to pledge to the new Kickstarter.
Sorry, but that "tiny print error" you mentioned in the Kickstarter backers section is actually Morse Code
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DARKBACHELOR
Loved the video. Please cover every aspect of this game! It looks so much fun. Bizarre that I only just watched lotr last night!
I didn't see any character creation or combat videos for VsD since this one. Did I miss something or was there not enough interest to warrant making them?
The bottleneck is my iwn time. Still plan to do some, perhaps coordinated with the release of the new printing.
Plz do more Vs darkmaster stuff
Hell yeah, do a character creation video. I love those.
You remind me of just how much I disliked "spell lists" from rolemaster. Thank you.
I actually love that feature, although I have many quibbles about the implementation.
Looks nice. Where do we get it? I’m asking before I watched the whole thing lol.
Sorry for the late reply, but just required this. Chargen video would be most welcome.
2 years later, how has your darkmaster book held up?
Perfectly well, but it has not hard the hard use of table play.
@@ardwulfslair "but it has not hard the hard use of table play" 🥴
Otherwise sold!
No Umli though. I'm out.
Haha, man I hated those stupid Umli!
In my oppinon its not a fast system, I played years ago Rolemaster i was de GM, and a 5 party of PJ vs for example 4 orcs its so slow and tedious. Because you have to account the dice rolls, criticals, DB.. etc In the old days of rolemaster was 4 pages of skills to make the character. They copied the old MERP system of lord of the rings, reducing stats to +5,+10,+15.. etc and the experiencce points. But the worst of the system the combat its like was in the past. The should have reduced the rolls and the scale of attacks maybe to 2d10 added and not 1d100 open plus skill. Its like returning to the old MERP, i´m not sure if that system fits in actual RPG culture. Any way if their intention its make the old Rolemaster they have done it, congrats!! But its not for me because i played it a lot 20 years ago and its so slow and tedious to play.
Thanks for video and sorry about my writting.
See, my experience differs radically from that. Character creation absolutely does take ages, and character management (like when you gain levels) is also a lot of work. But if you pre-calculate everything that saves tons of time in actual play, and we found that generally speak combats went very quickly.
Now, partly this is because there's a relatively high chance of a killing or incapacitating result. So swing for swing this absolutely takes longer than say D&D (any version, pretty much), but you have fewer swings before the end of the fight. Some configurations of encounters can take ages, but good encounter design by the GM will alleviate that.
Stay tuned, though - I will have a video talking about this at some point.
I have played for a while now and yes swing for swing it is slower than D&D but overall it is faster as combat is less tedious. Character generation is a bit of a long process but I know players that spend/waste hours figuring out feats for 5th edition D&D. Many people see D&D as normal as relatively understandable because it is all they know. Dollar for dollar this game is easier.