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Yes, the latest release was Emer III (the SE quadrant of The Great Continent) and Terry is at work on the final quadrant (Emer IV). We've definitely been intrigued by Darkmaster too over at the Rolemaster Blog (d100 solidarity!). Our blog has posted a few articles on it during the course of...

ICE went bankrupt in 2000. It was all the rage back then. Brick and mortar stores were contracting, and TSR was headed in the same direction, IIRC, until Wizards bought them. ICE also had a dispute about licensing which caused them to lose the Tolkien license, so that was the end of MERP, all...

Actually, the current rule in RMU is that if you get an absolute success (176+) on your Fortitude roll, you get '2x normal benefits', which I think you could easily interpret as ignoring all penalties.

In addition to what Topramesk said, I would note that this was an issue Rolemaster itself later dealt with. The second edition of Rolemaster (RM2) introduced a 'Stunned Maneuvering' skill, which allowed characters to act without penalty if they made a skill check; they had to do that each round...

The turtle is a running gag on the ICE forums. Good times!

It is a fun article, but in addition to the points Aramis makes (that it seems more related to MERP than Rolemaster), I would make the following: --The article says there once was a game called Rolemaster... in fact there still is. The newest edition (Rolemaster Unified) is set to come out this...

The original teaser trailer looked horrible, imho, but the gameplay here looks somewhat better. I am more hopeful that this might be a fun button masher.

Sorry if this question has been answered before, but I haven't been able to find anything about it. I remember looking at listings of reviews from ENWorld. They have reviewed pretty much every 5e product for example. So I jumped on the site looking for a section on reviews, looking to compare...

If you go to the ICE Forums>Vault, you might be able to find some character sheets; can't say for certain. You might also have more luck if you posted a request on the ICE Forums for help with pregenerated characters (post in the Rolemaster> RMC/RM2 subforum): Official ICE Forums - Index The...

Lewpuls: No one is suggesting that the average Viking was pulling out Vegetius, so I don't think we're that far apart. As historian Timothy Reuter put it, war was 'a practical rather than a theoretical art.' But I think it is unfair to say that tactics consisted of 'line up and charge'. In the...

Mine actually just stopped even asking if the creatures had any stuff. Definitely one of the weakest parts of 5e.

For sure, no doctrine was strictly adhered to. And of course mistakes.can be made. I was just speaking generally.

For the record, the indirect style was the dominant one in the Middle Ages, at least in military manuals. Medievalists debate exactly how dominant this 'Vegetian' style of warfare was in actuality (Vegetian comes from Vegetius, the late Roman author/compiler whose treatise Epitoma rei militaris...

There are at least 103 races and variants currently in the game. Do you want to create a chart of ASIs (usually two) for 103 races and variants? And more importantly, do you want to try to balance those, both with the other ASIs and with racial feats? That's what you're missing. Can I do it...

You have to do it for every race and variant-- how many are there now for 5e? You also have to try to balance them now, both against each other and against whatever will be used to balance races now (feats it looks like). And tournament/Adventurer's league play will not follow those rules...

Similarly, I'm a Liberal (there is actually a Liberal party in Canada) who even votes NDP (far left) if that's the only viable option to Conservative. In the USA I'd be called a progressive liberal (or insane socialist if you watch Fox News). It's really not about that.

That's totally cool, and I want you to be able to play the game you want. But, consider this: If Wizards keeps racial ASI's and gives players the option of ignoring them, we can both play the way we want. If Wizards eliminates racial ASIs altogether, only you can play the way you want; we...

This perfectly encapsulates my perspective too. I see myself as more on the simulationist, 'fantasy Vietnam' end of the spectrum. Halflings stronger than Minotaurs rain on my parade.

I've gone back and forth. I actually didn't mind that NPCs and monsters followed different rules than PCs in 4th edition, since that whole system was based more on powers, and it was cool that monsters got unique powers; my players never knew exactly what tricks the bad guys had up their...

Yes, though in other systems (and to some extent even in previous editions of D&D, at least in regards to important NPCs), PCs and NPCs follow the same rules. This gives the world some internal consistency. That's one of the things I don't like about 5e -- the rules for PCs and NPCs aren't the same.