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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 5175509" data-attributes="member: 20741">The shorthand for it in our group is "RMCVII" & "Underwater Companion".In the late cycle of Rolemaster's Development back in the 90s, essentially everything after the Rolemaster Companion II was increasingly questionable, until by the time  the game reached the stage that RMC VII was released, the power creep was just utterly and completely ridiculous.When a book or class or ability is called "yeah, it's RMCVII" -- that's our gaming group's shorthand "for that's just power creep beyond repair. It's utterly broken. Don't bother getting it."The Underwater Companion was a never released fictional product for Rolemaster that was the subject of a humorous post on the RM mailing list back-in-the-day. The supposed forthcoming book was to feature "All new Underwater classes and Spells! New Rules for Underwater adventuring and special underwater maneuvers!! All New underwater critical charts!!! etc.."All of which was meant to poke fun that the Rolemaster 2ed system had bloated so much, they were soon going to release utterly stupid books with a scope so specialized and niche focussed that nobody really needed anything like that. We all had quite a snark and giggle when Stormwrack was released -- instantly branding it as "The Underwater Companion" for D&D 3.5.  Stormwrack is actually an interesting book and handy for changing up the natue of your campaign.  Again  - from a DM perspective. From a player's perspective?Just say no.</blockquote>

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