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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hurin70" data-source="post: 8232964" data-attributes="member: 6875491">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 year. The core books have gone to art and layout, and you can still download and play the beta by signing in to the Iron Crown Enterprises website's forums, here: <a href="https://ironcrown.co.uk/ICEforums/index.php?action=forum" target="_blank">Official ICE Forums - Index</a> . You can also still play older editions on Fantasy Grounds and Roll20, and the ICE team are working towards providing support for RMU on these platforms as well.--Rolemaster was indeed 'related to Middle Earth Role Playing', but Rolemaster came first (originally as an add-on to D&D to make combat grittier). The ICE folks then got the Tolkien license, and created MERP as a kind of Rolemaster lite.--The wording of the article might suggest that Carachristi was a designer of Rolemaster; I would just like to point out that he is just the lead designer of Darkmaster, and has never had anything to do with Rolemaster. [This might be clarified by just putting 'of Darkmaster' after 'lead designer' in the second sentence of the second paragraph].--In Rolemaster at least, the skill bonus is not a 'skill percentage'. You can have over 100 as a skill bonus. It is just that the system is a d100 rather than a d20 system.--The new edition of Rolemaster (RMU) is working towards eliminating at least some of the charts from previous editions of Rolemaster, to make the game faster and easier to play. The new edition for example does not require you to use a movement chart, or a maneuver chart, or a spell attack chart (aside from elemental attacks spells such as Firebolt), for example. And of course we now live in an electronic age, when computers can easily do the work of looking up an attack on a chart and applying the results -- Rolemaster has its own suite of tools (the Electronic Roleplaying Assistant, available on DriveThru) for handling that sort of thing. So if you were hesitant to play Rolemaster because of its reputation as 'Chartmaster', the new edition should be worth a look.</blockquote>

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