Response to Woas about HARP

[Rasyr]

So? Any comments on the combat example?

 

[Rasyr]

I was actually thinking about suggestions on how integrate parts of RM (e.g. Arms Law) in HARP.

Integrating Arms Law into HARP

This is a relatively easy task.

Step 1: Remove the modifier to DB that armor gives the HARP character.

Step 2: Determine the Arm's Law AT (Armor Type) of the character. Just match what the character is actually wearing against the AT descriptions in Arm's Law accordingly. This may call for a little bit of a judgement call since the armors do not match up exactly.

Step 3: Roll attack on the Arm's Law tables rather then the HARP tables.

 

[Rasyr]

Any more comments or questions?

 

[Rasyr]

Any more comments or questions??? Also, don't forget that the HARP PDF is still on sale until January 3rd.....

 

[Staffan]

I was reading through Martial Law and saw that it has rules for having armor affect the damage you take (used together with the hit location system). So, I was wondering: is this supposed to be in addition to, or instead of, the DB you get from armor?

 

[Calico_Jack73]

Well, for HARP, ICE wanted a lighter system than Rolemaster, something along the lines of an introductory system, especially since Rolemaster had such a stigma (things like chartmaster, rollmaster, etc..), even among those who had never played the system. At first I had thoughts about creating a Rolemaster Lite, at least until I realized that there was no easy way to do so.

I thought MERP (Middle Earth Roleplaying) was ICE's Rolemaster Lite since it had simplified rules which were compatable with Rolemaster.

 

[Rasyr]

I was reading through Martial Law and saw that it has rules for having armor affect the damage you take (used together with the hit location system). So, I was wondering: is this supposed to be in addition to, or instead of, the DB you get from armor?

That is an optional rule. Some folks have done it "in addition" while others have reduced the DB from armor while using this rule.

It can be used with the larger crit tables in Martial Law or with the smaller ones in HARP itself. The choices are up to the GM.

 

[Rasyr]

I thought MERP (Middle Earth Roleplaying) was ICE's Rolemaster Lite since it had simplified rules which were compatable with Rolemaster.

Because the company currently doing business as Iron Crown Enterprises is not the same company that produced MERP. MERP is effectively a dead system solely because there will never be another product created and sold for it. Tolkien Enterprises saw to that when the forced the old ICE into bankruptcy and then completely out of business. Rolemaster was then sold off at the bunckruptcy auction, and purchased by a gentleman in England. He, in turn, contacted a fwe of the former ICE employees who created a new company called Mjolnir LLC which is doing business as Iron Crown Enterprises.

Since that time, I wrote HARP and then joined ICE as a full-time employee while it was still in playtesting.

Just to set something straight, HARP is not a Rolemaster Lite. The term "Lite" implies that the object to which it is applied is a stripped down version of something larger. This is not the case. HARP was developed and written from the ground up. It is in the same family of products as Rolemaster because it shares many of the same basic concepts, but it is its own full complete game because it compeltely rethinks and re-implements some of those concepts in new ways. HARP is not a stripped down anything. It is a lighter game than Rolemaster, and it has much of the same flavor of Rolemaster, but there are differences....