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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RabidBob" data-source="post: 4400485" data-attributes="member: 3839">This:ALWAYS take max Body Dev every level.  RAW combat in RM is EXTREMELY deadly.  Due to the way critical hits work it's just a matter of time before you are unlucky and are dead.  There are a lot of fantastic aspects to RM but there's a huge amount of luck based things too at least when I was last playing.  IIRC learning spell lists is a bit random; you put skill points into the list and then roll, if you're lucky you learn that section of the list and if not you have another chance next level.  I played RM through my teens and into my 20ies and loved it; we were realism freaks.  Looking back I'd not touch it again with a barge pole!  When 3E came out I realised that realism does not necessarily mean fun.</blockquote>