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Rolemaster & Progression Fantasy.
A comment(s) over at the discord server caught my attention. In the RMU thread, “Thrud” questioned the need for the skill “Maneuvering in Armor”. If you’ve read this blog or downloaded my SW Combat Companion you’ll know that we dropped that skill long ago. I’ve made quite a few arguments here and on the forums …


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Balancing access to Realms
I’ve been following a discussion on realm limitations over on the Forums. While this was an RMU discussion, I’ve written extensively about realm access in my own rules (SWARM) and as a house rule in general for Rolemaster. We’ve been playing without any realm limitations for years and haven’t seen any functional or mechanical issues. …


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Free Shadow World Conversion Guide Available on DTRPG
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/562285/shadow-world-rolemaster-unified-conversion-guide

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Shadow World Master File List. 7-8-26
Please note that some of these files may be here on the Rolemasterblog, but to access these links to the RM Forums will require a Forum account–otherwise you cannot see or access. Here we go:

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Appearance as a stat?
During my deconstruction of the Rolemaster ruleset for my Shadow World campaign I kept hitting a wall with stat redesign. Sometimes I tried to reduce the stats from 10, other times I tried to come up with a better framework of qualities that represents a “being” and works with the skill list. I have to …


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