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Re: Misc SW material
« Reply #260 on: December 31, 2017, 04:10:58 PM »
Base for Priest Arnak "Yarthraak"

Looks like 2 empty spells slots--I'll fill those in eventually.
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Priest Arnak Gaath
« Reply #261 on: January 01, 2018, 06:00:17 PM »
Base List for Priests Arnak - Gaath
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Priest Arnak Athimurl
« Reply #262 on: January 01, 2018, 06:01:07 PM »
Base List for Priest Arnak - Athimurl
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Priest Arnak Dansart
« Reply #263 on: January 02, 2018, 10:08:25 AM »
The last two (Dansart and Thargondaak) are my 2 favorites!

Dansart attached. I always liked the Zorian waste, Grand Campaign material that Terry wrote. Had a Mad Max, post apocalyptic feel to it.
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Priest Arnak Thargondaak
« Reply #264 on: January 02, 2018, 10:37:48 AM »
Last but definitely not least - Thargondaak. I always imagined these guys as basically Evil Batman.

I'll be filling in the few blank spots and higher level spells at some point during a BASiL edit.
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Re: Misc SW material
« Reply #265 on: January 02, 2018, 11:14:55 PM »
I like how these lists clearly fit together, essentially built on the same template, but the customizations really give them a lot of personality.

For Thargondaak, the level 4 spell is a little unclear about gliding. I think, based on comparing the Gaath list, that it should say "Caster can fall up to 25' lvl and glide up to 5' per 1' of descent using their cloak."
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Re: Misc SW material
« Reply #266 on: January 08, 2018, 08:39:02 PM »
Shadow World Racial Chart for RMU.

A few changes that we use:
1. Only 1 RR v. Essaence (we don't break up by realm)
2. Fatigue is bonus to endurance/fatigue checks
3. Adjustment to experience for some races (due to immortality)
4. Cultural notes- per RMU starting cultures with some of our own

Wow, a whole bunch of great stuff in this entire thread. For someone who is digging out their old RM stuff and really thinking about jumping back in the pool with RMU test... its a lot to digest.

B Hanson, with your RMU Racial Chart - the base hits numbers are very low in comparison to the standard races in the RMU Beta. You have 8 or 10 - has this been adequate?   Thanks for a bunch of great work.  I took my old atlas stuff out and was going to number crunch... but you already had it done!

Good stuff and I really like the Rolemasterblog.com site!  Excellent resources!

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Re: Misc SW material
« Reply #267 on: January 09, 2018, 02:40:37 AM »
Glad some of the files were useful! Re: hits, I wrote that quite a while ago and those were dtypes like RM2 I believe. A lot of my material is a hybrid of RM, house rules and pieces of beta RMU, so it may need some tinkering. I would refer to the latest RMU beta for the baselines hits of the racial archetypes.
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Re: Misc SW material
« Reply #268 on: January 15, 2018, 08:15:50 AM »
I like how these lists clearly fit together, essentially built on the same template, but the customizations really give them a lot of personality.

For Thargondaak, the level 4 spell is a little unclear about gliding. I think, based on comparing the Gaath list, that it should say "Caster can fall up to 25' lvl and glide up to 5' per 1' of descent using their cloak."

I built all of them based on 4 spells: 1st lvl Familiar, a breath attack, some type of animal call/fear attack and the 20th lvl change. The rest I really tried to capture the specific spirit of the Messenger type. I excluded some obvious spells that Terry had already included in magic item powers--for instance, Dansart already had boots of sand running so I left out that type of spell although it was a good fit. In my campaign, I like the Messengers to have spell ability to keep the players guessing and for the cinematic aspect of some of the spells.

Yes, the Thargondaak Glide needs some work. I wanted it differentiated from the Gaath ability (dragon style) and more a mechanical ability (Dark Knight) so I reduced the glide ratio. Like all the BASiL stuff, it needs a complete final passthrough and edit!
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Re: Misc SW material
« Reply #269 on: January 15, 2018, 01:41:34 PM »
Were RMSS stat bonuses ever developed for the Shadow World Races and might I find them in another, maybe more recent Master Atlas? I'm still using the 2nd edition Atlas from old RM2 days, so standard Race listing with standard bonuses.

And if not, BHanson, is there a method to how you set up your RMU bonuses? Does an old +5 = +1, but sometimes a +2. Is a +10 a +3 (makes sense if you just triple the bonus you get +9...) or is there a document that lays out what the bonus would be? Example: Elves have that old -20 SD, in RMU it is just a -4 (3x -4 is really only a -12).

With me just jumping back into the RM pool, just trying to make sense of  the mechanics behind racial bonuses.  I saw in the Vault that someone put together a great MERP RMU listing with listing out the Talents. Very complete. I would like to put something like it together for SW.

Some RMU Talents that I think need to be added for SW to match what Terry had in the 2nd Ed. Master Atlas:
Sort of Fast Healer: .75x Heal Rate (5 pts) [or Fast Healer I, and make current RMU Fast Healer - Fast Healer II]
Sort of Slow Healer: 1.5x Heal Rate (-5 pts)
Somewhat Vigorous: Endurance +5 (3 pts) [or Vigorous I, and make Vigorous in RMU Vigorous II]
A bit Feeble: Endurance -5 (-2 pts)

Anyone with any ideas?

 

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Re: Misc SW material
« Reply #270 on: January 15, 2018, 01:48:53 PM »
The Shadow World races are in RMFRP Races & Cultures.
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Re: Misc SW material
« Reply #271 on: January 15, 2018, 06:33:27 PM »
Picked it up. Good stuff and generally goes in the direction that I thought in translating the races that it gives. Any takes on Anzeti, Duranaki, Talath/Myri, Jaadari/Shay (common men), Kuluku, and Rhianni? Those races do not appear in the RMFRP document.

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Re: Misc SW material
« Reply #272 on: January 15, 2018, 07:16:15 PM »
The Shadow World races are in RMFRP Races & Cultures.

The Shadow World Master Atlas 4 has all the RM2 & RMSS/FRP stats for ALL races.
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Messengers of Arnak
« Reply #273 on: January 18, 2018, 11:56:48 AM »
I wrote up a short blog on the Messengers over at the Rolemasterblog.

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Messengers of Arnak
« Reply #274 on: January 18, 2018, 02:04:50 PM »
You know what would be cool...if someone did some illustrations or renderings of the 6 different Messengers. hint, hint,  Craig?
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Re: Misc SW material
« Reply #275 on: January 18, 2018, 06:59:47 PM »
Adding it to the list  ;)
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« Reply #276 on: January 27, 2018, 03:24:12 AM »
Btw: We have over 120 blog posts on Shadow World at:

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Re: Misc SW material
« Reply #277 on: January 28, 2018, 07:31:54 PM »
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Re: Misc SW material
« Reply #278 on: February 19, 2018, 11:57:14 AM »
Some more Shadow World fun over at the RMBlog:

Xiosians:
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Review of 1st ed. Parchment The Iron Wind.
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« Reply #279 on: February 25, 2018, 06:13:16 PM »
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