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Rolemaster in the Forgotten Realms (races question)
« on: July 29, 2016, 02:42:30 AM »
Hi all,

I want to play Rolemaster 2 in the Forgotten Realms, a setting I really like.
But I question myself (and you :p) about the races.

The Rolemaster races are more Tolkiennish ones, and it is not the case for the Forgotten Realms races, who are more D&D races.

Do you know someone who play in the Forgotten Realms ? What races stats do you use and why ? I take all advices :)

PS : I play with the second edition of Forgotten Realms, just 4 years after the Avatar trilogy.
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Re: Rolemaster in the Forgotten Realms (races question)
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2016, 06:29:51 AM »
Peter R at www.rolemasterblog.com is running a FR campaign and blogging about it. Hes on this forum too.
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Re: Rolemaster in the Forgotten Realms (races question)
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2016, 02:10:38 PM »
I use Rolemaster for Forgotten realms right now.

I just use the RM races as Is. One could work the Elves Height to make them shorter, and that is about all the difference I really see between Tolkien and FR races. But I decided that the height issue wasn't really an issue for me. It doesn't really effect the Setting flavour.
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Re: Rolemaster in the Forgotten Realms (races question)
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2016, 03:52:00 PM »
Whenever running Rolemaster in the Forgotten Realms setting, I just use the FR maps, deities, political and religious structures, etc. Then I use the straight from the book RM races, creatures, professions, spells, magic items, etc.

This can cause a little adjustment for the players who are used to the drow and all their overpowered silliness. The RM Companion I has stats for dark elves or you can use the stats for Dyari from Shadow World. But usually, it works just fine. If I want to use a D&D specific monster for a little flavor, I just wing it.

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Re: Rolemaster in the Forgotten Realms (races question)
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2016, 04:09:34 AM »
It's a good advice, yep :)

Yesterday, I've seen in the RoCo 1 some good races for the Forgotten Realms.
The grey elves (who are less powerfull than the high and fair elves on the character book), and the half-elves D and E.
For the Gnomes, I've found the stats in the Creatures & Treasures 1, and I will give them 6 development points.

I think it can be good like this ^^
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Re: Rolemaster in the Forgotten Realms (races question)
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2016, 03:06:33 AM »
I was going to say there had been some articles with the guild companion, trying to really helpful i went to find the links. It shows up when searching, but.....the guild companion website seems to be down so not so helpful. Maybe have a look later they may come back on line. Thanks.

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Re: Rolemaster in the Forgotten Realms (races question)
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2016, 07:59:34 AM »
Hi,

I have been running the Forgotten Realms with RM2 and RMC without any problems. I use the races from RoCo1. Most of my players are long time RM2 players and MERP before that so they were expecting tolkienian elves so it wasn't a problem. RoCo1 gives you the Sea Elves and Dark Elf races.
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Re: Rolemaster in the Forgotten Realms (races question)
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2016, 09:57:13 AM »
I was going to say there had been some articles with the guild companion, trying to really helpful i went to find the links. It shows up when searching, but.....the guild companion website seems to be down so not so helpful. Maybe have a look later they may come back on line. Thanks.

Seems to be up now, and you are correct. http://search.freefind.com/find.html?id=26202539&pid=r&mode=ALL&n=0&query=forgotten+realms
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Re: Rolemaster in the Forgotten Realms (races question)
« Reply #8 on: August 02, 2016, 02:39:26 AM »
I was going to say there had been some articles with the guild companion, trying to really helpful i went to find the links. It shows up when searching, but.....the guild companion website seems to be down so not so helpful. Maybe have a look later they may come back on line. Thanks.

Seems to be up now, and you are correct. http://search.freefind.com/find.html?id=26202539&pid=r&mode=ALL&n=0&query=forgotten+realms

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Re: Rolemaster in the Forgotten Realms (races question)
« Reply #9 on: August 02, 2016, 02:48:46 AM »
I have converted loads of creatures from FR to RM2/RMC. It doesn't take long once you get into the swing of it.

The rules for conversions are in the back of the RM2 Creatures & Treasures and also in the vault. I use the vault version as the RMC CT did not have the conversion rules. http://www.ironcrown.com/ICEforums/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=item672
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