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What is Rolemaster Fantasy Role Playing and why should I play it?

Q. What is Rolemaster Fantasy Role Playing?

A. Rolemaster Fantasy Role Playing (RMFRP) is ICE's original fantasy roleplaying system. RMFRP is a percentile-based role playing system with the following features that make your fantasy roleplaying wonderfully rich and exciting:

• Nine professions and five races.
• Flexible, customizable character development.
• Wide range of skills with all skills available to all professions.
• Three realms of magic and hundreds of spells to choose from.
• The most exciting RPG combat available, with a range of dramatic and realistic critical hits and fumbles.
• RMFRP is a fully expandable and customizable rules system.
• A large range of supplements designed to add power and flexibility to the core RMFRP set.
• A variety of books designed to expand and enrich your fantasy roleplaying campaign. Select from over a dozen books detailing everything from elemental magic, specific rules/tips for Gamemasters, character creation, weapons, to the creatures and monstersthat inhabit your fantasy campaign world.

Q. What are Roleplaying Games?

A. Rather than waste too much space on this page, please go to this page for a nicely detailed answer!

Q. Why should I play RMFRP instead of some other system like D&D© or GURPS©?
A. You should play RMFRP because it kicks boo-tay!!! Seriously though...you should play RMFRP because it's the most flexible, customizable and highly expandable roleplaying system available.

Since it was first published in August 1980, RMFRP continues to be one of the longest-lived and most popular fantasy RPGs in the history of the paper-n-dice roleplaying genre. RMFRP has survived and flourished because players love how Rolemaster brings their RPG characters and adventures to life.

If you want to hear from the fans why they love to play RMFRP, check out all the Rolemaster Moments submitted by players from all over the world!

Q. How do I play RMFRP?
A. For starters you can download and read this 5-page PDF—it's an excerpt from Rolemaster Player Guide ST# 5503 (pages 3-6). It explains the basics of how to play RMFRP: Dice Rolling, Performing Actions, Movement, Attacks, Static Maneuvers, Moving Maneuvers, Casting Spells and Healing & Recovery. Adobe PDF file, 1.17MB.

• German-language version of How do I play Rolemaster?! —This is a translation of the above article into German. Wonderfully translated and submitted by Alexander Dotor. 8-page PDF file, added 08/08/03

Q. What do I need to play RMFRP?
A. To get started as a brand new player you will do just fine with the RMFRP rulebook and 2 different color 10-sided dice, but once your character reaches 10th level you'll want to pick up these titles:

• Character Law ST# 5806
• Arms Law ST# 5810
• Spell Law —select from 3 different Spell Law books depending on what type of magic you want to use: ...of Chanelling (ST# 5803), ...of Essence (ST# 5804) and/or ...of Mentalism (ST# 5805)
• Creatures & Monsters ST# 5802

Q. What other sorts of FREE stuff do you have to help me play and enjoy RMFRP?

A. Here on the ICE website we always have tons of free resources, downloads and other goodies that will enhance your playing experience:

• The Vault: Tons of free downloads from character-creation sheets to maps to articles.
• ICE Links: Tons of links to Rolemaster fan websites.
• Rolemaster Moments: Read hundreds of these exciting and often very funny moments from RM campaigns from players all over the world.
• Official ICE Forums: The single best online resource for Rolemaster information submitted by fans the world over. here you can search for information or post your questions to be answered by other fans.
• Fan Fiction & Art: Check out other fans' Rolemaster-related art and fiction.
• FAQs & Errata: Everyone makes mistakes, including us—but we do our best to fix our errors. These FAQs and Errata Listings have been prepared by ICE for your convenience.

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