With the addition of WordPress to this site, one of the things that I can do is set up the Pages that have the information for individual ICE products so people can add comments. Comments could range from a review or opinion on the product, a question about the product, perhaps some errata or pointing out a mistake on the page. You could post that you have a copy of that particular item for sale, or are looking for that particular item, or just about anything.

Now, the problem is that it isn’t a simple task for me to do this, it probably takes about 30 - 45 minutes for me to clean up and adjust each page so it will work properly under WordPress. That doesn’t sound like much until you realize that I think there are now over 400 pages that would need updating.

So, my question is, how many people would find this useful, and if so, which Products would you like to see me get done first?

Here is an example of what the pages would look like:

http://www.icewebring.com/ice-products/rolemaster-first-edition/arms-law/

Please add a comment to this post if this is something you would like to see. Where I put this project on my list of things to do will be greatly influenced by the number of people that respond. Thanks!

(Note: I do have comment moderation turned on, so there will be a delay from when you post your comment until it appears)

Updated the pages with the lists of ICE Products so they will display properly and have working links when accessed through the WordPress structure. Also started fixing up the Links page (Featured Sites), but still need lots of work on that particular page. I’ve have several sites I still want to add, some of the descriptions need updating, I want to add the code for being able to vote for those sites at RPG Gateway and I need to clean up the formatting of the page still.

I actually noticed this way back when this book first came out, it’s “Ghost Ship” by Diane Carey and was the first original story published for Star Trek The Next Generation. To be honest, I can’t even remember if the story was any good or not, but I’ve never forgotten one interesting aspect of the cover. Take a close look at the ship that is orbiting the planet. Turn the book upside down. Look a little familiar? “Hey Starbuck, why is the Galactica flying upside down?”
I also posted another photo in a comment attached to this post of my Galactica model taken from roughly the same angle as the book cover.

Here’s a copy of an announcement Tim (Rasyr) posted on the ICE Forums including some information about a project I’ve been helping out with, Rolemaster Classic.

Apparently, this latest newsletter from Bruce may have been mangled by anti-spam progams for some reason. Therefore, I am reposting it here.

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Hi Folks,

There was a complaint on the forums recently that we have made Spacemaster 2 PDFs available and have not made Rolemaster 2 PDFs available. So we are fixing that today. Just be aware that these are scans like the Spacemaster 2, Star Strike, and Armored Assault products put up recently and that the PDF text is not searchable. Here are the first 3 RM2 titles from the ICE Online Store “Oldies But Goodies” category (http://store.ironcrown.com/category.jsp?category=9546):

1100P Arms Law & Claw Law $5: http://store.ironcrown.com/detail.jsp?itemId=1467683&category=130428
1200P Spell Law $10: http://store.ironcrown.com/detail.jsp?itemId=1467684&category=130428
1300P Character Law & Campaign Law $10: http://store.ironcrown.com/detail.jsp?itemId=1467685&category=130428

We are releasing three main rules books today in PDF and ST# 1400P Creatures & Treasures will follow later. Very few additional RM2 products will follow directly from ICE as few of the additional books contain intellectual property that we entirely own. At the moment I do not expect to go back and purchase those rights, but we will be trying to work through The Guild Companion (http://www.guildcompanion.com) like we did with the recent Castles & Ruins release and the upcoming Essence Companion.

Before purchasing these PDFs, please be aware that we are in the process, and have been for some time, of redoing these RM2 books for full re-release. We initiated the project with the help of LordMiller and his mighty band of Rolemaster experts. Up until recently they have done the bulk of the work and we are extremely grateful to them for what they have done. It will be hard on them, but LordMiller and his crew will still have to remain mostly in the background a bit longer as it is still too early to talk about details of the new releases.

The new series will be called Rolemaster Classic and will consist of both PDF and physical books available on our website and through distribution. Prices and sizes have yet to be set in stone. The first four books in the series are Character/Campaign Law, Spell Law, Arms Law, and Creatures & Treasures. We are still not sure when the first release will hit but we are aiming to have the first book out in the Fall 2006.

We are planning mainly graphical and organizational changes with no material changes to the rules. We intend that someone using RMC will get the same gaming experience that the 1989 editions provided, but with much better presentation and organization. It will be much easier to use and to teach as a result.

We are not abandoning RMFRP and both Rolemaster lines will see increased support in the coming years particularly in the area of adventures and background releases that can be done for both versions. The RM2 fanbase is still one of the largest parts of the Rolemaster world and this project allows them to fully participate now.

We will be releasing more details in the weeks ahead.

Best,

Bruce at ICE

Additionally, ICE would like to take a moment, to to publicly and proudly thank LordMiller and his mighty band of Rolemaster experts which include the following folks:

LordMiller
ictus
Brent Knorr
Cormac Doyle
eiseg
munchy
maikeru
Ned

I would also like to take a moment to thank our Global Moderators (Nick Caldwell, lazvon, Midknight, ChosenDM) and Rob Defendi for helping the RMC team out with advice and comments and everything in general.

They are a great bunch and all deserve a tremendous round of thanks!!

Note: If I have forgotten anybody, my aopolgies.

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It’s amazing what one stray “float: left” in your style.css can do to your pages. Got rid of that and the new Theme works much better, so I’ve reactivated it.

Reverted back to using the Journalized theme as the Sidebar menu doesn’t show up in Explorer in the new theme, although it works fine in Mozilla and Firefox.

I’ve created a new theme for the site, which I admit looks an awful lot like the old Journalized theme, but I’ve simplified some sections to make it easier to work with, especially when I am integrating the big list of pages that exist outside the WordPress structure. It also allows me to more easily adjust the color and font settings to be more like they used to be. I’m sure I’ve missed a few things along the way and there will be some odd looking pages, if you spot any, please post a comment letting me know. Thanks!

Added a new page to the side bar where you can go to add general feedback, comments and suggestions for the site

For those of you that are fans of Spacemaster 2nd Edition, ICE has recently released PDF versions of some of the material for that version of the game, including the Core rules, Star Strike, the three Vessel Compendiums, Armored Assault, and the Armor Reserves Vehicle Compendium.
They can be purchased at:

http://store.ironcrown.com/items.jsp;jsessionid=U3jdLsPeQQgbXG3k?category=23191