It’s almost the New Year so I thought I’d post some of my goals for the ICEWEBRING site and gaming in general.

The switch to WordPress hasn’t been as useful as I had hoped. It seems to have slowed the access to pages down significantly and there have been very few comments posted by people. However, the advantage of being able to catagorize the entries I’ve made and the potential for being able to move to a more database driven design for the ICE Product lists means that I think I will stick with this format.

I don’t have big plans for the site for this year, I need to clarify some of the entries for some of the earlier products, particularly those that I am discovering had multiple versions released. There are also several areas where the cover images could be improved, I still have small images and now have aquired copies of the products so could easily scan in larger images.

I also want to get all the major pages moved to be WordPress pages and get rid of the “unconverted” portion of the left hand menu.
There’s also some tweaking of the style sheets needed to get some things cleaned up. That’s about it for planned site changes. I’ll probably still work on entering the individual products into a database behind the scenes, but I don’t expect to add any access to that from the site this year.

My main focus this year will be on doing up some additional articles for publication, first up is an Adventure that will hopefully appear in the 2nd edition of the Guild Adventurer. A big part of getting that done is learning how to use Campaign Cartographer 3 / Dungeon Designer 3 for doing maps. It’s coming along well so far, but I’ve only done two basic buildings. The challenging part will be doing up the plans for the two ships in the adventure.

I’m also hopeful that ICE will get HARP Sci Fi published this year and I can work on doing some articles related to that. I have a couple of creatures and races ready to go from my playtest group, and I am hoping to do an adaption for running Star Wars with HARP Sci Fi.

I’m also planning on doing several more Underwater Articles for HARP for the Guild Companion, including Underwater Spells and an article on Mermaids.
In there somewhere, I will be doing some more contributions to the Rolemaster Classic project with ICE, but I couldn’t reveal any details about that right now even if I knew them.

That’s about it, doesn’t sound like much, but it does leave room for some unexpected additional projects, and since another goal for me this year is to get out and excercise more and spend less time in front of the computer, I think it’s a reasonable amount to aim for.

The December Guild Companion has been posted for awhile now, and amoung other interesting articles, it contains an article that I wrote for playing Dolphins as Player Characters in HARP, admittedly an odd notion, but a GM could also use it as a method of creating some interesting NPC’s for characters that might be adventuring on or under the oceans

It’s finally here! ICE released RMC Character Law on December 1st, the first in the new RMC line, the following schedule was announced for the rest of the RMC line:

Feb 2007: Arms Law (With added materials from the Italian Arms law)
Apr 2007: Spell Law
Jun 2007: Creatures & Treasures

Looks like “Campaign Law” was split from “Character Law” and will get a separate release after ‘Creatures & Treasures”

Posted version of the ICE Newsletter announcement:
www.ironcrown.com/ICEforums/index.php?topic=2768.0

Link to ICE Newsletter, Announcements & Store:
www.ironcrown.com

Bruce @ ICE mentions a totally new RMC supplement in the planning stage called “Shadow Law”
Details:
www.ironcrown.com/ICEforums/index.php?topic=2654.0

Here’s the scoop: Rolemaster Classic: Character Law marks the return of the original revered Rolemaster 2 system. This volume encompasses the Character Law section of the hallowed “red border edition” Character & Campaign Law and has been completely updated and expanded. The original Character Law pioneered many of today’s gaming concepts and still sets the platinum standard for fantasy RPG character creation. It has been a herculean effort and the RMC Team has done an amazing job.

You have 4 formats to choose from, so happy shopping!

1. PDF ST# 6501P $18: http://store.ironcrown.com/detail.jsp?itemId=2001950&category=162528
2. Softcover ST# 6501 $30: http://store.ironcrown.com/detail.jsp?category=162529&itemId=1992824
3. Hardcover ST# 6501h $40: http://store.ironcrown.com/detail.jsp?category=162530&itemId=1992825
4. Limited Edition Hardcover ST# 6501LE $50: http://store.ironcrown.com/detail.jsp?category=152927&itemId=1992823