Evolution of Arms Law (pdf)

The first Rolemaster product ever released by ICE was Arms Law in 1980. It was a combat system that designed to replace the combat system in other Roleplaying games, particularly Advanced Dungeons and Dragons and would serve as the base for the rest of the Rolemaster products to come. The newest version of Arms Law released in 2003 returns to these roots and provides updated conversion guidelines for 3rd Edition Dungeons and Dragons.
This article examines the various versions of Arms Law that have been produced
over the last 23 years.

Master Skill List

Master Skill List lists all the currently published skills and subskills for RMSS as well as including a few entries from Space Master and a couple of other sources.(Replaced by the lists below) July 1999

Alphabetic Skill Index (pdf)

An index sorted alphabetically by skill name that lists all the skills for Rolemaster Standard System, Rolemaster Fantasy Roleplaying and Spacemaster Privateers including all the supplements. This is a more recent list than the Master Skill List. January 2004

Skills Index by Category (pdf)

An index sorted by catagory that lists all the skills for Rolemaster Standard System, Rolemaster Fantasy Roleplaying and Spacemaster Privateers including all the supplements. This is a more recent list than the Master Skill List. January 2004

RM2 skills to RMSS

An essay and a table mapping the RM2 skills to RMSS skills for Rolemaster. This article appeared in the May 1999 issue of the Guild Companion

RM2/Spacemaster skills to RMFRP/ Spacemaster Privateers

An updated version of the table mapping the RM2 skills to RMSS skills for Rolemaster. Now includes RMFRP and Spacemaster Privateers. April 2001

StarFleet Academy (html)

StarFleet Academy (Word)

StarFleet Academy (pdf)

An article describing how to generate Star Trek characters with the SpaceMaster Privateers rules. Contains lots of new Training packages for Spacemaster Privateers. A slightly earlier version appears in the September 2001 issue of the Guild Companion. An update was in the October issue. The copies here are up to date.

Fasa Star Trek Skill
Conversion

A table listing the skills from FASA’s Star Trek RPG and the equivalent Rolemaster/Spacemaster skills. Part of a project to create a Spacemaster version of Star Trek that I may finish someday. Or maybe not! April 2001

D4 table
D6 table
D8 table
D10 table
D12 table
D20 table
dice.pl Perl program

Dice probability tables. These tables list the percentage chance of rolling a specific target number, and the chance of rolling that number or higher. Each page has charts listing from 2 to 20 dice being rolled for that particular die type. For example, one chart on the d6 page is 3d6, which will list the probablilities for rolling any number possible with three six sided dice. If you look at 8 as a target number on that table, you can see that you would have a 9.7% chance of rolling exactly 8, and a 83.8% chance of rolling an 8 or higher. I find these tables useful when I’m trying to convert between game systems. I’ve included a copy of the perl program that I used to generate the pages. It’s pretty plain, and doesn’t prompt for number of dice or how many sides yet, it’s all hard coded and needs to be changed each time you run it. I’ll eventually turn it into a cgi script or something. It outputs a file called dice.html. April 2001

Advrec1.doc
Advrec1.pdf

A set of pages for Rolemaster that I use as a Log of gaming sessions. Based on the old Adventure logs for AD&D. Page 1 has a table to enter the Players Name’s, their character names, class, level, race, sex, Special Abilities, Items Defensive Bonus, Armor Type and Body Development points. Bottom half has room for some npc listings, Group movement rate (usually slowest moving character unless on a boat or something), a set of checkboxes for Days elapsed, supplies left, whatever else you want to use them for. Second page has a table for entering Monsters, Names, AT, DB, Attack Table, Hits, Move, Speed, Special Abilities, Page number. Bottom half of the page contains combat tracks for checking off hits taken, rounds of stun/ no parry/ bleeding/ and combat modifier’s.April 2001

Advrec2.doc
Advrec2.pdf

Second page has a table for entering Monsters, Names, AT, DB, Attack Table, Hits, Move, Speed, Special Abilities, Page number. Bottom half of the page contains combat tracks for checking off hits taken, rounds of stun/ no parry/ bleeding/ and combat modifier’s.April 2001

Advrec3.doc
Advrec3.pdf

Page 3 is a full page version of the bottom half of page 2. April 2001

combat_card.doc
combat_card.pdf

The Combat Card is designed to print on an 6″ by 4″ index card. And has check boxes for tracking hits/bleeds/stuns/must parrys etc for Player Characters.April 2001

combat_sheet.doc
combat_sheet.pdf

The Combat Sheet is similar, but is designed to print on a regular 8.5″ by 11″ page, basically consists of three Combat Cards, with a room for a couple of extra pieces of information .April 2001