News (old archive)
News
2005
10Dec05 - Created a new page for Shadow World Characters which contains the spreadsheets I used when doing the RMFRP conversions for the Powers of Light & Darkness book.
06Dec05 - Updated most of the cover images on the Shadow World product pages, linked to from the Shadow World Product List
19Oct05 - After several emails to both my
hosting company and the Lawyers representing Tolkien Enterprises, I finally
got an email back from the Lawyers office stating they have no issues with
the site. I did remove two links to www.merp.com. My email and the email
from the Lawyers can be viewed at this link: www.icewebring.com/TolkienEnterprises.php
16Oct05 - ICEWEBRING.COM and the company that
hosts this site recently received a couple of letters from Lawyers representing
Tolkien Enterprises claiming that this site violates their copyrights on
the Middle Earth Role Playing Game system in some unspecified manner and
asking the WebHost to cease hosting this site and to disable any access
to the site. I have responded by asking for details on what portions of the
site they believe to be in violation and am currently waiting for a response.
The letters that were sent to myself and my Web Host can be viewed at this
link: www.icewebring.com/TolkienEnterprises.php
31Aug05 - Created a page for Polish
MERP translations.
Still need to create individual pages, currently links to large images
of the covers.
04Aug05 - Updated the rest of
the RMSS
vs RMFRP article and regenerated the pdf file.
03Aug05 - Updated the first four parts of
the RMSS
vs RMFRP article to include links to the individual product pages,
and updated some of the information on those pages to reflect recent changes
PDF version has not been updated yet.
December 2004
29Dec04 - Recently added a few additional
items for Selkies to the Resources page,
including a HARP adapation, an Adventure
Outline (pdf), and a sample HARP Selkie
Character (Excel).
17Dec04 - Various minor updates to the product
lists. Change the side menu from Flash to a text menu for better accessibility
12Dec04 - Split up the translated products
page so that each language has it’s own page.
http://www.icewebring.com/ICE_products.php
05Dec04 - Updated some of the product lists,
added new covers for some of the Finnish products, and added a new page for
the Italian translation of Rolemaster Fantasy Roleplaying. Created a page
for Rolemaster Races and Cultures.
04Dec04 - It’s been awhile since the last
update, but I haven’t been idle, I have now finished work on the updated HARP
Fan Compiled Errata and FAQ document. It’s a 104 page pdf file, so it
will take awhile to load.
July 2004
29July04 - Finished reformating the first
edition MERP product pages and started work on the second edition MERP product
pages reformatting.
19July04 - Added the cover text to the last
few pages that needed it. Updated the new MERP list.
18July04 - Updated the cover image and corrected
some of the information for the first Rolemaster
Boxed Set and the Spacemaster
Boxed Set. Added a new page, an introduction to Rolemaster.
08July04 - Thanks to Aki Heikkinen, the details
including cover text have been done for the Finnish Rolemaster and MERP pages
off the Translated Products page.
June 2004
28June04 - Got at least basic product pages
done for the Translated Products pages,
except for the Italian translations which I’m having trouble tracking down
information for.
27June04 - Gave the Product Lists their own
page and link from the side menu. Renamed and rearranged a couple of the
items on the menu.
26June04 - Did up a review of the Construct
Companion.
20June04 - Got the text copied onto a whole
bunch of the individual MERP pages.
17June04 - Got the cover images placed on
the new 1st Edition MERP individual
Product pages and the links to those pages set up. Page titles are still
screwy and most pages don’t have information yet.
16June04 - Started the long process of redoing
the MERP product pages in the same format as the other product pages. Created
skeleton pages for about 2/3rds of the products. Totally useless so far,
created a new list page to
work with for this project.
16June04 - Updated the product pages for RMFRP and HARP to
include the newly released pdf files. Also started work on product pages
for Translations of ICE
products, Non RPG products,
and Products that Never Were
May 2004
26May04 - Added some additional items on the Misc
ICE Products page
10May04 - Lots of minor updates to the product
pages over the last few days, mostly filling in ISBN numbers, Authors, and
page counts
02May04 - Scanned in the back cover text from
all of the Silent Death modules for the Silent
Death Product List.
April 2004
28Apr04 - Finished scanning in the back cover
text for the remainder of the RM2 items on the RM2
product list.
26Apr04 - Roleplaying Software.com has been
commisioned to write a Character Generation Software package for HARP.
Check out the press
release.
26Apr04 - Scanned in the back cover text for
several of the RM2 items on the RM2
product list.
24Apr04 - Scanned in the back cover text for
all the Cyberspace books off of the Cyberspace
product list.
20Apr04 - Added the Featured Page section
above.
17Apr04 - Updated the information on the First
Edition of Iron Wind.
Thank you Bruce for the mint copy of the first printing!
12Apr04 - Added pdf indexes for the Critical
Tables and Attack Tables that can
be found in all the Rolemaster and Spacemaster books.
Also posted an introductory story for the
adventure involving Selkies that I am slowly putting together.
09Apr04 - The Revised version
af HARP is shipping and some people have received their copies already.
Martial Law should start shipping today.
Jonathan Dale has submitted his
Shadow World Ed. Char Gen Spreadsheet which includes all the Shadow World
races to the Rolemaster and Shadow World vaults on the ICE Homepage
01Apr04 - Added the back
cover text for the rest of the RMSS
products
Started the long process of updating the MERP individual Product
pages to match the other product pages. First step was to rename them all
with .php extensions. Hopefully I didn’t break any links.
March 2004
29Mar04 - Added the back cover text for 15
of the 25 RMSS products.
Need to do the last 10 then do the editing as there are several typos.
HARP Revised and Martial Law will be shipping this week. See the HARP
Homepage for details
28Mar04 - Created the individual pages for
the Miscellaneous ICE Products.
Version 1.6.3 of the Rolemaster Character Companion is now available at Roleplaying
Software.com.
Posted an updated copy of my review of
the Rolemaster Character Companion
27Mar04 - Created the individual pages for
the Cyberspace products and some of the Spacemaster products that had been
missed
26Mar04 - Added back cover text and Table
of Contents to the Construct
Companion detail page.
The ICE Home Page now has the 4th Edition
Shadow World Master Atlas available for purchase as a pdf file.
19Mar04 - Added thumbnail images to the 2nd
Edition MERP Product List page.
18Mar04 - Lots of new downloads available
on the Web Extras page
at HARPHQ.
Version 1.6.1 of the Rolemaster Character Companion is now available at Roleplaying
Software.com.
Lots of minor tweaking to the format of the pages on the site.
15Mar04
- HARP
Revised and Martial
Law are at the printer and will ship the week of March 29!
Welcome to the newest site in the Rolemaster/MERP Webring, The
Tower RoleMaster Homepage.
Don’t forget to checkout the Web
Extras on the HARP Home page, including the revised HARP Chapter 10: Combat
PDF. A good preview of HARP if you’ve been thinking of picking it up. The 4th
Edition Shadow World appendix is now also available on the ICE Homepage
10Mar04 - Uploaded a few pages that got missed.
Terry Amthor has created the index for the 4th edition Atlas! The PDF file
also includes the metals, minerals and language/vocabulary that was in
the 3rd edition but not in the 4th.For now you can access the PDF file at
the
Shadow World site here: http://homepage.mac.com/terbob/FileSharing1.html .Download
the file called SWMA4_append.pdf. This should eventually show up on the
ICE Homepage as well.
05Mar04 - March Issue of the Guild
Companion has been posted. Includes tributes to Lowell Matthews and
a review of the Rolemaster Character Companion by yours truly, as well
as other interesting articles. Also made minor updates to several of the
Product Lists, including creating a printer friendly version of the Full
List.
03Mar04 - Started adding cover images to
the MERP 1st Edition Product List.
01Mar04 - Updated the Rolemaster/MERP Webring
homepage. Rearranged the sidebar slightly
February 2004
29Feb04 - Minor updates to the Reviews page.
29Feb04 - New
on the Silent Death Annex site: "February
is extended this year, and the SDannex has extended this month’s update
of the site at http://home.cogeco.ca/~smacneil5
New this month:
Two new aides for custom ship design available for downloading on the newly-revamped
files section. 1) A patch for upgrading the Shipbuilder software to include
weapons found in the previously released House Colos. 2) An Excel spreadsheet
for creating custom satellites, with all of the available weapon systems,
ammunition, and satellite templates with a convenient easy-to-print satellite
display.
The final two scenarios in the long-running "Peace In Our Time" campaign.
A section devoted to a Silent Death conversion of the Sci-Fi channels miniseries,
Battlestar Galactica. Includes an amazing looking themed ship display for
the Viper Mk II, new rules, images, links and commentary.
New art, sidebars, page designs and 6 new Custom Starcraft: The Arrow, Arrow
II, Arrow III, Hellbender HCR, and the Titan.
Plus much more!
28Feb04 - Improved the formatting of the Selkies page.
24Feb04 - ICE has Announced two new books for the Rolemaster
Fantasy Roleplaying line for summer of 2004. Races & Cultures and Caverns
& Catacombs. See the ICE
Homepage for details. Added these to the RMFRP
Product List.
17Feb04 - A new Character Generator for Rolemaster is available
at www.roleplayingsoftware.com produced
under license from ICE
16Feb04 - Updated the HARP Errata
and Faq document.
11Feb04 - Launched the new ICE Roleplaying WebRing Homepage
09Feb04 - ICE RolePlaying WebRing NavBar wins the NavBar of the Week award
from WebRing.