What is this Site?

This site contains the information needed to join the ICE Roleplaying WebRing as well as lots of additional Information and Resources for Rolemaster, Spacemaster, HARP, Silent Death and other games from Iron Crown Enterprises.

What is the Webring?

This webring is devoted to sites containing information on or usable with the Roleplaying Games owned and produced by Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE) particularly Rolemaster, Spacemaster and HARP (High Adventure Role Playing), ICE's newest game.

How do I join?

Just click the "Joining the ICE Webring" link in the left hand menu and follow the directions on that page.

June 14, 2007

Stranded In Space - Chapter 2

Stranded in Space is the On-Line game I am running in the forums at the Resource Masters site as a Playtest for the HARP Sci Fi game, now available as a beta release. If you want a bit of a sneek peek at what can be done with HARP Sci Fi, drop by and take a peek. http://www.rpgrm.com/rmsmf/index.php?board=96.0

Here’s a summary of the second part of the adventure, the summary for the third part is coming soon, and part four is just wrapping up in the most recent thread.

Phill fires at the smaller robot, The robot’s clipboard falls to the floor as his arm melts in a flash of smoke and flame. It stands there and looks dumbly down at the clipboard

Dutch fires his rifle at one of the larger robots at the back of the landing bay, The robot falls backwards against the wall, leaning against it.

The Doctor hits the large Robot at the back of the bay dead center in it’s chest, causing a very impressive display of sparks and smoke. However, the robot doesn’t seem as impressed as everyone else as he promptly plugs the Doctor with shots from both hands. The Doctor doesn’t fall, but is weaving a little. He retreats back into the doorway

Reegus and Phill both fire at the smaller robot in the cab of the crane, Reegus just misses, but Phill manages to wing him with a decent shot.

Ryan points his pistol up at the cab of the crane, then pulls it back down and starts fiddling with something on his pistol.

The other larger Robot limps into the airlock, still leaking fluid from his arm, punches a button with it’s good arm, then gets chucked to the back of the airlock as Dutch nails him again, destroying the robots other arm.

Ryan calls out, “Someone keep that door from closing!”
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May 27, 2007

Updates to Database version of the ICE Product List

Added a whole bunch of information to the Database version of the ICE Product list, in fact it is probably more up to date than the regular lists. Started using thumbnails that are 100 wide instead of 80, it will take a long time to update them all so they will be mixed for awhile.
Added entries for the PDF and Hardcover versions of the Rolemaster products, still need to go and add in those entries for the other Product Lines.

May 16, 2007

Database version of the ICE Product List

It’s still very primative and the data needs cleaning up and verifying, but the first version of the Database version of the ICE Product List can be tested at http://www.icewebring.com/test/ICEList3.php

Guild Adventurer 2

Guild Adventurer #2 is now up for ransom. It includes an adventure by yours truly, so please pitch in and commit to buy it :)

Details can be found at:
http://www.ironcrown.com/ICEforums/index.php?topic=4004.0

May 13, 2007

Display tweaks

Did some tweaking of the pages to hopefully improve the way some of them display, particularly the individual product pages.
Have also been doing some work on the Database version of the Product List, should be putting up a test version soon, still need to validate the data that I’m going to be using and add in some missing information. Also got some additional information on Japanese translations that I will need to add as well.

April 26, 2007

Updated Thumbnail images

Renamed and moved a bunch of the thumbnail images for the ICE Product Lists in preparation for creation of the Database. Hopefully it didn’t break anything.

April 20, 2007

Redesigning the ICE Product List

One of my long term plans for the ICE Product list is to move from being a set of static pages to being database driven.

A bit of technical background on the site, I’m currently using Wordpress on my site, although most of the page entries other than the ones on the main page are still either standalone php pages or Wordpress Pages that just contain an include statement that pulls in a standalone page.

Ideally I want to get to the point where someone using the site can pick which items they want to see on a list (i.e. All Rolemaster, RM2, English only, etc) and how they want it sorted (Product number, release date ascending or descending, alphabetically, etc.
It would also be good if they could choose which information would show on the list

Then they can generate a customized product list and still be able to click a link to get to the full product information page.

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April 19, 2007

Rolemaster Classic

It’s time to add some information to the Product List for Rolemaster Classic. Should also update my “What is Rolemaster” article to include a section on it. The choices are to add the items to the existing RM2 lists or to create a new RMC section. I’m leaning towards creating a new section, but if anyone has an opinion on it, feel free to post a comment.
When I do the update to the “What is Rolemaster” article, I should also log onto Wikipedia and add that section there since a good portion of that article was derived from the “What is Rolemaster” article.

Still looking for a good plugin for Wordpress that might be able to handle the Product pages as a database but haven’t found anything I like yet, will probably end up doing it as a seperate php-mysql set of pages. Any suggestions are welcome.

April 16, 2007

RMC Spell Law beta now available

From the April 12th ICE Newsletter:

Spell Law:

I am very happy to announce that the Spell Law pdf is up and ready for sale at $21.Now, this is just a Beta version, and is missing a couple of things, but the final version will be done within a week or so. However, you do not have to wait that long. Visit the ICE forums — http://www.ironcrown.com/ICEforums/index.php?topic=3791.0 — for more information about the Spell Law Beta. You can purchase the PDF itself from the following link:

http://store.ironcrown.com/detail.jsp?itemId=2663143&category=162528

It is a beefy book at 280 pages and I think you will find that it honors the roots of the product while improving it greatly.

March 23, 2007

Site Update

Updated to the newest version of WordPress. Overall it went okay, had a couple issues with one of the plugins that I updated, but turned out I had included an extra directory when I uploaded it, which seemed to confuse things. Once I fixed that, things seemed to be okay. If you notice anything that doesn’t seem to be working right, particularly links that seem broken, please let me know.