Overview I finally went through and created a Rolemaster character from scratch by reading the book and not using the ERA or having someone else help me do it. Here’s what I learned.
I’m going to try to provide bullet point lists and page references with parts of the sheet I did. Hopefully this will be helpful.
I find Rolemaster to be a supremely rewarding role-playing game because you literally can do anything you want, given time and resources poured into skills.
For a while, I had many people tell me to try using the Cyclic Dungeon Generation method as found and detailed on itch.io by Sersa Victory. For a while, I would read the document and get confused on how to envision the end result or how the dungeon worked. What I am going to show is not the BE ALL END ALL method, as this probably work differently for other people.
Overview This is an attempt to explain how I’m using “polyhedral frames” as I’ve been calling them to prepare adventure locations, battle maps, and space sectors and what not. This is not an original concept, but I took the “Site Preparation” from Mythic Bastionland and expand upon it a bit to give more variation and feel for various locations. In Mythic Bastionland, Chris shows how to use a “Hex” to build a Site, or anything to be explored.
Overview I was thinking on this after discussing it with some people who don’t want to play certain games like Genesys or even Powered by the Apocalypse. Why? I can only guess at it. However, I also wanted to think on how to allowing people to continue playing with their standard binary pass-fail results, but enable those who want to negotiate or barter their rolls so they can do cool stuff narratively.
Overview At the beginning of 2023, Sean McCoy put out a challenge that each day, creators create a room of a dungeon a day that builds into mega dungeon of sorts. Then keep all of this in a journal for future use. This was called Dungeon23 for 2023. It’s a practice of patience and making sure to stick with something.
I want to propose a challenge for 2024 called Solo24.
Sometimes I just wanna play a role-playing game at a restaurant while waiting for food or when at the office. With the availability of 2d6 in most stores or board games, or the power of a mobile device, dice are easy to come by. I recently read and played World of Dungeons and FIST after re-reading Dungeon World and struggling with Ironsworn initially. I had to learn how to GM, be a player, then realize the kinds of games I liked while soloing.
My D6 Oracle Table Overview This is a simple oracle table that is admidtely using the values from Ironsworn, and the The No-Prep Gamemaster by Dicegeeks. It should be fairly simple. I use this during my live sessions to cut down on the amount of cross-referencing of tables and other things. Mythic Game Master Emulator’s Fate Chart is great for solo games or prep sessions.
The Oracle dice: 1d6 Oracle Scenario 1 Nope Worse Case 2 Almost Certain Really Bad 3 Likely Bad 4 50/50 Okay 5 Unlikely Good 6 Small Chance Best Case A roll of 1 on the Oracle table is always a NOPE.
What are ya babblin’ about? I am proposing using Word Mill Games’ The Adventure Crafter to play or generate Microscope RPG Bookends, Periods, Events, and Scenes with Mythic Game Master Emulator sprinkled in for decision making and inspiration.
Resources Microscope PRG | Lame Mage Productions, Itch.io, DriveThruRPG Mythic | Word Mill Games, DriveThruRPG The Adventure Crafter, DriveThruRPG The Big Picture Pick a game Use Mythic Element Meaning Tables for inspiration as to the overarching topic.
Sole Role-play At the end of 2021 I got a big urge to play my role-playing games I had collected before to read while playing the supposed “most popular game”. I had all of these book and I only ever got to read them, day dream, and then go roll a d20 and accept mediocre. So, I had the idea to search YouTube for how to play role-playing games by yourself, and then I searched DriveThruRPG.