Roleplaying games
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What are Role-playing games? In a RPG the umpire
(games master, dungeon master) creates a world and populates it. He develops
the setting for an adventure in which the players are cast in the roles of
heroes or villains . The personality the players takes on is called a
character. This character can be a human, a super hero ,an alien, a dwarf ,
an elf. He or she might be a warrior or a magician. In fact almost anything .
Decipher have produced this new Role-playing game based
on Lord of the Rings and using their CODA system. As yet only the Core rules
are out (and now a narrators screen)
and you basically have to do a lot yourself as there are no modules yet . But
it looks a reasonable system.
4th Age is my site dedicated to this
game Iron Crown Enterprises ( I.C.E.) have for 20 years
produced these great games. I have always preferred them to the more popular
but ( in my opinion) flawed Dungeons and Dragons games by TSR.. Read more on
my site which contains a lot of campaign material. Dungeon maps etc.
Dol
Guldur - MERP and Rolemaster
Traveller was the first Roleplaying system I played
in 1983 . It was and still is a fully developed Science Fiction universe set
thousands of years into the future . It has gone through many versions since
then: Traveller - the original version( now called
classic) Megatraveller Traveller the new Era (TNE) T4 GURPS Traveller . Now it has been resurrected with
the GURPS rules . The new source books are great and the maps/ data books
very complete. However I wanted a simple set of rules that would be easy to
pick up and so I wrote a set of rules using
FUDGE
. These are a generic set of rules you can down load from the net. They seem
to work quite well. Follow this link for my
Traveller campaign Run out the Guns ICE brought out these brilliant set of cut down
rules based on Rolemaster for playing Pirate games. Background material is
very complete . Maps are great. Good fun. I will try and put on some details of my campaign . Meanwhile here are a few links on the net: Roleplaying Links on the Net
My Friend Pete Scott's Excellent D+D site with vast numbers of links
and other good stuff |
