Topic: Rolemaster Classic cracks top 10 on Fantasy Grounds

[Hurin]

This interesting little article was posted on ENWorld, noting the usage stats for Fantasy Grounds. I was pleasantly surprised to see Rolemaster Classic crack the top 10: http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?3507-Who-s-Playing-What-on-Fantasy-Grounds

I was also a little surprised to see Classic as the main Rolemaster game in town, as opposed to RMSS/FRP. I guess it shows that there are still a lot of people (a majority?) who prefer the RM2 style of Rolemaster to the RMSS one?

[Thot]

From my experience, that is likely true. In my experience, most people who play Rolemaster here in Germany have done so since the 1990s, using the fine synthetic leader books from a company that no longer has the license. I was astonished to learn that the new German translation that published a lot of books from 2007 on was based not on Classic, but on RMFRP... their books are really, beau-ti-ful, hardcover, full-color tomes, covering basically everything, including the Channeling companion, but most older groups did not get the "new source for books" that they had hoped for.

[NicholasHMCaldwell]

No. There's a much simpler explanation. Only the RM Classic ruleset has been given an official Fantasy Grounds rules set. That's nothing to do with the popularity of RM Classic but due to the timing of when the rules set was created and the time availability of the developers.

Best wishes,
Nicholas

[Spectre771]

No. There's a much simpler explanation. Only the RM Classic ruleset has been given an official Fantasy Grounds rules set. That's nothing to do with the popularity of RM Classic but due to the timing of when the rules set was created and the time availability of the developers.

Best wishes,
Nicholas

Awww darn.  That's a perfectly good explanation and made me erase the reply I was about to post LOL.

I was going to expand on Thot's post a bit.  We started out with RM, then RM 2.  When RMSS came out, a good number of us had heavily invested in the RM2 books and buying all new books (on college student income) was extremely difficult.  That's not to say we didn't get the books, we just didn't play it much at all.  There were some excellent improvements, but it never caught on with us and then we started to graduate and move on.  RM2 is still my favorite incarnation of the game system and I would eagerly search out an RM2 session over an RMSS session any given day.

[vector]

Bought the original stand alone Arms Law, all the RM Classic books and all the RMSS/RMFRP books. Pity that Battlegrounds only has the RM 2 rules set.

I've been using 3DVTT for an online battle-mat (that's all it does). Any body else use it? It needs a lot of work still but is still pretty useful.

[Hurin]

Well, I stand corrected; thanks for the explanation Nicholas. I thought something was odd when I saw only RM Classic listed, and nothing for RMSS.