Director's Briefing - May 2025

[NicholasHMCaldwell]

Welcome

To the one hundred-and-sixty-sixth Briefing and fifth scheduled Briefing of 2025.

Rolemaster

Rolemaster Creature Law Volume 1 has been released in pdf and is available from DriveThruRPG!
Over 400 creatures in this first volume of Creature Law. Imperil the player-characters with the very real threats of tigers and sharks, or surprise them with dinosaurs believed extinct or unearthly animals such as the jackalope. These dangers pale against the greater capabilities of griffins, minotaurs, demon whales, unicorns and other legendary monsters. Encounters with dragons and their lesser fell kin of wyverns, lesser drakes, hydras and basilisks will shape epic sagas. A variety of animated, poisonous and entrapping plants will pose other sorts of challenges for even the most experienced adventurer. Artificial creations, whether construct, golem, gargoyle or the incredibly fast Shards, may prove implacable foes. Elementals and elementally infused creatures such as the destructive zephyr hounds claim the heart of the wilds as their own. Heroes may pit their blades and magic against djinn and demons from other planes. Fey from the diminutive pysks and sylphs to pookas and undines can be uncanny opponents, while garks, giants, centaurs and many others may be deadly rivals. And from beyond the grave, the unquiet dead - skeletons, ghosts, ghouls, wraiths and vampires – seek sustenance from and vengeance on the living.

If you spot any residual typos in the pdf, please report them on the ICE forums or in the Discord server. We will need to finalise the print masters in early to mid June in order to ensure we have print copies available for Gen Con.

Software

Brett has also completed the Roll20 VTT dataset for RMU Creature Law volume 1 and this has also been released.

Max has been working very hard on updates for ERA software. In addition, he has created a new dataset for RMU Creature Law I and this has also been released.

In terms of AutoHARP, the updates to AutoHARP3, AutoHARP3 Fantasy Architect, AutoHARP3 Martial Law, AutoHARP3 College of Magics, and AutoHARP3 Bestiary have all been made. The new datasets for AutoHARP3 Folkways, AutoHARP3 Beyond the Veil and AutoHARP3 Subterfuge have also been released.

HARP

The artwork for HARP Steampunk has been steadily arriving – what I have seen so far is very evocative of the genre.

Many things to be done in the realm of HARP and HARP SF, so I will be undertaking various round-robin tasks before the final running around for the print masters for RMU Creature Law.

Until next time

Please stay safe and keep gaming.
Best wishes,
Nicholas

[Micael]

Gratulations for the release of CL1- it's a great book- but now we care all waiting since a few months for news about Shadow World- the conversion file is still not available in drivethru and other news would be appreciated, too.
Thanks
Micael

[DavidKlecker]

I have completed and sent the new AutoHARP 3 Harp Sci Fi, Sci Fi Extreme, and Architect files for Version 3.02 to Nicholas. I will be currently working on recording tutorials for Harp Sci Fi. I am currently making available the video tutorials I have for Harp Fantasy on the forum.