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Offline PhillipAEllis

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Dark Sun
« on: August 16, 2013, 01:06:27 AM »
I heard that there's been a conversion of the Dark Sun setting to the Rolemaster system. What do you know about it?
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Re: Dark Sun
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2013, 02:08:21 AM »
Now thats something I'd like to see! Can't say I've heard of anything though, sorry. I haven't read those books in a very long time.
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Re: Dark Sun
« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2013, 04:27:44 AM »
I tracked it down at http://www.dunharrow.org/work/rm/Rolemaster%20-%20Dark%20Sun%20-%20Athas,%20The%20Ravaged%20World.pdf by Googling (without quotation marks) "dark sun rolemaster filetype:pdf" since I guessed it would probably be a PDF document. I haven't looked through it yet, so can't comment on it.
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Re: Dark Sun
« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2013, 09:12:18 AM »
Oh I remember that one I found it just after I finished converting spelljammer to rolemaster and remember thinking how much I wished I found that months before as I would have been running that instead lol

Its not a bad one but I think it needs quite a few tweaks.
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Re: Dark Sun
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2013, 09:28:00 PM »
Hmmm... just had a look on wiki and nothing mentions RM having Dark Sun?
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Re: Dark Sun
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2013, 09:04:07 AM »
Dark Sun is an old D&D setting and I also think there was someone on the boards working on a conversion to RM.
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Re: Dark Sun
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2013, 11:12:14 AM »
That someone did a thorough job! 200+ pages in that pdf! Cheers to Conan.

For me it was a very evocative setting; supported by a couple a video games and having some awesome mechanics, I recommend looking through the pdf in the very least.
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Re: Dark Sun
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2013, 12:02:27 PM »
Wow, see if you can put it into the vault.
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Re: Dark Sun
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2013, 01:35:57 PM »
The conversion in the vaults - Dark Sun converted for RMC is 8 pages long
Find it Here

If there is a 200+ page version of Dark Sun for Rolemaster it is likely a violation of IP for both companies as I cannot imagine a 200+ page Rolemaster book that would not include significant system information and definitely not for the setting material.
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Re: Dark Sun
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2013, 03:58:56 PM »
Ok, well that defiantly surprised me! It was very well done indeed and the rules gelled with RM completely. I intend to go through it more thoroughly and gleam some ideas from it.
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Re: Dark Sun
« Reply #10 on: August 22, 2013, 12:08:45 AM »
I have both of those, the 8-page one for RMC and the 252-page one for "Rolemaster" (I believe it is for RM2/C). Other than that, I don't know what to tell you about it; it is Dark Sun done with RM rules, just not RMSS/FRP. I would say though, that if you are going to run Dark Sun, take a play out of the RMU playbook and set the characters at least at Legendary power level, probably Epic.


Gawds! What I would give for someone to run that for me. Dark Sun is my all-time favorite fantasy setting (Shadow World is a close second, so Stay Calm Everyone, and Game On) and I would drop playing any other game if that one came along.
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Re: Dark Sun
« Reply #11 on: August 22, 2013, 12:11:51 AM »
As the big one contains attack tables, I imagine it does violate IP.  8) (I didn't make it, I just found it.)
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