I just today thought, maybe one should just roll crits with a D30+55 instead of D100. The usual modifiers apply, but without them, you would end up with one decent hit result for every hit location, thus removing the total randomness of the tables.

Welcome

To the one hundred-and-seventy-fifth Briefing and second scheduled Briefing of 2026.

Foundry Software

As promised in the January Briefing, we have launched Foundry for RMU. As Bob was very confident in the quality of his software (and justly so from the rave reviews he has received for it), we were able to release the four RMU core volumes as Foundry modules across four days rather than across a week.

There is also a DriveThru bundle product of all four core RMU Foundry modules. All of the Foundry modules are solely available from DriveThruRPG. For simplicity, we are not using the Foundry marketplace.

Bob will be focusing on additional improvements to the modules, one of which I will talk about below. He is then expecting to start work on the Foundry incarnation of HARP in a few months' time.

Shadow World

Again as noted in the January Briefing, we have the completed RMU Shadow World conversion guide in full draft. Although we have not published this as a pdf yet, with the assistance of Brett Nash, we now have the conversion guide as a free Roll20 module!

In the world of Foundry, creating a free module would involve us putting a zip on DriveThru (which is easy enough at our end) but then requiring manual installation (which is more annoying for you). Instead, Bob is integrating the Shadow World guide into Core Law for Foundry and Spell Law for Foundry. All being well, these module updates should be available in March.

HARP (and RMU and Roll20)
We have released the adventure module HARP Banecroft: The Mage's Tale on DriveThru as a pdf, going live on 1st February. Originally pitched to us as a standalone HARP fantasy scenario for higher-level adventurers, this has since gained RMU stats. Because he could, Brett Nash has produced a Roll20 module version!

We expect to publish a print version of Banecroft in due course. Due to the page count, this will be softcover only.

Works in Progress

RMU Arcane Companion is well underway in terms of writing. I am expecting to issue various contracts for artwork on RMU Character Companion this month. The second volume of Creature Law has not been forgotten about. 

HARP Steampunk is still with me with final adjustments. I also made a few adjustments to the HARP Something Wicked Something Wondrous manuscript, and detected a couple of omissions in the rules requiring some additional material.

I have also been in contact with various of our writers to check on progress on existing projects and prepare the way for some new projects.

Until next time

Please stay safe and keep gaming.
Best wishes,
Nicholas

Director, Iron Crown Enterprises Ltd

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I'm sure we discussed it somewhere, but can't find it. I think it came down to two things:

1) The short sword is based on earlier period short swords and the arming sword is based on later period arming swords, because by the time metallurgy was good enough that arming swords were practical, there was a lot less point in making a short sword. This is an inherent problem for the whole assortment of weapons, we pretend everything co-exists at the same moment, and consequently there are different hidden assumptions about technology for different items. By the time you are making arming swords, you could make a better short sword.

2) Even with that said, I think the short sword is probably a bit too heavy.

So between those two things, I think taking a pound off the short sword is not unreasonable. If you wanted, you could also up the price a few silver to distinguish the quality. But this is not rules as written, you'll have to convince your GM.

This is going to sound like a question which might have been asked before but is there a specific reason why a short sword is heavier than an arming sword? Even if the Short sword does attacks one step smaller. I see that it does have a bit more strength against breakage but overall is a lot smaller.

Any thoughts on this? I'm trying to find out why it would be heavier? Our Rogue really needs the 0.5 lb...

Yeah, I like SMC0, SMC1, and SMC2.

If you adhere to what was used officially at the time, it would be SpaMCo. Easier to pronounce, but I always thought it was a bit clumsy.

There were actually three Spacemaster Companions, though, and Companion I was not the same as the original Companion. Based on that, we might use:

SMC (or SMC0?)
SMC1
SMC2

Quote from: wibobm on February 07, 2026, 01:02:07 PMFell Beasts have light-boned talent.  Their HP should be 621 vs. 828 as a result.

I think several (if not all) creatures with this talent are impacted.

Fell Beasts have light-boned talent.  Their HP should be 621 vs. 828 as a result.

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The Songfire Part 8 :
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Whispers Too Loud: A Songfire Scandal Unfolds

What was intended to be the darkest and most unsettling entry of this year's Songfire has already become its first true scandal.

The song, titled "The Unlife – Shadows Whispering," was halted and rewritten by direct decree of Emperor Jerin himself, an intervention almost without precedent in the long history of the contest. Court officials confirmed that the original lyrics were deemed dangerously seductive, presenting the Unlife not as the slow destruction it truly is, but as an easy path to power, certainty, and release.

At the heart of the outrage stood the imagery surrounding the Arnak Order, whose brutal priests were portrayed less as agents of ruin and more as grim figures of forbidden strength and purpose. According to sources close to the Imperial Circle, this portrayal went too far.

"There must be no song that turns damnation into opportunity," the Emperor is said to have declared. "The Unlife is not rebellion, not freedom, and not enlightenment. It is an addiction, and once embraced, it rarely releases its hold."

Advisors warned that the song risked becoming unintended propaganda, a form of dark promotion that romanticizes forces responsible for the fall of cities, the corruption of heroes, and the erasure of entire bloodlines. The Unlife, they stressed, offers no clean ascent, only a swift descent that consumes its bearer and poisons everything nearby.
The revised version of the song will stay in the competition, though its most tempting verses were personally removed by Layana Ixbridge. To balance the loss, she introduced several Jinteni-inspired musical passages, offering a new point of comparison in place of the cut lines. The whispers promising power without cost are gone, replaced by harsher tones, broken rhythms, and an ending that fades not into victory, but into silence.

Whether the jury will favor this colder truth over the forbidden allure of the original remains uncertain. What is clear is that, for the first time in this Songfire, the struggle is not about style or skill, but about whether darkness should ever be allowed to sound beautiful. And a deeper truth is hidden behind all of this: Nobody knows, who authored the song and in spite of the Orhan church had nominated it for the songfire, nobody inside the church feels responsible for the original text- a mystery still to be solved.

Shadows Whispering -  The sweet Lure of Unlife (Jaiman Version): link to song
The Unlife - Shadows Whispering (EMER Version) link to song 2

Have fun!
Micael