Yep I confirm, It is gold.
By the way, as it is my first message on this forum, I will give a few words about me.
French, 46 years old, Rolemaster player and GM since I am sixteen (so looong ago). I was lucky to put my hand on the Master Atlas at that time (with the wondefull and enormous map of Western Kulthea!) and some Shadow World books.
I made a long RM break during 20 years, but I am back on the game as a GM (with the same team I had when is was 16).
I use a Mindmap software (Freeplane) to store all the informations on the Shadow World and I am working on a GIS (QGIS) to store all the usefull geographical informations (realms, secrets, cities, coral roads,...) and to design maps.
The work is quite enormous but it will be essential when I will begin the compain (next year I think).
Terry, I will never find the words to thank you for the creation of the Shadow World, I am eager to buy and read your next creations.
Crivens
Oh, we're doing that ? OK...
bought RM in... 1984 I think, the boxed set that included Arms Law, Character Law, Spell Law and Vog Mur. RM was interesting but Vog Mur... damn (remember when Shadow World was simply "The World of Loremaster" ?). I bought Cloudlords of Tanara and Iron Wind as soon as I could and GMed my first campaign in 1986 (Vog Mur, mostly). I GMed another one, located in Tanara, two years later, then had a long spell as a player (still in Shadow World, during the time when RM2 was released and SWMA1, Jaiman, Emer and SWMA2 were published). I GMed again in 1998 (Haestra, Tanara, Silaar), then in 2002 (Saralis+Mur Fostisyr/Tanara+Urulan/Kelestia), in 2008 (Saralis), and 2011 (Uj, Namar-Tol and Haestra) - my longest campaign to date since it ran for 100 sessions and close to six years. I am currently recharging my creative battery, but I hope to be able to start the next opus someday (probably in Rhakhaan). All campaigns are related (same world, same chronology), but the characters change for each campaign.
I was playing RM mostly by the book in the early campaigns, but lately, I've switched to "RM-light" conversions, because I didn't agree with the skill list inflation.
I still buy setting-related ShW books, even though I cant use most of the material included inside because my own version of Shadow World diverges significantly from canon, to the point where I'm pretty sure I won't be able to use anything included in Emer IV
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And I'm also located in France (in the Pink City, for those who know :p).
