Topic: Which system do you use for Shadow World?

[NicholasHMCaldwell]

So which game system do you use for running/playing in Shadow World?

Best wishes,
Nicholas

[Witchking20k]

I used RM for a long time.....but have used HERO for a more heroic scale game, and am currently working on converting SW to HARP. 

My players love the setting, but in order to use it properly you need to be a bit magic heavy, which means a lot of dice rolling.  I think HARP will help speed it up a bit and keep the flavour of the world too.

[yammahoper]

Started in RM2, even ran a one shot Champions adventure, but switched entire game when I bought RMSS.

lynn

[rboleyn]

So which game system do you use for running/playing in Shadow World?

I said other, because I'm not running a SW game right now. In the past I have used RM2, RMSS, AD&D2, and GURPS. Next time I run a SW game it'll probably be RMC, but it might end up be with GURPS instead.

A couple of people of my acquaintance said back in the 90s that they found AD&D a better fit for SW than RM was, while RM did Forgotten Realms better than AD&D did, ironically.

[Cursed]

RM2, RMFRP, Hero and mostly GURPS.

-Cursed

[Vince]

rm2. I have always wanted to try other systems, only that i haven't got time to do it; and much more less to exlpain it later to all the players 

[Zavala]

Started running Rolemaster 2nd Edition with the Shadow World setting.  Then I migrated to RMSS for a brief time then I made my own RMSS Lite game and ran it for awhile.  Then I discovered HARP, and did a conversion for HARP, but what I have seen in the Bazaars I prefer their approach better.  I am currently running a Ptolus game with HARP and it is going great.  I love to playtest Something Wicked for HARP, which for me would add the missing piece that I need to run Shadow World HARP game well.

Z

[Wrathchild]

GURPSist through and through here

[vroomfogle]

Played SW with RM2 back in the 80's.    Now GM using RMSS though I'm switching over to RMC with some RMSS elements.

[Brimariis]

RM2 in 90 - 92
RMSS in mid-late 90's
AD&D 3/3.5 in 2001-2004
RMC - Starting new campaign (at least the plan)

The players who have played in my campaigns all liked RM better than AD&D.  They are not passionate about which RM (though they have never experienced RMFRP, nor probably never will).


I have roleplayed since 1980 in AD&D (skipped all 2ed), Palladium, Gurps (name the flavor), GammaWorld, Boothill, Champions, RM, Deadlands, Traveller, Masquerade, Chthulu, Paranoia, etc.

Of all the worlds and all the systems, my love still falls to Shadow World and Rolemaster, followed by Forgotten Realms and Paranoia.  (Much fond memories with Paranoia.  Never a campaign, because you could never live that long.  Just a lot of stupid fun, smart comments and creative deaths!)


All hale Shadow World/Rolemaster!
Brim

[yammahoper]

I am a fellow Paranoia fan.

Sometimes I still want to get the box again and collect modules.  There is no better one session or two game.

lynn

[Hawkwind]

Currently using HARP. I have previously used RM2, and will certainly have a good look at whatever d20 products come out for SW.

Hawk

[Koraq]

I currently don't play any RPG at all, but when I last played in Shadow World I used D&D3, and that's what I'll use in the future.

I have also done a RMFRP/BRP (BRP-master) mix of my own design, but it disappeared when my hard drive crashed and will not be resurrected.

[mathhatt]

RM2 (1998->2002)
RMSS (2002->today)

[pastaav]

I have used RMSS extensively to play SW in a number of camapigns...but I will not cast any vote. I suspect the purpose is to see what system that would benefit from conversion notes, and I will not be buying anything for SW anyway so my vote would only confuse stuff.

[Terry K. Amthor]

I am curious, pastaav, why you are not interested in buying anything for SW?

[Voriig Kye]

We've been playing in SW since I got my 2ed spanish book around 1998, when we were still using RM2. But 2 years ago we moved almost everything to RMFRP, which means we're now playing RMFRP-SW

[Steve C]

Actually started with the original RM and Vog Mur   

But most of our SW campaigns have been using RM2, although the more recent ones were actually using D&D 3rd. In the near future we will be using RMC.

Although I bought RMSS, and quite liked some of the changes in it, overall I preferred RM2 by a large margin (RMSS seemed to take the already quite complex system and doubled it).

Unfortunately ICE's multitude of rules systems has certainly become a distinct achilles heel, and its continued expansion of variants of the same systems (RM2 & RMC) seems to only be bad news for ever widening its popularity. Concentrating investment and resources in one core system, rather than scattering it shotgun style between a multitude (RM2, RMC, RMSS, HARP etc), is far better for both business and the gaming community.

[symbolique]

Originally;

The Window

Now;

New World of Darkness rules (very basic version culled from a free book on Mage the Awakened)

Though our group barely ever uses dice in our ongoing 8 year campaign set in Emer.

[pastaav]

I am curious, pastaav, why you are not interested in buying anything for SW?

Since I will not GM it, I use my own game world now.

Actually I might consider it when I am done with my education and have a job. To support the development of RM materials is a good cause. Yet I would use the books for concepts and not actually run the adventures so what system is used would not matter.

There are a number of SW aspects that makes stats from SW books hard to translate well to other settings. From the top of my head...SW magic items powerlevel, SW lost technology, NPCs with multiple professions, adventure design effected by having navigators around and similar.