Rolemaster at the FG Con

[bennis1980]

Just going to put it out there that I'm running an RMC adventure at this year's FGcon: 

A Wedding at Axebridge (converted from HARP)

Saturday 1st June

16:00 UTC (17:00 GMT+1)

Ultimate licence, so if you wanted to try out Rolemaster on Fantasy Grounds for free that's no problem.

http://www.fg-con.com/events/

[mistrornge]

I've purchased the program just have not spent the time to learn it.  It would be cool to join you though to see it in action.

[bennis1980]

The FG virtual Con was great fun last year. It was one of my first encounters with the software.

You are more than welcome. Dakadin has done a huge amount of work and it runs a game very smoothly (combat time cut in half, if not more, with the search for tables automated)

But as I said, purchase is not necessary as I have an Ultimate licence, so anyone who downloads the unregistered version (available at the Fantasy Grounds website) can join in the weekend, which has a lot on offer and is 100% free.

[markc]

 I would drop Terry Amathor a PM as he was thinking about using some sort of online tool for RPing.
MDC

[bennis1980]

I've brought back "A Wedding at Axebridge" by 1.5hrs to the new time of 2:30pm.

There is also another Rolemaster game in the con:
http://www.fg-con.com/events/rolemaster-the-search-for-talewyn/

[Dakadin]

FG Con 4 is running 5/8-5/11.  I will be running a Rolemaster Classic event on 5/10 from 12pm to 5pm (UTC -7).  The details can be found here:  http://www.fg-con.com/events/infernal-mining/

It's a free opportunity to try out playing RMC using Fantasy Grounds.

[OTG-Wraith]

Video of the above game can be found HERE.

[senoj]

Thanks for running this, Dakadin.  It was really fun and the first time I have been able to play RM in years. 

Thanks for capturing, Wraith.  It will be great to go back and see how we became much more proficient throughout the night--at least I believe we did.

[Dakadin]

I'm glad you enjoyed it.  I had a great time running it.

[Dakadin]

Here are some brief stats that I posted on the FG forums about the session I ran:

The party consisted of 5 PCs (2 fighters, ranger, rogue, and magician). We finished 5 combats in 4 1/2 hours.

There were 4 weapon fumbles. The unfortunate ranger had 3 of them with one of them occurring because he lost his "wind". I figured that indicated he passed gas and we played it that way . The other one broke one of the fighter's bows. If I remember correctly it was on his first shot with the bow during the boss fight.

The magician tried to speed up a sleep spell because things were looking bad and failed the spell which stunned him for 6 rounds. This made a TPK seem very likely. Fortunately the entire party survived and stopped the menace.

There were a few memorable criticals. There was a crushing head blow that killed an opponent, a piercing attack to the head that killed another opponent and one of the tougher NPCs got his leg cut off before dying 9 rounds later.

All in all it was a pretty typical Rolemaster session except I still marvel at how fast you can run combat using FG.

[Bruce]

I did not know about this. It would have been pretty cool to participate.

[Dakadin]

I was pretty busy leading up to FG Con so I was one of the last people to post a game which didn't give much time to see it.  They try to run FG Con twice a year.  I think the next one is planned for sometime in November.  I will try to post a game sooner and if it fills up I can always try to do another one.  Hopefully I will see you then.

Also if you are just curious about playing RM using FG send me a private message and we can work out giving you a demo.  It works really well keeping things flowing once you get the hang of it.