I had a thought and I'm not sure if it is original or not: but would it be possible to make community-created, alternative critical charts, and post them on the downloads section of the website?
What I have in mind here is not criticals for new attacks -- like the rotting vegetable critical chart we already have -- but rather alternative critical charts for existing critical charts. The critical charts are one of the great and unique things about Rolemaster, but after a few dozen times even the coolest result can get a little stale (except of course for the unseen imaginary turtle one-- that never gets old!).
So the idea here is that we have for example an alternative 'Slash' critical chart. We keep all the same mechanical results -- rounds of stun, hits of bleeding, injury penalties -- but we just give them a new description and new flavor text.
So for example, the existing RMU puncture crit result on 67 for a C critical is:
'Thrust to knee leaves that joint in a bad way. +1 hit, 1 Bleed, -25 (wound), 2 rounds dazed'.
So we just reskin it as:
'I used to be an adventurer like you till I took an arrow to my knee like that. +1 hit, 1 Bleed, -25 (wound), 2 rounds dazed'.
The idea then is just new flavor for old charts, to keep them fresh. We could do it as a group, or offer a range of ones made by individuals.
My questions then:
--Would there be any IP issues, or is this kosher?
--Is there any way of having a chart ready-made, so that we could just enter in our alternate flavor text? Or would we have to do all the graphical layout and such ourselves?
--How difficult would it be to enter these into ERA? Is there a way we could make them that would make it easier to enter them into ERA?