Quote from: Cory Magel on May 15, 2024, 01:00:39 AM

The 'problem' is pretty obvious. ICE isn't in a position to be paying higher end artists. Period.

There are plenty of books with smaller audiences and better art. Core Laws is a platinum seller. Assuming $2 from each copy went to art, that's an art budget of at least $2000. I've done more with less.

Examples please, with all the required relevant information for a fair comparison (see below).

It's not (only) about paying more for art.
Look at the layout here.
https://imgur.com/a/14hOu4p
This is a random page, literally the first page I flipped to from the last pdf I had open.
See how the shape of the art has been incorporated into the column layout of the page? See how background textures have been used? See how there is a shadow from the dwarf which spills over into the page? This all gives it life and visual appeal. It's basic stuff at this point. Nothing to do with budget.

Who is publishing this book, who's in charge of it, what's their budget for it, what does the book cost, and how big is their target audience?
If you think it has nothing to do with budget you haven't actually created such a book.

Is there a fast travel mechanic in your TTRPG? Do you like this concept to allow characters to "get to the action" or is the journey more important in your games?

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For RMU, aside from homebrew, you're just looking at Spell Law and Treasure Law. There are no arcane lists yet. You can certainly take a look at the lists from previous editions, e.g. RMFRP Arcane Companion has the arcane lists.

For divine level power, it depends on your conception of how deities work, but personally I would interpret the spell lists loosely and give them a power boost. On the other hand, I would have them actually appear very rarely (and mostly work through followers and minions), so I might not need spell lists at all.

The 'problem' is pretty obvious. ICE isn't in a position to be paying higher end artists. Period.

There are plenty of books with smaller audiences and better art. Core Laws is a platinum seller. Assuming $2 from each copy went to art, that's an art budget of at least $2000. I've done more with less.

Thanks for your time!

I don't recall such a feature. I can't guarantee that it might have been an unexpected side effect that is no longer available. The idea for existing items is that you click on "Add missing default items" and work from there. And if you don't want to use the complete default item list, you can always edit ERA/RMC/Adventures/Default.inventory.XML

Yesterday meddling with it I was kind of thinking the same, xD, either I dream it or was an unexpected side effect, cos it was literally 2 years ago that I made those chars.

That works in the opposite direction. Items added to the individual character inventory are automatically considered when checking the party inventory.

Oh, I see.

You can't delete items in the party inventory that were added from the individual character inventory. This is on purpose, since the character inventory is not saved when saving the party inventory.
The idea here is that gaming groups would normally only use one or the other method for managing inventory. The party inventory lists all character inventories so that it can be seen then in the Character Status module. If you are playing with items managed during the adventure, you'd be better off directly adding them in the party inventory.

Alright, I see, fair enough.

I didn't put any examples for that in the RMC ruleset. The idea is that you can define a maneuver table that is eventually used with a specific skill bonus in mind.
Check the equipment repair table in RMU. If a character wants to roll for Leathercraft, Metalcraft or Woodcraft they will get the option to use the Crafts table due to the category of those skills, or the specific repair maneuver table.

Ooh, I understood this completely wrongly. For a moment I thought it was "maneuver tables related to stats", but now it makes so much more sense, my bad.

Thanks again for the answers!