Hey.
I am putting together an RMSS campaign for some friends and I will be the first to admit it has been a looooong time since I busted out this ruleset. I have been playing a lot of Pathfinder and 3.5 over the years and there are a couple of equivalent items I'm looking for to help with this Rolemaster campaign.
One is an equivalent encounter calculator. In Pathfinder and 3.5 they have the challenge rating system, ie an average party of 4 characters of the specified level could defeat the monster or group of monsters with that challenge rating. Does RMSS have anything similar? A thumbrule? With such severe criticals how do you gauge the power level of the creatures the party is up against? Another way of thinking of it is if I have 4 1st level characters, how many 2nd level orcs would be equivalent?
The second thing I am looking for here is how to scale up the creatures in RMSS. The rules have a list of NPC's but a) they are all at fixed levels (1, 5, 10, 15, etc) and b) they are the standard character classes. I could make the case that the city guard is equivalent to a third level fighter but how do I extrapolate 3rd level attributes between the given first and fifth level information?
Any help is, of course, appreciated.
Thanks.