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Title: Dark Sun
Post by: PhillipAEllis on August 16, 2013, 01:06:27 AM

I heard that there's been a conversion of the Dark Sun setting to the Rolemaster system. What do you know about it?

Title: Re: Dark Sun
Post by: ironmaul on August 16, 2013, 02:08:21 AM

Now thats something I'd like to see! Can't say I've heard of anything though, sorry. I haven't read those books in a very long time.

Title: Re: Dark Sun
Post by: PhillipAEllis on August 16, 2013, 04:27:44 AM

I tracked it down at http://www.dunharrow.org/work/rm/Rolemaster%20-%20Dark%20Sun%20-%20Athas,%20The%20Ravaged%20World.pdf (http://www.dunharrow.org/work/rm/Rolemaster%20-%20Dark%20Sun%20-%20Athas,%20The%20Ravaged%20World.pdf) by Googling (without quotation marks) "dark sun rolemaster filetype:pdf" since I guessed it would probably be a PDF document. I haven't looked through it yet, so can't comment on it.

Title: Re: Dark Sun
Post by: Keen_Man on August 16, 2013, 09:12:18 AM

Oh I remember that one I found it just after I finished converting spelljammer to rolemaster and remember thinking how much I wished I found that months before as I would have been running that instead lol

Its not a bad one but I think it needs quite a few tweaks.

Title: Re: Dark Sun
Post by: ironmaul on August 20, 2013, 09:28:00 PM

Hmmm... just had a look on wiki and nothing mentions RM having Dark Sun?

Title: Re: Dark Sun
Post by: markc on August 21, 2013, 09:04:07 AM

Dark Sun is an old D&D setting and I also think there was someone on the boards working on a conversion to RM.
MDC

Title: Re: Dark Sun
Post by: VladD on August 21, 2013, 11:12:14 AM

That someone did a thorough job! 200+ pages in that pdf! Cheers to Conan.

For me it was a very evocative setting; supported by a couple a video games and having some awesome mechanics, I recommend looking through the pdf in the very least.

Title: Re: Dark Sun
Post by: markc on August 21, 2013, 12:02:27 PM

Wow, see if you can put it into the vault.
MDC

Title: Re: Dark Sun
Post by: Thom @ ICE on August 21, 2013, 01:35:57 PM

The conversion in the vaults - Dark Sun converted for RMC is 8 pages long
Find it Here (http://www.ironcrown.com/ICEforums/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=item670)

If there is a 200+ page version of Dark Sun for Rolemaster it is likely a violation of IP for both companies as I cannot imagine a 200+ page Rolemaster book that would not include significant system information and definitely not for the setting material.

Title: Re: Dark Sun
Post by: ironmaul on August 21, 2013, 03:58:56 PM

Ok, well that defiantly surprised me! It was very well done indeed and the rules gelled with RM completely. I intend to go through it more thoroughly and gleam some ideas from it.

Title: Re: Dark Sun
Post by: RandalThor on August 22, 2013, 12:08:45 AM

I have both of those, the 8-page one for RMC and the 252-page one for "Rolemaster" (I believe it is for RM2/C). Other than that, I don't know what to tell you about it; it is Dark Sun done with RM rules, just not RMSS/FRP. I would say though, that if you are going to run Dark Sun, take a play out of the RMU playbook and set the characters at least at Legendary power level, probably Epic.


Gawds! What I would give for someone to run that for me. Dark Sun is my all-time favorite fantasy setting (Shadow World is a close second, so Stay Calm Everyone, and Game On) and I would drop playing any other game if that one came along.

Title: Re: Dark Sun
Post by: RandalThor on August 22, 2013, 12:11:51 AM

As the big one contains attack tables, I imagine it does violate IP.  8) (I didn't make it, I just found it.)