Hello World!
I'll be starting GMing my first Shadow World Adventure in two weeks or something, this being also my first attempt at GMing altogether. I played quite a bit of Rolemaster back in the mists of time, but still this is going to be one heck of a ride for me. The group is a really mixed bunch of five (I hope), ranging from truly seasoned Roleplayers to absolute newbies. None of them knows Shadow World, though, and in fact this is one of the many reasons I chose this setting.
I'll be starting with the Norek module, from what I've read in this forum and subsequently in the book that seems like a safe choice to me to start with. So far I've also worked my way through the Jaiman book and the Atlas. I'll be using vanilla RMSS as much as possible, because that's the one I know best. Since only the Atlas v4 has proper stats for that, and for simplicity's sake, and to keep maintenance on my Character Sheet Creator low, I'll use the standard races in terms of numbers to create PCs (Common Men for Jameri, Wood Elves for Erlini, Half-Elves and Dwarves). The Shadow World-specific monsters stats should work as-is, the rest I will just draw from Creatures and Monsters, and the NPCs I will just try to extrapolate from RM2 to RMSS without too much fuzz, the difference is not that big anyway, as far as I can tell, and if he/she ends up with a couple of PP more or less than he/should have, so what...
If you are still looking for the question buried in all of this, there is none. I just felt like sharing. And soliciting any advice you'd like to throw at me.
Mike
