Topic: Old RM question (which book has...)

[Rerednaw]

A very long time ago I played RM. Well I decided to rummage through my old storage bins the other day and I found my old books (2E I believe). Now I recall that there was an optional percentile table for character creation that gave a random special ability, perk, bonus, etc...

But for the life of me I cannot figure out which book/page. I do not think it was Talent Law...but may be wrong.

Any help appreciated and thanks!

[craggles]

Practically the whole of Talent Law is what you’ve described for RMSS (or Character Law for RMFRP).

...but for RM2, it’s Character Law & Campaign Law p90-92 

[Majyk]

Yup, what Craggles said: you have version 3/4(RMSS/RMFRP) if you have a Talent Law named book.

Besides RM2 ChLCL, If you do have any kind of Rolemaster Companions, RM Companion I was another great RM2 book that had a whacktonne of ways to spend background options.

PS, welcome back to the party, backwards Wanderer!

[Rerednaw]

Hey all thanks! (I have the red border editions).
Found the tables. 

Ah the charts...what memories!!!

Now to re-ignite that 25 year old campaign... 

[craggles]

They’re Rolemaster 2 (RM2) editions for future reference. 

If ever you’re not sure which editions are which in the future, ICEWebRing is an amazing resource and has images of the books as well.

It can be confusing at first but...

• RM Classic (RMC) is a reprinting of the core RM2 books.
• RM Fantasy Roleplaying (RMFRP) is a reorganising of RM Standard System (RMSS).

[OLF, i.e. Olf Le Fol]

The books with background options are the Ch&CL, the RoCo I, the "Oriental Companion", the "Arms Companion", and "Talent Law", with RoCo IV giving some rules to manage them. In addition, one may use the chaotic tables (especially the gift and geas tables) in the RoCo III as well.