Quote from: David JohansenOne page is equipment...does that help?

Anyhow, I don't believe in totalling every last bonus.  There's several that probably won't ever get totalled in the course of the campaign.

Preaching to the choir, man.  I like the game.  My players don't.  And I don't fancy playing with myself all that much.

Quote from: BalbinusI have to admit, I tend to suspect that the most die hard edition purists are playing nothing, just sitting at home polishing their dice bag and cursing the heathen players of editions that are not the one pure edition.

Enjoying the edition you like in actual play is the best revenge, ideally enjoying it in a non-canonical setting too...

I have spent more time  than I liked playing nothing the last three years.  A little GURPS here or WHFRP there but nothing solid until I got the current group going.  I suspect there'll be some T5 in the future, but that's very dependant on there actually being a T5 in the future.  Y'pays yer money y'takes yer chances...

Quote from: David JohansenWell, that and the thread last week and the one the week before that.    If I had it to do over I'd have started a GURPS campaign.
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I don't get this.  Why should Rasyr's comments -- or, for that matter, the fact that ICE has decided to promote RMC instead of RMFRP -- affect your own game?  You're not playing with those guys, so enjoy your RMSS/RMFRP campaign (and take comfort in the fact that there seems to be a surprising number of people who like RMSS/RMFRP here).

Quote from: David JohansenI have spent more time  than I liked playing nothing the last three years.  A little GURPS here or WHFRP there but nothing solid until I got the current group going.  I suspect there'll be some T5 in the future, but that's very dependant on there actually being a T5 in the future.  Y'pays yer money y'takes yer chances...

Quite, I wasn't thinking of you as an edition purist though to be honest.  One can have preferences, even strong preferences, without being a fanatic.

I prefer Rules Cyclopedia DnD, doesn't make the others bad, but RC is my strong preference.  It's the guys who then but into 3.5 threads to talk about how it sold out RC or somesuch who are the real problems.

Hope things pick up gamingwise for you.

Quote from: AkrasiaI don't get this.  Why should Rasyr's comments -- or, for that matter, the fact that ICE has decided to promote RMC instead of RMFRP -- affect your own game?  You're not playing with those guys, so enjoy your RMSS/RMFRP campaign (and take comfort in the fact that there seems to be a surprising number of people who like RMSS/RMFRP here).

Mostly unrelated plus sour grapes.  It's just I'm running a game where we've now gone three sessions without a blow being struck and GURPS is better suited to a heavy social action game.  I actually like GURPS combat better though Combat Companion will go a ways to level that out.  I'm not as fond of GURPS character creation as takes longer for most people than RMSS does.  (GURPS can be much faster here but only if you've read the book and played a fair bit)  And GURPS Magic vs Spell Law?  No contest!  Spell Law is perfect while GURPS Magic is still badly broken in many places.  But as it works out we've seen almost no combat spell casting and tons and tons of diplomacy, socializing, and bullshitting.

I've also got a couple players who aren't hugely impressed with Rolemaster, I think the hour and a half it took to level up might have bothered them a bit.

Incidentally, here's a link to my campaign log: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=365948