What
are Role-playing games? In a RPG the umpire (games master, dungeon
master) creates a world and populates it. He develops the setting for
an adventure in which the players are cast in the roles of heroes or
villains . The personality the players takes on is called a character.
This character can be a human, a super hero ,an alien, a dwarf , an
elf. He or she might be a warrior or a magician. In fact almost
anything .
The rules of the game determine if the actions these characters under
take in the world are successful or not. The fun is in the adventure
and in cooperating to overcome the hazards along the way.
Lord of Rings Role-playing
Decipher have
produced this Role-playing game based on Lord of the Rings and
using their CODA system. I did run a campaign using these rules for a
year or so but in the end they somehow never quite got me excoted. 4th Age is my site dedicated to this game
MERP: Middle Earth Role Playing and Rolemaster
Iron
Crown Enterprises ( I.C.E.) have for 20 years produced these great
games. I have always preferred them to the more popular but ( in my
opinion) flawed Dungeons and Dragons games by TSR.. Read more on my
site which contains a lot of campaign material. Dungeon maps etc.
Dol Guldur - MERP and Rolemaster
Traveller
Traveller
was the first Roleplaying system I played in 1983 . It was and still is
a fully developed Science Fiction universe set thousands of years into
the future . It has gone through many versions since then:
Traveller - the original version( now called classic)
Megatraveller
Traveller the new Era (TNE)
T4
GURPS
Traveller . Now it has been resurrected with the GURPS rules . The new
source books are great and the maps/ data books very complete. However
I wanted a simple set of rules that would be easy to pick up and so I
wrote a set of rules using FUDGE . These are a generic set of rules you can down load from the net. They seem to work quite well.
Follow this link for my Traveller campaign
Run out the Guns
ICE
brought out these brilliant set of cut down rules based on Rolemaster
for playing Pirate games. Background material is very complete . Maps
are great. Good fun.
I will try and put on some details of my campaign .
Meanwhile here are a few links on the net:
Endeavour/ Tiger Lilly site
Black knight site
Roleplaying Links on the Net
TY Beard's The Fantasy Trip. This site has extensive files relating to this 70's RPG system. Looks quite good.
For those die hard ADAD fans who do not believe there are other systems (grin) I suggest you look at:
My Friend Pete Scott's Excellent D+D site with vast numbers of links and other good stuff