We have started adopting innate stat skills, so every stat now has some important use. There is no minimum threshold and there are no prime stats that can be replaced with 90’s, but the player can assign the stat roll sets as they see fit. The lowest roll in each set is dropped, the next lowest is the temp and the highest the potential. I have the players roll 11 sets (appearance stat is used) of 3 rolls. This was done prior to, on their own time and I didn’t add it to the creation time, but, that conceptual planning certainly makes the quick creation time possible. They now have strong idea of the character they want to play and probably a solid plan moving forward. So how do we do character creation? First, I have a player sketch out their character concept and review the various skill packages (cultural and vocational-we’ll get to that in a bit). We recently added a player to our group so I had the chance to test my newer rules out. It’s also not an “all or nothing” proposition players can still go through individual skill buy for character creation if they want, and normal skill selection is still used after the first level.

We combine this approach with our own ‘ no profession‘ rule set, but it can work for the standard professions rules as well. The key is using “packages” to replace the normal Adolescent and Apprenticeship skill picks. But what if it only takes 15 minutes or so to make a character in Rolemaster? We’ve simplified and modified the rules enough that character creation is flexible, easy and quick…and…a player can make virtually any character type they want. I get it.Įven if you are an experienced RMer, you can easily spend an hour building a character and filling out the multi-page character sheet.

Much of this complaining is grounded in the deadliness of the system: it sucks spending an hour or two on creating a character only having them die with a bad fumble or high critical roll in their first outing. Search around the internet for Rolemaster discussions and you’ll see that a lot of people gripe about how much time it takes to make a 1 st lvl character.

Rolemaster character sheet pdf