red_bus wrote:MERP is fantastic!!

We played it for years, eventually incorporating more Rolemaster rules as we got familiar with the ruleset (it is not uncomplicated). Three things to say:

(i) the combat system is absolutely thrilling - deadly and dramatic.
(ii) the magic system is dull.
(iii) you get to adventure in Middle Earth!!

Well worth giving it a go.  We even experimented with swapping in the D&D magic system.

sorry but IMHO merp is not fantastic... the world of tolkien doesnt fit to rolemaster system... try "Tiers Age" and you will seize what it does mean!

(ah, btw, Tiers Age is a free rpg: you can find it on the net!)

Sardan wrote:Golden Heroes

That's the old Games Workshop supers game, isn't it?

Traveller wrote:I don't speak or read French, so it's of little use here.

On the topic of MERP, Rolemaster Express is simply MERP without the setting.

well, dont know for english, but i found an italian translation available as well... hence my suggestion is to check in the web...

g026r wrote:
That's the old Games Workshop supers game, isn't it?

Certainly is.  I understood a few years ago it was being revived by the author under the nameSquadron UK.  Lost track of it though.

Oh, yes, the TSR and Mongoose school of publishing.

Traveller wrote:Traveller (DUH!) I'm a gearhead.  I like the formulas in the game, and always envisioned actually drawing a gravity template for the sun.  Granted, the game had its flaws, as all 1st editions do.

One thing I liked from the very beginning about Traveller was that it seemed elegant. My younger self was really intrigued by the clean typeface, the stark red-and-black covers, and the sense that there was an honest-to-God system in place.

There were days when I wasn't in the mood for yet another rules search in the stream-of-consciousness AD&D rulebooks. I often played Traveller on those days.