whereas making a 3.5 character is an endeavor of six to eight hours and many tears and MUCH swearing and throwing of things, making a 4.0 character took me only about two hours and everything made sense!
Good grief, were they trying to emulate Iron Crown's RoleMaster? Every time I made a character in RoleMaster, it was a full day's effort of calculations and filling in bubbles and charts and... yeah. (Of course, then combat was a pile of charts: a chart for each weapon or spell damage type, and a chart for each type of critical that you could get with each of those, and charts for fumbles, and oh god don't roll a 66, 99, or 00 on a fumble, or it would be all "Fetch a mop" and and and...
Yeah, there were reasons ICE went under, taking the ChartMaster systems with it, I'm pretty sure. (Though they were the first company to have the actual Tolkien license, IIRC.)
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Date: 2013-01-08 06:24 pm (UTC)Good grief, were they trying to emulate Iron Crown's RoleMaster? Every time I made a character in RoleMaster, it was a full day's effort of calculations and filling in bubbles and charts and... yeah. (Of course, then combat was a pile of charts: a chart for each weapon or spell damage type, and a chart for each type of critical that you could get with each of those, and charts for fumbles, and oh god don't roll a 66, 99, or 00 on a fumble, or it would be all "Fetch a mop" and and and...
Yeah, there were reasons ICE went under, taking the ChartMaster systems with it, I'm pretty sure. (Though they were the first company to have the actual Tolkien license, IIRC.)