Creatures & Monsters

Rolemaster Standard System

by Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE)

A bestiary of epic proportions! Inside you will find hundreds of animals, monsters and races. Many are culled from myth, others are staples of fantasy fiction, and many more are completely original—unlike anything you have ever seen in a role playing game before! Creatures & Monsters includes monsters that fly, swim, and terrorize the land. You'll also find many pages devoted to animals of all types, ranging from those that characters can protect and befriend to those that can threaten their very lives,
Creatures and Monsters includes:
• Over 300 pages of animals, monsters, and races with detailed information regarding appearance, lifestyle, combat statistics, and background.
• Dragons,-Fell Beasts, Elementals, Constructs, Other Planar Creatures, Undead, Shapechangers, Prehistoric Animals, Dangerous Plants, Giants, Tolls, the Fairy Folk, and more.
• Extensive random encounter tables regarding Nvater`sources, terrain, vegetation, and special features.
• Guidelines for how to create your own Rolemaster creatures.
• A complete index.
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Genres: Role Playing Games, Gaming

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE) is a game publishing company founded in 1980 that became known for tabletop role playing, board, miniature, and collectible card games. The company emerged when Pete Fenlon, S. Coleman Charlton, and Kurt Fischer expanded house rules developed during a Dungeons and Dragons campaign set in Middle-earth while studying at the University of Virginia. After graduating they established ICE with several collaborators, initially operating with few full time employees and relying on volunteer help. Early releases included Arms Law, The Iron Wind, and Manassas, and the modular rule supplements Arms Law, Spell Law, Character Law, and Campaign Law gradually evolved into the detailed Rolemaster role playing system. Because the original campaign was set in Tolkien's world, ICE obtained a license from Tolkien Enterprises in 1982 and launched a successful Middle-earth role playing line that became one of the most widely played fantasy RPGs after Dungeons and Dragons. The company later expanded with science fiction titles such as Spacemaster and Cyberspace, the miniatures game Silent Death, and the Shadow World fantasy setting supporting Rolemaster. Experiments with solo gamebooks and later collectible card games brought mixed results and legal complications. Financial problems in the late 1990s forced bankruptcy in 2000 and ended the Middle-earth license and revived the brand.