A question for the #MERP gamers of old: What are your recommendations for groovy MERP adventures from ICE? I want to know the ones you've most enjoyed playing and GMing, for your own reasons.
I'm hoping to read ALL of them, eventually, to learn if Iron Crown had a general editorial trend toward including #HTTRPG stuff, or if it's just Space Master where that happened.
But I'm a babe in the woods. I was never an ICE follower back in the day. And I'd rather start with some good ones!
@SJohnRoss What I like about MERP adventures is that they describe a status quo and give hooks to get the players involved, but do not proscribe a certain way to resolve the conflict.
My favourite scenario is "Adventure at Minas Anghen" from "Haunted Ruins of the Dunlendings". It was the scenario we played the very first time I played an RPG, and I have run variants of it many times. Each time is different.
@capybarbarian I really like Adventure at Minas Anghen; thanks for recommending it. It's not exactly what I'd call High-Trust; it's a high-quality example of what 80s adventures often were: a stew of high-trust and low-trust elements. But it contains a higher-trust adventure (almost two!), in that stew, so it's nice to have to add to my list, even with an asterisk.
It would also be much, much easier to adapt to full-on HTT play than most things I've read lately.
@SJohnRoss I really enjoyed ‘The Phantom of the Northern Marches’ when I was into MERP. Admittedly, that was probably the best part of four decades ago…
@SJohnRoss sorry, i was never a big MERP guy — Rolemaster and even some Shadow World (which I think is pretty LT?) but not so much that I’d remember adventures.