First Encounter

Lo, after many a year I have returned again to the fold of MERP, and it is good. Stuck inside in these dark days of the pandemic, I’ve found myself playing more games, although online, and I took the opportunity a few days ago to set up a small session with the sole purpose of taking the MERP combat system for a test run.

It was great fun, with plenty of botched rules (we didn’t apply DB for the first two rounds) and “wait a minute, it’s in here somewhere…”. But likewise rewarding in a way I wouldn’t have expected the first go at an unknown system would be (unknown in that of the three of us, two of us have played it, but more than twenty years ago).

In one instance Gimilkhâd the black númenorean charged into a river ford to lay waste to a brigand demanding toll, but fumbled and found his blade shattering on impact, unhindered the brigand brought Gimilkhâd to his knees (stunned for two rounds) and reaching for his hand axe.

Now there’s something that doesn’t happen in most games!

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a MERP character sheet for Roll20 to do some touchups on.