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Tabletop RPG focused Opinions, Commentary and Tips & Tricks, featuring Rolemaster. Enjoy! Have fun and may the dice always roll in your favour! Chris/GM Chance

This is the page for the YouTube Channel "Of Horrors & Heroes" A Tabletop Roleplaying Game YouTube Channel focusing on:

- (Rolemaster) Actual Play
- Opinions
- Tips & Tricks

The channel can be found at https://www.youtube.com/

The channel and this page features the excellent Rolemaster system but touches on other games. Hopefully you fill find something interesting on this page and if you like what is here do check out the channel.

03/12/2024

Why do you play TTRPGs? Everyone will have their own reasons but a key one for me is enjoying lots of laughter at stupid in-jokes with people I like - at 02:55:00 is a great example of roleplaying done right!

Check out us giggling our backsides off in our Rolemaster Actual Play episode: (E130) Ain’t no place for a Hero “Apocalypse Soon: downriver to darkness"

https://youtu.be/XMTtx23zEaU

May the dice roll in your favor!

28/11/2024

One door at a time! Does opening a door in a dungeon by your (potentially twitchy?) players often take a while? Does paranoia reign?

Please check out our new episode Rolemaster Actual Play: (E152) Twilight of the Old Order "Arcanarama” for some very twitchy gameplay in a dungeon deep!

https://youtu.be/PoHL8WMCy0A

May the dice roll in your favor!

10/11/2024

Friendly NPC Deaths! Do NPC deaths often hit the party in the feels in your TTRPGs?

We played in person recently! Check out our new episode & everyones faces for a change - Rolemaster Actual Play: (E129) Ain’t no place for a Hero “Dead & alive: Schrödinger’s Validation”

https://youtu.be/PH-Ugm09mTA?si=q1BwGcpRNtvszPVa

May the dice roll in your favor!

24/10/2024

So have you heard of the Rolemaster Criticals? Basically roll to hit & it you hit well enough you do some of this nastiness to your enemies (see attached)? Ouch!

For more crits & shenanigans see our new episode Rolemaster Actual Play: (E151) Twilight of the Old Order "Thought you were safe hiding in a room?"

https://youtu.be/ja1MTLOVh04?si=ZAK_eGtiXdrc5Zex

May the dice roll in your favor!

13/10/2024

Okay … so didn't expect that!!!

See 2:37:09 for an unexpected turn in a fight with a 14' Construct in our Rolemaster Actual Play episode: (E150) Twilight of the Old Order “A weight off our Mind”

https://youtu.be/nWauaNDY0Gg?si=0rVZKY5wVPFcoVf2

May the dice roll in your favor!

10/10/2024

Yikes! Nasty fight coming up …

Check out a major "Uh-Oh" moment in our game last night at 2:55.51 in our Rolemaster Actual Play episode: (E149) Twilight of the Old Order “Perhaps we should have been Quieter?”

https://youtu.be/tCH79UAM-rk?si=zUNo2pONxNa6FzAr

May the dice roll in your favor!

03/10/2024

"Head strike. Foe's brain falls victim to massive shock and Surface burns. Foe drops into unconsciousness, and dies in 6 rounds. +20 hits." … and this is the NICEST result of a roll of a 100 for an Electricity Critical in Rolemaster! Eeeek!

This result was rolled in our Rolemaster Actual Play episode: (E127) Ain’t no place for a Hero “Wall to Wall Bloody Ghouls" last night … check out the link below for the action:

https://youtu.be/-sMQsP-fuss?si=WuH5JKqVUEDjDvZR

May the dice roll in your favor!

17/09/2024

Rolemaster is deadly! Roll to hit, then roll damage & criticals often kill, like the image attached which took down a character last night. Yikes!

Want to learn more about the system? Check out our new Rolemaster Actual Play episode: (E126) Ain’t no place for a Hero “The Dead of Night", to see all the action (critical at ~2:30:38)

https://youtu.be/QGiy9FFiYIs?si=xDDi6GCA7wcrv8vu

May the dice roll in your favor!

12/09/2024

Wanna check out the start of an old school dungeon crawl in a (very) old school, crunchy RPG system from the 1980s?

Click our new Rolemaster Actual Play episode: (E148) Twilight of the Old Order “To Dungeons Deep” link below

https://youtu.be/013wnmvsSXE?si=8x-D_MxU_r5wmvNf

May the dice roll in your favor!

06/09/2024

Undead swamp horrors!! Watch your back!

Check out our new Rolemaster Actual Play episode: (E124) Ain’t no place for a Hero “Backs to the Flames", to see all the action & zombie smashing!

https://youtu.be/XujuRWFzn1I?si=r32uqPv8C04pPZqo

May the dice roll in your favor!

01/09/2024

Is it metagaming if players form their characters into a predetermined battle formation at the start of each fight without describing their individual movements in a TTRPG?

Check out our new Rolemaster Actual Play episode: (E147) Twilight of the Old Order “Incy Wincy Spiders”

https://youtu.be/_VLTXN3b_x8?si=5JkyzN9Hv6-lDjuI&t=1

May the dice roll in your favor!

29/08/2024

Visions of Horror & Monkey Business!!

Check out our new Rolemaster Actual Play: (E123) Ain’t no place for a Hero “Past Visions + More Monkey Business"

https://youtu.be/q7qDY5oXH-E?si=fPE1w1nksunc9KXO&t=1

May the dice roll in your favor!

18/08/2024

How often do negotiations & communication mistakes play a critical role in your TTRPGs?

Check out our new Rolemaster Actual Play episode: (E145) Twilight of the Old Order “Sitting on the Fence”

https://youtu.be/dGIgjWKE-FA?si=Sv21oniXL8HZ2hrM

May the dice roll in your favor!

11/08/2024

Does ritual magic come up much in your TTRPGs & how is it used?

Check out our new Rolemaster Actual Play: (E121) Ain’t no place for a Hero “Tarquin Returned & it pays to forget”

https://youtu.be/HiHe1NVRSBQ?si=-ykR8gpWNCK_tjaa

10/08/2024

How helpless is a paralyzed spell caster in your TTRPGs?

Check out our spell caster and see, in our new Rolemaster Actual play episode; (E120c: Side Quest) Ain’t no place for a Hero “Naked Truths”

https://youtu.be/4I6OUJ42t90?si=l1bdXc0kJUKEtmpk

25/07/2024

What is the best way you have experience a GM/DM handle a "lore dump" in a TTRPG?

Check our new Rolemaster Actual Play episode: (E120) Ain’t no place for a Hero “The calm before the Storm”

https://youtu.be/IJpIE5yHlz8?si=yAgJrFBaMpiSOjQS&t=1

May the dice roll in your favor!

22/07/2024

What is the biggest "I didn't see that coming!" moment you have experienced mid combat in a TTRPG?

To see one such moment check our new Rolemaster Actual Play episode: (E143) Twilight of the Old Order “The dice rolled in our favour”

Key moments in the Episode:
- Server Elemental - 1:09:54
- Spine severing - 1:18:11
- A wee surprise - 2:02:00

https://youtu.be/bsLXlNrfZ2E?si=zOul-YbQ8HhkiUoN&t=1

May the dice roll in your favor!

21/07/2024

What have been the most intense repercussions for characters who have "murder hobo-ed"/killed innocents in a TTRPG you have seen?

Check out our new Rolemaster Actual play episode; (E120a: Side Quest) Ain’t no place for a Hero “Murder in the alleys”

https://youtu.be/rUMGIQD35xE?si=kOFbdv3Ezr3tGasP

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