Rolemaster
Elemental Companion
Stock #: 1510
ISBN 0-915795-12-4
Published 1989 by Iron Crown Ent.
Cover Price: $15.00
Page Count: 144
Cover/Jacket Text:
Elemental Companion™ is, the definitive
Rolemaster sourcebook for elemental
power in an FRP environment. Elemental
Companion can improve any game and
serves as a major supplement for ICE'S highly
acclaimed FRP system, Rolemaster. Super-
charge your fireballs—but cover up your spell
books—as the Elemental Companion
blasts its way into your FRP campaign!
Elemental Companion provides:
• Complete guidelines for the manipulation
and use of elemental, power and spells.
• Dozens of new elemental spell lists and vari-
ant professions.
• Complete descriptions of a variety of ele-
mental races and creatures.
• Six new spell attack tables and four new cri-
tical strike tables.
• Complete coverage of the elemental planes
and the classification of elemental material.
• Guidelines for how to use elemental magic
as source material in a Shadow World™
campaign or in your own campaign.
Rolemaster gamers now have an entire fantasy world at
their fingertips. Shadow World products form a rich fan-
tasy environment for the Rolemaster and Fantasy
Hero™ game systems. The self-contained adventures
may also be-used as isolated or hidden areas in any
Gamemaster's campaign world.
The completely reformatted 2nd edition
Rolemaster system includes the following:
•Arms Law® & Claw Law® — The Rolemaster Arms and
Animals combat systems combined in a new, reorganized ,
volume. These fast-moving rules include individual charts
for 30 weapons and critical strike tables, as well as detailed
creature attacks for real and mythical beasts. Martial arts.
rules also are included.
•Character Law & Campaign Law™ — The new version of,
the complete character development and campaign guide.
Character Law features a unique trait development system |
that allows characters to increase their ability in any area of
skill. There are no absolute restrictions. Campaign Law,
includes handy reference material available to any'
Gamemaster: weather, encounter, and price charts, and
guidelines for running a campaign in a complex, living
world.
•Spell Law® — The magic system that improves any FRP
game! The new edition of Spell Law has over 2,000 spell
descriptions based on three realms of power and 15 profes-
sions. It provides alchemy rules, spell attack and failure
tables, and a unique spell-learning structure.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.0 Introduction
1.1 DESIGNER NOTES
1.2 NOTATION
1.3 TERMS
2.0 The Elements
2.1 LESSER BASIC ELEMENTS
2.1.1 Air
2.1.2 Cold
2.1.3 Light
2.1.4 Vibration
2.1.5 Water
2.2 GREATER BASIC ELEMENTS
2.2.1 Gravity
2.2.2 Heat
2.2.3 Dark
2.2.4 Inertia
2.2.5 Earth
2.3 COMPOUND ELEMENTS
2.3.1 Electrical
2.3.2 Fire
2.3.3 Ice
2.3.4 Wind
2.4 SUPER COMPOUND ELEMENTS
2.4.1 Plasma
2.4.2 Vacid
2.5 COMPLEX ELEMENTS
2.5.1 Aether
2.5.2 Chaos
2.5.3 Nether
2.5.4 Nexus
2.5.5 Spirit
2.5.6 Time
3.0 Elemental Professions and Skills
3.1 PURE ELEMENTAL SPELL USERS
3.1.1 Elemental Channeler
3.1.2 Elemental Enchanter
3.1.3 Elemental Healer
3.1.4 Elemental Summoner
3.1.5 High Elementalist
3.1.6 Mystical Elementalist
3.2 HYBRID ELEMENTAL SPELL USERS
3.2.1 Evil Elementalist
3.2.2 Elemental Chanter
3.2.3 Elemental Physician
3.3 SEMI ELEMENTAL SPELL USERS
3.3.1 Elemental Hunter
3.3.2 Elemental Warrior
3.3.3 Rogue Elementalist
3.4 ELEMENT BASED SKILLS
3.4.1 Elemental Banishment
3.4.2 Elemental Lore
3.4.3 Elemental Physics
3.4.4 Evaluate Elemental Item
3.5 MANIPULATION BONUS.
3.6 ELEMENT BASED SKILL
DEVELOPMENT POINT COST TABLE.
3.7 ELEMENTAL SKILLS — DP COST TABLE
4.0 Elemental Spell Lists
4.1 OPEN ELEMENTAL SPELL LISTS
4.1.1 Elemental Chants
4.1.2 Elemental Detection
4.1.3 Elemental Glyphs
4.1.4 Elemental Lore
4.1.5 Elemental Runes
4.1.6 Elemental Senses
4.1.7 Elemental Symbols
4.1.8 Elemental Wards
4.1.9 Lesser Elemental Area Attacks
4.1.10 Lesser Elemental Attacks
4.1.11 Lesser Elemental Items
4.1.12 Lesser Elemental Mobile Barriers
4.1.13 Lesser Elemental Non-Mobile Barriers
4.1.14 Lesser Elemental Protection
4.1.15 Lesser Elemental Summoning
4.2 CLOSED ELEMENTAL SPELL LISTS
4.2.1 Delayed Spell Enhancement
4.2.2 Elemental Absorption
4.2.3 Elemental Attack Enhancement
4.2.4 Elemental Banishment
4.2.5 Elemental Continuation
4.2.6 Elemental Gates
4.2.7 Elemental Healing
4.2.8 Elemental Mastery
4.2.9 Elemental Molding
4.2.10 Elemental Pooling
4.2.11 Elemental Spirit Binding
4.2.12 Elemental Wall Enhancement
4.2.13 Enhanced Elemental Criticals
4.2.14 Enhanced Elemental Duration
4.2.15 Enhanced Elemental Radius
4.2.16 Enhanced Elemental Ranging
4.2.17 Enhanced Elemental Potency
4.2.18 Enhanced Elemental Targeting
4.2.19 Enhanced Proto-Elemental Poisoning
4.2.20 Greater Elemental Area Attacks
4.2.21 Greater Elemental Attacks
4.2.22 Greater Elemental Items
4.2.23 Greater Elemental Mobile Barriers
4.2.24 Greater Elemental Non-Mobile Barriers
4.2.25 Greater Elemental Protection
4.2.26 Greater Elemental Summoning
4.3 BASE ELEMENTAL SPELL LISTS
4.3.1 Curse Guidelines
4.3.2 Elemental Area Curses
4.3.3 Elemental Personal Curses
4.3.4 Elemental Area Attack Law
4.3.5 Elemental Attack Law
4.3.6 Elemental Commune
4.3.7 Elemental Fires
4.3.8 Elemental Guardian
4.3.9 Elemental Item Law
4.3.10 Elemental Mobile Barrier Law
4.3.11 Elemental Non-Mobile Barrier Law
4.3.12 Elemental Summoning
4.3.13 Elemental Protection Law
4.3.14 Temperance
4.3.15 Elemental Summoning Law
5.0 Elemental Races
5.1 PURE AND CROSSBREED ELEMENTAL BEINGS
5.2 PURE ELEMENTAL BEINGS
5.3 ELF CROSSBREED ELEMENTAL RACE TABLE
5.4 HUMAN CROSSBREED ELEMENTAL RACE TABLE
5.5 PURE ELEM. (NORMAL ENVIRONMENT) RACE TABLE 67
5.6 PURE ELEM. (HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT) RACE TABLE 68
6.0 Elemental Creatures.
6.1 DRAGONS — THE GREATER DRAKES
6.2 LESSER DRAKES
6.3 ELEMENTAL GIANTS
6.4 ELEMENTAL SERPENTS
6.5 GUARDIAN ELEMENTALS
6.6 INTELLIGENT ELEMENTALS
6.7 NON-INTELLIGENT ELEMENTALS
6.8 RIDING ELEMENTALS
6.9 SERVANT ELEMENTALS
6.10 WISPLING ELEMENTALS
6.11 ZEPHYR HOUNDS
7.0 Elemental Modifications
7.1 SPELL MASTERY
7.2 RESISTANCE ROLL MODIFIERS
8.0 Non Elemental Spell Users
9.0 Elemental Force Attack Tables
9.1 GUIDELINES
9.2 ADDITIONAL E.A.R. MODIFICATIONS
9.3 LESSER ELEMENTAL FORCE ATTACK TABLE
9.4 NORMAL ELEMENTAL FORCE ATTACK TABLE
9.5 GREATER ELEMENTAL FORCE ATTACK TABLE
9.6 MINOR ELEMENTAL FORCE ATTACK TABLE
9.7 MAJOR ELEMENTAL FORCE ATTACK TABLE
9.8 SUPERIOR ELEMENTAL FORCE ATTACK TABLE
10.0 Critical Strike Tables
10.1 AETHER/NEXUS CRITICAL STRIKE TABLE
10.2 MENTAL CRITICAL STRIKE TABLE
10.3 TIME CRITICAL STRIKE TABLE
10.4 VIBRATION CRITICAL STRIKE TABLE
11.0 Interaction Between the Elements
11.1 THE RR METHOD
11.2 THE COMPARISON METHOD
11.3 PURITY COMPARISON TABLE
11.4 SIZE COMPARISON TABLE
12.0 Cone Attacks
12.1 CONE STATISTICS
12.2 METHODS FOR USING CONE ATTACKS
12.3 CRITICAL AND CONCUSSION SEVERITY
13.0 Elemental Theories
14.0 Elemental Planes
14.1 THE UNIVERSE
14.2 THE PLANES
14.3 SPECIAL PROPERITES
15.0 Proto-Elemental Material
15.1 THE DANGERS OF PEM
15.1.1 PEM Solubility
15.1.2 PEM Poisoning
15.1.3 PEM Poison Level
15.1.4 PEM Poison Level Determination Table
15.2 PEM ANTIDOTES
15.3 PEM SOURCES
15.4 PEM CONTAMINATION
15.5 PEM IMMUNITY
16.0 Manipulation of Raw Elemental
Force.
16.1 ABSORPTION
16.2 SHAPING RAW ELEMENTAL MATERIAL
16.2.1 Forging an Elemental Item
16.2.2 Elemental Metals
16.2.3 Elemental Metal Properties Table
16.2.4 Elemental Metal Bonus Table
16.2.5 Examples of Elem. Metal Weapon Properties
17.0 Using EC With Shadow World
17.1 BACKGROUND & HISTORY
17.2 ELEMENTAL ENCOUNTER TABLE