The Drunken Lizard Pub

I play Rolemaster 1st/2nd pen and paper, which is very skill-driven

All skills are allowed to all classes, however, different classes have different skill costs, professional skill modifiers (i.e. fighters get +3 to attack skills and hp every level, magicians get +3 to base spell casting and ...

Exactly. Cartography skill is weak up to level 5 or 6, then the detail actually becomes somewhat useful. 17 to max it out sems WAY too high.

On other notes, I can UNDERSTAND the want of a balanced character in a solo adventure, I however argue that it should be possible to win without resorting to ...

I couple of suggestions...

1. Variety in baddies, could we perhaps have a couple more different ones, perhaps with a smoother difficulty scale.

2. Weapon skill should improve ToHit!
and moreover ToHit seriously has a flaw in it somewhere, the percentages are all but meaningless from my ...

I have seen this a lot.

There MUST be a bug in there somewhere.

I'm consistently beaten down by creatures that should hit at most 1 in 4, or even 1 in 50. Even creatures that have equal to-hit hit 2 or 3 times to my 1.

with 2% to hit, the chances of scoring 5-6 successive hits are insanely low ...

Thanks Adrain, but that dosen't really answer my question.

I'd really like to know HOW attribute and skill levels affect the game.

I've gathered from the forums that at one time and perhaps still, the "neutral" attribute level is 10, and bonuses are somehow calculated thereafter, however the rest ...

I'd like to see spell eficiency incresed with power level, not just 1:1 damage increase.

Take fleshboil or flame arrow that does 1-4/power rank

1 1-4
2 2-8 +1
3 3-12 +3
4 4-16 +5
5 5-20 +7
6 6-24 +9

The random encounters were extremely annoying and the game seemed geared towards getting certain devices and having a gadgeteer and bard to use them. The enemies unlimited magic and unlimited numbers was a serious problem after a while and made some of the late stages extremely difficult.

Diablo 1 and 2 try to handle this with different sized equipment and item hit points. It works to a point.

I gave up on D&D after WotC bought it. I did however play Rolemaster extensively where weight and encumberance is heavily watched and different types of armour and skill with such affects all ...

Is there a comprehensive list of how attributes and skill levels work?

I have 16 ranks of sword and 23 str, dex and speed and still have piss-poor accuracy against most creatures (best is about 64-66 vs fanged salamanders)

Also, I have noticed that the randomizer is seriously flawed. Creatures ...

pick yes, hmm, ok, well that answers that I guess...

I found 2 keys (thin and brassy) in the dungeon of the mithril bar quest and can find no use for them, did I miss something?