You're not playing Rolemaster with its unmatched
flexibility and variation and then throw the same cookie cutter orc at your
players a hundred times, do you?
Of course you don't. But let's be honest, it can
be a little boring to roll up 3782 individual orcs. This is where RIMS comes
in. You just say "roll me 3782 orcs" and grab the sheets from the
printer.
RIMS varies monsters according to the rules presented in Iron Crown's Rolemaster Creatures & Treasures (RM2 and RM Classic) or Creatures and Monsters (RMFRP and RMSS).
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Requirements
For RIMS, you need:
- Java and Java FX, at least version 11 (but the latest greatest should be fine).
- (Optionally) To avoid a copyright conflict with ICE, RIMS does not come with any monster data. However, you don't have to enter all these creatures manually. You can buy the Creatures & Monsters (or Creatures & Treasures, respectively) PDFs ICE sells on DriveThroughRPG.com and have RIMS work with those. (For RM Classic, you need to convert the PDF to text manually using pdftotext from the xpdf package. This does not work for the old RM2 Creatures & Treasures PDFs as these are just images, i.e., not OCR'd.)
Latest news
2019-06-02 Added a simple GUI. Internal cleanup.
2009-08-30: RIMS can now directly read the RMSS and RMFRP PDF files ICE sells. This does not work yet for RM Classic, unfortunately.
2009-04-05: Removed dependency on Perl so that RIMS becomes easier to use: it will now accept the converted text files as well as CSV files.
2008-07-19: Initial release: RIMS will convert ICE's PDFs to CSV and then work on these CSV files. This works for RMSS, RMFRP, and RM Classic PDFs. RIMS writes HTML or LaTeX output.