Rolemaster (originally Role Master) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game published by Iron Crown Enterprises in 1980.

Rolemaster is a fantasy role-playing game system that has been characterized as highly complex, with a large number of charts and tables to be consulted for every action.

[1] Rolemaster characters have ten attributes such as physical strength, memory, self-discipline, and agility with scores between 1 and 100.

The supplement introduced ICE's original Loremaster setting, which would later develop into the more sophisticated Shadow World.

In 1999 the game underwent a slight restructuring when Rolemaster Fantasy Role Playing (RMFRP) was released, but this was mostly a rearranging of material with very few changes to the rules themselves.

[4] Throughout the various ownership and publisher name changes, Rolemaster remained sufficiently popular that the original books eventually sold out and went out of print.

This led to several reprints by the new owners and publishers, resulting in three variants of the original Rolemaster game system.

[5] In 2007, the second edition (RM2) rules system was revitalized and issued under the name Rolemaster Classic, or RMC for short.

Arcane editor Paul Pettengale commented: "Often used as an archetypal example of a complex roleplaying system, Rolemaster is a fairly numbers-heavy game that also relies on the use of a lot of tables.

Most notable are its notorious 'critical hit' charts, which are subdivided by damage type and describe various horrific wounds in graphic detail.

If you're looking for a highly detailed and fairly complex system, Rolemaster has a great deal to recommend it.

[18] Several Electronic Roleplaying Assistants (ERAs) have been issued for use with the RMC, RMSS and RMFRP systems since 2005.