Howdy, if you are interested in how to use HARP attack tables with Novus 1e or 2e it's pretty simple.

There are Three factors that you'll have to customize: 1) the Novus attack sizes need Damage modifiers instead of Base Damage values, 2) Armor has to be assigned a Damage Modifier instead of an Armor Rating, and 3) the roll results on the HARP attack table.

1) The Novus Attack sizes already align with the HARP attack sizes. So really all you have to do is recalculate the HARP damage modifier into a 2d10 resolution mechanic by dividing it by 5 and do the same with the Damage Cap. So,

Huge +4 / 24
Large +2 /22
Medium +0/20
Small -2/18
Tiny -4/16

2) Armor works basically except that to properly balance with the 2d10 system rather than the d100 system you need to rebalance the base Armors as SL +2, RL +4, CH +6, SC +8, PL +10

3) The HARP attack tables use increments of 10 as tiers of damage. this will get a little wonky in a pure math sense to all we do is reinterpret them as each being 2 increments of +1, starting with +0.

so in Novus that would look like this:
(-4)-(-3)
(-2)-(-1)
+0 - +1
+2 - +3
+4 - +5
+6 - +7
+8 - +9
+10 - +11
+12 - +13
+14 - +15
+16 - +17
+18 - +19
+20 - +21
+22

Overall, this is really easy to implement in game. The one thing that you might want to be careful of is setting the base Defense as 13+modifiers rather than 15+ modifiers for PCs. I tapped this out at work so let me know if I missed anyhting!

True. I really enjoy the old MERP modules too. I think they set the tone well without being too heavy in intro stuff. Mind you, they were set in ME, so likely the reader was at least familiar with it...

Yup- I've been referring to those forums too. Might be a good idea to move these all to the same area? Are you thinking classic ICE style module? Overview of the locale with a couple extended adventures, a couple short adventures, and a bunch of adventure seeds?

Howdy. I'm thinking I may develop this region for a mini-campaign of my own. A couple questions:
1) I assume the word Afron means river, what does Na-Kutha mean? Is it the name of the marked city or the region as a whole? From what I see this region is situated in the Iron Hills, bordering Aelftyr, about 50 miles north-east of the Tir Tuath.
2) Have you developed a social/economic/political lay of the land for the area? Do you have any ideas already established that I should use?
Cheers

Yah- I was a part of those too. That RM revision was shaping up pretty well IMO. The armor & spell casting being more "heroic" were big appeals to me.

I think the more I play, the more I appreciate MERP and RMX. The streamlined presentation of the rules, re-playability, and approachability of these rulesets made them great stand alone games. I've said before: if RMX would have included a Ranger & Mentalist rather than an Animist plus used the ATs 5/13/17 as the base ATs for armor.it would have been a nearly perfect introduction to RM.

Changed the character sheet to none - and added 4 basic roll macros to a sample character ; Attack Roll, Damage Calculator, Initiative, and Skill/Save vs TN. Plus gave a bad guy some stats so you can beat it up.