Rolemaster

First Edition
Product: Claw Law (1st
Edition) / Arms Law (2nd
Edition, 1st or 2nd
Printings)
Stock #: CA 1600
Producer: Iron
Enterprises (ICE)

Crown

Designers:
Coleman
Charlton,
Bruce
Neidlinger, Terry Amthor,
Leonard
Cook,
Pete
Fenlon, Kurt Fischer and
Bruce Shelley.
Release date: 1982
Category: Rolemaster System
Format: Boxed set containing the Arms Law rules (Saddle-stapled softcover booklet ANSI A,
12 pages), the Claw Law rules with important statistics chart (Blue paper ANSI A, 3 sheets),
Charts for 30 weapons (Heavy loose sheets ANSI A of blue-grey paper, 15 double sided
sheets), 12 natural weapons Charts (Heavy tan paper ANSI A, six sheets), Maneuver Chart (on
beige paper ANSI A, one double sided sheet), Critical Stike Tables (on tan paper ANSI A,
seven double sided sheets).
Comments: This boxed set contains the previous monochrone Arms Law (2nd Edition)
module, either in its first or second printings. The box also contains the monochrone Claw
Law (1st Edition) module. It only has one booklet containing the standard Arms Law rules,
while the Claw Law and all of the charts and tables are presented as individual heavy sheets in
different shades of color. All in all it presents dozens of attacks against 20 armor types, 42
attack charts, 10 critical strikes tables, one fumble and one maneuver chart; an entire combat
system covering all aspects of melee and missile attacks, etc. This box shurely must have been
presented as a companion to the previously published Spell Law box, which uses the same
type of artwork designed by Matthew Jorgensen, as recognized from the slip cover sheets
from the individually published editions. This was due to the fact that Claw Law from the
very start has been heavily integrated with and a companion to the Arms Law from which it
grew out. In successive editions these two Laws would naturally merge into one volume
designated as the Arms Law & Claw Law.