(ICE Age) n. The ICE Age refers to the period of time when GemStone III was licensed under Iron Crown Enterprises' RoleMaster system. Simutronics eventually decided they no longer wanted to work under this license and subsequently had to change several aspects of the game to conform to International copyright/trademark laws. Among those things they had to change were the names of various metals, woods, creature names, races, professions, spells, gods and geographical landmarks and the name of the world itself. Today, there are still a few items floating around in the game from the ICE Age which sport ICE names, and some other references that Simutronics has still not got around to exorcising, so it still helps to understand what these terms mean.