Narrators, what are you looking for supplement-wise?
As a LOTR RPG Narrator or player, what kind of supplements do you need/are you looking for in your games?
You know what Decipher is coming out with by looking at the product schedule. From that, you can extrapolate more products likely to be released.
What would you like to see that you don't think Decipher will produce? What would you like to see that Decipher isn't allowed to produce thanks to their licensing agreement?
Here's a short list for starters. Please add to it and discuss.
- A sourcebook for The Silmarillion.
- Alternatively, a sourcebook for the First Age and a separate sourcebook for the Second Age.
- Complete adventures.
- Horses of Middle-earth sourcebook, detailing lots of info and new rules for horses and horsey-related stuff.
- A guide to medieval musical instruments that minstrels and other characters could use in a LOTR game.
Stuff I posted on the Decipher boards...
I would like to see a lot of scenarios, from big "War of the Rings" level epic campaigns, to collections of smaller one-shot style of campaigns.
How about a Rangers of Ithilien setting sourcebook circa the War of the Ring, with the chances for mass combat, guerilla combat, and missions against the Dark Lord.
The Kin-Strife in Gondor is also covered in the Appendices, and would be a tremendously cool setting for a Gondoran campaign. MERP's own module on this is considered to be a pretty solid scenario.
>- Horses of Middle-earth sourcebook, detailing lots of info and new rules for horses and horsey-related stuff.
Hmmm... I'd just integrate this in whatever Barbarian/Warrior/Commander/Knight sourcebook is planned.
>- A guide to medieval musical instruments that minstrels and other characters could use in a LOTR game.
If there's a Minstrels book, that would go there, wouldn't it?
How about a Strongholds book with rules for how these might work and be built?
Rules for naval combat and a book about the ships and vessels of Middle-earth.
Obviously, a "The Hobbit" sourcebook.
More realm books, ala Rivendell, Lothlorien, Minas Tirith, Pelargir, Dol Amroth, the Grey Havens, etc.
Strongholds of evil, such as Dol Goldur, Mordor, Mount Gram, Mount Gundabad, and Angmar.
How about a sourcebook specifically about Dragon-kind, expanding on the stuff in Fell Beasts, but also giving writeups of the major dragons to appear in LotR and The Hobbit, including Smaug, Scatha, Ancalagon the Black, and making up a number of others who might exist.
Alternately, one could do a adventure sourcebook of the early days of the Eotheod and their battles with Scatha and the Dwarves of northern Rhovanion.
Re: Stuff I posted on the Decipher boards...
Great list, Jason.
"I would like to see a lot of scenarios, from big "War of the Rings" level epic campaigns, to collections of smaller one-shot style of campaigns."
Adventures seem to be a popular need.
"How about a Rangers of Ithilien setting sourcebook circa the War of the Ring, with the chances for mass combat, guerilla combat, and missions against the Dark Lord."
That would be cool.
"The Kin-Strife in Gondor is also covered in the Appendices, and would be a tremendously cool setting for a Gondoran campaign. MERP's own module on this is considered to be a pretty solid scenario. "
Not familiar with MERP, but another good idea.
>- Horses of Middle-earth sourcebook
Hmmm... I'd just integrate this in whatever Barbarian/Warrior/Commander/Knight sourcebook is planned.
The outline I have for it is almost entire horse-specific, though I'd be adding rules on horses in combat, more elite orders, more order packages (esp. for craftsmen) and the like. I'm sure I'll be influenced by what I see in the B/W book.
>- A guide to medieval musical instruments that minstrels and other characters could use in a LOTR game.
If there's a Minstrels book, that would go there, wouldn't it?
Probably.
>How about a Strongholds book with rules for how these might work and be built?
That could be cool.
>Rules for naval combat and a book about the ships and vessels of Middle-earth.
Hmm, probably in a possible Mariner book?
>More realm books, ala Rivendell, Lothlorien, Minas Tirith, Pelargir, Dol Amroth, the Grey Havens, etc.
Sure.
>Strongholds of evil, such as Dol Goldur, Mordor, Mount Gram, Mount Gundabad, and Angmar.
If not one big book o' evil.
>How about a sourcebook specifically about Dragon-kind, expanding on the stuff in Fell Beasts, but also giving writeups of the major dragons to appear in LotR and The Hobbit, including Smaug, Scatha, Ancalagon the Black, and making up a number of others who might exist.
I'm not familiar enough with the other publications to know how huge a role dragons were. I'd think Smaug would fit best in the Hobbit sourcebook
>Alternately, one could do a adventure sourcebook of the early days of the Eotheod and their battles with Scatha and the Dwarves of northern Rhovanion.
And another good idea.
I'm sure I'll surprise no one by saying that I'm looking for ideas for more fan-made work, and all of these comments are getting my brain firing. Thanks a lot, everyone! Keep the ideas coming.
And, of course, if there are enterprising fans out there who want to tackle some of these, go ahead and start posting threads and ideas. I'm game for a LOTR fan project. :)
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