D&D comes to Middle Earth (from Cubicle 7)

TwoSix

Dirty, realism-hating munchkin powergamer

• Mar 14, 2016

• #21

Reynard said:

I'll be curious to see if they essentially rewrite the game to fit ME, using only the core of D&D 5E for mechanics, or if they try and accommodate the many D&Disms that don't really fit. I think the best we can hope for is the former but with strongly maintained compatibility so that people who want to add dragonborn warlocks to ME can do so seamlessly (though not likely without consequences!).

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Enevhar Aldarion

Hero

• Mar 14, 2016

• #22

BMaC said:

I wonder what timeline they'll use.

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If they re-use the background material they have already written, it will be set in the 70+ years between The Hobbit and LotR, same as The One Ring game.

 

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RotGrub

First Post

• Mar 14, 2016

• #23

this means non-bobble-headed-tiny-shoe halflings.

 

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Guest 6801328

Guest

• Mar 14, 2016

• #24

I have to wonder if they will have a unique set of races/classes/sub-classes. The One Ring is a very, very low-magic world.

I've heard that Mike Mearls spent a fair amount of time at the C7 booth when 5e was just a twinkle in his eye, and several of the mechanics (e.g. Inspiration) result from that.

 

darjr

I crit!

• Mar 14, 2016

• #25

I want the game to be the "One Ring" and compatible with 5e. I hope they can pull it off.

 

mrm1138

Explorer

• Mar 14, 2016

• #26

Rhineglade said:

I think the idea behind this is cool but something about Middle Earth just never translated well to RPG in my opinion. This was the problem with the MERP and Rolemaster versions. For one thing, the story line is so well established it is not easy to bend the canon.

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I feel like, in order to run any Middle Earth RPG effectively, the GM would either A) need to have read every single bit of lore available and internalized it, or B) have a group that doesn't know too much about the history of the world and won't cry foul if he deviates from the established canon. It's for that reason that I will never run a game in this setting. I've read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings maybe two times each, but that's about it. The Silmarillion looks like a history textbook, and I can't imagine finding it anything but dry and tedious.

 

Stan Shinn

Explorer

• Mar 14, 2016

• #27

I'm guessing Cuble 7 will reskin a lot of their The One Ring material and have the adventures be set between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (roughly Third Age 2941-3018).

However, there's lots of other timelines in which to adventure. My favorite is the Third Age 1300-1974 era, over a thousand years before Lord of the Rings events, set in the lost kingdom of Arnor.

See my Chronicles of Arnor Trailer to get the vibe of adventuring in that era:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-uYKpcebGY.

Lots of great old MERP adventure materials available for that era.

Fourth Age is also great time -- Palantir Quest is an old MERP module you can run for months during the Fourth Age.

 

benensky

Explorer

• Mar 14, 2016

• #28

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Polyhedral_Columbia

First Post

• Mar 14, 2016

• #29

I...told...you...so!

I called this back in 2014:

"Cubicle Seven would be welcome to use our license to produce a D&D COMPATIBLE worldbook for Middle-earth and Doctor Who alongside their house-rule product lines. They would however, need to refer back to the PHB for all basic rules, such as movement and action resolution, and pick an array of most fitting rules modules from the DMG (along with their own original rules modules specific to that setting), and refer back to them, rather than re-printing it all in their product. Any Middle-earth specific classes, or versions of classes (such as a "Warrior" of Middle-earth serving as a rebadged Fighter) would need to be theoretically fully multiclassible with 5e PHB classes."

When I posted this at ENWorld, nearly everyone rolled their eyes, and said I was wishing for a pony. The thread was even shut down.

And here we are my friends. Goes to show that expressing what we really desire is a worthwhile exercise, even if nearly the entire community is opposed.

 

ChrisCarlson

First Post

• Mar 14, 2016

• #30

TraverseTravis said:

I called this...

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Have you made any other predictions that haven't (yet) come true, Nostradamus?