Recent content by Polyhedral_Columbia

Interesting! Thank you Mike!

Fiddlesticks! A responsive, proactive WotC, who placed the love of the game above legalism, would seek Echohawk out, and *ask him* to write the f-ing book for them. Hey Mearls, let's have a Hasbro-sponsored Kickstarter for Echohawk, to do this research for each and every monster in the whole...

I agree that Gary could be a difficult personality. Nevertheless, he did bring some fun stuff to fruition.

I second that.

That's overstating it. Creative genius often (or even usually) is a re-synthesis, extension, and fruition of the work of others.

Interesting, clear and succinct! Thank you for this Mike T.

Hooray! Another ENCyclopedia entry! Thank you Echohawk.

I am a patron of Cubicle 7, and am totally free to voice my preferences on this open forum. I'd rather not be just a passive consumer who assumes the product line is chiseled in stone. Well then let's just give up. Burn the hundreds of post-Tolkien Middle-earth RPG books. Encase JRRT's...

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Canonical Peoples in the late Third Age I prefer that C7 pack the book full, covering all the canonical peoples who exist in the late Third Age. Don't drag it out over a bunch of sourcebooks. Use the sourcebooks to detail new peoples, places, and details in the West-lands, in Rhun, Harad, and...

Yes, thanks - I just added them to the list. I was in a hurry and forgot to include the peoples of Aman. Also, I updated the list to include the other Avari, the Men of Nurn, the seven houses of the Dwarves, the Men of the New Lands, and of the Dark Land (i.e. Australia).

Canonical peoples, plus close inferences based on 900AD-era ethnology (and 1897-era for Eriador) Peoples: Hobbits: Shire-hobbit [=1897-era Warwickshire geographically, but culturally all counties of England; for example, Yorkshire in the Hills of Scary, the West Midlands and Welsh Marches...

Something very important for sales: I prefer that ME 5E is rules-wise 100% compatible with D&D - even to the extent that characters could theoretically multiclass with regular D&D classes. I strongly suggest NOT making the core mechanics "slightly different" like Wheel of Time d20 (or Star...

Gandalf = 20th-level in a single class. Surely, in the actual Middle-earth 5e game, Gandalf will have a single class. The Middle-earth 5e RPG will be based on the archetypes which exist within that world -- not based on the existing class archetypes of the D&D Multiverse. Yes, if Gandalf were...

I agree that, as a rough beginning, it's useful to point out the Tolkienian sources in D&D. But the Middle-earth "equivalents" (hobbits, dwarves, treants) were flattened and warped as they passed through Gygax's mind. That's fine - they became one more gonzo-ified ingredient in the D&D...