LotR RPG? Anyone getting this?

[GrimJesta]

Yea, I wasn't too happy with Danforth's artwork, but OH MAN Angus McBride's work totally captured the feel of Tolkien! I started buying some adventures and sourcebooks I didn't even want or use just because the cover was so damn cool!

I hope the new one is just as good.

-=grim=-

 

[Sulimo]

Naah. I'm going to wait and see what direction the game takes. Then I might pickup a copy.

After all I have an almost complete set of MERP materials.

 

[Sulimo]

Yea, I wasn't too happy with Danforth's artwork, but OH MAN Angus McBride's work totally captured the feel of Tolkien! I started buying some adventures and sourcebooks I didn't even want or use just because the cover was so damn cool!
-=grim=-

Really? I've always loved Liz's work, and am very happy the new ICE is talking about getting her involved once again.

 

[mmadsen]

I was alluding to the notion that, had the PHB been $10 more, it would probably have sold just as many copies and made Wizards about 10 million dollars more. It was certainly worth $30.

I'm thinking that I'm one of the many, many people who came back to D&D with the third edition, but I only picked it up because it was fairly cheap (on Amazon).

 

[ColonelHardisson]

I'm not sure if you're aware of the point I was making. I was alluding to the notion that, had the PHB been $10 more, it would probably have sold just as many copies and made Wizards about 10 million dollars more. It was certainly worth $30.

D&D is probably the only RPG with enough name recognition to have pulled it off, but I doubt WotC wanted to take any chances, seeing as the RPG industry had been on the skids for quite a while. LotR, right now in the midst of the mania over the movies, might have enough name recognition to pull it off...maybe.

 

[mattcolville]

D&D is probably the only RPG with enough name recognition to have pulled it off, but I doubt WotC wanted to take any chances, seeing as the RPG industry had been on the skids for quite a while. LotR, right now in the midst of the mania over the movies, might have enough name recognition to pull it off...maybe.

Pull what off?

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Pricing the adventure game at $30 (That's the price, right? I haven't seen it yet) and the core book at (I'm guessing) $40. I'm not saying it won't make money; I'm saying simply that few rpg properties have enough name recognition to be extremely lucrative at such prices. D&D and LotR are two or a relative handful.

I kinda thought that was clear from the context of my post. Sorry.

 

[Ulrick]

BAH HUMBUG!!!


VIVA MERP!!!



Ulrick

 

[GrimJesta]

Yea, all this talk of LotR makes me wanna blow the dust off my MERP books, break out a calculator and start playing again? Too bad noone here lives in NY...lol

-=grim=-

 

[Horacio]

Angus McBride's covers are, IMHO, the most beautiful RPG covers I've ever seen. Wonderful, lyric, evocative...
I'd love seeing something like that for the new LotR game!