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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Apok" data-source="post: 302024" data-attributes="member: 1969">Aye, and that worries me.  One of the reasons Middle-Earth is such a well developed and crafted world is because of the supplimental material beyond LotR.  Of course, I am referring to the Silmarilion, the appendices (which may or may not be "officially" part of the trilogy) and other sources, including Tolkien's letters.  If all that information is left out or ignored, we will be dealing with an incomplete picture of Tolkien's world.  After viewing Decipher's product schedule for the RPG, alot of it seems to be highly focused on the quest of the ringbearer and the fellowship.  While this is all well and good, it doesn't really help those of us who want to run a game in ME without having to deal with being in the shadow of the Fellowship and the events of the books.  Personally, I would be more inclined to run a game where the timeline was well into the Fourth Age or perhaps even before the rise of Sauron.  More importantly, just how much information will future suppliments divulge about the major areas of Middle-Earth?   The Lord of the Rings trilogy evoked wonderful descriptions of cities and peoples, but what about detailed histories and numbers?  The minutae that DM's love so much which help bring a town to life.  Will their limited licence prevent them from expounding on what's presented in the story?  Particularly those areas that get little or no treatment in the books.  There is a great deal of unexplored land on Tolkien's maps.  Far Harad, the southern lands of Rhun and beyond, not to mention anything east of Mordor,  gets virtually no mention.  While Decipher may make an excellent base-system for roleplaying in Middle-Earth, I don't know how well they can follow through operating on a partial licence.  Or am I just scaring myself needlessly?</blockquote>

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