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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lancelot" data-source="post: 7433792" data-attributes="member: 30022">Actually, one final comment for anyone who is planning to get into AiME. I was initially unsure what everything was, in terms of released books. Here's how it works...The Players Guide is the PH, and the Loremaster's Guide is a combination DMG and (abbreviated) Monster Manual. You need both of these.I'd say the next-most important purchase (if you're new to the setting) is Wilderland Adventures. This is a 6-7 module Adventure Path, running up to about 7th level. Gives you a good feel for how a campaign runs, and how a module should "feel".Eaves of Mirkwood is a good intro module (along with GM screen), but it's pretty brief. We're talking a single-session 1st level module. Nice, but as a very experienced 5e DM, I didn't find it essential.Mirkwood Campaign is, basically, a skeleton structure on how to extend the 1st-7th level AP of Wilderland Adventures into a 30-year, up-to-15th-level campaign. It's not complete modules (due to space limitations), but it gives you 25-30 outlines for adventures that you can flesh out. These outlines include mechanical details: the stats for key NPCs or monsters, skill checks, etc. It's extremely good, although it does draw on some material from......the Rhovanion Region Guide. This is your gazzeteer for the setting; your Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide, if you will. My advice is that if you're only planning to run a "short" campaign (10-or-so sessions; up to 7th level), you only need Wilderland Adventures. But if you want to go deep into the setting and run a "long" campaign, you want both the Mirkwood Campaign and the Rhovanion Region Guide.There's a map pack called the Road Goes Ever On which has a few optional rules, but this is non-essential and nice-to-have. Purchase if you're a completionist. There are good maps already available in the other books above.Finally, Cubicle 7 is starting to release the hardback manuals for regions west of the Misty Mountains: Rivendell, Bree, Shire, etc. I think this is an entirely different campaign to the Mirkwood campaign, and I personally don't know a lot about it yet. I know that it's the AiME version of material released for TOR (The One Ring), but I've never played that game. Beside, the already-released Mirkwood stuff above will keep my group going for many months.</blockquote>

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