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<blockquote data-quote="innerdude" data-source="post: 7780856" data-attributes="member: 85870"><p>Cubicle 7 has just been so all over the place with this product line. </p><p></p><p>Much like my vehement opposition to Fantasy Flight spreading out the new Star Wars line over 3 core books, I never thought that putting The One Ring just in Mirkwood to start out was a good idea.</p><p></p><p>(For the record, I held out on Fantasy Flight and got Genesys instead. One $40 rulebook vs. three different $60 rulebooks FTW . . . and if I ever want to "port" Star Wars into Genesys, I can basically just pick up <em>Force and Destiny</em> and cherry pick the Force rules into Genesys, still saving me $120 bucks.)</p><p></p><p>Out of the gate, Cubicle 7 cut off huge swaths of the available Lord of the Rings fiction. I personally had zero interest in playing the game because it didn't have Gondor as a playable culture.</p><p></p><p>Sure, I picked up the Rivendell hardcover, and then picked up the rest of the line in PDF through a cheap Humble Bundle, but it took 5 years to get Gondor into the "core" rules. Cubicle 7 held back Gondor to the absolute very end with the release of the Adventurer's Companion. </p><p></p><p>Yet it was no problem for them to throw in Men of Gondor as a playable culture/class in the 5e Middle-earth companion a year earlier. So clearly they seemed to have learned, "Include everything people could reasonably want in the core."</p><p></p><p>The first edition of the game is 7 years old. Is there really enough latent demand to justify a "revised" 2nd edition? Anyone who has the original RPG isn't likely to rollover hundreds of dollars into a new edition just to get the Moria companion. And I'd be willing to bet the shirt off my back that the 5e product line is significantly more profitable for them, so why are they throwing money/time/resources at TOR 2e?</p><p></p><p>Clearly they think it'll be profitable in its own right . . . but to me it smells far too much like the blatant D&D 3.5e cash grab. </p><p></p><p>To anyone thinking about jumping on The One Ring bandwagon with 2nd Edition --- go right ahead. Just be prepared to spend the next 5 years marveling at the ability of a company to repeatedly make one head-scratching product release decision after another, and consistently do it 6 to 12 months behind schedule.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="innerdude, post: 7780856, member: 85870"] Cubicle 7 has just been so all over the place with this product line. Much like my vehement opposition to Fantasy Flight spreading out the new Star Wars line over 3 core books, I never thought that putting The One Ring just in Mirkwood to start out was a good idea. (For the record, I held out on Fantasy Flight and got Genesys instead. One $40 rulebook vs. three different $60 rulebooks FTW . . . and if I ever want to "port" Star Wars into Genesys, I can basically just pick up [I]Force and Destiny[/I] and cherry pick the Force rules into Genesys, still saving me $120 bucks.) Out of the gate, Cubicle 7 cut off huge swaths of the available Lord of the Rings fiction. I personally had zero interest in playing the game because it didn't have Gondor as a playable culture. Sure, I picked up the Rivendell hardcover, and then picked up the rest of the line in PDF through a cheap Humble Bundle, but it took 5 years to get Gondor into the "core" rules. Cubicle 7 held back Gondor to the absolute very end with the release of the Adventurer's Companion. Yet it was no problem for them to throw in Men of Gondor as a playable culture/class in the 5e Middle-earth companion a year earlier. So clearly they seemed to have learned, "Include everything people could reasonably want in the core." The first edition of the game is 7 years old. Is there really enough latent demand to justify a "revised" 2nd edition? Anyone who has the original RPG isn't likely to rollover hundreds of dollars into a new edition just to get the Moria companion. And I'd be willing to bet the shirt off my back that the 5e product line is significantly more profitable for them, so why are they throwing money/time/resources at TOR 2e? Clearly they think it'll be profitable in its own right . . . but to me it smells far too much like the blatant D&D 3.5e cash grab. To anyone thinking about jumping on The One Ring bandwagon with 2nd Edition --- go right ahead. Just be prepared to spend the next 5 years marveling at the ability of a company to repeatedly make one head-scratching product release decision after another, and consistently do it 6 to 12 months behind schedule. [/QUOTE]
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