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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9604729" data-attributes="member: 7044704">This seems to have inspired an entire subgenre of gaming that would start appearing next year.  1980 brought us both Yaquinto's Adventurer (scifi) and Swashbuckler (historical) barroom brawl games, and I'd contend that Dragon #44's Food Fight (also 1980) is a barroom brawl in high school cafeteria and falls into the same grouping.Completely unrelated to either the modern card game or the SG board game other than sharing subject matter.  SPI put out three Middle Earth games under license in 1977, which were later bundled into this trilogy box (technically titled "The Games of Middle Earth") so you could buy them all at once.  Gondor and Sauron were originally slightly smaller folio games covering the siege of Minas Tirith and and the final battle at the gates of Mordor, while War of the Ring is a much more sweeping game covering the whole of the LotR story at a strategic scale, along with a parallel "quest" game where the Fellowship is trying to get the Ring to Mount Doom for a lava bath while trying to avoid being hunted down by Sauron's minions or getting caught up in the broader war.  WotR is still well-regarded and sold phenomenally back in the day, and commands very high prices on the collector's market.The "quest" system (blending personal-scale heroics with a strategic wargame) was originally used in Swords & Sorcery (1978) as well as Freedom In the Galaxy (1979, later reprinted by AvHill).</blockquote>

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