Originally shared by Eric Norred
I've not seen it mentioned/talked about so I'll ramble. Remember the ICE Middle-Earth game-books and the Lord of the Rings Adventure Game? There's a game on RPGNow/DriveThru/Lulu that seems to be fairly obviously a 'retro-clone' of said rules, fleshed out and beefed up and made more complete, all along with an appropriate name: Tales & Legends. The pdf is only a dollar fifty and the Lulu paperback (the only choice I'm afraid) is 8 bucks. Buy them both. Roll your eyes at The One Ring's over-long-rambling rules set and grab this and reference your ol' MERP stuff and get to the wild, wonderful weirdness that is/was ICE's Middle-Earth-type adventures but with rules you can actually use. (Then demand the author offer a hardback! ;) )
http://www.rpgnow.com/product/184022/Tales--Legends
http://www.rpgnow.com/product/184022/Tales--Legends
There's also MEAG - Middle Earth Adventure Game - which is a free pdf
ReplyDeletesites.google.com - The Middle-Earth Adventure Game (MEAG) - The Heren Turambarion
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a teenager, I made an introductory RPG using the rules from the books so I could DM my younger stepbrother while we were on vacation. A few pages of notes and some dice were easier to carry than my AD&D collection. Later, the LOTR Adventure Game came out that was pretty much the same thing. I never did pick it up, though.
ReplyDeleteTales and Legends is nice but needs some editorial correction—not so much typos as missing text. I think the author's Dark Sagas is probably the more complete game—but it seems like he took it in a DnD direction (not that that's bad, but the OSR does DnD just fine).
ReplyDeleteI have dabbled in MEAG on past occasion..
ReplyDeleteScott Mob what did you think of it?
ReplyDeleteHi Jonathan, I liked it better than MERP, which is too complicated for it's own good in my opinion as a game system (but has great maps and art etc.). There are different versions of MEAG I believe such as MEAG 2.0 etc.
ReplyDeleteScott Mob Cool. I have tracked down both 3.2 and 4.something versions.
ReplyDeleteMy word, there's an awful lot of numbers and formulae flying around in Tales & Legends. Then I had a look a MEAG with it's 5-page character sheet. That's probably not for me either. Sigh...
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