Middle Earth

[Pusher]

Third Age 2500
The great North-Kingdom of the Dúnedain is no more, its people scattered more than 500 years ago by the ravages of Angmar and its Witch King before his fall at last.

The Hobbits of the Shire for the most part have forgotten about the outside world, preferring to live in quiet peace. Fortunately, the ceaseless protection of the Rangers allows them this luxury.

In Mirkwood, the Elves face raids from within and without their great forest by orcs and evil Men while a dark power resides in Dol Guldur.

The Dwarves in Erebor grow their fame and riches and their long memories lament the fall of Khazad-dûm yet still daring to dream of its reclaiming.

Throughout the Misty Mountains goblins, trolls and other creatures more fell are beginning to stir, coming down from their underground lairs to wreak havoc and murder.

The Free Peoples are beginning to fear the growing Shadow...



Anyone up for some Middle Earth fun? The game will be run using the MERP system. We've got no ruleset and no character sheet. You do remember what paper and a pencil are though, right? So far, it'll likely be a weekend game run bi-weekly.

Here's hoping...

[thiha]

Thanks a lot, Puhser. Count me in:)
I'm ready for the game as for the rulebooks. Both MERP 1st & 2nd ed. are OK for me.

[Stuart]

MERP 1st is fine with me ... I'm sure I can get hold of a copy of MERP 2nd if need be but I don't think there were any major changes ... "pen and paper" ? What are they ?

[Pusher]

Actually, MERP 2nd is what we're going with. Sorry for any confusion.

[thiha]

As far as I noticed after skimming through the two editions, the differences between them are cosmetic and the rules are almost the same.

The stats used in the charts are the same, though some minor amendment in the text can be found occasionally (e.g. in the GCT-5 "Adolescence Skill Rank Table", the two cultures/races "Rural-men" and "Urban-men" in the 1st edition were renamend as "Eriadorian" and "Gondorian" respectively in the 2nd edition.

Seemingly, the biggest difference is the organizaion of the contents like that of between RM2 & RMClassic, or RMSS & RMFRP.

As such, I think whichever edition you use, that will do without problem.

[Stuart]

MERP 2nd it is then !

[joeru]

I'd so like to be in. Please? Pretty please? *puppy eyes*

Bi-weekly Saturdays are fine with me. Anything to play MERP again, haven't had a chance in 12+ years. I even went and picked up the rulebook today from the dusty corner of a FLGS (translated to Finnish, granted, but I'd manage).

[Pusher]

I'd so like to be in. Please? Pretty please? *puppy eyes*

Bi-weekly Saturdays are fine with me. Anything to play MERP again, haven't had a chance in 12+ years. I even went and picked up the rulebook today from the dusty corner of a FLGS (translated to Finnish, granted, but I'd manage).


Joeru, you're in and that makes three. We've got enough to green light the game. How about we all get together this Saturday for some char gen?

[thiha]

I'll be fine for that this GMT-Saturday-8PM

[joeru]

Fine with me too.

[Stuart]

This Saturday is fine with me too.

[thiha]

The time is Third Age 2500, and as for the starting location?

[Stuart]

I know our DM said we did not need one but ... character sheet 40% done ;)
Looking forward to Saturday :)

[thiha]

Bravo! Great!

[joeru]

I know our DM said we did not need one but ... character sheet 40% done ;)
Looking forward to Saturday :)

... I was just about to start making it. Well, thanks for saving me the trouble. :)

... Or do you need help with something?

[Stuart]

I can do the code - can't say my graphics will leave you breathless:o So ... you may want to continue with what you have :o

Combat tracker ? I reckon we could do some quick cosmetics ? Have one of the condition columns headed as "Stunned" and possibly another box or column which can keep track of hits lost per round ? What about space for DB ? A player needs to declare this on his round so ... useful to have a place for the DM to record this ?

The character sheet I am working on will not be terribly fancy - the Secondary Skills have to go on a sep. sheet along with "notes".

Minisheet - armor type, DB, hits ... anything else ?

[thiha]

To Pusher,

It was very fun to join the last Saturday's character creation meeting. Thanks :)

I have sent the rtf file of the character sheet of Orolin, the dwarf, to your email account right now. Please check it later.

Best

[Stuart]

Thanks Pusher - a great start. A post at the MERP website (https://www.merp.com/) got some interested replies so we may well get a Mage ! The character sheet graphics will be posted by the end of the week at https://qabbal.ihoststudio.com for comment before I tackle the code bit - give me a fortnight and it should be done.

[thiha]

Hi, guys.
I'm sorry but I should give up the slot for the dwarf 'cause I might misunderstand the starting time. I thought it starts from 13PST/20GMT/05JPT, but it seems not.

Hope you'll enjoy MERP to the full in the coming sessions.

[Pusher]

Thiha,

Get yer *** back here, you have the time correct. We're waiting on you.

[Stuart]

Yeah - c'mon, we're facing a pack of White Wolves and need another axe !