So what does 2015 hold for TOR?

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So what does 2015 hold for TOR?

Post by bigsteveuk » Mon Sep 01, 2014 2:26 pm

I was looking at the release schedule and it hadn't really occurred to me till now that it only takes us up to 2014 which scarily enough is only 4 months away (OMG not Christmas again)!!

Now my gut feeling is there will be slippage, which doesn't bother me as I have got more stuff than I need and I think it has been a great year for TOR with some solid and high quality resources.

I am just wondering what 2015 will hold and what surprises Cubicle 7 have for us?

Whatever it is, I am sure it will be another fruitful year for TOR, well it bloody better be or I shall Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the wargs of war, you have been warned. ;)

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Re: So what does 2015 hold for TOR?

Post by Hermes Serpent » Mon Sep 01, 2014 3:16 pm

Well as far as I know the publishing world's Winter 2014 runs until about the Spring solstice, mid-March, so I reckon that based on that and the usual slippage we've seen with any company getting goods shipped half way round the world (Guide to Glorantha KS for example) we'll see the Rohan supplement about March 2015. That still leaves us with the Adventurer's book and the several new culture options therein plus the Ruins of the North scenario book to fall into calendar 2014.

I reckon that as soon as the KS for Lone Wolf ends (mid September) and the production process for that kicks off we'll see a pre-order for the Adventurers book (week of 6th October?) as I'm guessing that has either been approved or is in the final stages of that process. If that happens around then we'll see the hard copy at Christmas and a new pre-order for the Rohan supplement in the Christmas/New Year period for delivery in March.

Now it might be that the scenario book, Ruins of the North, may come out before the Adventurers book because they have the scenarios already written and tested and they were used at Gencon. However as a marketing decision I'd put out Adventurers book first as the sales of a book aimed at players should sell more copies than one with scenarios aimed at Loremasters.
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Re: So what does 2015 hold for TOR?

Post by Heilemann » Mon Sep 01, 2014 4:01 pm

Here's to hoping that a Misty Mountains book is simmering somewhere deep in the bowels of the Cubicle 7 citadel.

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Re: So what does 2015 hold for TOR?

Post by buddhax » Mon Sep 01, 2014 6:12 pm

Will be seeing something more about Orthanc and Saruman with Rohan supplement?

I guess 2015 will be focused in the south: Gondor and an adventure compilation to run together with Rohan supplement.

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Re: So what does 2015 hold for TOR?

Post by Hermes Serpent » Mon Sep 01, 2014 6:43 pm

Quoting the announcement "Horse-lords of Rohan – our second setting supplement takes us south along the Anduin and into the land of the Rohirrim, where we explore not only the culture and lands of the Riders of Rohan, but also their rivals the Dunlendings. We’ll also venture into the depths of Fangorn Forest and into Isengard itself. "

So with that in mind Orthanc looks possible and so Saruman is probably on the cards. Ents should show up of course. We'll have the Riders of Rohan and Men of Gondor cultures in the Adventurers book but I don't know if Gondor will come before Lorien as we get Elves of Lorien in the adventurers book and that ties to existing areas closely.

An adventure/scenario book for Rohan seems to be a good possibility to compliment the sourcebook/setting supplement.

The Elves will have three cultural possibilities by then and the Dwarves only two (the Blue Mountains dwarves are added in the adventurers book) so a setting book covering the Blue Mountains might be something in the future. The Shire and Bree are, I think, more likely to be out before anything covering Gondor and I expect to see a book covering the Shire in mid 2015 after the Rohan book and the Rohan adventures
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Re: So what does 2015 hold for TOR?

Post by Glorelendil » Mon Sep 01, 2014 7:06 pm

Heilemann wrote:Here's to hoping that a Misty Mountains book is simmering somewhere deep in the bowels of the Cubicle 7 citadel.
I doubt it, at least not until Rohan or Gondor are done, because to a large extent both sides of the mountains are covered by existing materials.

But I have to admit, although I hadn't really thought of it until I read your post, now I really like the idea. I'd love to see additional resources and Hazard ideas specific to the mountains, as well as elaboration on the goblin kingdoms. I think it could make a great supplement.
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Re: So what does 2015 hold for TOR?

Post by Indur Dawndeath » Mon Sep 01, 2014 9:06 pm

I want to see Mordor at some point!!!
They'll have to come up with a new category worse than Dark Lands :) Perhaps Dreaded Lands, or Nightmare Lands, or perhaps Utter Dark Lands.

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Re: So what does 2015 hold for TOR?

Post by Glorelendil » Tue Sep 02, 2014 12:55 am

Indur Dawndeath wrote:I want to see Mordor at some point!!!
They'll have to come up with a new category worse than Dark Lands :) Perhaps Dreaded Lands, or Nightmare Lands, or perhaps Utter Dark Lands.

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Re: So what does 2015 hold for TOR?

Post by Rue » Tue Sep 02, 2014 1:24 am

I'm voting for (E) All of the above mentioned supplements.

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Re: So what does 2015 hold for TOR?

Post by Murcushio » Tue Sep 02, 2014 2:19 am

Hermes Serpent wrote: a setting book covering the Blue Mountains might be something in the future. The Shire and Bree are, I think, more likely to be out before anything covering Gondor and I expect to see a book covering the Shire in mid 2015 after the Rohan book and the Rohan adventures
A Shire book seems problematic, because it's utterly canonical that nothing really happens in the Shire. It's a little slice of the English countryside plopped down in Middle-earth. Tolkien hammers on how peaceful, boring, well-ordered, and free of strife it is multiple times. Up until Saruman crashed the joint there hadn't really been anything that could be characterized as conflict there since the Battle of Greenfields, remarkable literally the only battle to be fought in the Shire until the War of the Ring.

So you would basically have a book of just geography and culture, with very little in the way of sources of conflict, which is kind of important in an RPG supplement. Even MERP, who made sourcebooks for everything (did we really need three entirely separate sourcebooks just for Mirkwood, you guys?) never did anything with the Shire of the years of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.

What seems most likely is a sourcebook for eastern and northern Eriador in general; the area surrounding the Shire. That's the Blue Mountains, the Grey Havens, Annuminas and the Hills of Evendim, the frozen lands of Forochel, the lands between the Greyflood and the Brandywine rivers, Lond Daer, etc. You know, the bits they didn't include in the Rivendell book.

That seems most likely to me, at any rate, although if it had been up to me I'd have at least included Bree was a place you could go with plot hooks in it in the Rivendell book, being as how it is a neutral, well-known, centrally located town ideal for basing your party out of if you're adventuring in Eriador. So, y'know. I may have a different perspective.

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