Other Minds magazine, latest Issue published

[Tolwen]

Hi all,
after a long wait, the latest Issue of Other Minds (#18) is now out. This time we have a heavy TOR focus again (two reviews plus an adventure). 94 pages await your critical eyes!
Beside the regular columns (Editorial, Inside Information etc.) you will find the following content:

• Review: Bree
  by José Enrique Vacas de la Rosa
• Review: Horse-lords of Rohan
  by Thomas Morwinsky
• The Court of Ardor and the Book of Linsûl (discussion of background info for a famous MERP module) by Tom Davie
• The Book of Linsûl (in-world background info to the previous contribution)
  by Tom Davie
• The Gloomweaver Awakened (adventure for TOR)
  by Paul Kirk
• The Demographics of Dor 'Wathui and Dunland (scholarly thoughts and usable extrapolations on the urbanisation of Dor 'Wathui/Dunland in 9 eras of the Third Age)
  by Thomas Morwinsky

You can find the file on the OM website or under this direct link. Have fun with it and feel free to comment anything you deem worthwhile

For the OM team
Thomas

[Falenthal]

Congrats for another amazing contribution to the gaming world of M-e!
Downloading now...

[Rich H]

Great to see Gloomweaver Awakened... resurrected. Ahem.

[Agnot]

How on Earth did I not know about this sooner?! This is brilliant and well-done. Let me express my appreciation for doing something so laborious just for the love of the setting. Awesome work!

[Tolwen]

How on Earth did I not know about this sooner?! This is brilliant and well-done. Let me express my appreciation for doing something so laborious just for the love of the setting. Awesome work!

I'm glad you like it. And the added benefit is that you now have a lot to read (34 Issues of OH plus 18 from OM). Please feel free to comment or ask anything you like on them

Best
Thomas

[Butterfingers]

That Gloomweaver adventure is a perfect way to expand our rolled Wild Adventure where the companions are to go and find a lost Elven (tainted) heirloom in the ruins of the Refuge near the Mountains of Mirkwood. I decided early on there would already be spiders and their wildmen thralls at the scene, rummaging around the ruins, apparently searching for something too.

Now I know why and who's behind it!

[Mim]

Tolwen - This is another great issue, well done!

Halbarad - I'm especially enjoying reading The Gloomweaver Awakened and considering how to insert it into one of my chronicles.

[Butterfingers]

I say, are there printer friendly versions available, without images, color and fancy backgrounds etc?

[Halbarad]

Cheers for the kind words guys and big thanks to Rich H for his advice and assistance.

Nice to see that you are still around too Mim.

[Lifstan]

[*]The Gloomweaver Awakened (adventure for TOR) by Paul Kirk

Really love the idea of the The Gloomweaver Awakened and how it is put in the context of Darkening. That being said, I would have put it way further in the timeline, in order to keep the slow burn. Having the "Gloomweaver" as an ennemy for a scenario is a big deal. I would not put it at the beginning of the campaign.

Myself, I think I will put it as the climax of my group interracting with the Sorceress of Mirkwood. My group already met her in "The Pearl of Kings". After that I was planning on playing down the line The Night Wanderers by WbWeather in the Fan Supplement.

Putting The Gloomweaver Awakened in the timeline after those 2 scenarios would be a nice climax, even if a little bit of work is necessary. And I would allow them to actually kill the Sorceress of Mirkwood at that point, since it would be toward the end of Darkening with my party.

Anyway, great scenario, not just for the beginning of Darkening according to me, and establishing the Sorceress of Mirkwood before that adventure makes it more climatic.