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The thing I love about all these ideas is that it makes me envision TOR supplements to come for years and years and years.

Otaku-sempai wrote:I predict a slim, soft-bound book on The Shire (formatted like the Lake-town supplement) paired with a revised Loremaster's Screen.

They haven't done Erebor or Dale yet either. I'd like to see the homelands of all the core cultures done ASAP, to be honest. At the minute there are relatively few Fellowship Phase Undertakings for Hobbits, Dwarves or Bardings to do at home.

Unfortunately my group has no Woodmen or Beornings, so only the Elf has lots of stuff to do at home! I've allowed our Dwarf and Barding to do things in Lake-Town when spending the phase at home, but the group's Hobbit is feeling a little left out.

Having said that, I'm also keen to see Rohan, and I'm hoping one of the upcoming supplements is Moria...

Earendil wrote:

Otaku-sempai wrote:I predict a slim, soft-bound book on The Shire (formatted like the Lake-town supplement) paired with a revised Loremaster's Screen.

They haven't done Erebor or Dale yet either. I'd like to see the homelands of all the core cultures done ASAP, to be honest. At the minute there are relatively few Fellowship Phase Undertakings for Hobbits, Dwarves or Bardings to do at home.

You make a good point about Dale and Erebor (which are far more closely bound up with the core rulebook than is the Shire). And I'm not sure that a revised LM's screen is actually needed.

I have suggested (in the House Rules forum) a home-brewed Fellowship Phase Undertaking for Dwarves who might trace their ancestry to the Blue Mountains: Pilgrimage to Mount Dolmed. However, it requires spending a fellowship phase in the Ered Luin. Some Undertakings for Erebor would certainly be nice.

For upcoming modules I put my two cents on a book about Bree in the same format as the Laketown guide (The Shire is too big to cover this way) in the near future. Probably somewhere around the new travel and map set - maybe Bree is even covered in that set (a few surprises were promised...).

And since we have seen the timeline continuing I am pretty sure Cubicle 7 will continue along that road. Books about Rhûn etc. are out of the question. Erebor and Dale are also very unlikely. I think Cubicle 7 are done with Wilderland. Since Balin reclaims Moria in 2989 this is the natural next step to take (Oaths of the Riddersmark will most likely take place sometime after Ruins of the North, a flexible gap but stretching until the year 2989). The Moria material will also cover Lorien and its surroundings and of course new rules about adventuring underground. The book will be accompanied by a set of adventures that take the company from the woods of Lorien and into Moria, with Balin as the new major patron.

After that it is time for Gondor and the years up to the war of the ring, with rules for sieges, major battles and more. Maybe we will also see a book about the Shire, Old Forest etc. but that's not very likely.

I wouldn't completely rule out Dorwinion and the Sea of Rhûn, if only because they could be covered in the form of a gazetteer looking at several regions scattered throughout north-western Middle-earth.

Earendil wrote: I'd like to see the homelands of all the core cultures done ASAP, to be honest.

Mmmm....a hardbound book with an update/reprint of Laketown, and then similar treatment for the other homelands. With a short, town-based adventure for each.

And a pony.

Glorelendil wrote:

Earendil wrote: I'd like to see the homelands of all the core cultures done ASAP, to be honest.

Mmmm....a hardbound book with an update/reprint of Laketown, and then similar treatment for the other homelands. With a short, town-based adventure for each.

And a pony.

That's a funny way to spell 'no approvals-based hang-ups'.

Moria is the natural next-step, that is true.

But a collection of Wilderland without Erebor or Dale does seem extraordinary. Perhaps they will revisit it in the future- the way that ICE MERP did with different sourcebooks and editions.

Of course my money is on Gondor in 2016...but it's so huge. Really curious how they do little-expanded upon regions like Pelargir or even Umbar. The Kin-strife era stuff might be really fun...adding the Wainriders to the Wilderland setting etc. I know this is hoping for a lot. But I do wonder what shape or form that whole region and story will take.

So many dreams....Just hoping to get Rohan for now.

Moria makes sense I suppose, but Ruins of the North also contains some oblique hints towards stuff going on in Angmar, which is possibly setting something up...?

Hot spots by 2945 are Moria, Ithilien, Calenardhon, Mirkwood (Rhovanion) I guess. Calenardhon will be traited and it's already done with Mirkwood and Anduin Vale