A "Create your own TOR book" thread :)

[Falenthal]

3) The Shire, as above, along with a multi-year campaign that takes place mostly within the boundaries of the Shire. Problem solving and social encounters more than combat.

I'd love this, spanning probably from a few years before Bilbo's Birthday Party to Frodo's departure from Bag End.

The tone of the adventures should ressemble that of Of Leaves and Stewed Hobbit, with even less combat: partially humorous, but also partially sinister, as kid's tales usually are.

It could include a few pages with a very light ruleset to play this adventures with kids. Something like a kid's-TOR set.

[Glorelendil]

It could include a few pages with a very light ruleset to play this adventures with kids. Something like a kid's-TOR set.

YES!!!!!

[Rue]

3) The Shire, as above, along with a multi-year campaign that takes place mostly within the boundaries of the Shire. Problem solving and social encounters more than combat.

I'd love this, spanning probably from a few years before Bilbo's Birthday Party to Frodo's departure from Bag End.

The tone of the adventures should ressemble that of Of Leaves and Stewed Hobbit, with even less combat: partially humorous, but also partially sinister, as kid's tales usually are.

It could include a few pages with a very light ruleset to play this adventures with kids. Something like a kid's-TOR set.

I would buy this in a hot second.

[Falenthal]

I'm working this days on this idea: a group of young Hobbits that find adventures in The Shire. We talked about possible ideas in another thread (which I can't find right now...). It's in spanish, and I'm using very light rules also posted as TOR for kids in the House Rules subforum.
Eventually I'll try to translate at least a summary to english.

In fact, the idea I'm more proud about is that the 4 pregen characters will be four young hobbits (below 33 years old) that want to beat the bounds when they get older. Therefore they call themselves The Hobbeats.
Their names are Jon, Pol, Georgia and Bingo.
They also are the favourite nephews of some uncle, who calls them "my fav' four".

A fifth pregen is Georgia's little brother, Martin. As there's another Martin in town, he is always called Georgia's Martin.
[In case someone wonders, the other Martin is a stutterer and people, in mockery, call him "Err Err Martin". But in our tolkienesque Shire people don't laugh at other's characteristics. That's only done in other people's worlds. ]

A sure LMC is Phil, a weird cousin who lives in Scary. He likes to play pranks involving ghosts. Therefore, he is known as Phil "the Spectre". In his adventure, he claims to be hearing noises coming from the quarry in Scary. Everyone thinks this "wall sounds" are another of his jokes.

A Journey through a strawberry field is assured...

[zedturtle]

O the punnery indeed.

[Rich H]

I'm working this days on this idea...

May I offer you my most enthusiastic contrafribularities.

[Robin Smallburrow]

Mordor please!!! (especially Barad-dur & Mt.Doom!) As a LM I much prefer reading about the evil dudes!!

Also Harad & Umbar.

Robin S.

[kdresser]

I've always been curious about the land of the Easterlings, Southrons, Haradrim, etc and would love to explore it's cultures. How fun would it be to walk through a plain of wild Oliphants?

I echo interest in The Shire, Bree, Gondor, Mordor, Moria, and Lorien.

I would also enjoy some text about converting TOR mechanics into the War of the Ring and what would be different about cultures and timeline in order to pull it off. Perhaps some similar conversions for the first and second age...as well as some new relevant cultures, etc.

Though unlikely to be published, I'm also very curious about the distant elf paradise across the sea.

Have many of you successfully taken adventures and lore from MERPs or other sources and converted it to TOR for campaign use? Did you find it fairly easy to draw from until a TOR supplement is made available? I recently bought a ME Atlas, which is really cool and I'd like to find some use for.

[Otaku-sempai]

I've always been curious about the land of the Easterlings, Southrons, Haradrim, etc and would love to explore it's cultures. How fun would it be to walk through a plain of wild Oliphants?

Well, the East of Middle-earth would correspond to Eastern Europe, Russia, Siberia, the Mid-East, India and Far-East. Harad (the South) would be equivalent to modern day Africa with Near Harad representing North Africa and Far Harad being a mythic, prehistoric Sub-Saharan Africa.

Cultures in the East and South might bear some resemblance to early cultures in those regions in the real world. If you've got the revised edition of Karen Wynn Fonstad's The Atlas of Middle-earth, you can see how it relates to the modern world (although I think that by the Third Age, Fonstad should have extended the eastern lands of Middle-earth a bit and broken up the uninhabited continent of the Dark Land).

[Finrod Felagund]

Have many of you successfully taken adventures and lore from MERPs or other sources and converted it to TOR for campaign use? Did you find it fairly easy to draw from until a TOR supplement is made available? I recently bought a ME Atlas, which is really cool and I'd like to find some use for.

I don't think it would be impossible, but not only are the rulesets different but the feel of the adventures is different as well. MERP is much more about dungeon crawling, unpicking fiendish locks, and lists of magic items and herbs. Exploring a Dunedain ruin in MERP is nothing like doing the same in TOR. If you wanted to make MERP feel like TOR, it would need a lot of work. I did this for the MERP Lindon module (unpublished and uncomplete but you can find it on google) and it basically needed a whole rewrite.