Your personal wishlist for TOR books

[Glorelendil]

My first thought about Mordor is to wonder how much there is to say (at least about the northern parts). “It’s blasted and poisoned and rugged and there are lots of orcs. Plus a volcano and two towers. And a spider.”

But if those blank areas could be creatively filled in with locations and characters and intrigues it would be pretty darned cool.

[Otaku-sempai]

Something like a Mordor region guide. Or a monster source book would be cool imo. With all the baddies and some more combined in one book plus some extra info on the evil of Middle Earth.

A Mordor region guide has certainly been brought up a few times. It seems reasonable for one to also include the region of Khand as well as some material on Harondor, Near Harad and the Eastern Waste. Unless the development team can think of a lot more to say about it, it might even be better to include some written adventures in the sourcebook. The large LM map (from Journeys & Maps) suggests some possibilities.

[Lifstan]

A Shire book to play hobbits, with adventures aimed at children (like the "Hero Kids" game, aka including simpler rules, and easy-peasy scenarios for players starting at 5 years old and up).

[Geomtje]

A Shire book to play hobbits, with adventures aimed at children (like the "Hero Kids" game, aka including simpler rules, and easy-peasy scenarios for players starting at 5 years old and up).

Sounds cool! Thought there are many different opinions on what is or should be age appropriate. So I am interested how such a thing would be tackled. As an example, how would one go about a dangerous troll or goblin who are terrorising a village or farm? But this might be a topic for a different topic and time

[Rich H]

A Shire book to play hobbits, with adventures aimed at children (like the "Hero Kids" game, aka including simpler rules, and easy-peasy scenarios for players starting at 5 years old and up).

Sounds cool! Thought there are many different opinions on what is or should be age appropriate. So I am interested how such a thing would be tackled. As an example, how would one go about a dangerous troll or goblin who are terrorising a village or farm? But this might be a topic for a different topic and time

For ideas on this kind of thing just take a look at No Thank You, Evil! Great little game designed explicitly for young players but also with 'tiers' of rules so that they can grow into the complexity and/or have different players playing at the same time with different rulesets.

[Falenthal]

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[Rich H]

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[farinal]

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[Otaku-sempai]

Have I read what I've read?????

I've read it!

Here's a book I'd like to see (but it will never happen under the current licensing agreement): The Art of The One Ring Roleplaying Game.

[Otaku-sempai]

I would love to see stuff covering areas not detailed in LOTR, such as Tharbad, the Blue Mountains, Rhun, Belfalas, etc. What would you like to see?

Frodolives, I don't think I ever directly addressed your specific choices (I hope you don't mind).

I think the best we can hope for with Tharbad is a layout of the ruins. It's been too long since the bridge and city fell to expect a detailed look at how Tharbad appeared when it was still inhabited.

A sourcebook for the Blue Mountains seems inevitable since we already have the Dwarves of the Blue Mountains as a Heroic Culture. I would hope that it would also cover the Grey Havens and the Eldar who dwell there; maybe even Lindon.

The most distant lands of Rhûn might be beyond the scope of what Cubicle 7 can cover; but we can hope for a sourcebook for Dorwinion and the inland Sea of Rhûn. We already know a little about Dorwinion and its people through the introduction of Bard's wife Una and from the Erebor sourcebook. I could easily see the Folk of Dorwinion as a Heroic Culture. I also want to see the new Adversaries: Pirates of the Inland Sea. And we might be able to use some notes on Eastern Rhovanion; perhaps the kings of Rhovanion (ancestors of the Rohirrim) left behind a fortified stronghold much like the Hornburg in the hills (Hills of Dorwinion?) next to the Sea of Rhûn.

The Bay of Belfalas is bound to be covered as part of a guide to Gondor that would also give us Dol Amroth (and its Knights), Pelargir and the Navy of Gondor.

Of all the outlier peoples (the Lossoth, the Men of Eryn Vorn, the Wild Men of Enedwaith, Woses, Haradrim, other Southrons, Corsairs of Umbar, Easterlings, etc.), the one I think we are most likely to see relatively soon as a Heroic Culture is the Men of Dorwinion.