Mountains of Mirkwood

[Elmoth]

That sounds rather brilliant design elements to me. Srtarter adventure but one that includes a significant event for the history of the 3rd age that all LOTR lovers know about (the recolonization of Moria) is great.

Xavi

[Hermes Serpent]

Thanks Elmoth, but at the moment it reads a bit like the reverse of the Fellowship going from the western gate through Moria. It needs some more work to make it interesting and I'm know that another couple of sessions will be needed for it to be useful and really playable.

[Glorelendil]

I for one am hoping (I've spent all my Hope on it) that C7 releases a massive Moria supplement in the future.

[Jez]

I'm sure they will... but I'll be dissappointed. There is a wealth of easily convertible gaming material already out there for Moria (I know, I remember drooling over the old MERP setting book when it first came out, plus Decipher did a very sexy map and supplement). And I'm sure a One Ring RPG take on Moria will be of the same standard as all their other stuff... just... I want something new and different.

2980TA is an excellent year for something like this...

[Glorelendil]

I'm sure they will... but I'll be dissappointed. There is a wealth of easily convertible gaming material already out there for Moria (I know, I remember drooling over the old MERP setting book when it first came out, plus Decipher did a very sexy map and supplement). And I'm sure a One Ring RPG take on Moria will be of the same standard as all their other stuff... just... I want something new and different.

2980TA is an excellent year for something like this...

TOR doesn't seem to lend itself very well to a classic "dungeon crawl", but I think it could still be a great, scary adventure while remaining true to both the books and the game. There could be a variant of the rules for traveling that requires more frequent rolls, and different hazards. Some challenges the Fellowship could face other than direct fighting:

• Getting lost (or having a collapse/cave-in force them to find a new route out)
  Running out of food and water
  Resisting Shadow corruption
  Navigating treacherous terrain (e.g crumbling walkways and bridges)
  Solving Lore puzzles (e.g. finding cryptic runes)
  Encounters with strange denizens

And of course all of the above could happen while fleeing pursuers.

[DavetheLost]

When we get Moria I personally hope that C7 do not try to give us a mega-dungeon fully mapped Moria. It is a full Dwarven city/kingdom plus mines, goblin tunnels, and more.

I would rather see it treated as a large region of territory with illustrations of typical rooms, passages, mines, etc that Lore Masters can use to describe adventures there. Much as Tolkien did in his novel. Just as we do not need every tree and forest path in Mirkwood to be mapped.

Plus what Elfcrusher said.

[Yusei]

And I'm sure a One Ring RPG take on Moria will be of the same standard as all their other stuff...

I for one would rather have a book that looks like Heart of the Wild/Darkening of Mirkwood than like any ICE supplement ever published.

On the other hand, I've been thinking about a Moria campaign for a while, and I'm picturing something a lot like "Beyond the Mountains of Madness" (Call of Cthulhu). I'd write it, but my group wouldn't want to jump to the appropriate time period, so we'll play through Darkening first.

[Elmoth]

A supplement covering the whole misty mountains (including Gunabad and Moria) would be something, yes

[Francesco]

...I'm picturing something a lot like "Beyond the Mountains of Madness" (Call of Cthulhu).

…do you really?

'Beyond…' is my ideal model for a Moria book, if we'll ever do it, as much as the Great Pendragon Campaign was for The Darkening. Maybe not for its length, though!

Francesco

[Yusei]

Well, if you ever need to hire someone to write it, then...