How about Lord of the Rings?

[Blustar]

Didn't Decipher lose the license this summer? I was hoping either Mongoose or Green Ronin would pick up the license and do it justice for once. I never really liked MERP , all though I played it and the CODA system was dead on arrival.

I was really high on Decipher's game but when Steve Long left it was all downhill after that. So, what say you Mongoose? Can you give us a LOTR game that caters to the legion of Tolkien fans?

Blue

 

[darth_azabrush]

Games Workshop have the minis liscense at the moment and I think Mongoose would prefer to have a game they can release accompanying models for. I mean they even did it for Paranoia!

 

[The King]

Didn't Decipher lose the license this summer?
Blue

Where did you learn this?

I second you idea though I think the system should be created with regard to the setting and not the other way around (as did ICE with its MERP bastardized version of Rolemaster).

 

[Mage]

I think it was on their site, but think that mongoose would never do it. I mean, it would go on a system they already have, and at the end of the day with d20 you have everything you need to do lord of the rings with the core books, bar research and scenarios, adn the same goes for Runequest with glorantha.

 

[The King]

With D20, you can only have everything if you bend the rules, i.e. like was done with Slaine or Conan. But still, they would have to create special rules for an RPG in a Middle-Earth setting.
At least, this is my opinion.

 

[tarkhan bey]

I agree with King on this. Middle Earth is special and deserves the same treatment that Conan and Slaine were given.
The Coda system was beautiful and really touched on some of the things that make this setting so special. If anyone could do it justice,after the Decipher debacle, its Mongoose.
Mongoose are great at digging up and keeping alive old gaming licenses, surely LOTR is the "Holy Grail" of all RPGing licenses.
Its also a great one for getting kids involved in RPG'S as well. My 11 year old nephew looked puzzled at my collection of roleplaying books and somewhat disinterested in titles like Ravenloft and Conan. As soon as he spotted the LOTR stuff he was interested. We rolled him up an Elf character and played a short session where he had to track down some Orc raiders in Mirkwood. He was hooked. Kids can identify with this setting
thanks to the films. IMHO this could be a "Cash Cow" for Mongoose if they could pick up the license.

 

[steffworthington]

Especially with 'The Hobbit' movie on the way. I've got all the decipher stuff and quite a few MERP modules and miss middle earth terribly. I'd rather see it done by Chaosium (BRP) rather than mongoose's rather odd MRQ.

 

[The King]

I read many MERP books but never liked the contents which was hollow with silly adventures and info aplenty about unseful things. And I don't even talk of the system.
The maps were great but that's the sole thing.

Decipher did deliver a very decent job in comparison.

Anyway I wouldn't mind the system as long as the ambiance is well reproduced.