Fria Ligan Announce Plans To Publish Middle-earth RPGs
March 10, 2020 by brennon
The folks at Fria Ligan have announced a partnership with Sophisticated Games and Francesco Nepitello to produce The One Ring and 5th Edition versions of their Middle-earth roleplaying games.
Previously under the stewardship of Cubicle 7, the much-loved roleplaying game by Nepitello will be coming back to the tabletop. The One Ring uses its own unique mechanics to tell the stories of your Fellowship in Tolkien's Middle-earth whilst the 5th Edition reimagining draws on tried and tested Dungeons & Dragons rules as its core.
This means that we should hopefully be seeing support for both The One Ring continuing as well as what was dubbed Adventures In Middle-earth when it was released by Cubicle 7.
It's not certain whether or not Adventures In Middle-earth will return in this current format or if it will go through some changes now it's with Fria Ligan, but this is good news for fans of Tolkien and roleplaying in Middle-earth. I am a big fan of these books and they give players a chance to play a different kind of campaign which spans years and is as much to do with what you do in your downtime as what you do when adventuring!
These games really got the spirit of Tolkien's Middle-earth right and it will be interesting to see how this all develops in the coming months. The agreement is set to go into action in June of 2020 so there isn't long to wait before we're shown what Fria Ligan has in the works.
Will you be watching this one closely?
"The agreement is set to go into action in June of 2020 so there isn't long to wait before we're shown what Fria Ligan has in the works..."
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Glad to hear both AIME and ToR have found a new home. There was concern that the Rohan Region Guide for AiME would not see a physical book.
Nooooo another game to choose from.
It says it will be a new TOR edition on the linked to newsdesk webpage, but whether this is the second edition, which is new, or a third edition it didn’t say.
It ‘could’ mean the 2nd edition, rather than just a reprint. Not sure what the creative differences were between Sophisticated and Cubicle 7, so will be interesting to see how the new stuff compares with the old.
I just hope we get the long delayed Moria and the rules are compatible with One Ring.
Seemed to me that cubicle 7 was so focused on warhammer that it was ignoring ToR.
This came up on another forum, and according to a poster there: “Free League staffers have made clear (in various forums) the edition they intend to publish will be Francesco’s 2nd edition (the work he was about to finish for C7 when negotiations fell thru), just with a little “Free League polish” on top.”
Yeah it could well be the new edition which was planned to launch this year.
Glad to hear this. It was always one of the rpgs I’ve wanted to try but never have done.