Free League Announce The Lord Of The Rings Roleplaying For 5E
August 9, 2022 by brennon
Free League Publishing worked alongside Francesco Nepitello and Marco Maggi to bring The One Ring Roleplaying game to life and now they are looking to The Lord Of The Rings Roleplaying and a set of 5th Edition rules!
The Lord Of The Rings Roleplaying // Free League Publishing
The first of the books they are releasing is the core supplement for The Lord Of The Rings Roleplaying. This contains all of the rules that take the 5th Edition D&D rules and place them within the realm of Middle-earth.
That means six original Heroic Cultures from Eriador as well as six new Classes. You'll also find a host of terrifying Adversaries, rules for Journeys, Councils, Wondrous Artefacts and also rules for the subtle Magic of Middle-earth.
That also means stunning new artwork which looks absolutely amazing. Gandalf is a fantastic character and it seems appropriate to have him on the front cover.
Shire Adventures Supplement
The second of the books for The Lord Of The Rings Roleplaying is Shire Adventures.
The Lord Of The Rings Roleplaying - Shire Adventures // Free League Publishing
The core compendium shown above will be available for pre-order this Autumn with a retail release coming in early 2023. Additionally, there will also be this scenario module for Shire Adventures. As you might have guessed, this offers up plenty of 5th Edition adventures set in and around The Shire.
It should also be noted that PDFs are going to be made available when you pre-order these new books so you'll be able to dive into some 5th Edition Eriador adventures this year, albeit digitally.
Are you tempted to dive in and snap up these rules for 5th Edition The Lord Of The Rings?
"The core compendium shown above will be available for pre-order this Autumn with a retail release coming in early 2023..."
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Of all the systems to go for, 5E? Ignoring my thoughts on whether I actually like 5E, it’s certainly not a great system for Middle Earth, not without significant modification. D&D is way too magic heavy for middle earth. They would have been much better going with a system more akin to Symbaroum that dials back the magic level a lot. Or maybe just stick with the current “One Ring RPG” system.
I hate how everyone seems to just pander to the lowest common denominator, which in this case is 5E.
I don’t think this is going to be changing anything when it comes to the production of additional The One Ring content so we’ll still be getting that and it’s the system I’ll be using anyway. It just opens up the options for people who are familiar with D&D that want to try out some Middle-earth – then, they might transfer things over to The One Ring. I played Adventures In Middle-earth by Cubicle 7 which was the last 5E system that was tied to Middle-earth and I think they did a good job of marrying the rules to the… Read more »
The options are already there, telling everyone to just keep playing 5E is kind of telling people not to bother with them
Yes, AiME worked okay and was selling well enough so this should do well.
Good book’s for gamers an fantastic artwork on the covers.