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Middle-earth Role Playing (MERP) is a 1984 tabletop role-playing game based on J. R. R. Tolkien 's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit under license from Tolkien Enterprises. Iron Crown Enterprises (I.C.E.) published the game until they lost the license on 22 September 1999.
Cover art by Angus McBride. Minas Tirith is a sourcebook published by Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE) in 1988 as part of its series "Cities of Middle-earth". The book provides details about the city of Minas Tirith for use with the game Middle-earth Role Playing (MERP), itself based on the epic trilogy Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien.
In Tolkien's published history of Middle Earth, following the fall of Numenor, Sauron realized that Gondor, the kingdom established by Elendil and his son Isildur, would rival lost Numenor in power and prestige, and created the country of Mordor to contest Gondor's might.
Two years later, in 1984, when I.C.E. published a role-playing game system called Middle-earth Role Playing (MERP), previously published source material such as Angmar, A Campaign and Adventure Guidebook for Middle-earth, The Court of Ardor in Southern Middle Earth and Moria: The Dwarven City were retroactively brought under the MERP umbrella.
ICE published the licensed role-playing game Middle Earth Role-Playing in 1982, and then released many supplements for it over the next 17 years. In 1996, ICE started two new series of supplements, "Lands of Middle-earth" and "People of Middle-earth". The plan was to produce a "Land" and a "People" supplement for every region of Middle Earth.
[4]: 133 In 1984 he simplified the Rolemaster set of rules in order to create MERP, the first Middle-earth role-playing game, also edited by ICE. Charlton designed the Middle-earth Collectible Card Game, which was published in 1995, after ICE recovered the licensing rights that they had previously signed over to Wizards of the Coast.
ICE published the licensed game Middle Earth Role-Playing in 1982, and then released many supplements for it over the next 17 years, until the Tolkien Estate withdrew their license in 1999. Ents of Fangorn is a 48-page book designed by Randall Doty , with interior art by Liz Danforth and cover art by Angus McBride that includes two center-bound ...
The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game, released by Decipher, Inc. in 2002, is a tabletop role-playing game set in the fictional world of Middle-earth created by J. R. R. Tolkien. The game is set in the years between The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring , but may be run at any time from the First to Fourth Age and contains many examples of ...