A place to discuss the latest version of Dungeons and Dragons, the fifth edition, known during the playtest as D&D Next.
Hi all,
Some of you may remember me as "that guy with the character sheets". And you would be correct! But back in October I joined Cubicle 7 and now get to work full time in the tabletop RPG industry. The reason I'm posting here is that part of my duties at Cubicle 7 are in managing our Lord of the Rings lines, which are The One Ring and Adventures in Middle-earth. For those that don't know, The One Ring is our Lord of the Rings RPG which was released in 2011. There's a tonne of content for it and more still coming. A while back we released Adventures in Middle-earth, which allows players to play in the lands of Tolkien using the 5th Edition D&D rules. We are currently in the process of porting over all of our content from TOR to AiME, and will soon be at a place where we can release almost simultaneously.
The reason I wanted to pop in here was firstly to let people know there are a tonne of new adventures to be gotten with AiME (I can't recommend the Mirkwood Campaign enough) and secondly was to let those who are interested know what is coming next for Adventures in Middle-earth. I'll preface this by saying that currently at C7 we are undergoing a restructuring and expansion (hence me joining the team!) which is why communication has been lacking recently. I aim to improve that in the future so if I can help or you have any questions, let me know and I'll do what I can.
So, our next release will be Breeland, which is a conversion of Bree from The One Ring. Text and layout for this are locked off, we are just awaiting the final cover artwork before going to print. We aim to have this in Q1 2019.
After Breeland we will release the Lonely Mountain Region Guide, which is our conversion of Erebor - The Lonely Mountain from the One Ring. This is currently in editing.
After LMRG, we will be working on the companion book Erebor Adventures. This is a conversion of the as yet unreleased The Laughter of Dragons for The One Ring and is still in very early stages.
Once these are locked off, the remaining One Ring books to be converted to AiME are Horselords of Rohan and Oaths of the Riddermark. I don't have timelines for these yet.
Early next year we will also have news on Moria, a big box dungeon crawl adventure, but for now all I can say is its coming. Personally I'm very excited about this and can't wait to share it with everyone.
So that's where we are. As I said, if I can help or you have questions let me know and I'll do my best to answer them.
Thanks all, all the best
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Emmet