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03-06-2011, 12:43 PM | #1 |
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A New Middle-earth Card Game
Next month (supposedly) Fantasy Flight Games is releasing The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game, the latest in their series of "Living Card Games". See: http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ed...idm=129&esem=1 I was a player/collector of the Middle-earth CCG that Iron Crown Enterprises made in the late '90s, and I was saddened that their license was revoked and given to Decipher who then produced a LotR CCG with photos from the films. [Gag! I much prefer original artwork based on the books!] They in turn lost the license and Tolkien Enterprises (now Middle-earth Enterprises) granted it to Sophisticated Games, the UK counterpart to Fantasy Flight. Previously they had made the LOTR board game nicely illustrated by John Howe. I'm pleased to see an opportunity for artists to render Middle-earth again and looking forward to these new cards! |
03-06-2011, 05:51 PM | #2 |
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Interesting thing indeed. At least good that it does not seem to be a collectible card game, since I don't have to fear being drawn into something again. (I have also been a part of the I.C.E. METW followers and I agree that the fact that they did not get to continue it is one of the greatest losses of the previous century! That was one of the most wonderful games ever seen, and the only card game this far worthy of the title of being a follower of Tolkien's legacy.)
This one looks interesting as much as anything new is interesting - not sure if anything much beyond that. Its cooperative factor reminds me rather a lot about the cooperative LotR board game from several years ago. Well, let's see if mine and its paths cross... I guess that's it.
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All these things are fixable if I make alternate versions of characters, of sites and add the missing sites with photoshop and print proxies. And I can extend the the map too, since I just acquired Jo Hartwig's lovely original source map. I'm just wondering whether it's worth the time, when most of my card-playing friends have moved on.... I just recently pulled my cards out of storage after ten+ years and sold off my complete sets. Now I'm not sure what to do with the left-overs.... Once ICE folded, apparently some fans just kept it going anyway and created their own expansions with 1,800 new cards. These are playable online at GCCG.net. Cards like Annuminas are available there, and on a huge map adapted from MERP. If you go here: http://www.chrisvos.com/meuk/lackey/...ets/setimages/ and click "Great Worms" or "First Born" you can see some of these new fan-made cards. |
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But a note to defend a bit the original map: at least the point of Umbar not being there was simply because it is actually quite far south, and it would force you to resize the map a lot, so that you will have a large part of it covered by sea and desert, and the northern regions very small on the contrary. Also, Umbar or the area around it as a region would probably be accessible only from Harondor or some "Southern Sea" (certainly not just "Mouths of Anduin"), which is not very traveler-friendly. But yes, of course I agree that many other things could have been done better. Quote:
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