Archivist Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 There's a download for a section on character creation for Middle Earth characters using a basic roleplaying-type system. Does anyone know what product that comes from? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baron Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Not a published product, fan made. Actually there are two different authors' versions available here. Both very good. The one in chapters was never finished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinabrett Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Hi, I wrote one of the BRP conversions. It's the one entitled "Lord of the Rings RPG Basic Roleplay Crossover Rules" (imaginative title, eh?). When I uploaded the PDF, there was already a Middle Earth category, so I placed it there. Colin 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fergo113 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 (edited) I did the Middle-earth BRP documents. It was something I was working on for my own role playing ground. I managed to finish full imaged versions for several chapters, and had the skeleton of the remaining chapters also. But I've put the project to one side for now as my rpg group is adventuring in another fantasy universe. So its a from scratch fan work that some day I plan to finish. Edited January 6, 2017 by Fergo113 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essere74 Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 On 3/24/2016 at 8:53 AM, colinabrett said: Hi, I wrote one of the BRP conversions. It's the one entitled "Lord of the Rings RPG Basic Roleplay Crossover Rules" (imaginative title, eh?). When I uploaded the PDF, there was already a Middle Earth category, so I placed it there. Colin I can't find it now! Can you help me? 😉 Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 27 minutes ago, essere74 said: I can't find it now! Can you help me? 😉 Thanks It was taken down as it has no BRP or Fan policy attribution. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g33k Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 Rather a necrothread, tho I've seen worse! On 3/23/2016 at 10:58 AM, Archivist said: There's a download for a section on character creation for Middle Earth characters using a basic roleplaying-type system. Does anyone know what product that comes from? n.b. most of the downloads here are AFAIK fannish, and not from any commercial "product." You'll want to hit Chaosium.com (or thedesignmechanism.com, or alephtargames.com, or d101games.com, or etc etc etc) to get official "product." (some of the fannish downloads are specific to official products, such as "Phil's Fixed Folio" which is an alt.version of the (official) "Folio" character-sheet for RQG. 1 Quote C'es ne pas un .sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Vile Traveller Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 (edited) TBH it's not much of a BRP fan forum these days. Those days are long gone. We're into the BRP Central equivalent of post-#100 White Dwarf now. 😉 Edited November 11, 2022 by Vile Traveller Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 Middle Earth is a registered trademark and as we all know the Lord of the Rings and related works are copyright of others. Lets not publish unlicensed BRP adaptations of other people's IP please. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svensson Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 5 hours ago, Jeff said: Middle Earth is a registered trademark and as we all know the Lord of the Rings and related works are copyright of others. Lets not publish unlicensed BRP adaptations of other people's IP please. *sigh* I know why these kind of laws exist and by and large I don't take much issue with the necessity. But a fan made adaptation converting a milieu into a game system is really just free advertising. No one is making money and no one is losing money. And there's no such thing as 'bad publicity'. OTOH, and speaking as a lifelong Star Trek honk, yeah, Axanar is better than ST: Discovery, so there is that.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g33k Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 5 hours ago, svensson said: *sigh* I know why these kind of laws exist and by and large I don't take much issue with the necessity. But a fan made adaptation converting a milieu into a game system is really just free advertising. No one is making money and no one is losing money. And there's no such thing as 'bad publicity'. OTOH, and speaking as a lifelong Star Trek honk, yeah, Axanar is better than ST: Discovery, so there is that.... This issue at this point, I think, is that this site is admin'ed by Chaosium staff, and linked as a Chaosium-official forum. Everything here is a notch less "informal/fannish" than it was before that change. Just because it's fan-made and "free" ... doesn't mean it doesn't smell a bit like Chaosium product, if the lawyers start sniffing around. 😞 1 Quote C'es ne pas un .sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 12 hours ago, g33k said: This issue at this point, I think, is that this site is admin'ed by Chaosium staff, and linked as a Chaosium-official forum. Everything here is a notch less "informal/fannish" than it was before that change. Just because it's fan-made and "free" ... doesn't mean it doesn't smell a bit like Chaosium product, if the lawyers start sniffing around. 😞 More precisely, just because it is "fan-made and free" doesn't mean that it is not an unlicensed derivative work under Copyright Law. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svensson Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 And all of this is the reason why such laws exist and are, by and large, necessary. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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