Being a Tolkien fan and complete gaming geek, I purchased a MERP piece from a local shop a while back.  It is Arnor: the Land #2023 still in shrink.  A cool piece actually, does anybody have any clue as to what a good asking price might be? Too bad ICE went defunct.

Last I heard, Iron Crown was still in business, especially considering they still produce RoleMaster, SpaceMaster, and HARP.  However, their license to produce MERP did go bye bye, which is a bit unfortunate.  I always thought that the reduced complexity compared to RoleMaster made it a better game.

I'll have to read through my copy of HARP though.  I'm sure in the ten or so years since the MERP second edition collector's volume was released (and bought by me), ICE has learned a few things in the streamlining rules department, i.e. HARP.

Traveller wrote:Last I heard, Iron Crown was still in business, especially considering they still produce RoleMaster, SpaceMaster, and HARP.  However, their license to produce MERP did go bye bye, which is a bit unfortunate.  I always thought that the reduced complexity compared to RoleMaster made it a better game..

absolutely - and the campaign modules were fantastically detailed...  I also heard that Decipher were halting production obn their Middle Earth stuff.

Hi

How much should i pay for a copy The Court of Ardor in Southern Middle Earth? Secondly how much is a copy worth without its map?

I sold my collection of MERP modules, including a nice Court of Ardor some six months ago, and it alone went for the equivalent of 65$.
It had - if I remember well - around 15 bids

nn wrote:You can download ICE's MERP stuff for free at News — MERP .com Middle-earth Role Playing Tolkien RPG Community Website

I tried registering over there and it objected to every single one of my email addresses, including my ISP's address. Yet there seems to be no link over there to ask someone to look at it!

EDIT: Finally found the contact information.  It seems that unless you have a really obscure email address, it's going to get trapped by the site's spam protection system, which equates to a royal pain in the ass to register for a site that wants to support a very popular genre.