Burning Wheel Middle Earth Roleplaying
I recently ran a Burning Wheel game set in the North of Middle Earth during the Third Age.
Bring Life to the Land
A Burning Wheel
demonstration game set in Tolkien's Third Age Middle Earth
Ten years ago the great dragon Smaug was slain. Bolg's army of orc,
warg and troll was scattered to the mountains. The northern kingdom of
Dale has been re-established, and the dwarves once again have a king
under the mountain. However, much work yet needs to be done. This land
is now spoken of with many names, none of which are particularly
complementary. 'Desolation of the dragon', 'desolation of Smaug', or
simply 'the Waste'. For the land, especially to the north of Erebor,
the Lonely Mountain, has been devastated by Smaug's extravagant
respiration and general unsociability.
It is the crisp month of Narbeleth, in the year 2951 of the Third Age,
by the Stewards of Gondor reckoning. The cold northern winter is
already in evidence on the ruined, and still dangerous landscape. Six
heroes of Dale and Erebor, man and dwarf, have been given a task. Find
a way to help the land recover from the fiery devastation.
What path will you take?
Download the following largeish PDF and ZIP files that hold the information I used to run the game:
- The scenario: Bring Life to The Land
- The player character sheets
- The map
- The Baddies
- Some horse stats (I didn't need them)
I may do some more games in Middle Earth, as it is one of my favourite places. If so I'll post here again.