Gandalf may have feared to go into those mines, but we're chancing it with an exclusive first look at the upcoming Moria expansion for Lord of the Rings RPG The One Ring, along with its D&D equivalent (The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying).
Due to launch on Kickstarter at 9am EDT this August 30, you can see everything that's included within the Moria campaign (which seems to have been renamed from 'The Long Dark' to 'Moria - Through the Doors of Durin') below. You can also get a sneak–peek of the interior art that'll appear in both The One Ring version of the book and its D&D counterpart, which will be called 'Moria - Shadow of Khazad-dum.'
Essentially, the Kickstarter campaign has a pretty big incentive for players to get involved. Besides early access to the PDF version of the book as soon as the campaign is over, you'll be able to pledge for a collector's or deluxe edition that aren't going to be available anywhere else. Both come bound in faux leather with silver foil-stamped adornments, and the deluxe one has a cloth map of Moria to go with an exclusive art print by John Howe (an artist renowned for his Middle-earth artwork and time as a concept artist on the Lord of the Rings film trilogy).
While we're on the subject of illustrations, here's a selection from the book itself.
In terms of what's inside the Moria sourcebook, we've now got a much better idea of what it'll include thanks to the Kickstarter details. Alongside a section for patrons and allies who are invested in securing Moria, it features adjusted rules for journeying in the long dark of the dwarven realm. New foes are also featured, and that naturally includes the Balrog - Durin's Bane itself. The final section, Mansions of the Dwarves, gives you a lowdown
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