More Moria

 

Thanks to Free League's Moria: Through the Doors of Durin sourcebook for their Lord of the Rings RPG The One Ring, we have an updated & official map, guide, and resource for the famous locale that we can mine for adventure ideas.

I remember posting one regarding the MERP sourcebook over a decade ago (Maps of MERP: the Scale of Moria), and remember having many questions about that old supplement.

This one is very promising indeed. I have not yet played a single game of The One Ring (though I have both 1st edition & 2nd edition rules), but this may be the book that gets me started. I haven't gone through all of it, but the exploration rules (that were also a part of the main rules in The One Ring) are also applicable to this massive, labyrinthine, iconic place in Middle Earth.

An entire mini-campaign can chronicle the early attempts of Durin to reclaim the mines of Moria, well before they delved too deeply (and too greedily?) and encountered Durin's Bane. It would involve exploring, mapping, and perhaps establishing zones of safety that dwarves (and dwarf friends) can travel to and from as they attempt to recapture and rekindle past glories.

Champions: One Earth - 2024 Update

Surprise, surprise. I was able to continue my campaign up until about 3 weekends ago, when a family tragedy finally pushed me to take a break on a number of things.

I was able to pull the trigger on my take on time travel, and the Dark Future That Must Be Averted trope. Except that I seeded at least two (2) Dark Futures, and will seed a few more. One of those dark futures:

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(art from Marvel Zombicide game)

Yes, a dark future that combined both the Marvel Zombies & DCeased storylines. To give the PCs a chance at survival, I sent them to this dark future in a research (?) facility located in the Blue Area of the Moon, where they encountered some former heroes and villains zombified by a variant of the Anti-Life equation before hurrying back to their own time.

The other dark future was a classic that Marvel has already revisited multiple times -- the Days of Future Past future that haunts the X-comics line. This future visited their present, with different versions of Sentinels (with technology clearly traceable to a supposedly discontinued Project: Wideawake in my campaign's timeline) traveling from various futures to the present.

But now, it's time for a brief hiatus, because the power levels for PCs need to be revisited and adjusted before the next phase of my campaign.