Middle Earth Role Playing
The Vintage RPG Podcast
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The Death of Merp
I've always felt there was a spiritual component for Gandalf's magic. The one thing that is a true classic that came out of Merp though is the criticals and fumbles charts. We've used those in our D&D games. It just doesn't really fit with the themes of Middle Earth because magic is going out of the world. And I think that maybe an approach more like Call of Cthulhu where magic, instead of it being dangerous, it would just be rarefied and a little bit more complicated. Everybody who's played Merp has a horror story about how they lost a character Because some goblin got a lucky hit off and took an arm, took a head,
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