Greetings everyone,
http://www.merpcon.org
MerpCon IV is only a little over a month a way. There is limited seating, so register early. Don't miss out on 2008's MerpCon, register via the RSVP form today. John D. Rateliff, author of "The History of the Hobbit", and Michael Martinez are this year's guest speakers, so don't miss this year!

Baruk Khazâd! Khazâd ai mênu!

MerpCon (Middle-earth Role Playing Convention) is the only annual non-commercial, non-profit, international convention focused exclusively on  J.R.R. Tolkien and role playing gaming in his Middle-earth.

This year's guest speaker are:
John D. Rateliff
author of “The History of The Hobbit”
&
Michael M. Martinez (of this email list)
author of "Parma Endorian", "Visualizing Middle-earth" & "Understanding Middle-earth".


Limited seating is available, so be sure to register today!

http://www.merpcon.org/rsvp

Yes. It is what so many have been clamoring for: Dwarven adventure! This year's convention theme is focused on the oft misunderstood race, the Dwarves.


Each year many of the participants at MerpCon have asked, nay, plead for Dwarven adventures.

We have heard your plea. And so it has finally come to pass. The theme for MerpCon  IV, 2008 will be Dwarven adventure. Now, those of you who are not quite so enthusiastic about  Dwarves, need not fret. This does not mean everyone will be forced to play a Dwarf character. It merely means the campaigns/adventures will have something of particular relevance to the  Dwarves.

We have multiple Game Masters with specific campaigns in mind, chomping at the bit (or is that beard?).


                 This will also correspond to the release of Other Minds Magazine Issue 4 ( http://www.omzine.org ) being Dwarven themed as well.

This event takes placeeach year on the last weekend of July.

July 25th, 26th & 27th (Friday, Saturday and Sunday). 2008

See convention schedule page for details of events:

http://www.merpcon.org/schedule

 

This event is held each year in scenic Spokane, Washington, USA. This is a completely volunteer-run and free event open to the public.

Location:

Kungfu For Life School

2714 North Division

Spokane, WA

 

Please email webmaster at merpcon dot org for questions

or call Hawke at 509.481.5437

Visit our website, join the forums and announcement lists, chatroom or email us for any questions at:
www.merpcon.org

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*** Volunteer Team for the completely non-profit,
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the Middle-earth Role-playing International Community at Merp.com.

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        MERPCON IV
 Register now for MerpCon IV - July 25th, 26th, & 27th, 2008.
 http://www.merpcon.org
 MerpCon = Middle-earth Role-Playing (Gaming) Convention.
 A gaming convention focusing on playing in
 J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, Arda, Ea, etc.
 This convention is game system agnostic, using any games that let people
 play using their imagination in Tolkien's rich setting.
 An organization completely volunteer run, and non-profit and non-revenue generating.
 A community effort by the community for the community.
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"Fighting the noble battle against the dark forces, trying to keep
alive and growing, the dream and joy of role-playing gaming in
J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth"
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"I would draw some of the great tales in fullness,
and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched.
The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole,
and yet leave scope for other minds and hands,
wielding paint and music and drama..."
- John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, from a letter written to Milton Waldman, ca. 1951

""He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine;
as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe,
for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition,
seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them,
like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point,
and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being,
incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation."
--Thomas Jefferson, in Writings of Thomas Jefferson,
vol. 6, H.A. Washington, Ed.,1854, pp. 180-181.