TOR developers change course, free content, and update their release schedule, News March 27, 2012
CUBICLE 7
Gamer News! - March 27, 2012
Chock full of news, upcoming product information, and other bits of interest to
the gamer!
[1]www.cubicle7.co.uk
01. THE ONE RING
We’ve been blown away by the fantastic reception to the game, culminating in
the Origin Award nomination for the best RPG of 2011. Thanks for your support;
it means a huge amount to us. If you haven’t seen it already, check out Words
of the Wise (http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/99330/The-One-Ring:-Words-of-the-Wise note they hadn't included this link in the newsletter) , the free PDF adventure we released as a thank-you to everyone
playing the game.
The design team has been hard at work on the supplements, as well as developing
our plans for the game. We originally envisaged the game as a series of core
sets interspersed with smaller supplemental releases, but while we were
preparing material for the second core set, we realised that we would be
repeating more information than we had expected. That didn’t sit right with us
– both Cubicle 7 and Sophisticated Games strongly believe in producing quality
games that give gamers value for money. The last thing we wanted was to leave
people thinking that they had to buy the same information again just to get the
new content. We also realised that moving away from the core set structure
would give us a greater degree of freedom with our releases, and that we would
be able to cover more areas of Middle-earth and playable cultures sooner.
So, we decided to keep the The One Ring: Adventures over the Edge of the Wild
slip case as the core set for the game, and release supplemental material in
sourcebook-sized chunks.
The current 2012 schedule is:
Tales from Wilderland - Adventure anthology playable as a campaign - May/June*
The One Ring Dice Set - Seven dice in hard plastic box - May/June*
Loremaster’s Screen and Laketown Sourcebook - Heavy duty screen,
and information about the busiest city in the North, including a new playable
culture: the Men of the Lake - July/August*
The Darkening of Mirkwood - epic campaign sourcebook and adventures spanning
over thirty years - August
Rivendell (title TBC) - core supplement introducing 'unique' cultures: Rangers
of the North and Rivendell Elves. Includes material on The Last Homely House,
the surrounding areas, magical artefacts, and more - Autumn
* Shipping can sometimes be subject to delays causing the two-month release
windows.
We’ll keep you up-to-date on the schedule as we confirm more titles. The books
will be available for pre-order as soon as they are approved and go to print.
[2]
We are delighted to announce that Tales from Wilderland has just been approved,
and the pre-order is now live at
[3]http://shop.cubicle7store.com/epages/es113347.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/es
113347_shop/Products/CB71003.
Our pre-orders also include the PDF of the book, which will be sent out as soon
as it is ready in a week or so.
The dice sets are also now available for pre-order, and will being shipping in
4-6 weeks. It turns out that shipping dice sets is much more expensive than the
equivalent weight in books – wrestling with this is part of the reason that the
dice haven’t been available sooner. The result is that it costs about the same
to send three sets as one, so you’ll find it more cost-effective to order three
and split them with your group – take a look at the options:
1 set:
[4]http://shop.cubicle7store.com/epages/es113347.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/es
113347_shop/Products/CB71002a
3 sets:
[5]http://shop.cubicle7store.com/epages/es113347.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/es
113347_shop/Products/CB71002b
Thanks again for your enthusiasm and support, we’ll be back with another update
next month.
Francesco Nepitello, Robert Hyde and Dominic McDowall-Thomas
