Ironcrown Enterprices (ICE) has developed a FRPG placed on Middle-earth. The system called Middle-earth Roleplaying Game (MERP) is quite a simple kind of system - mainly useable for low power campains.

There are lots of backround stuff for MERP, describing the wonderful world of J.R.R.Tolkien, and expanding it to make it a more colourful world to play on - expecially far south and east the lands described by Tolkien.

MERP is a simple system, and soon there is the need to expand the rules to fit to your own imagination of reality in role playing. At this point I came to rolemaster. The 2.Edition modules of MERP contain Rolemaster values for NPCs and are designed to be used with RM2 and RMSS.

22/09/1999 ICE has after 18 years ceased the development and distribution of Middle-earth products. On 10/26/2000 ICE has closed it gates. Tolkien Enterprices as licence holder may now choose a new partner for Middle-earth.

Rolemaster is a rule system playable in any fantasy world. There is a special backround world called Shadow World. And it expands the rule system of MERP. There are rules for everything you can think of, and there is also no need to use them. There is a wide range of optional rules to fit every taste. Make yourself a rule system of your own!

You can use all the MERP material togehter with RM2 and RMSS!

 The german version of MERP is called Mittelerde Rollenspiel (MERS), Rolemaster also is called Rolemaster. Both systems were untill 1999 translated and distributed by Queen Games (Antwerpenerstr. 4, 53842 Troisdorf). The older stuff may still show the Logo of Laurin (1990-95) - or of the first german distributor Citadell (befor 1990).