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OTHER MINDS Magazine Issue 12, July 2011 Issue 12, July 2011 OO THERTHER MMINDINDSS The Unofficial Role-Playing Magazine for J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth and beyond OTHER MINDS Magazine Issue 12, July 2011 Publisher Other Minds Volunteers Co-Editors Assistant Editors Thomas Morwinsky Neville Percy Hawke Robinson Chris Seeman Proof Readers Artwork Neville Percy Catherine Karina Oliver Schick Chmiel John Howe Ted Nasmith Jan Pospisil Tuuliky Production Staff Thomas Morwinsky 1 Unless otherwise noted, every contribution in this magazine is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license (b n a) The exact license of a given contribution can be found at the beginning of each contribution. © 2000 ‘At Lake Cuiviénen’ by Ted Nasmith, used with permission of the artist Other Minds Magazine MAIN FEATURES 2 Editorial: Surprise! by Thomas Morwinsky Editorial: 4 Inside Information by Thomas Morwinsky 5 Númenórean Longevity Holding our breath Revisited by Thomas Morwinsky 11 An Unexpected Party The One Ring: Adventures ordered through Cubicle’s website by David Daines (http://www.cubicle7.co.uk/). You 16 The Phenomenon of over the Edge of the Wild can either choose priority shipping (more “Eternal Realms” in Cubicle 7’s The One Ring: Adventures expensive) and you will get your printed Middle-earth RPG settings ® by Thomas Morwinsky over the Edge of the Wild (TOR) is fin- copy at the time of Gen Con or regular 23 Quendi ished and will see the light of the day at shipping, due probably late August or by Daniel “Vaco” Vacaflores Gen Con in early August (held from Au- early September. In either case, you will gust 4 to 7). The image below is the get a PDF of the book in early August in game’s cover. It will be shipped in a slip- addition to your printed copies! OTHER FEATURES case containing three booklets and a cou- The images on the next page show 54 Fine Print and Disclaimers ple of custom dice (see images next page the content of the box. For myself I can 55 Creative Commons License and the game can also be played with say that I’m surely holding my breath regular gaming dice). There are also since I pre-ordered my copy! some bits of the game’s mechanics known, but I think it better to discuss We thought about delaying Other these in detail in a review once the whole Minds, Issue 12 to include a first review of package is in our hands. This is also good the game. But that would have meant news as well—the game can now be pre- postponing even further than we had already announced. In addition, it would have conflicted with real-life schedules, and likely not be published until the end of September or even later. We have therefore stuck to our original intention and publish it now in early July. We’ll see whether we will publish Issue 13 as planned at the end of the year or add another one to give a special welcome to this latest roleplaying game set specifically in Middle- earth. Whether this happens depends on the content submitted. If you can contribute a gaming supplement like a (short) adventure, set- © 2011 by Cubicle 7, used with permission 2 Issue 12, July 2011 described in detail by Tolkien (or en- tirely original realms/states). Last, but surely not least is a big contribution by prolific Other Minds author Daniel “Vaco” Vacaflores. Quendi, the Elvish Peoples of Mid- dle-earth is a detailed description of the various elvish peoples found in Tolkien’s world. Groups described by Tolkien, as well as RPG additions, are covered with relevant quotes. Abilities for Vaco’s own game system (see Other Minds, Issue 11, p. 79pp.) and MERP are provided as well, adding to the immediate usability in a game environ- ment. Artwork Again we are indebted to several © 2011 by Cubicle 7, used with permission artists who allowed us to use their ting, NPC etc. that would be much ap- problem tackled is the degree of special great work to illustrate our magazine. preciated. Then we can look to provide longevity among Númenóreans of You can find their online presence (in game stats for TOR and publish an ad- mixed descent. alphabetical order) under the following venture shortly after the game itself has Second comes a submission from an links: been published. So it’s up to you entirely new quarter, which we are Catherine Karina Chmiel (“Kasiopeia”): whether we can assist TOR in making a very happy to be able to present here. http://kasiopea.art.pl/ good start into the Middle-earth gaming This is An Unexpected Party, the John Howe: community! We also have some Other description of the creation of a marvel- http://www.john-howe.com Minds-related news. You can read it in lous diorama with the miniatures of the the Inside Information section of this Issue. Ted Nasmith: same name from Mithril Miniatures http://www.tednasmith.com (http://www.mithril.ie). It comes Jan Pospisil: Content complete with first-class photos ac- http://merlkir.deviantart.com/ This Issue’s content covers a broad companying the narrative about its range of topics. First comes a contribu- realization. It is an expert miniature Tuuliky: tion by myself. It’s called Númenórean diorama of an iconic scene from The http://tuuliky.deviantart.com/ Longevity Revisited and targets some Hobbit, made by two masters of their We hope that this Issue contains questions left open by Númenórean Lon- trade. something for every one of you and gevity in Other Minds, Issue 6. The central Our third piece again is that our selection serves your interests. done by myself. It is But now enough of introductory ram- called The phenomenon blings and on with the content itself. of “Eternal Realms” in Enjoy Other Minds, Issue 12 and see you Middle-earth RPG set- all in #13! tings and deals with an observation upon— For the Other Minds team primarily past—Middle- Thomas Morwinsky earth gaming supple- July 2011 ments. It is the tendency to devise “eternal” man- nish political entities in the process of fleshing out © 2011 by Cubicle 7, used with permission regions and realms not 3 Other Minds Magazine Inside Information Our special thanks go to those of you Everyone fluent in German is cor- Survey & Feedback who have actually responded so far, for dially invited to join the community Almost half a year ago we started a taking the time to send us back your there in order to establish a broader foot- survey for Other Minds, Issue 11 to get an thoughts! hold in this first foreign language local impression of how all of us who make Everyone else, it’s not too late to branch of Other Minds. We hope this Other Minds—from authors to the edito- have your say on the direction Other serves as an example of what can be rial team—perform in your eyes. There- Minds will take in the future. Therefore achieved by establishing cooperation fore it is fitting to give you some infor- (and to minimize your effort) we include with established non-English Tolkien mation on the current state of the survey the survey from OM11 again in this Is- communities all over the world. The and the analysis we announced back sue. It deliberately does not include the synergistic effect of getting a broader then. In short, the result so far is some- present Issue to make the results compa- audience (for Other Minds) and adding a what disappointing. rable. new facet for the established online com- The reason is not criticism that we munity should give ample room for both should do things in a different way from Non-English to achieve more than would have been now. This would be a good thing, since language access possible for either alone. This idea could it would be real feedback and informa- be taken up by others to create similar As already hinted at in previous Is- projects in other languages, and we en- tion. But in the almost 6 months since sues, we are not only interested in at- Issue 11 and the survey sheet came out courage everyone out there—go on and tracting English-speaking authors, but do it! we received a meagre 12 (sic!) filled-out also in a wide variety of other languages. survey files. The idea is to translate finished manu- Talking from past experience (our scripts and publish them in an English statistics module on the website has been version. In addition, the original versions de-activated due to some technical issues can be published as well, increasing our for some time now), we estimate about range among those not able to express 130 downloads of Issue 11 since it came themselves in English. Ideally, these indi- out. That in turn means that we have a viduals can be motivated to submit ideas return rate of ca. 10% (perhaps 15-20% in their native tongues, and these in turn if we count some double downloads will be translated when they are fully from the same person). This adds to the developed. By now, the Other Minds web- disappointment concerning the returns site has been updated with a forum con- but we hope for an improvement none- taining non-English sections as well. theless. As a beginning in the goal of making In light of these numbers, an analysis Other Minds known to a wider audience, based on just a dozen answers is hardly we decided to begin a cooperation with representative, so we’ll postpone that an established German Tolkien site, until a significant number has been which has a considerable reach in the reached.
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