About Our Campaign Battle of Five Armies & The Third Age of Middle-Earth The current year for our Middle-Earth campaign is set during the year of 2946 of the Third Age. Inspired By J.R.R. Tolkien

At the time of me posting this I still have not started work on our adventure for my first Middle-earth campaign but I am planning to begin work on the Mirkwood Campaign very soon. Sure, this is a campaign that really needs an expert Loremaster to run "not a brand new Loremaster like myself" but regardless, I am going to give it a go and see what happens. I am brand new to "Adventures in Middle-earth" as a Loremaster and this version of Dungeons & Dragons is a lot different than the standard 5th edition version . . . which is good because I'll never use WotC's material again.

I'm sure a lot of you hard core novel readers will flame me for what I am about to say but . . . this campaign will be based off of the 6 movies, not the novels. Sadly myself or my players have not read the books (I actually just started reading them) but have watched all of the movies so this is what I will base this campaign and all future Middle-earth adventures off of. For our situation, this makes the most sense, so while I am in story telling mode my players will be able to envision what is going on as they reflect on what things looked like in the movies.

I have done a lot of reading online and watched multiple videos on Middle-earth Lore, so I have much to draw from when running my campaigns. So if you are one of those that believes you don't know anything about Middle-earth unless you have read the books, then you might want to just move on to some other campaign blog.

I want this campaign blog to be just about our current campaign so it is easier for my players and visitors to navigate this blog so in the beginning stages this blog might be a little short on information but as we start playing it will grow quickly. The easiest way to navigate through this blog is simply using the links across the top instead of browsing page by page. Pretty much everything my players will need will be located in the journals section which has a link at the top of the blog. Drop us a comment in our comment section which is located here and let us know what you think of our humble corner of the internet where we share out own Middle-earth experiences.

One big thing is, with me being out of the game for close to twenty years, this is bound to start off a little rusty but I have never ran adventures online digitally before and the excitement has started to kick in for me. I still have a lot of reading to do to get myself back into DMing again and especially in the Middle-earth setting, this will be something all new for me and then on top of it all we will be playing online using Roll20 for battlemaps, character sheets and dice rolling and Discord for audio and video so this will be educational to say the least.

My plan is to run the Eaves of Mirkwood adventure and slide right into the Mirkwood campaign. Another thing I plan to do is move this campaign 30'ish years ahead to coincide with Frodo leaving the Shire (give or take a year or two). Towards the end of the Mirkwood campaign I want to adjust the story a little to merge into the War of the Ring time period. Personally, I just prefer the Lord of the Rings story over the Hobbit story, it's just a more indepth story (imho of course).

All of our game sessions will be locally recorded and then once we finish each session I will go back and do a lot of editing to give it a more ambience with sound effects, background ambience music and other things and then upload them to our Youtube channel as a playlist.