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Cubicle 7 Entertainment
and Sophisticated Games are proud to announce that they are jointly
developing The One Ring:
The Lord of the Rings® Role-playing Game.
“We’re tremendously
excited about The One Ring,” said Dominic McDowall-Thomas, Cubicle 7
Director. “Our aim is to give our audience an authentic Middle-earth
gaming experience, one that really captures the feel of Tolkien’s
world.”
The designer and lead
writer of this project, Francesco Nepitello, is a games industry
veteran, best known for the hugely successful and critically acclaimed War
of the Ring strategy board game, which he designed with The One Ring
co-designer Marco Maggi and Roberto di Meglio. A recipient of the
International Gamers Award, War
of the Ring is recognised by many ‘Lord of the Rings’
enthusiasts and hobby gamers alike as one of the most engaging
recreations of the world-renowned fantasy saga by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Francesco and Marco are the designers of other immersive board game
titles like Marvel Super Heroes and Age of Conan, but
started their game-designing careers creating Lex Arcana, the
most successful and popular fantasy role-playing game published in
Italy.
Francesco has designed
the new LOTR RPG game system to make sure that players are completely
immersed in Middle-earth from the moment they begin creating their
characters. As an experienced designer of games based on JRR Tolkien, as
well as being a lifelong devotee of the Tolkien works, Francesco brings
a dimension -and a depth- to this RPG which has probably never been seen
before in a LOTR game.
Robert Hyde, head of
Cambridge (UK) based Sophisticated Games said, “When we first acquired
the rights from Tolkien Enterprises to publish this RPG - as part of our
wider LOTR book based board game license- we had no hesitation in
approaching Francesco to conceive a completely fresh LOTR and The Hobbit
RPG, and for him to be the writer. We knew that he possessed both these
skills and that the game would be in very safe hands. His presentation
of Middle-earth, along with stunning artwork from John Howe and others,
brings this incredibly evocative and exciting world to life.”
“We also approached
Cubicle 7 to be our publishing partners on the new The One Ring RPG
because we loved the quality of their previous publications and felt
that Dominic and Angus (Abranson) had both the experience, and with the
creation of Cubicle 7, the role playing game resources, to bring LOTR
and The Hobbit to a very wide audience.”
For more information on
The One Ring: The Lord
of the Rings® Role-playing Game please contact Cubicle 7 on info@cubicle7.co.uk
The One
Ring: The Lord of the Rings® Role-playing Game
will be published in the second half of 2010.