7/24/2019 Middle-earth Role Playing - Boxed Set (1st US
Edition)
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MERP
First Edition (First Printing)Product:Middle-earth Role Playing
(MERP) (1st US Edition)
Stock #: 8100
Producer:Iron Crown Enterprises
(ICE)
Designers: Coleman Charlton
Peter !enlon "r#$e %eidlinger
&erry 'mthor ohn R#emmler and
Ri$hard "ritton
Release date:1*8+
Category: Middle-earth Role
Playing
Format:"o,ed set (Sto$ .8100)
whi$h $ontains the MERP
R#les/oo (Sot$oer '%SI ' 128
pages3 Sto$ .RP 8000) !loorplans
("oolet 14 pages) Card with
Chara$ter Co#nters 2 510 di$e
Comments: &his is the /o,ed set
o the irst edition Middle-earth Role Playing game $ontaining the
/asi$ MERP R#les/oo
with its sample adent#re set in the &rollshaws in &'
14+0 &he /o, also $ontains a early
and simple ersion o $hara$ter $o#nters well as a set o
loor-plans to /e #sed /y the
6amemaster and players as an aid in resoling ta$ti$al sit#ations
when #sed together with the
sample adent#re It also $ontains two di$e that ea$h hae 20 sides
(i$osahedrons) /#t are
n#m/ered 1-10 ie te$hni$ally 5107s &hese are #sed together
to resole game play
sit#ations s#$h as atta$s and mane#ers Ea$h die has a dierent
$olor so as to disting#ish
them rom ea$h other one o them representing the de$ades while
the other the #nits together
$reating 1-100 res#lts in a per$entile roll &hese rolls are
either resoled normally with res#lts
yielding /etween 01 to 100 (ie two die res#lts o 0) or as
open-ended rolls whi$h yields
res#lts /elow 00 (ie min#s) or a/oe 100 witho#t restri$tion3
negatie res#lts are resoled
when the irst 5100 roll yields a res#lt /elow 04 whi$h then
re9#ires a se$ond 5100 roll with
the se$ond res#lt /eing s#/tra$ted rom the irst res#lt while
res#lts e,$eeding 100 may /e
generated i the irst roll yields a res#lt oer *: &e$hni$ally
a open-ended roll may $ontin#e
in$reasing /oth positie and negatie res#lts with m#ltiple rolls
#ntil the per$entile di$e yield
a res#lt /elow *4
