{"id":29596,"date":"2008-08-27T18:41:35","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T23:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=29596"},"modified":"2008-08-27T19:14:54","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T00:14:54","slug":"boardgaming-news-middle-earth-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/08\/27\/29596-boardgaming-news-middle-earth-quest\/","title":{"rendered":"Boardgaming News: Middle Earth Quest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/boxlotr.jpg\" alt=\"boxlotr\" width=\"131\" height=\"129\" class=\"attachment wp-att-29598 alignright no-lazyload\" style=\"border:0px solid #FFF;\" \/>At the recent gaming convention GenCon, Fantasy Flight Games (publisher of the Lord of the Rings and War of the Ring boardgames) released some new details on the forthdoming &#8216;Middle-earth Quest&#8217; adventure boardgame, as reported on boardgamegeek.com by one G. Purcell (<em>bracketed<br \/>\nremarks are mine<\/em>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It *is* still in development <em>[some feared it had been abandoned]<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The time period is after Bilbo left the Shire, but before the Lord of the Rings book<em> [sic &#8211; he presumably means &#8216;before the Shadow of the Past visit by Gandalf&#8217;]<\/em><\/li>\n<li>You won&#8217;t play the LotR heroes, but will encounter them (i.e. Aragorn, off looking for Gollum)<\/li>\n<li>The box size is &#8230; about the size of War of the Ring box<em> [not ultra-huge like their StarCraft and World of Warcraft boardgames]<\/em><\/li>\n<li>It contains some exciting new mechanics that they&#8217;re not ready to announce yet<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s being designed by <em>[FFG founder and sometimes game designer]<\/em> Christian Petersen himself<\/li>\n<li>Current estimate of release is Spring 2009<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasyflightgames.com\/thelotr.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fantasy Flight Games Website<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the recent gaming convention GenCon, Fantasy Flight Games (publisher of the Lord of the Rings and War&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,14,107,18,90,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-conventions","category-events","category-gaming","category-merchandise","category-merchandise-other","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7Hm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}