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    MERP - Dagorlad and The Dead Marshes

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    This document summarizes an adventure module for Middle-earth Role Playing (MERP) released in 1984 by Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE). The module is called "Dagorlad and the Dead Marshes" and takes place in the area north of Mordor inhabited by various races, including Men, Orcs, and the undead. The module provides background information on the area as well as five separate adventure scenarios involving fortresses, bandits, and underground complexes in the region. It includes maps and details politics, locations, diseases, and NPCs to support adventures in the swamps and plains of Dagorlad.

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    This document summarizes an adventure module for Middle-earth Role Playing (MERP) released in 1984 by Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE). The module is called "Dagorlad and the Dead Marshes" and takes place in the area north of Mordor inhabited by various races, including Men, Orcs, and the undead. The module provides background information on the area as well as five separate adventure scenarios involving fortresses, bandits, and underground complexes in the region. It includes maps and details politics, locations, diseases, and NPCs to support adventures in the swamps and plains of Dagorlad.

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    This document summarizes an adventure module for Middle-earth Role Playing (MERP) released in 1984 by Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE). The module is called "Dagorlad and the Dead Marshes" and takes place in the area north of Mordor inhabited by various races, including Men, Orcs, and the undead. The module provides background information on the area as well as five separate adventure scenarios involving fortresses, bandits, and underground complexes in the region. It includes maps and details politics, locations, diseases, and NPCs to support adventures in the swamps and plains of Dagorlad.

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    MERP - Dagorlad and The Dead Marshes

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    This document summarizes an adventure module for Middle-earth Role Playing (MERP) released in 1984 by Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE). The module is called "Dagorlad and the Dead Marshes" and takes place in the area north of Mordor inhabited by various races, including Men, Orcs, and the undead. The module provides background information on the area as well as five separate adventure scenarios involving fortresses, bandits, and underground complexes in the region. It includes maps and details politics, locations, diseases, and NPCs to support adventures in the swamps and plains of Dagorlad.

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    Product: Dagorlad and the Dead Marshes
    Stock #: 8020
    Producer: Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE)
    Designers: Ruth Sochard, Peter Fenlon,
    John Ruemmler, Coleman Charlton and
    Terry Amthor.
    Release date: 1984
    Category: Middle-earth Series Adventure
    Module
    Format:
    Shrink-wrapped
    Sourcebook
    (Saddle-stapled softcover ANSI A, 35 pages;
    Stock # 8020) with three full-color maps of
    the Dagorlad area, and the fortress Tir
    Nindor, the rock formation Sarnen
    Thuringwath, and the town Eithel Celebrin.
    Comments: This adventure module set in
    T.A. 1640 describes the swamps, marshes and plains of Dagorlad, the area just north of
    Mordor inhabited by Marshmen, Easterlings, Northmen and Gondorians, as well as the
    various black races and undead beings, such as Orcs, Trolls, Ghouls, Ghosts and Wraiths. The
    module follows the same structure as the previous one and begins with abbreviations,
    definitions, etc., before it ventures into describing the area, its plain and marshes, including
    the climate, flora and fauna, as well as the peoples and beings mentioned above. Then follows
    sections which explain the politics and places of interst, such as the fortresses and villages of
    Gondor, the Tombs of Dagorlad, the Lair of the Bandits (Tol Malbor), and the haunted grim
    rock formation known as Sarnen Thuringwath. Next follows a chapter that presents adventure
    guidelines and suggestions, such as the use of diseases (with appended table), player character
    backgrounds and how to use traps. Then follows four chapters each describing possible
    adventures, including tables for NPCs and prices. One of these chapters focuses on the parts
    controlled by Gondor, the fortress Tir Nindor, and the fortified towns of Caras Gwindor and
    Eithel Celebrin. Another chapter is devoted to the bandits of Tol Malbor, and another one with
    the mysterious and haunted underground complex of Thuringwathost. The fourth adventure
    chapter concerns encounters with the undead at a Black Nmenrean barrow. Each of these
    chapters present more or less brief information on suggested adventures as well. In total, the
    book contains three major full color maps, of which one covers the Dagorlan area and the
    others Sarnen Thuringwath and Eithel Celebrin, and one small black and white area map, as
    well as nine lesser floorplans. Compared to the previous adventure module Bree and the
    Barrow-Downs this one actually may be described as a true adventure module as more than
    half of the pages actually concerns solid adventuring and in total presents five separate readyto-play adventures. However, there is lots of information in this module which presents much

    background to flesh out the area of Dagorlan and the surrounding areas in detail. Thus this
    adventure module may be used as a campaign module as well for the Gamemaster to create
    his own adventures.

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