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New Merp.com website launched at last!

Well, it's been maaaaany months in the waiting, and at long last is here!

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Thank you for visiting this 100% community driven, non-commercial, volunteer run website, dedicated to role playing gaming in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. We have been serving the role-player gaming community online since 1998.

Hotmail blocking all emails from merp.com without any explanation!

No idea why this suddenly started happening in the last couple days...

ICE MERP Martial Arts table contribution by Sir Wolf (PDF)

Sir Wolf ICE MERP Martial Arts table.

Middle-earth Distances Table by Ardamir

Thanks to Ardamir for donating this table showing distances between locations in Middle-earth.

New section added to Wiki: Races & Cultures of Middle-earth (and beyond). Please help fill in the rest.

A new section has been added to the Merp.com Wiki pages: Races & Cultures. This is an attempt to put together all the information related to each race and culture of Middle-earth (and beyond).

More server moves. More interrupted services.

More servers are being moved, this means some services will be unavailable periodically during this move.

Register for MerpCon IV Today!

There is limited seating, so register early. Don't miss out on 2008's MerpCon, register via the RSVP form today. John D. Rateliff, author of "The History of the Hobbit", and Michael Martinez are this year's guest speakers, so don't miss this year!

Middle-earth Role Playing Gaming Email List Update

Some "Tweaks" have been made to try to resolve some of the issues some people have had subscribing to the merp@merp.com email list...

Now accepting submission for Issue 5 of Other Minds Magazine. Deadline October 1st.

We are accepting (and already receiving some) submissions for issue #5 of Other Minds Magazine "The unofficial, International Role Playing Gaming magazine dedicated to exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth and beyond. " http://www.other-minds.com

Merp.com is currently experiencing significant server issues. (2008-09-30)

We have received a flood of emails about two different (but possibly related)issues regarding account management (joining/registration, password-retrieval, etc.), and email-webforms (sending messages through the webforms). We are currently scrambling to resolve the issues. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Middle-earth Radio Episode 4 now available.

This was announced on the merp email list (to subscribe send blank email to merp-subscribe@merp.com): "Middle-earth Talk Radio Show #4 Recorded October 26th, 2008. Topics covered include:"