Tales of the Past - Introduction
Lately on the MESBG Discord server I frequently visit, there were some discussions and talks about older versions of our beloved system. I am kinda a hobby historian and I have always been fascinated about the past and development of things/systems over time. And therefore an idea started to take form, on how to combine these two things with each other on this blog. I would like to collect experiences and tales from veteran players and then bundle them together per eras, in order to allow a view back into the past. So my first question to my dear readers would be, how to best categorize the time periods/versions of MESBG? I know there was a White Dwarf article with details about that but I don't have it. So I came up with this: First Age: Release of the first sets till the wrap up of the Peter Jackson LOTR movies Second Age: From the end of the movies till the blue ONE RULEBOOK Third Age: Everything released from/for the Hobbit movies Fourth Age: From the beginning of the current v...