FundinStrongarm

I'm reasonably sure that license and content -wise, this is all under the umbrella of MEE. Tolkien Estate not really in picture, afaik. Meh - could be wrong.

Yeah, pretty much.

Yes. Because the toy may get swallowed.

What the hell is going on over there? - Concerned Canadian

I think there might be games in the works that would tick your boxes. But still a ways away for at least the one I'm aware of.

When your last 3 books are 5, 6 and 8(and counting) years apart, people are bound to decipher them. Atleast Rowling cranked out her 7 books over 10 years. If she had spent over 2 dozen years, people may have anticipated some of her twists as well. Good call on the slower, lazier writing. Dance of Dragons seems to meander quite a bit.

Heh. Running off fumes for over a decade. I don't think people give 1 iota of a shit about whatever merger there was in 2008.

Close. There was Basic D&D then Advanced D&D (and even stuff before Basic). THEN came 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, etc. D&D 5.0 ends up being about the 8th iteration of the ruleset, depending on how you count.

Seems like a rough go if first offense. But if typical of posts, then reasonable.

I have found this forum bullies people that aren't with the program far more than the official forums. YMMV

[Lots of things that are proof they aren't in maintenance mode]..... See, proof of maintenance mode!

Has there been any indication any of this has affected any games at all? It's been 9 months now.

IMO, there will NEVER be a x64 client. Ever. What, over the past 5-6 years, would give you ANY idea that anyone is working on it? I find you pining for it kinda sad really. Please just give up hoping for it or thinking it may happen. You'll be much be off once you realize this, imo.

Last time I levelled from 1 was back after Helm's Deep and before Minas Tirith (4 years ago or so). As touched on, usually you decided beforehand which areas you were going to level up in, knowing you'll be skipping other entire areas to do so. That kind of quick levelling had been going on for a year or two prior to then. At least doing all the areas like you seem to be doing doesn't over level you like it would on the regular servers.

Didn't someone auto-attack-only with a Champion with no deaths into the mid-40s?