First Kickstarter to Try to Rip Off The Hobbit? Halfling Wars

It's 2,000 Coppers! Quick, hide it in your ass with the rest of this turd!

You know what? There may be others trying to pull off the direct / indirect tie in to The Hobbt, but this one blatantly takes the cake. Oh, and it's the first I've found.

What am I talking about? Halfling Wars, of course. Where you can you can start a farm and raise some fighting cocks or some other such monsters for pit fights using iOS / iPhone or maybe even Android!. Yep, these are the halflings I know. Sure...

It's almost like they were building some other crap game, like perhaps some type of "Monster Wrangler" game, saw The Hobbit in the theatre and said - "Shit, we need to re-skin this to look like The Hobbi and make it into a Kickstarter! Don't forget to use the "social" term a few times in the video! We need our piece of the pie too!"

I hope this rotting pile of blatant ripoff type turd withers on the vine - and then the vine comes back from the dead and chokes the living shit out of them.

Other then that, looks like a fun game...

(No, we will not waste money from The Wayward Kickstarters Fund on this unholy hobbit aberration ;) 

The Hobbit, Rolemaster, Angmar and Aging Eyes

I saw The Hobbit last week. I thought it was really good, but not awe inspiring. Not sure why. Maybe my expectations were too high. In any case, it inspired me to dig out my old Rolemaster Boxed Set (I'm guessing 2nd edition, as it is copyright 80/84).

Anyhow, I wanted to break it out, because I was pretty sure I had Angmar, Land of the Witch King, which was referenced in the Hobbit, inside the box. Sure enough, it was there.

I peeked inside to look at the maps. I always loved the maps in the old ICE modules. Excellent maps, a nice drawing of the Witch King's "castle".

Then I looked at some of the typeface, and I had to put the bad boy back. My eyes aren't what they used to be.

Damn 40s! Next thing you know I'll be wearing bifocals!

Typesetting has certainly improved over the tears.