Joe Mandala (born 1972) is an American role playing gaming author and Tolkien essayist.
Having started with Middle-earth gaming sometime in the mid-1980s, Mandala was involved by Iron Crown Enterprises in the early 1990s to do secondary editing and vetting for Middle-earth Role Playing.[source?] He worked on a 250 page Races and Cultures of Middle-earth supplement, which went unpublished due to ICE losing its license.[1] He regularly wrote articles for The Guild Companion, serving as its Middle-earth editor.[1]
After having positively reviewed the core book of the The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game, he ended up writing Maps of Middle-earth: Cities and Strongholds for the game.[2][1]
Bibliography
Books
- Races and Cultures of Middle-earth (unpublished)
- 2003: Maps of Middle-earth: Cities and Strongholds
Articles
- The Guild Companion
- 1998: Taurthalion - A Lord of Middle-Earth
- 1998: People of Middle-Earth - Arhunerim, Dunlending, Druadan
- 1998: Ready to Run Adventure - Death on the wing
- 1999: Dindal - A Lord of Middle-Earth
- 1999: Peoples of Middle-Earth - The Dunedain
- 1999: Aldern - A Lord of Middle-Earth
- 1999: Peoples of Middle-Earth - Men of Gondor
- 1999: Clarissa - A Lady of Middle-Earth
- 1999: Peoples of Middle-earth - Men of Arthedain
- 1999: Myth by Tolkien
- 1999: The Ancestors of Smaug
- 1999: Dragon Slayer
- 1999: Races & Cultures: Middle-Earth: Racial Abilities
- 2000: Review: Other Hands Issue 26: Dark Undead
- 2000: Review: Other Hands Issue 29/30
- 2001: Review: Other Hands Issue 31/32: Evil Races
- 2001: Review: Other Hands Issue 33/34: War!
- 2001: 24 questions with Steve Long
- 2002: Review: Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Adventure Game
- 2002: Review: A Sneak Peek at The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game Core Book
- 2003: Ready to Run Adventure - The Ruins at Deadman's Dike
- 2003: Ready to Run Adventure - A Shroud of Mystery in Gondor (with Phillip Gladney)
- 2003: Ready to Run Adventure - The Ruins at Deadman's Dike PDF version
- 2003: Ready to Run Adventure - The Bandits of Bree
- 2007: MERPCON III: Overdose
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 . "Looking for a Project". forum.rpg.net
- ↑ . "A Sneak Peek at The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game Core Book", archived from the original. The Guild Companion