Tales of Fate in Middle-earth
User summary:
Ambarquenta is set in the legendary land of Middle-earth. The game system is designed to be flexible, balanced, and playable, yet remain true to the historical and literary ensamples on which it is thematically based. The game is targeted at experienced players who desire a complex, intuitively comprehendible set of rules that allow the development of stories instead of distracting from them.
Publisher's blurb (extract):
...we have, for simplicity's sake, copied the wording of large parts of the rulebook from various other roleplaying games (which are all listed in the 'Credits' section of the book). While primarily generic play rules have actually been plagiarized by doing so, this course of action allowed us to speed up the work...