# Middle-earth Role Playing (2nd Edition)

Middle-earth Role Playing (2nd Edition) is a board game.

- **Complexity:** 3 out of 5
- **Year published:** 1993
- **Categories:** Core Rules (min needed to play)
- **Mechanics:** Skill Based (buy or gain skills), Level Based (Earn XP and level up), Class Based (Pilot, Wizard, Scientist, etc), Exploding Dice (Die may 'explode' into a second roll), Dice (Percentile), Race Based (Player Race/Species affects gameplay)
- **Owned by:** 2 Ludoya players

**Designers:** Coleman Charlton

**Artists:** Kamran Sedaghatkish, Pete Fenlon, Rick Britton, Angus McBride, Jason Waltrip, Ellisa Mitchell, Liz Danforth

**Publishers:** La Factoría de Ideas

## Links

- [This page](https://www.ludoya.com/games/middle-earth-role-playing-2nd-edition)
- [Middle-earth Role Playing (2nd Edition) in the Ludoya app](https://app.ludoya.com/g/middle-earth-role-playing-2nd-edition)
- [BoardGameGeek entry](https://rpggeek.com/rpgitem/52055)

_Data from Ludoya, updated 2026-11-06. Ratings, ownership and play counts are Ludoya's own._