MEPBM Wiki is an all-volunteer, player-run, wiki-powered site for the turn-based, Middle-earth strategy games run by Game Systems International. The site was initially created by Raven Zachary in June 2019, the initial set of content was added from June through August 2019, and then the site was launched in August 2019. The site will continue to grow over time.
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This wiki was created by Raven Zachary, author of the Middle-earth PBM Player Aid, and one of the organizers of the Las Vegas 2019 Face-to-Face Game.
Raven played MEPBM when it was first released in the early 1990s and then returned to the game in March 2018 after a 25+ year hiatus. Raven is user ravenzachary on the MEPBM.com Forums. He lives in Portland, Oregon, USA.
The following people currently have editing rights on MEPBM Wiki:
Game Systems International run turn-based, strategy games set in the world of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, including elements from ICE's Middle-earth Role Playing under licence from GSIL. Play as either the Free Peoples or the Dark Servants, and work together with your team-mates to take control of the lands of Middle-earth. Earn your victory through a combination of martial strength, magical prowess, and economic power.
The game was originally created by Game Systems, Inc. in the early 1990s, as a play-by-mail game (PBM), with turns being sent via postal mail. The game is often referred to by its original acronym, MEPBM - Middle-earth Play-by-Mail. The game is now Play-by-Email (PBeM), with turns sent in PDF format with an accompyianing data file used by the computer program, JOverseer, to display turn results and allow the player to prepare orders for future turns.