Journal created:
on 14 August 2002 (#668175)
Updated:
on 21 September 2014
Name:
Shards Of Arda
Membership:
Open
Posting Access:
All Members , Moderated
Shards is a hub community for all the various LOTR-oriented "roleplaying games" on LiveJournal. Seeking a game to join? Want to find new players, replace a missing character, or boost a flagging campaign? This is the place. Plug your particular obsession!
(Note: Almost ALL of these games feature RPF/S = real-people fic/slash. If you don't know what this is, don't join.)
Canon(ish) ArdaShards
Fourth Age: Set after the War, Man-oriented.
Gondolin: In its last 15 years.
LOTR Roleplay: Mirrors the books.
Shadows Of Mordor: Minas Tirith after the books. (GJ)
Warped ArdaShards
Caras Fain: A small private offshoot of TLH. (GJ)
Days Of The Shire: No-War, OFC/hobbit-oriented.
HobbitFanciers: Based on the Very Secret Diaries.
Last Light: Recasting LOTR with humans only. (GJ)
Middle-Earth SockPuppet Theater: Warped Arda -- first and largest!
Crossover Shards (Actors & Characters)
After The War: Actors in Middle-Earth -- Fourth Age. (GJ)
The Dreaming Theater: Blurs reality and fantasy.
Middle-Earth SlashPuppet Theater: Some MESPT crossover.
Rings Resort: Actors, characters, anything goes.
Sinyamar: Silmarillion meets the 21st century. (GJ)
"Canon" ActorShards
Fellowship Of The Cast: During filming (2000).
Lords Of The RPG Remix: It's back! Current-day.
LOTR Now: Current-day.
LOTR Reunion: Set at a cast reunion party.
Many Meetings: In NZ during pick-ups.
Shards Of Narsil: See community for details.
SlashyLOTR: See community for details.
Disjointed ActorShards (No-Movie AUs)
Fidel's Cafe: Wellington coffeehouse.
Lauderville: Small-town American living.
Lords Of London: Turn-of-the-century London.
LOTR Bohemians: Set in Paris in 1903.
LOTR Noir: Set in 1950's Los Angeles.
The Pinkverse: Office politics at a PR firm.
University Of Middle-Earth: In college.
Paranormal ActorShards
LOTR Playground: Heavy urban fantasy.
LOTR Underworld: Based on the movie -- vamps vs. lycans.
Mythos Of The Ring: Greek gods amalgam.
Shades Of Grey: Strange creatures in Wellington.
UberShards (Celeb Games With LOTR Elements)
Ancient World: 65 B.C.E in Rome.
Anything Goes: Like it sounds.
Angels And Demons: Good vs. evil, literally.
Beyond The Mists: Set within Mists Of Avalon.
Dark Future: Post-nuclear 2358 A.D.
The Establishment: Sensuality/BSDM-themed, multi-genre. (JF)
Portals In Time: Based on Feist's Hall of Worlds.
Transcendent Shards (For Everyone!)
Intershards: Read/post crossovers between games.
Dear Puppet: Finally, a place to chew out the bastards!
LOTR Personals: Bored? Lonely? A pup playground.
LOTR PWP: Any game. Anything goes. Really. *cough*
Spaceport Weini: A between-game any-genre get-away.
Token Het: About relationships with *gasp* the opposite sex.
The Graveyard (Where The Dead Games Go)
The Fellowship: Rehab clinic.
Gangster LOTR: Streetwar in old London.
Gap Of Rohan: Mad and getting madder. (GJ)
Hobbiton: The Shire, pre-War.
Ici Londres: London 1941 -- war and intrigue.
Is This Arda: Post-War -- strange and amusing. (DJ)
Ithildin: Broadly Silmarillion-based.
The Last Homely RPG: After the Ring War. (B)
Lord Of The Barns: Includes characters and actors.
Lords Of The RPG: See community for details.
LOTR 1920: New Orleans in the 1920s.
LOTR Alternate Universe: General modern-day AU.
LOTR Civil: Set during the Civil War.
LOTR Crimson: Dark Vampire crossover.
LOTR Gathered: Has paranormal/magical elements.
LOTR Glimmer: Changeling setting.
LOTR Royals: Vaguely 1640s Scotland.
LOTR Slash: See community for details.
LOTR Vamps: World Of Darkness crossover in LA.
Manflesh: See community for details.
Method Actors: Play the actors' roles.
Middle-Earth Roleplay: New plotline.
Nenya University: In drama school.
New-Age Arda: Relocated to modern-day. (DJ)
Parallel Lords: The Ring is followed into modern Earth.
Pearl's Kitchen: See community for details.
Renaissance Dark: Vamps & weres in Italy, 1303.
Second Age: Canon Middle-Earth.
When In Rome: Roman occupation of Britain.
WhiteCity: Actors in Middle-Earth -- ROTK. -Ended
Vampire Slash Puppets: See community for details.
(Note: Almost ALL of these games feature RPF/S = real-people fic/slash. If you don't know what this is, don't join.)
Canon(ish) ArdaShards
Warped ArdaShards
Crossover Shards (Actors & Characters)
"Canon" ActorShards
Disjointed ActorShards (No-Movie AUs)
Paranormal ActorShards
UberShards (Celeb Games With LOTR Elements)
Transcendent Shards (For Everyone!)
The Graveyard (Where The Dead Games Go)
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