Quote Originally Posted by neonchameleon View Post
The worst I've had fun playing: Middle Earth Role Playing. MERP is a decent gritty swords and sorcery system (it's essentially Rolemaster Lite - something that vastly improves Chartmaster). It's just it has critical tables with results like "Skeleton liquified. Use a spatula." Nothing wrong with that sort of black humour - but it isn't Tolkien.
I had some brief contact with the system years back, and I think "decent low-fantasy, bad representation of anything Tolkien wrote" might be a fair summation of it.