At the Dawn
At the Dawn is the role-playing game written in homage to JRR Tolkien’s Silmarillion, where the players take on the roles of elves, the perfect and immortal first-born, living at the dawn of creation and facing its wonders and horrors.
“…a beautiful concept. It’s amazing that Tolkein wrote four published novels plus volumes of backstory and then, historically, RPG play fixated on reenacting the Mines of Moria sequence a bazillion times.”
–Sydney Freedberg
What follows is a link to a slightly edited but unplaytested/Beta version of At the Dawn, a role-playing game written in 2004 for the Forge’s Son of Iron Game Chef contest. This version of the game is being made available in PDF form.
- The original entry can be found here.
- Feedback on the entry can be found here.
- And the judge’s appraisal of the entry can be found here.
The text is copyright (c)2005 Raven Daegmorgan. All Rights Reserved. Use is granted for personal purposes only. At the Dawn is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Tolkien estate.