Phantom of the Northern Marches

Phantom of the Northern Marches
Publication Information
Author	Graham Staplehurst
Editor	Peter C. Fenlon, S. Coleman Charlton
Illustrator	Daniel Horne (cover) Steven Peregrine (interior)
Publisher	Iron Crown Enterprises
Released	1986
Format	Softcover
Pages	32
ISBN	0-915795-47-7
ICE stock no.	8102

Phantom of the Northern Marches is a module (in the Ready-to-Run Adventure-series) for Middle-earth Role Playing, 1st Edition.

Cover/Jacket Text

Three low-to-mid level adventures which each stand on their own and can be set up in minutes.

A simple tree house sits in the shadow of the peak called Pen-Drebi. Inside, a horrible revenge is being planned against the sleepy village of Nothva Raglaw. Can you face the menace of The Phantom of the Woods?

An intruder from the Ettenmoors haunts a cave in the Witbeamwyd. Farmers report missing livestock. At night the earth trembles with heavy thuds, and daylight reveals huge, yard-long footprints. Is it a monstrous Troll? Is it a ghost? Can you solve The Riddle of the Ridorthû?

A huge firedrake has crawled out of the shadows of the northern Misty Mountains. His path of fiery destruction leads to the Witbeamwyd and the town hall where he lies unchallenged. Can you match the massive strength and hot breath of Gerse's Bane?

Reception

In a review for Dragon Magazine, Ken Rolston highly recommended the supplement for its "intelligent, well-motivated, [and] well-staged" adventures. He praised the work for preserving the "dignity and intelligence" of Tolkien's setting, noting that the villains were "psychologically convincing, rather than comic-book caricatures of evil." While the review critiqued the dry, reference-style layout and the lack of role-playing notes for the provided player characters, it concluded that the module's adventures successfully integrated its fantasy elements without becoming "conventional dungeon arcades."