Another one of a pile of MERP books that I once owned, sold, then hunted down again only to find that I wasn’t really missing anything. Well, except that awesome Larry Elmore cover. Aside of the maybe-a-Palantir, nothing about it seems particularly Tolkien (probably exacerbated by Elmore’s inextricable D&D-ness to my eyes), but I am a sucker for a werewolf, and that is a mighty fine werewolf.

River Running is a square-bound adventure book that came out in 1992, toward the end of the initial iteration of MERP. It is a collection of loosely connected adventures set in the rustic wine country called the Land of Maidens, to the east of the Lonely Mountain. There’s nothing super interesting about the adventures – they are all variations of exterminator work. This one you kills some orcs, that one a werewolf, this one a dragon.

Shrug. At least the cover is cool.