Continuing In early 2002, FoH was picked up again. With different approach: Backstory overload!
As typical Tolkienaist, it included everything: Bad poems. Highly unprobable maps. Characters whose IQ was in sub-two digit range. World creation myth. Like anything of that is even remotelly usefull in long run.
Lesson learned: Lore is cool. But you need capable writer and not dorkish teenager.
Also, quite passable (keep in mid that this is passable compared to previous stuff) version of rules appeared. With quite obvious flaws (Elves for example), but generally with some ideas worth preserving.
As was becoming traditional, piece of software was created to accompany rules. This time I gave up with creating game and instead made simple utility to help with inevitable number crunching. Now, thats something i can be proud of: It actually looks nice. And it somehow works. See for yourself.
