Designer Matt Leacock's tabletop docket consists of everything form Pandemic to Reign of Cthulhu, and a Star Wars: The Clone Wars board game. To top it all off, here he is coming at us with a Lord of the Rings board game. The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship is available for pre-order right now, and the Z-Man Games site is calling it "Matt Leacock’s most mechanically-rich Pandemic System design to date."
Made with "thematically rich cooperative gameplay" in mind, according to Leacock, players actually dual-wield characters to fill out the Fellowship. Each player controls two characters who will help keep Frodo safe on his journey to destroy the One Ring, and evade the Nazgûl. Whether it'll be best board game material is hard to tell at this stage, but I do love the little references I've seen so far.
