tag: Lotr

This was a game I played in rather than ran for once! It’s a published adventure in both The One Ring (and Adventures in Middle Earth) 1e, now updated to 2e. So unlike normal, I’ll skip the story. In AiME it’s To Dungeons Deep in Erebor Adventures - for TOR 2e it’s been lowered in difficulty of enemies considerably, but otherwise is identical. Thoughts The good stuff: It’s great being in LotR again - I don’t know why I like playing games in Tolkein’s world. I guess it’s the fact that you can stitch in eurofantasy around the cracks and it’s pretty easy to cover things up. Or just quotes from the film! Stances add a bit of interest to combat, and encourage some Saxon shield walls. Characters can be in Ranged combat (or fleeing) or various levels of aggression in melee, effectively giving you 5e-style Reckless Attacks A bit less cruft than 5e (AiME), less hammering the square 5e peg into a round hole The bad stuff: ...

I wasn’t enthused about the third adventure in the Bree-land Region Guide — but saying that, I haven’t run it. Also, I wanted to keep doing something with Berelas, as at least one party member was quite attached to her, and there’s no further published material on her, to my knowledge. So, instead, I asked the group where they wanted to go (ahead of the session), and then offered some hooks. Berelas wants to go to Radagast, which is quite a trip away. The players offered to escort her, and I prepped a long Journey and had some vague ideas for some things to do in Rhosgobel when they arrived. Although, hmm, how to get there. ...

This post contains spoilers for the named adventure in the Bree-land Region Guide for Adventures in Middle Earth, by Cubicle 7 🙈. ...

The next adventure introduces an NPC but not for long and I thought it would be fun to introduce them early. Mugwort, a hobbit NPC in the Pony had alleged a chicken thief was due to “them no-good Rangers”. It’s supposed to be a hook for another monster up to no good. But what if it was a Ranger? 🎵 DRAMATIC CHORD 🎵 ...