The One Ring - anyone have it?

One Horse Town · February 02, 2012, 02:41:54 PM

There's a little thing called a 'scale' in the bottom right hand corner which tends to disagree with you.

Benoist · February 02, 2012, 02:51:06 PM

Quote from: One Horse Town;511542There's a little thing called a 'scale' in the bottom right hand corner which tends to disagree with you.

Yeah. Tolkien was kind of picky about this sense of "scale", actually.

Claudius · February 02, 2012, 02:58:57 PM

Quote from: danbuter;511530If they don't repeat the rules, the other sets won't be "core", because they will just be supplements to the first set.

In the Marketingese language, core often means supplement.

Skywalker · February 02, 2012, 03:07:51 PM

Quote from: One Horse Town;511542There's a little thing called a 'scale' in the bottom right hand corner which tends to disagree with you.

Mirkwood is huge. And given the setting in TOR includes about the same amount of size outside of Mirkwood, the game gives you about 2 GBs worth of space to play around in.

Am I the only one who would love to have that graphic large enough for a poster?

crkrueger · February 02, 2012, 03:09:01 PM

Quote from: Ghost Whistler;511540There's no way that area is the size of GB, more like the size of Sherwood fores/nottingham.

It is off, but not by that much. Going across England White Sands coast to Norwich coast is ~300miles. By that map it's more like 275, so maybe needs to be increased by 10% or so.

One Horse Town · February 02, 2012, 03:10:50 PM

Quote from: Skywalker;511553in TOR

Is there any chance we could use another abbreviation? Whenever i see that, i just think of the publisher, followed quickly by confusing it with TORG.

Skywalker · February 02, 2012, 03:14:49 PM

Quote from: One Horse Town;511555Is there any chance we could use another abbreviation? Whenever i see that, i just think of the publisher, followed quickly by confusing it with TORG.

Cool. t1R?

Ghost Whistler · February 02, 2012, 04:38:44 PM

Quote from: Skywalker;511553Mirkwood is huge. And given the setting in TOR includes about the same amount of size outside of Mirkwood, the game gives you about 2 GBs worth of space to play around in.

Am I the only one who would love to have that graphic large enough for a poster?

Isn't there a gurt large map comes with the game?

Benoist · February 02, 2012, 04:40:58 PM

TORRPG. Sounds like someone is having a hard time digesting.

Skywalker · February 02, 2012, 04:43:06 PM

Quote from: Ghost Whistler;511581Isn't there a gurt large map comes with the game?

The map in that graphic is from the RPG. In fact, there is a second version with hexes and game information.

I was meaning a version with the silhouette of GB on it too

Ghost Whistler · February 02, 2012, 04:51:30 PM

Is there a reason why it is called The ONe Ring rpg specifically? Is there an intention to have the ring as a big part of the game, that players can acquire perhaps?

Skywalker · February 02, 2012, 05:05:12 PM

Quote from: Ghost Whistler;511587Is there a reason why it is called The ONe Ring rpg specifically? Is there an intention to have the ring as a big part of the game, that players can acquire perhaps?

I suspect that they wanted a title that covers The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. The most obvious unifying factor in both stories is The One Ring.

There has been a comment that the "Pendragon style" campaign that runs through the game will include elements of the One Ring's tale and will include ways for the PCs to involved with it, even considering alternate versions of events in the tale.

crkrueger · February 02, 2012, 05:08:46 PM

The game basically covers the time of the One Ring. Starting with it's finding by Bilbo (the campaign starts like 1 year later) and ending with it's destruction in Mount Doom.

Also since they only have access to Hobbit and LotR, there's nothing else they can draw from, the title is better then say Middle-Earth.

One thing I will say is the lore knowledge of the writers is top notch. Being able to file the serial numbers off the Mewlips and have them match the poem was badass.

RPGPundit · February 03, 2012, 03:58:13 PM

Quote from: Ladybird;511523The intention wasn't for T1R to be a complete ME RPG in one book, though; it was always intended for each release to focus on one part of the LOTR storyline. It's more akin to, say, the GPC being released as three separate "core sets", each focussing on the cultures around at that period of the campaign.

As to the actual utility of that design, I agree with you. The need to repeat sizeable chunks of basic rules in each core set (And it's not a rules-light game) drastically reduces the amount of "new" content that can be fitted in each box, and it's focus on the campaign, "this area is only interesting storywise for so long, then the action should move on" would be fine if releases were guaranteed to be on time ("We intend this box to last players a year, by which time the next box will be out"); but C7 aren't great at release dates (Although in this case, they also have licensee approval, which plays hell with scheduling), and look to Dragon Age for another game line that's tried the same concept and failed.

It's an ambitious product in some ways, but I think it's a stretch too far.

At the very best of scenarios, its crippleware.

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RPGPundit · February 03, 2012, 03:58:43 PM

Quote from: Ghost Whistler;511524They may well have done, but that doesn't mean it's a story, and thus a 'swine', game, does it?

Of course no core book will cover the entire setting (not that there's much to cover - i don't think). But waiting over a year for Errantries of the King is bonkers I'm afraid.

despite having shoddy editing, the Decipher book was actually pretty decent.

I never said that made it a swine game, just a very crappy LoTR game. I would have to read it to judge whether its a swine game besides that fact.

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