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<blockquote data-quote="JoeNotCharles" data-source="post: 5675406" data-attributes="member: 79945"><p>If you guys want to make an all-Dwarf party, or all-Dwarf-except-for-one-Hobbit, or all-Dwarf-except-for-a-pair-of-Elves, or something horribly "unbalanced" like that, it would work perfectly well for this adventure. (Fitting in Hobbit characters is always the difficult part... Maybe they're starting a tradition of "all Dwarves on a quest must have a Hobbit burglar along for luck"?)</p><p></p><p>One thing I like about the setup where each boxed set covers a different area of the world, is it enforces the fact that these places are REALLY FAR APART and distant lands are just rumours. That point gets lost a bit in The Lord of the Rings, I think, when you have both Aragorn and Gandalf with the party, who are both INCREDIBLY (inhumanly!) well travelled, but it's important to remember that Boromir at the beginning of the books has already undertaken a great quest just to get to the place where they all meet.</p><p></p><p>The first volume, Adventures Over the Edge of the Wild, only covers roughly the map that's in The Hobbit, but the rules make it clear that travelling just part way across that map is a grand and perilous journey. And only giving options for characters from that area encourages people to think locally, instead of having one person want to be from the Shire and one person want to be from Gondor - just having these two people meet would be a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence, so a party like that shouldn't just be thrown together!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JoeNotCharles, post: 5675406, member: 79945"] If you guys want to make an all-Dwarf party, or all-Dwarf-except-for-one-Hobbit, or all-Dwarf-except-for-a-pair-of-Elves, or something horribly "unbalanced" like that, it would work perfectly well for this adventure. (Fitting in Hobbit characters is always the difficult part... Maybe they're starting a tradition of "all Dwarves on a quest must have a Hobbit burglar along for luck"?) One thing I like about the setup where each boxed set covers a different area of the world, is it enforces the fact that these places are REALLY FAR APART and distant lands are just rumours. That point gets lost a bit in The Lord of the Rings, I think, when you have both Aragorn and Gandalf with the party, who are both INCREDIBLY (inhumanly!) well travelled, but it's important to remember that Boromir at the beginning of the books has already undertaken a great quest just to get to the place where they all meet. The first volume, Adventures Over the Edge of the Wild, only covers roughly the map that's in The Hobbit, but the rules make it clear that travelling just part way across that map is a grand and perilous journey. And only giving options for characters from that area encourages people to think locally, instead of having one person want to be from the Shire and one person want to be from Gondor - just having these two people meet would be a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence, so a party like that shouldn't just be thrown together! [/QUOTE]
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