M.T. Black's latest activity

Yup. I like the journey rules, but they are NOT well laid out. I'm working on a "cheat sheet" for my game on this and other LotR5E...

I have run about 70 sessions of LOTR 5e by FL, having run about 80 sessions of Adventures in Middle Earth. The improvements made in...

Yes, it does have those maps, but there's no map for the initial bandit camp, which is what got me a bit confused (specifically what...

This is the Free League version. I think the classes are pretty well done. Actually, I think the whole system is pretty well done, but...

The print book/PDF has some decent maps that make the layout fairly easy to understand (isometric and not gridded, but still useful)...

I haven't played the 5e version, but I did play a lot of first edition TOR and although I loved the game I always felt the rules were...

Is this the version from Free League? I played Cubicle 7's Adventures in Middle Earth and thought it was thoroughly mediocre. I'm...

I finally got around to playing The Lord of the Rings 5E last night. My regular D&D group is playing the sample adventure, "The Star of...

As others have noted, Asmodee still have the rights to some good RPG IP (Star Wars, Legend of the Five Rings, Arkham Horror, Genesys...

I hate that Asmodee gutted FFG, they made some amazing stuff (notably X-Wing). I hope Mearls is going to them to resurrect their RPG line.

Fantasy Flight Games is a subsidiary of Asmodee, no? I could imagine Mearls being taken on to re-invigorate the RPG space of Asmodee.

I like it to, and it was undoubtedly the most influential article coming out of this issue. Still, I wish they hadn't given alternate...

I think those times are long gone, but YEAH . . . my math, physics, and reading improved from playing D&D obsessively as a middle and...

I never thought I'd say this, but I prefer an Animorph cover to this oil painting.

I had a druid named Mathtrim ("Math") that made it to 15th level. High level druids were really scary...