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Yow! Man, now I feel bad about being impatient!

There aren't any specific rules (unless I missed something), just a list of banned weapons and shields. A regular one-handed axe will score a Piercing Blow on roughly 1 out of 12 attacks, but when it hits it will be very hard to resist (TN 18 - the average medium-difficulty TN is 14). A short...

Everybody has basically the same choices of armour, headgear and shield: Armour: When an enemy rolls especially well, they may score a Piercing Blow on you (think critical hit). When this happens, you roll to resist it with the regular d12 plus a number of d6's based on your armour. You can...

Seems like I'm just slowing everybody down at this point. :) In that case, I'll just answer specific questions you guys have, and assume that the online character sheet gives you enough info to make your character otherwise. (I'll be verbose about how the rules work once we start actually...

Weapon Skills Weapon Skills are just like Common Skills. They're rated from 0 to 6, and are all linked to Body. When you attack somebody with a weapon, you roll on your skill for that weapon. If you spend a point of Hope, you can add your base Body score to your attack roll. Weapon Skills...

I guess I'll continue, even though we're still waiting for treex to weigh in. So far we have three dwarves, two hobbits, and an elf. Your culture gets you 3 fixed things and opens up the next set of choices. The three are Standard of Living, Skills and Cultural Blessing. However, before...

Up to you whether you want it to be open or keep it hidden. I was planning on doing it step by step so that I could explain the mechanics used at each step, instead of having to dump all the mechanics on you at once. Also so that if at any point you say, "Oh, so THAT'S what that means! Well...

So far, that's 2 dwarves, 1 elf, 1 hobbit. We're heading for a no-humans party... Still waiting to hear from FourMonos (who was leaning towards another hobbit), garyh (who was leaning towards another dwarf) and treex. If you want to be a wizard, your best bets are Elf (can learn elven...

It is not - the book doesn't cover anything west of Rivendell. The Shire's only mentioned as the place where Hobbits come from. There's no background for Hobbits from Bree, but it's easy enough to use one of the more general Hobbit backgrounds and just say, "Oh, and he's from Bree." (Also the...

From the other thread: That would be Bree. The Tooks, being a major noble family in the Shire, have their own county there, "Tookland", which isn't all that close to Bree - but it makes sense that a black sheep of the family might have moved out to Bree.

Forgot to mention, the game will be starting in Lake Town. And before finalizing your cultures, you might want to discuss whether you want to all go for a theme (like "the 7 Dwarves", or "everybody's from the Lonely Mountain - so Dwarves and Bardings - except for the hobbit").

I just updated the character creation thead, so we should probably continue character creation talk there.

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...

It goes by the default language of your browser, apparently. (The author posted that he'd translated it to Spanish; dunno if he's added any more since then.) All right, I suppose I could take 7... like garyh said, The Hobbit had 14 characters, I guess I can handle half that!

Heh, pretty similar. I've started the Character Creation thread here, although I haven't posted much information to it yet. I'll post the character creation in steps, with explanations of what the choices mean in each step - if you want to keep the characters you made above, you can just post...

There are no rules for PC wizards, although there are plenty of cultural magic skills you can use (you can be a skin-changer like Beorn, and turn yourself into a bear, or you can sing songs of sleep like the Elves...) I kind of like the split books, actually - it gives each book more of a...

Setting: Five years ago, two momentous events shook the lands east of the Misty Mountains: Bard the Bowman slew the great dragon Smaug, allowing the dwarves of the Iron Hills to reclaim their ancient halls beneath the Lonely Mountain; and a council of the Wise at last united to drive the foul...

Recruiting for this is now closed.

Yep, that'd be a full six! (treex, I said "people I've played with before have precedence", and I've played with all these people, so if somebody else that I've played with shows up wanting a spot before I start the character creation thread, I'll have to cut you I'm afraid. Hopefully it won't...

Not that close to either, really. I'd say it's closest to the Mouse Guard RPG, if anything - which isn't very helpful, I know! Don't worry about rules difficulty - if you're not getting the rules, you can still post what your character says and does, and I'll figure out how to turn that into...