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I agree with this in general about RoP, in that I feel like it has both too many characters and too few. I can't imagine doing without any of the main characters we have, because I think they're all written so well and the actors are killing it, so I really have no suggestions or wishes there...

Mostly loved this last ep, but that sequence at the end with the elves was so oddly shot or edited, or both. I was confused initially what the mass of elves was looking at toward the end, like something was appearing above them, and then Mrs ART! said "what are they looking at?". So, it wasn't...

My understanding is that later in his writing Tolkien toyed with the idea of the Istari - or some of them - arriving in the 2nd Age. I feel the same about most of that. I was really taken with Elrond in this episode. I thought Robert Aramayo really sold the weight and history behind his...

This begs the question - for me, at least: where are they going to put Gandalf during the Last Alliance?

Something weird is going on with the the figure on the left: their arm and leg are doing something weird. I think it would work fine if the figure were not cut off right above the knee, and if the arm were rendered or lit just a bit differently. Have you taken a gander at Shadowdark? It's...

Looks like that's supposed to be an older (but maybe still not fully grown) version of what's-his-name from the D&D cartoon. So the baby face makes sense, I think. It threw me off at first, too, though. It's an odd piece, to be sure. It kind of lacks design. And...is the city on fire? Because...

This is the best joke I will hear all day. Thank you.

I know someone who saw the FOTR in theaters and hated it, saying it was "just a bunch of slaughter". And I was like "That's what you got out of that?" There's no accounting for...seeing what you see, I guess?

You're right. But there it is. Maybe the point is that neither DMs nor players can be expected to remember everything they technically should remember

Expecting the players to remind the DM of effects the player has caused assumes that the player will remember. I have ADHD, and the odds of me remembering that the target I hit has disadvantage on their first attack before the start of my next turn - when umpteen things could happen between...

I heard a reference just the other day to Tolkien's awareness that elves had a problematic perspective in Middle-earth because of their upper-class status. I think it was in one of his Letters. Interesting. I think some of it is just the presence of something so threatening causes people to go...

We were talking about RoP before our weekly game a couple weeks ago, and I was the only one who had seen that weeks ep. I said something like "well, it's not going great!" (for the characters), and someone said "No?", to which I responded "I don't know if you're familiar with the trajectory of...

That's why I made a point of saying I had no problem with it, but agreed.

As many here probably know, Tolkien really struggled with this issue of "are orcs people?" I think by the time LOTR was published, he already had qualms. As a Christian and Catholic, free will was a big deal for him. I think at some point he viewed them as irredeemable - twisted too much and to...

I'm not bothered by the timeline changes, but imagine an anthology version of this story, with a chronology-accurate timeline, where each season has some of the same elf characters, maybe some of the same dwarf characters, but every season has new human characters! It would be do-able, and could...

You're...welcome? I'm saying they are more for the DM to track, like any condition or limit or effect that is inflicted on NPCs or monsters. I mean, that's how I've always seen it played. Players can put condition markers on the minis, and there are similar markers for some effects, if you're...

They should remind the DM...every turn?...that enemy X is slowed or sapped? No - that's something the DM needs to track/mark/whatever once it happens.

Some weapon properties create conditions that the DM needs to remember. On the other hand, combat maneuvers already do this, but at least those are just for the Battle Master subclass.

That's going to be heart-wrenching. Edwards' performance has really reeled me in.

Amen! And yet players want them because they're more powerful than without them. Once I started trying out the 2024 playtest fighter in our weekly game, some other players got envious of my weapon masteries. Me, I'm kind of sick of them. When I play a fighter it's because I don't want to have...