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Book 3, Chapter 3: the Uruk-hai Merry must be really strong to cut off a bunch of orc hands and arms. Given how easily so many orcs die in the series, it does make me wonder how they got stereotyped as buff, strong dudes in later fantasy media. Interesting note that the various orcs come from...

Chapter 8: Money and Equipment Image taken from the Wanderer’s Guide to Merchants and Magic Besides being heavily into dark magic stuff, another pet focus of the Tomes series was highlighting the stress points of D&D’s fantasy economic systems. Although discussed in other chapters as well...

This trailer looks badass! I'm a huge fan of Shadow the Edgehog!

I guess I forgot its use earlier in the book. As for put-down, it always came off as "half in stature" vibewise and from what I vaguely remember in regards to cultural osmosis, even if the hobbit characters don't take offense overtly to its use.

Today, we begin reading the Two Towers. Last we left off, the Fellowship broke apart after Boromir attempted to seize the ring from Frodo by force, causing the Hobbit to run off on his own. But not before his dear ol' Sam accompanies him! Will our heroes learn the hard way why it's a bad idea to...

I amended my OP to add "to say nothing of sealing their fate in never getting work in the gaming industry again" as a one-word addition. Not to be a "well, ackshually" guy, but I'd argue that Loren Coleman was the creator of such drama. If he didn't embezzle company funds and paid freelancers...

Farewell to Lórien More foreshadowing of Boromir's conflicting thoughts regarding the wrong ring when he says it would be "folly to throw away" without leading an army into Mordor, then swiftly corrects himself to say "folly to throw lives away." Between the lembas, boats, and cloaks of...

Chapter 7: Prestige Classes Image is the Knights of Solamnia from 3.5 Dragonlance Campaign Setting The next-longest chapter in the book, Prestige Classes are separated into 4 categories: Spellcasting (of which there are 29), Martial (21), Racial (3), and Paragon (3). And much like the Base...

Chapter 6: Feats Link’s Spin Attack colored by Creamy423 Third Edition introduced the concept of Feats, representing special abilities that you either have or don’t have. They encompassed everything from “you are more accurate with this weapon type” to “you’re an initiate of a specific deity’s...

A Journey in the Dark We see the first significant bit of Boromir's stubbornness to come when he says that he will not go to the Mines of Moria unless everyone else in the Company votes against him. Indirectly he's elevating his own voice and vote over that of the others with such a...

Chapter 5: Character Base Classes Part 3 Image Source Unknown but taken from the Forgotten Realms Wiki. This is split into 2 sections (technically 3): Monster Base Classes, NPC Classes, and Multiclassing Characters. Fiendish Brute is a rather simple 10-level class. It gets natural weapons and...

Anatomy of Failed Design: the Baneguard D&D Wiki Link Hello everybody, and welcome to a very special Intermission Post! Normally we’d continue on reviewing classes for the Frank & K Tomes, but while we’re on the subject of classes I wanted to briefly pivot over to one of the author’s most...

A Journey in the Dark We see the first significant bit of Boromir’s stubbornness to come when he says that he will not go to the Mines of Moria unless everyone else in the Company votes against him. Indirectly he’s elevating his own voice and vote over that of the others with such a...

Many Meetings Having Gandalf explain that the Ring-Wraiths would have turned Frodo into a wraith to be enslaved and tormented shows that there are greater stakes than just death, as well as how Mordor's forces aren't just your typical violent conquerors. His explanation on how all sorts of...

Chapter 5: Character Base Classes Part 2 D&D Classes Design by Franco With 21 classes in total, these serve as supplemental material to the "Core" material of the Tomes. Given the volume that we have, I'm going to be a bit more rapid-fire in covering them, focusing more on my opinions and...

Chapter 5: Character Base Classes Part 1 Image From the Sundering Novel Series At 103 pages with 38 classes total, this is easily the longest section of the book, so we'll be covering this chapter in segments. The classes are divided into Core PC Classes, Additional PC Classes, Monster Base...

I'm now done with Book One of Fellowship of the Ring, and am a little more than halfway through! Quite the milestone! Chapter 9: At the Sign of the Prancing Pony For someone who is supposedly very busy, Barliman Butterbur is very talkative to Frodo and his friends. Try as they might, Frodo's...

Gaming Den Thread Compilation D&D Wiki Compilation Web Archive link of 0.51 version, 2008 AwesomeTomes PDF compilation I will be reviewing the 0.7 version published July 11th, 2010, for being the most up to date document. What We Do Here is Go Back… Back, back, back, back, back, back, back...

Chapter 4: A Short Cut to Mushrooms While not the only time, I do like how Sam and the others express doubts about their journey to destroy the One Ring. Sam opens up that he wants to see things through with his good friend, even if he doesn't have a plan. Their meeting with Farmer Maggot...

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