Check Out The One Ring 2E's Pre-Kickstarter Video!

The Kickstarter for The One Ring 2E launches this coming Thursday, February 11th. Free League has released a short teaser showing off some of the atmospheric artwork.


 PRESS RELEASE


“This is the Master-ring, the One Ring to rule them all.” The time has come to enter a new era. We at Free League are proud to reveal that the new edition of the acclaimed roleplaying game The One Ring™, set in the world of The Lord of the Rings™ by J.R.R. Tolkien, is coming to Kickstarter at 3 pm CET (9 am US Eastern) on February 11! Sign up at the pre-launch page if you wish to be notified the moment it goes live! The One Ring RPG is created by game designer Francesco Nepitello in collaboration with Free League. The game will soon bring you all further into the Twilight of the Third Age. More shall soon be revealed, once the Kickstarter goes live. The first edition of The One Ring, released in 2011, was hailed as the best attempt at bringing Middle-earth to the gaming table to date, thanks to its thematic rules and painstaking attention to detail. For 10 years, players of the game have traveled far and wide across Middle-earth, adventuring for multiple decades of game time. Today, it is time for the game to enter a new era – the new edition of The One Ring brings players further into the Twilight of the Third Age with a new hardbound volume, presenting a set of updated and streamlined rules, developed thanks to years of players’ feedback and raising the game to the standards of quality that have made Free League so popular. The look of the game itself has been completely redesigned, offering a view of Middle-earth that is fresh and familiar at the same time. We hope you join us on this grand journey!
 

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lyle.spade

Adventurer
I've been eyeing the 1st edition of The One Ring for years, but I never bought nor played it. This looks like a good place to start :)
The artwork looks "fresh" and very nice IMO.
With the latest trends in rpgs, however, I'm a bit worried if they going to make this an rpg in a political correct version of Tolkien's amazing world.

We can hope that Tolkien's world will be left as it is.
 

Didn't expect Free League to pick this up.
It was first reported that they'd picked it up only a short time after Cubicle 7 dropped it.

My first reaction to the cover was "that really, really doesn't say 'Lord of the Rings' to me." After watching the video, I think I understand what they're going for: the art style is overly reminiscent of WotC D&D 5e art (this is most unmistakeably true in the Lake-town image), so they want the cover to look as different from the D&D 5e books as possible, hence the graphic-design-forward approach.

They clearly also want to minimize the tweeness of the setting—that's a very dark cover.

I still hope to love the game, and will almost certainly back the KS. But the art so far is a flop for me.
 




Iamoutofhere

Explorer
I really like the new cover. It’s great and conveys a sense of threat and fear to me, which is something I always took from The Lord of the Rings...with the ringwraiths etc... Reminds me of the cool parts of the Ralph Bakshi film.

I also liked the cover for the original edition and the proposed 2nd edition from Cubicle 7...Shame that the cover art for that will probably never be used, it was good.
 

Weiley31

Legend
So according to this article, there is an interesting bit of info on the pre-gen characters: Apparently two of them are Drogo Baggins and Paladin Took II. Who are they you ask?(For those like me who are unfamiliar with said characters.) * They are Frodo Baggins and Pippin's dads And while it may not seem too crazy since we've seen plenty of Hobbit action in the books/movies, the idea of the parents of the Lord of the Ring main characters, being pre-gen characters, didn't immediately come to mind as being the go to option. Insert multiple scenes where Drogo takes multiple Meteors to the face as he just strolls casually through all obstacles knowing full well the joke of it all.

 
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