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.

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 PRESS RELEASE

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“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!

 

[Tyler Do'Urden]

I want that 5E Moria book.

We all want that Moria Book... and we've been waiting, what, five years now for it?

 

[Skywalker]

Didn't expect Free League to pick this up.

It makes sense to me. The publisher is European like the designer, has published a licenced IP of one of the designer's top 3 IPs (Alien), and has other RPGs that have a lot in common in their approach to mechanics, setting and respect for IP property.

 

[Vicente]

For the people who like MERP, there's a modern clone called "Against the Darkmaster" which is incredibly good. Just released too.

About ToR 2e, very excited for this. I really liked the 1e, the material for the game was really good. And hopefully we will get the Moria book (box?) soon.

 

[darjr]

I love the new art. I love my current books too but I’m getting this!

 

[darjr]

Wait I guess they said something about the Moria boxed set. Anyone have a link?

 

[J.B. Higgins]

I like the art and sneak peak. Will be backing.

 

[Weiley31]

Wait I guess they said something about the Moria boxed set. Anyone have a link?

I mean it mentions Moria in this link and the fact that a compatible 5E version of the The One Ring would be following after 2nd Edition's release. Which in theory means we'd be getting the 5E Moria.

The One Ring RPG is a “proper 2E” releasing in 2021, with new Moria adventure planned - Free League

D&D 5E-compatible version to follow release of standalone Lord of the Rings game.

www.dicebreaker.com

 

[J.B. Higgins]

I mean it mentions Moria in this link and the fact that a compatible 5E version of the The One Ring would be following after 2nd Edition's release. Which in theory means we'd be getting the 5E Moria.

The One Ring RPG is a “proper 2E” releasing in 2021, with new Moria adventure planned - Free League

D&D 5E-compatible version to follow release of standalone Lord of the Rings game.

www.dicebreaker.com

Great news! Thanks!

 

[ART!]

Well, keep in mind, this is just my personal opinion. I suspect it is quite an unpopular one too, as ICE games seem to be very much out of favour and The One Ring was very well received.

For me, I found the barrage of Travel rolls in TOR somewhat tiresome. Especially as the results of these rolls are only interesting occasionally when one rolls an Eye to spark a hazard. The rest of the time, they just grind down characters' endurance which, while "thematic", I found pretty uninteresting.

Also, the mid-third age setting is more fun to me, being largely unexplored in the books everyone's read, you have more freedom to tell your own stories. 1600 Arnor is more appealing to me than the default Mirkwood interbook setting of TOR. The Witch King is this unknowable threat in Angmar, the Kingdom is shattered, and the plague has recently ravaged the region. Great stuff.

That said, the setting needs work. Mainly the removal of a lot of the magic items that are scattered throughout the setting books. This is one area, TOR does a lot better. Magic in general. MERP spells I find not too bad. The bard and animist spell lists seem fine to me. The mage definitely does not fit.

MERP also has a really fun Rolemaster-lite combat system, including a more light hearted iteration of the infamous critical tables. The critical tables keep combat deadly, as it should be in a Tolkien game, but I find them much more fun to use than TOR's combat, which never really grabbed me.

Again, my opinion only, and almost certainly a minority view. I'd play TOR again with a good LM for sure, but am not interested enough to run it. I'd either run or play MERP.

I, too, had very good experiences with MERP, both as a player and as a GM. Now, that was after playing and running Rolemaster itself, so it would be easy to think maybe MERP just felt like a huge lightening of the load after Rolemaster, but really MERP had an elegance to it that sat really well with my gaming group. Good times.

 

[el-remmen]

I have no interest in playing or running games set in Middle-Earth, but I'd snap up a 5E compatible Moria sourcebook to rename and put into my games.