G*M*S Magazine Unboxes The One Ring

[Morrus]

Cubicle 7's The One Ring RPG, released in August 2011 and based on what must be the fantasy setting, gets its own "unboxing video" courtesy of G*M*S Magazine. The One Ring: Adventures over the Edge of the Wild is set after the defeat of Smaug in The Hobbit, but still years before the War of the Ring begins. Having seen it, I can confirm that the artwork is stunning.

Smaug has been defeated, the Battle of Five Armies has been won, and Bilbo has returned to the Shire. The War of the Ring is still several generations away. In the relative peace, the Free Peoples of Wilderland look beyond their borders for the first time, establishing trade routes, renewing bonds between their cultures, and bringing prosperity to the region of northern Mirkwood, the Lonely Mountain, and the eastern slopes of the Misty Mountains.

But much danger still remains, and from the Orc-holds of the mountains to the dark and corrupt depths of Mirkwood a darkness waits, recovering its strength, laying its plans, and slowly extending its shadow . . . .

You can find more information about the game over at Cubicle 7's website.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJwSMnJwSTU"]Unboxing: The One Ring - YouTube[/ame]​

Courtesy of G*M*S Magazine​

 

[Leviatham]

G*M*S Magazine unboxing of The One Ring

Hello everyone,

Just wanted to send a quick one to let you know the unboxing review of The One Ring has been published now in G*M*S Magazine.

Haven't gone into the gameplay or mechanics, just into finding out if the production quality justifies the $60 price tag.

The link for the video is here

Hope you find it useful!

Paco.

 

[Morrus]

I have a news post about this, so I'll merge the two threads.

 

[Alphastream]

My gaming group was interested in trying this game. As in years past with so many RPGs, we went to the Gen Con event listings and found it was only running in a couple of slots, as events run by individual DMs.

I'm really curious why so many games that have solid buzz have so few events (and none run/organized by the companies) at Gen Con. The few events that can be found for games like this tend to be filled in just a few minutes. And yet, every time I've tried a new game that was actually run by the company (for example, Eclipse Phase) I find that those of us at the table leave as converts and eagerly talk about that game online, with friends, etc.

With Eclipse Phase, the game is run in a number of slots by the company or by DMs picked by the company. After previous games we've all gone back to our respective places of the world and run Eclipse Phase at smaller cons. We've mentioned it all over the place (EN World, RPGnet, Twitter, WotC forums, blogs, etc.). It seems like well worth doing for companies. And it shouldn't be hard to find good DMs willing to run a few slots, right?

Last year we tried Mistborn. When Crafty Games put out a call for judges to run the game at a recent local con, I found more volunteers than there were slots. It should be possible for companies to get the game in front of fans at big cons and it should be effective for selling/promoting. What am I missing?

 

[Matchstick]

My gaming group was interested in trying this game. As in years past with so many RPGs, we went to the Gen Con event listings and found it was only running in a couple of slots, as events run by individual DMs.

I'm really curious why so many games that have solid buzz have so few events (and none run/organized by the companies) at Gen Con. The few events that can be found for games like this tend to be filled in just a few minutes. And yet, every time I've tried a new game that was actually run by the company (for example, Eclipse Phase) I find that those of us at the table leave as converts and eagerly talk about that game online, with friends, etc.

With Eclipse Phase, the game is run in a number of slots by the company or by DMs picked by the company. After previous games we've all gone back to our respective places of the world and run Eclipse Phase at smaller cons. We've mentioned it all over the place (EN World, RPGnet, Twitter, WotC forums, blogs, etc.). It seems like well worth doing for companies. And it shouldn't be hard to find good DMs willing to run a few slots, right?

Last year we tried Mistborn. When Crafty Games put out a call for judges to run the game at a recent local con, I found more volunteers than there were slots. It should be possible for companies to get the game in front of fans at big cons and it should be effective for selling/promoting. What am I missing?

I don't have any answers of course, that would be up to Cubicle 7. They're not a big company, and they're in Britain, both of those things might be limiting factors I suppose.

I know Wicht on these boards ran games last year at Gen Con. Check out this thread:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/310352-one-ring-cubicle-7-a.html

Also, I would very much recommend finding a way to check this game out. It's very good.

EDIT: It might be really interesting to ask your question on the Cubicle 7 forums. The C7 people seem pretty responsive and honest.