One Ring updates?

[Olgar Shiverstone]

So I see Heart of the Wild is finally getting released in print.

Any updates or impressions from those who have the .pdf? Anyone who has been playing TheOneRing since its release have any new impressions after a year?

I've got the core books and it's a beautiful game ... but I haven't actually had the opportunity to actually play it.

 

[exile]

I have been playing through it with a several friends, and we have had a lot of fun. I think the campaign is called Tales from the Wilderlands. We have the final two part adventure to go before the breaking of our fellowship (I am moving away in real life).

As a group, we primarily play Pathfinder, but we do dabble in a lot of other games. The One Ring has been such a nice change of pace. We role-play and laugh more than we do with most any other game.

Our group is made up of Primrose Brandybuck (my hobbit wanderer, who is equal parts ranger, rogue, and bard), Bran son of Bran (a Barding slayer, who is equal parts fighter and boatman), Agathion (an elven guardian or warden or somesuch, who is pretty much a spear-wielding killing machine), and a dwarf (who is pretty much comic relief).

A running gag in the game is that my hobbit is not nearly the flute player that she thinks she is, so Bran son of Bran is constantly stealing, hiding, or destroying her flute. Because the money system is pretty abstract and the storytelling is pretty free-form, Prim always manages to get her flute back and annoy Bran yet again.

 

[ShadowAssassin]

The Heart of the Wild is an excellent addition to the One Ring corpus. It has a huge amount of plot hooks embedded in the material that provides a comprehensive background to the area of M-E covered by the RPG. Besides a short piece on each area of the map (it's roughly split up by the various areas on the LM's map that came in the core set) it has extra Fellowship options in various locations, a couple of extra options for heroes (Stoor Hobbits and Woodmen of the Mountain) and a some more creatures. I'd rate it more useful than Tales as it's background rather than scripted adventures.

 

[gweinel]

Just to add my experience with The Heart of the Wild. It is probably one of the best supplements - gazeteers that i have read in my 20 year gaming career. Shadow Assassin above describes it pretty well. I would just add that it is perfectly written respecting the Tolkien atmosphere making it thus a pleasure to read.

I have several months experience of TOR as a Loremaster and i have to say that the game is really refreshing. My players (and me) have great fun and as exile said we roleplay and in general have a good time than any other rpg that we play right now. If your group likes the Tolkien world and the atmosphere that he builds in his books then i would highly recommend it to give it a try.
If my gaming experience helps you, we mostly were playing d&d from 2nd to 4th edition and then back again to 3.5.

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