The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Added to D&D Beyond

The core rulebook for Free League's The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying, published in 2022, is now available on D&D Beyond. Today, as announced back in August, Wizards of the Coast launched the latest addition to its growing library of third-party material to D&D Beyond with the launch of The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying, a TTRPG rulebook that adapts The One Ring RPG for D&D Fifth Edition. Unlike other third-party 5E material found on D&D Beyond, The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying utilizes Callings and Heroic Cultures instead of classes and species, and also features a more extensive line of Virtues (an equivalent to Feats in D&D.) Also included are rules on exploration and journeys, as well as roleplaying through Councils.

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The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying was developed by Free League Publishing after it took over the publication of The One Ring back in 2019 from Cubicle 7. While Cubicle 7 developed their own 5E compatible RPG based on The Lord of the Rings called Adventures in Middle-Earth, Lord of the Rings RPG is a separate 5E system and approaches melding together The Lord of the Rings and 5E very differently. For one, Lord of the Rings Roleplaying utilizes 10 levels as opposed to Adventures in Middle-Earth's 20 level system.

D&D Beyond has added several new third-party supplements to its service over the past two years, including Dungeons of Drakkenheim, MCDM's Flee, Mortals, and several books by Kobold Press.

 

[Distracted DM]

On my phone. You can go into the app and download any book you own. I just checked - I can download this one if I want to.

It downloads it as a PDF or as a web file?

 

[Weiley31]

Boy I would love if Beowulf: Age of Heroes got added. That way we can get it's Followers rules.

And Steinhardt's Guide to the Eldritch Hunt for Trick Weapons.

 

[zottel]

It downloads it as a PDF or as a web file?

It's my understanding that you can only access it with the DDB app, meaning you will lose access there as well, although maybe a little bit later.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

Are there stats for pipeweed I can back-port into my 5e game?

 

[Tbiafore]

Everyone in the D&D Beyond forums are complaining that they paid for this product and the content isnt there. Even one particular post says that the character sheet doenst have any of the stuff from the book (shadow points, new skills, etc.). What a joke.

 

[Weiley31]

Are there stats for pipeweed I can back-port into my 5e game?

I do remember Adventures in Middle-Earth 5E having rules for smoking pipe weed.

 

[Zaukrie]

Everyone in the D&D Beyond forums are complaining that they paid for this product and the content isnt there. Even one particular post says that the character sheet doenst have any of the stuff from the book (shadow points, new skills, etc.). What a joke.

Or, there is a technical error and they'll fix it. Stuff happens all the time, that isn't some great tragedy. Or, not, and it isn't able to support the system fully, and they fd up.

 

[occam]

Are there stats for pipeweed I can back-port into my 5e game?

Yes. There's an added tool proficiency for pipes! (And you can use it to gain inspiration after a smoking session.)

 

[mikeburke]

It's my understanding that you can only access it with the DDB app, meaning you will lose access there as well, although maybe a little bit later.

Yep. The only durable way to backup your DDB content is to access it through a web browser and archive the pages to PDF/markdown/whatever. Ugly, clumsy, tedious but doable. I guess you could get hold of some kind of web crawler that can pull it all down into a local replica. I'm unsure if doing any of this violates 'terms of service' or whatnot.

 

[Dire Bare]

Everyone in the D&D Beyond forums are complaining that they paid for this product and the content isnt there. Even one particular post says that the character sheet doenst have any of the stuff from the book (shadow points, new skills, etc.). What a joke.

Everyone, huh?

The content is there. You can access the entire book in the compendium. You can build a character with LotR 5E callings and cultures.

Yes, the new skills are not implemented (hopefully) yet. The backgrounds are there, but a little screwy. There are other minor bugs. We'll see if WotC fixes these issues in a timely manner, but I'm not expecting that to happen over the holiday break.

Will WotC implement shadow points, fellowship points, eye awareness scores? I hope so, but similar rules modules in their own books have yet to be implemented (renown).

I am cautiously optimistic that WotC realizes that if they add third party content, but don't support it fully in the character builder and other tools, that folks will stop buying it from WotC and move over to Demiplane or other competitors. We'll see.

It is disappointing that these issues were not resolved before the launch of this book on the service, but . . . not really surprising in the world of online apps and software.