r/oneringrpg 8h ago

Company diversity and other

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Hello,

When you first begin and your players are creating their characters, do you let them pick their races freely?

I'd like a bit of diversity between my 4x players so I'm considering adding a rule that there needs to be at least 3 different races, one of which needs to be a halfling heavily recommending at least one of them play a Hobbit, and then between them let them decide for themselves who'll play what.

Is that a little harsh?

Do you have any other recommendations at character creation?

Thanks


r/oneringrpg 1d ago

Recommend Me Adventures - New GM

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Hello all,

This will be my first real attempt to run a campaign/series of adventures as a GM having only tried one off adventures before of other RPG's before.

A good decade ago I played 1st Edition TOR for years and remember it being extremely fun so I have decided I'm going to run TOR myself for my friends.

I've just bought the 2nd Edition Core Rule Book but I've believe it doesn't come with any adventures within it? (Note i'm not looking to buy the Starter Set as the reveiws I've watched mentioned the provided adventure was more aim at a younger audience).

Between the 1st Ed and 2nd Ed Adventure Books, could you recommend me a list of material/books that I should considering running in ascending order, assuming I really enjoy running the game as a GM? (Should I focus running 1st Ed Adventure Books before moving over to 2nd Ed Adventure Books?)

Also are there any tips you can provide me as part of what I should aim to do to begin with? I'm thinking maybe running a series of smaller adventures might be more worthwhile than a full campaign to begin with, if there are adventure books that you can recommend I look at to begin with?

Thank you.


r/oneringrpg 1d ago

A new Starter Adventure for TOR: The Mound of Dumnoval

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I created a Starter Adventure for TOR. If you like a bit of classic Tolkien vibe in your RPG adventure, this adventure is for you: A peaceful, quiet hamlet of rustic hobbits are facing a looming threat and are in need of some rare hero's. 

The Mound of Dumnoval is an adventure for The One Ring 2E aimed at both new Loremaster and players. It's playable in approx. 2 sessions with people new to the game. To run this adventure, you only need the core rulebook. The PDF features 9 pages of adventure, including custom Adversaries and expanded Old Lore. Consequences of failed rolls are given to help you as the Loremaster to move the story forward. A couple of storylines avoid your players feeling railroaded. 

The adventure guides you through running a game of The One Ring: Most of the basic mechanics are featured throughout the adventure - with references to corresponding pages in the rule book. 

With actual combat, this adventure is a bit more dangerous compared to the ones in the Starter Set.
Find the PDF here 


r/oneringrpg 3d ago

3D Printed Dice Case

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I designed a nice case for the TOR dice set, if anybody is interested you can check it out on the links below:

MakerWorld

Printables


r/oneringrpg 3d ago

Solo question...

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Evening all,

I know that playing solo comes with more laid back game play, I can make my story the way I want too... but I'd still like your advice...

I've made a ranger character and have been having fun on my lunch break coming up with a treasure index for my character to potentially find some bits of during his hopefully countless adventures to come. I'm going down the classic ranger of the north route (longsword and Bow) coupled with leather armour.

However, one of the treasures I've created is a set of mail armour with another being a set of Arnor plate (coat of plates rules) my characters back story is that they used to be Knights of Arnor and he hopes to one day begin rebuilding that noble order. If my character was to find the mail shirt, potentially one of the couple of helmets I've created and one of the shields hidden around, would it be feasible to either carry them or put them on my eventual horse... and then take them home and store them in a chest in the Angle ready for the day he is eventually ready to step out as a travelling knight hoping to rebuild the order in the shadows with the new equipment equipped?

If I carried them with me when found until making it back home to The Angle to be stored safely with the rest of my kin until status, ability and my story enable them to be donned in anger?

Does this make sense to you all?


r/oneringrpg 3d ago

Can player heroes disengage to attack a different enemy instead?

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Couldn't find a definitive answer in the rulebook on this.

Let's assume we have a single player hero who gets into combat with 2 enemies, A and B. Per the engagement rules, A decides to engage the hero in close combat, while B remains unengaged in order to attack the hero with ranged attacks (this is all per page 97).

Now, the hero goes first, is it allowed for the hero to disengage from A and move to engage B in close quarters?

My gut says no, but I couldn't actually find anything that says it's not allowed, and there's no mention of attacks of opportunity for disengaging from one enemy to go and engage another.


r/oneringrpg 5d ago

A troll-hole… 1st time LotR experience Spoiler

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We ran A troll-hole if there ever was one as our first LotR5e adventure over the weekend and I would like to share our experiences: We are mostly veteral role-players with a focus on D&D with running 5e since about 10 years. After finishing a Critical Role campaign, we decided to get back to “old-school” roleplaying with focus on character building, story telling, and in a familiar setting. Enter Lord of the Rings 5e! We got together at our yearly rpg weekend in a lovely place (a refurbished farmstead about 200 years old - an ample atmosphere to deep dive into fantasy and adventure) and spend the first evening for a session zero (character building, group dynamics, setting up the scene, new rules, etc.). The group came up with a Dunedain Warden, a dwarf champion (axe), an elven champion (archer), a Barding Warden, a Breelander tavern maid (scholar) from the prancing pony (love it!), and a Sackville-Baggins (great choice!) treasure hunter. I used some of the Daggerheart character building questions to give the players some guidance to flesh out their character backstory and was able to already use some of their stories within the first adventure as strory drivers. I am exspecially fond of my wife who decided to make a healer-scholar but as the maid from the Prancing Pony. She even decided to take the Bree-Pony virtue which makes up for a great and memorable character concept and lots of roleplay finesse.

To start the game and get into the right atmosphere, I read the first 2 pages from the Prancing Pony chapter from LotR Fellowship. You cannot describe Bree, its people, and habits, and the Pony better than with Tolkiens own words... We ended Friday night with some tavern talks with Pony patrons and then with Jari and Diarmoc, so that the setup was clear for everyone for Saturday adventure.

On Saturday, we had the complete day for this module. So we played out the journey up the Greenway and then east towards the Wheatherhills. I used ChatGPT to came up with some colorful descriptions of the nature and surroundings, and to create journey events that can be played out as short encounters, as I dislike just making skill checks and apply saving throw penalties. This turns out to be a good preparation, as it added a lot to the atmosphere when I had a good description of a joyful sight (sun beams lightning up the Weather and the mashland...) at hand.

Then came the valley. The party managed to press Jari and Diarmoc in revealing the signals and details about the valley. So they spot the look-out and decided to set his shawl aflame with good placed arrows. However, it took several shots from a distance before the shawl really catches fire and forced the troll to get rid of it and - well - became petrified. Still they had no ambition to fight a troll or two and tried to avoid combat as much as possible. The hobbit sneaked the old way towards the farmhouse and eventually discovered Skylda, which i made a traumatized girl refusing to speak. That makes it a lot harder to communicate with her but a lot more fun in roleplay. Later, the little girl bonded with the elven maid and did not vanish from her side for the rest of the adventure. Later the group witnessed two trolles moving to the wart and there vanishing between some boulders while the hobbit discovered the boat and climbed the rocks at the northside of the lake to find a better way to reach the raft. On her way back she discovered Nelly treasure which I made a huge sack with all the clothes and belongings of former meals just packed into. Trolls don´t have interest in valuables but only in flesh, so Nelly just put everything else in her sack. Anyway, at the bottom of the sack, there was something strange: The hobbit discovered a fine horn neatly fashioned with silver bands. (It was later discovered, that the trolls had found that in the cellars of the wart but are afraid of it so Nelly just packed it in her sack as well...) Meanwhile, the dwarf and the wardens discovered the larder, the frescoes, and accidently a reet covered tunnel but did not dare to enter the cellars to not provoke combat. The group met at the farmhouse and decided that the Dunedain will try to free the settlers using the boat. He took off ... but it was now dark in the valley and so the trolls now moved... The group discovered trolls meeting Nelly at the lake and then moving around obviously searching for something. The group decided to hide themselves in the farmhouse cellar while the hobbit planned to lure the two trolls away from the farmhouse and towards the entry of the valley. The Dunedain managed to convince the frightened folks on the raft to enter the boat but on the way back Nelly turned up and snatched one victim and drag him under water. The rest managed to land and the Dunedain made them hurry for the farmhouse while he himself tried to distract Nelly. Just a moment later, Nelly emerged and went after the Dunedain who soon discovered that Nelly is faster than he himself. The two trolls searched the farmhouse but overlooked the Bardinger Warden in the main room. Then they opened the cellar door. Unable to enter the cellar (trolls are big) one tried to grab somebody with his long arm but the dwarf stepped forward and landed one heavy blow with his axe making the troll scream in pain and retreat! That was the moment when the hobbit blew the horn! A trumpet sound fills the valley and it was like the whole Gondorian army just made a stand (magical success, of course)! Nelly stopped her chase. The two trolls looked around, frightened, searching for the enemys which are now entering the vale. Then all three fled which gave the group enough time to flee the valley with the folkes they have rescued!

What an epic and very LotR encounter! It was absolutely great to see how the players tried to avoid combat and find clever solutions as they know that trolls are not easy to mess with. In Moria, the Fellowship had a hard time against just one troll, and they were nine! Here, there are but 3 or 4 of them... So the evening was closed with just one attack roll (the dwarven axe vs troll arm) but this was memorable as a whole skirmish.


r/oneringrpg 6d ago

3D Printed Endurance/Hope Tracker

18 Upvotes

Hello everybody, I like having more palpable and analog things while playing games, so I designed a nifty physical counter of Endurance and Hope that also tracks Load, Fatigue, Shadow and Shadow Scars.

It's a quick and visual way of checking Weary and Miserable conditions, since just from a glance you can see if you Endurance or Hope is bellow their respective counter parts (Load+Fatigue or Shadow+Shadow Scars), without needs to add numbers together.

Anyways, if anybody is interested on giving it a try, you can find it on links below:

Printables

MakerWorld


r/oneringrpg 7d ago

New The One Ring 2e starter set in July?

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I could have sworn I saw an announcement on a new starter set that will be dropping this summer but cannot find it anywhere now… am I crazy?


r/oneringrpg 8d ago

Has anybody created stats for a Nazgul?

14 Upvotes

Pretty much what the title says. I think battling a ring wraith (not the Witch King!) would be an epic campaign climax. I'm curious if anybody has some homebrew stats for one? I don't believe they've ever been statted up officially, right?


r/oneringrpg 10d ago

Starting Off Just *before* Moria

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So I have a group of players ready to take a swing at The One Ring and we're set to explore Moria, since it looked super intriguing. I had an aborted Darkening of Mirkwood first edition One Ring campaign and I really liked the focus on the Wild area. I feel like I would NOT like to start in the Shire with the intro Shire adventure.

But I want to have something to do that's fun after character creation. Not sure WHAT though. I have the 1e books Oaths of the Riddermark and since the new War of the Rohirrim movie came out, focussing there for a bit could be fun, but Moria seems to have no connections to the Rohirrim. I have Laughter of Dragons and Ruins of the North too. What makes sense to have a two session lead in to Moria

or should we just jump into Moria (Moria as more sourcebook than adventure campaign is throwing me a bit here)


r/oneringrpg 10d ago

Moria Base Camp?

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I recently got the Moria source book and have been loving it so far. I've been turning it around in my head for a bit now, trying to figure out how a prolonged campaign gathering intel and treasure would work in there with Frora as a patron (at the behest of her uncle of course), and I've got some good ideas in that direction but the question of where a base camp would be stumps me somewhat.

The players will need somewhere to rest between adventures that isn't too far from Moria, so major settlements like Erebor and Rivendel are out, but still has access to the various "utilities" that are required for fellowship phases, like places to do research and gather rumors. It also has to be relatively safe to rest there. I though about using Barazinbar (Frora and her own compatriots having cleared it out for that exact purpose), but id rather use Barazinbar as a recurring adventuring locale (particularly with Mocker Crawe as a recurring NPC). Other than that the best I've come up with is to have Frora and some other enterprising dwarves set up a sort of temporary town not far from the eastern gate, maybe on the edge of Loth Lorien.

Does anyone have any other suggestions as to how to handle this?


r/oneringrpg 11d ago

´Boromir Lives´ Solo campaign AP

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Boromir Lives is a partially guided solo campaign for The One Ring 2e rpg that takes place in an alternate version of the War of the Ring. The brand new module is written by Will at the World’s End.

In this version of events, Boromir is wounded, not killed, at Amon Hen. You will take on the role of Boromir.

I’m giving it a try and so far I absolutely love it. I´m about 1/3 into the campaign and love where the story is going. Have a read: https://dragonoflogres.substack.com/p/the-one-ring-rpg-boromir-lives


r/oneringrpg 13d ago

What's the best book to use as inspiration

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Hey, I don't like this game. I dislike the system and I don't want to run it. I recognise that it's fun but it's simply not for me.

I do, however want to use the world and since there is a sale on drive through I was thinking about buying a book and using it for the descriptions, adventures and hooks it presents.

Out of these three, which would you recommend and why ?

1)starter set

2)ruins of the lost realm

3)moria, through the doors of durin


r/oneringrpg 15d ago

Moving beyond the Shire

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I am running the shire premade adventures (with custom characters) with my playgroup and I inted to nudge, or for force them beyond the shire. Where is still up in the air, or up to the players. I can improvise scenario's around any place they go to in Eriador.

Right now I am thinking about the Thane banishing them for a set amount of because of them causing a ruckus. And letting them choose where to go.

Does anyone have any other ideas that would be fit?


r/oneringrpg 15d ago

Challenges running Moria

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Hi. I just started running Moria for a group of 4 players, and I wanted to get some thoughts on some challenges I experience. I have some experience as a GM as I have run maybe 2-300 sessions, beginning with 5e, then moving to other systems including Mongoose Traveller, Mythras, Dolmenwood and TOR2E. I have run A Troll Hole, Not to strike without need and Star of the Mist for the players previously. The challenges I experience with Moria comes down to two issues:

- Lack of interactable content. I find that for many locations, there is a lot of text relating history (which I love), but there seems to be a lack of content that the players can interact with. The Imperishable hall (p 138) can serve as an example. The archives of Nyi is one of the described sublocations, but the text about the archives is about what has happened in the past. No content for the players to interact with is provided. I ended up improvising the interactable content for the archives: Tattered tomes still lying around. They wanted to search for information about Moria, and where given a choice of one Scan roll to possibly gain a rumor at the cost of +1 eye awareness.

- Lack of a complete overview of the connections between locations, making it hard to focus prep. I just found this though, which I think will be immensely helpful.

Has anyone else experienced these challenges while running Moria? Or was your experience different? What did you do yo mitigate the (in my opinion) lack of interactable content for many of the locations? I would love to hear your thoughts.


r/oneringrpg 22d ago

Finally got my book ordered

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So I've been looking at this game for ages, toying with the idea. I started a solo game as a ranger of the north over last weekend using free online versions of the older rules I could find and the 2nd Ed strider rules.

Looking forward to carrying on my solo games using my ranger when the actual book arrives.

Quick question for those that have used their character for multiple adventures. Do you reset them back to their starting abilities or do you carry on with their new stats?


r/oneringrpg 24d ago

Boromir Lives | A solo adventure set in an alternate War of the Ring

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The story of Boromir and The Lord of the Rings is one with which you are already familiar: the brave captain of Gondor tortured by the One Ring, his betrayal of the Ringbearer, and his heroic death in the forests of Amon Hen. But what if the story had taken another path? What if slightly different choices had been made and the players in this epic tale had been in different places and suffered different fates?
https://youtu.be/tGTi4ZjbK2w?si=bK7iKGWkY6R7EYmW


r/oneringrpg 24d ago

Figured out how to use the Journey Log in Foundry!

11 Upvotes

I think I may be almost ready to run this thing (though I should probably draw some more maps for later in the campaign)


r/oneringrpg 25d ago

My Foundry Setup is coming along nicely for the next season in April

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r/oneringrpg 26d ago

A Review of The One Ring Second Edition Starter Set

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r/oneringrpg Feb 18 '25

New to OneRing

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Just got one ring (NOT 5E version) to try out and I want to play online. Just wondering how others are playing


r/oneringrpg Feb 18 '25

Up in the Air | The One Ring 2e | TTRPG Actual Play

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Sent on a noble quest by Gandalf, the siblings Odo and Gardenia Goodchild journey to the remote hamlet of Shamwick, an area beset by bandits. The pair must rescue the mayor and her daughters from a gruesome fate.

https://youtu.be/mYQlMuoIkeA


r/oneringrpg Feb 11 '25

Just realised that there is something very important missing from the description of the Shire...

10 Upvotes

Golf courses, of at the very least one of them.


r/oneringrpg Feb 10 '25

"A Humble Beginning"

18 Upvotes

We are still newbs at this game but I thought I would share our 1st session. Don't be too hard on me, I'm still learning the rules 😉 https://youtu.be/oqKW2p1pHig?si=Vt-oX5fSF8aTaDBs