Post your favorite “Lord of the Rings” character. Wrong answers only.
09.03.2026 12:43
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Post your favorite “Lord of the Rings” character. Wrong answers only.
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Solid take, Levi. I just told a friend that it was as written for completeness over clarity. Great book.
That’s nice of you to offer! I started this particular game as in-person only. I have a Discord for it to coordinate meetings and hand out lore and rules.
I’ve used discord for remote play (and still do, kind of) but the audio is awful and aside from vidconf, I don’t use anything else.
It was a close call and in hindsight the storm didn’t get going until much later in the day.
Better safe than sorry, I think. Still, it sucks to cancel a session.
If you follow me and you don’t know about Justin Alexander, well … here you go.
He wrote a book, too. ;-)
Currently running this at home, and having a blast. Two thumbs up.
I very much enjoy Dungeon! the board game. I’ve met Megarry, too! I’m excited for this, Dan.
Empire of Bones, Hellcrawl and Hundred Year Coast! You are a busy boy!
I’ve been floating the idea that the Diseased One is an aspect/incarnation of their nemesis, who banished the characters to the Dreamlands in retaliation for destroying their “great work”
So far so good! They hate him!
We have a crafty thief/gadgeteer, a tough-as-nails fighter, and a cat to whom they belong.
I have a game scheduled today at 1pm. I HATE cancelling due to weather, but this is sounding more serious. Thoughts? We were to play from 1pm to 4:30 or so.
I’ve been giving them comic books depicting the fight or interaction they just had. Not every time, but enough that they’re starting to think someone is messing with them.
I think what we now call the Role Playing Game is a re-emergence of a much older form of parlor game more akin to How To Host A Murder than simulating Napoleonic-era campaigns, but I don’t have enough academic chops or research to be saying much more than that.
I’ve been playing Painted Wastelands for 5 sessions now and my notoriously adventure-fickle players are having a blast with it.
Our next session will be Saturday evening!
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You’re an inspiration, Wil Wheaton. Thank you for being you.
Thank you, Ms West.
I’ve now three active games.
The Fantasy Game wherein I run a heavily house-ruled D&D-like game for my wife and my best friend. Local in-person and remote.
Hyperlite, a Traveller-like of my own devising. Remote.
Stars Without Number, as an open table game. Local in-person.
Paranoia handled its lethality by clearly telegraphing it, providing a mitigation, and soaking the game with humor. They’re laughing with you. DCC seems to me to be more laughing at you.
I think DCC is super mean. Like, “ha ha you died too bad so sad,” mean. You can play it how you want, but to me, that’s how it plays as-written.
That said, some of the best adventures and setting material come from Goodman. Their Lankhmar and Dying Stuff is very good as is the OAR series.
I think there’s something in our species memory about exploring dark holes in the earth to face otherworldly challenges and emerge with fantastic treasures.
It’s a mythic/spiritual/metaphysical journey that I think every human feels a connection to.
The man loves his Legos, to be sure. I’m a pretty big fan, myself.
I like this series of thoughts, by the way. It’s making me think about my own promises of play and how I present those to game groups and further what my own rules need to communicate.
My technical writing background finds this all rather appealing.
Steve’s games are pretty good at that. Illuminati, OGRE, even Melee in my opinion all fulfill their promises of play.
There’s a lot to recommend in media res for every session start.
The hard part is cultivating the trust from the group ahead of time so that your glorious cinematic opening battle doesn’t turn into an act of rebellion by your players insisting they never left town and wouldn’t have come this way.
In 1989, TSR released a bunch of character figures by Ral Partha, each in male & female versions. That's the same year that AD&D switched editorially from "he or she" to just "he" (2E). Wonder how these paired character minis sold.
These & more from my basement to eBay
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I tried to buy another set of halflings on eBay, but they are rare and EXPENSIVE.
They might not have sold well at the time, but the demand for them now seems strong.
That said I just found a set for less than $50, so… 🤞🏻
I bought a ton of them. I used to troll the WotC stores when they were going out of business to find ‘em!
The halflings were my favorites. At the time I thought it was cool that they offered two versions of the same character in one package. My wife and I painted them for our characters. 🤣
I would hope! Still, not great that we’re having this moment, DBZ.
Perhaps DBZ should power up some more meaningful interactions between their female characters. Perhaps those kinds of dialog events should have been over 9000 instead of all the inarticulate grunting.