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I used to go strictly by XP at the end of the encounter. But I have gradually taken to the milestone system. It is easier to design encounters without worrying about whether there will be too much or too little XP. Now, I create the adventure with as many or as few encounters as I like, and give the...

After much back and forth with my players and some experience play testing, I came to the conclusion that the whole "no long rest outside a sanctuary" was untenable. I decided that long rests do not occur during the Journey phase, but can occur during the Adventuring phase. The fellowship ...

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Hello, i am making the trasition in the One Ring RPG 1st edition to 2e. One thing that was very nice and i am missing is the specialities, but where are they in the 2e? How i could create Samwise Gamge, the Gardner ? The specilities intoduced a very nice customization in the game in my opinion........

Since it's really just a roleplaying guide, I allow my players to alter the distinctive features to suit their PC. However, if the PC gets deeply into their Shadow Paths, they have to add their Flaws to their distinctive features, which can have game mechanic effects.

Reading surface thoughts is not the same as deep thoughts or reading memories. At any given time, the target of the Insight may be thinking about food, personal comfort, the weather, relationships, plotting against enemies, any number of things other than what the elf might want to know. It might ev...

Precisely. When I LM, during the adventure phase, I will have the fellowship make an exploration check if it is a hex they have never been to. DC based on the border/wild/dark types, usually DC 10/15/20. If they've been there before, I let them find the good spot again with no check. If the circumst...

The rules do allow for proper long rests in the wild, so that's on your LM. No rests at all is too grinder for my table.

Eye Awareness: it resets during the Fellowship phase. Crafts: Both can be used for Journey saves. But, the craft slots and lore dice used are not recovered until completion of a long rest, which also removes a level of exhaustion, so may not even be necessary. Are your players not resting after the ...

I don't have the TOR version, but in the LotRR 5e version, Tales of Eriador, this adventure is labelled as 3rd to 5th level. So a minimum of 3rd level for Heroes doing this adventure. How are the TOR version labelled?