Forum

p. 114- Osklhûg has Resolve, rather than Hate. This may be an inspired decision regarding judgement's on the dragon's innate morality... or it may be an oversight.

On page 66:

2972: NO PLACE IS SAFE ANY MORE
If Cauthlin has so far managed to skulk freely around Rivendell, she accomplishes the unthinkable by discovering the location of the Last Homely House and finding a way inside through the secret path at Glauria (see The Vineyards of Glauria, page 91).

The landmark The Vineyards of Glauria makes no mention of the secret path.

"Best by Woe
You can remove accumulated Shadow points exclusively during a Yule Fellowship Phase (see Spiritual Recovery in the core rules)." p125 of Realms of the Three Rings

- I think there have been questions as far back as the Rivendell book about how this interacts with Harden Will from the core rulebook.

"In game terms, Player-heroes whose accumulated Shadow does not yet match their maximum Hope score may choose to remove all their current Shadow, replacing it with a single Shadow Scar." p137 of the Core Rulebook (my emphasis)

- Tweaking the wording of "Beset by Woe" in the High Elf culture would help clear this up. I've historically read it as High Elves only benefiting from Spiritual Recovery during Yule, rather than this being unable to remove shadow during Yule AND only being able to take shadow scars in Yule.

So rewriting Best by Woe to something like
"Best by Woe
You only benefit from the Shadow Removal component of Spiritual Recovery during a Yule Fellowship Phase (see Spiritual Recovery in the core rules)."

This is again pedantry, but there is a discrepancy of descriptions between products.

Galdor appears in both this product, and the Starter Set. It wouldn't be the first time there were multiple elves of that name, but both are implied/suggested to be the Galdor that appears in Fellowship. However, the one in this book- Galdor of the Quill (p.15)- is described as having "long silver hair", while the one in the Starter Set- Galdor of the Havens ("The Adventures", p.23)- has "hair as fair as gold".

Perhaps Galdor had a hair dye in the intervening five years, maybe he wanted to try a change of style. Maybe 'fair gold' and 'silver' are just fanciful ways of describing the same platinum blond do. Maybe they are different elves. However if this is a mistake, now you know.

This isn't an editing error or game mechanics thing, but just something that stood out for me, minor however it may be.
On p.18, in the section on "The Gardens of the West", it mentions a shrine with nine columns, each one in the likeness of one of the Guardians of the World. Now, if this referring to the Aratar, the High Ones of Arda, then nine would consist of Manwe, Varda, Ulmo, Yavanna, Aule, Mandos, Nienna, Orome, and... Melkor.
Would the Elves have really put up a column for Morgoth?

(Note: I'm basing this mostly on an article I read on Tolkien Gateway: https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Aratar)

Anyways, thanks so much for all your work. This book is amazing and I can't wait to get my hands on the physical end product.
Cheers!

Hi, Don't know if this was mentioned before, but on page 95 under the column "3. The Trap Room" there is a second paragraph describing the room that is similar to the first paragraph as if it might have been part of an earlier draft still lingering.