Melissa, don't forget to do your prayers to the dice god! they are fickle and will get angry if not properly honoured! but joking aside, I love this series so so much.
Finally made it to episode 3! Very excited by last episode Gilly with a clutch extraction and flying squirrel dwarves! By the way the audio on this third episode is so much better and I hope it continues because the rest of the show is flawless!!
Such a wonderful romp through Middle Earth! I loved it so much on Twitch that I had to watch it again here. Well done Lollygaggers and Merry Christmas!
It's crazy to me to think we've been running this campaign for over a year now. We're going to be doing a big giveaway event for E50 too! It's such a fun game, but our Orbital Blues interlude was some of the greatest fun. We have to find the time to do it again.
@@AdventuresinLollygagging from next week I am back to running a game every Saturday. So if for no other stream I will make sure I stay up for the 50th =) I am old and will have forgotten everything by the time I get there anyway lol
We will get to Angmar if I have to drag them kicking and screaming! Come to think of it... that's not a bad idea. haha! Happy holidays to you as well. :)
Hey, thanks for the great series, really enjoying it while preparing for playing the game with our group. One question: since your players have the audience pool available, do you make the encounters a bit more difficult on purpose? Or is the system just naturally that difficult on combat? One thing I really like are the piercing blows, which seem to portray pretty well the brutality of combat. You can try to slowly wear down your enemies via endurance damage, but one or two lucky strikes going past the defences can end things suddenly. This seems far more realistic than the HP systems of many other games.
Thank you for watching! Re: Audience Bits. How we used this evolved slightly over the campaign, but the basic idea was that the audience could contribute bits to help the players or help the GM. The players got extra dice, and I got a vague "complication" pool. I basically used it to up the difficulty of some encounters, yeah. Sometimes it was an extra enemy, or sometimes I added an enemy one tier higher (i.e. a slightly stronger orc). We all really enjoyed the mechanics of the system, especially the duality of PBs and Endurance.
I mostly use Tabletop Audio for background music while we play (our opening theme music is from a different source). Tabletop Audio is amazing! I support their Patreon, and that gives me access to music-only and ambience-only files, which I highly recommend. But there's plenty of freely accessible content on their website. The SoundPad is really cool! Website: tabletopaudio.com/ Patreon: www.patreon.com/tabletopaudio
I imagine that's a personal preference. We're using FoundryVTT and there's a good system up there for One Ring. Definitely makes it easy on the players to keep track of character sheets and what not.
I didn't think all types of weapons were eligible for piecing blows. Isn't it only swords and spears and such "Piercing weapons"? Clubs shouldn't be able to do that right?
I think only Unarmed attacks are unable to deal Piercing Blows. On p. 99, the book says any attack can cause PB, and in the weapons charts Unarmed is the only weapon noted as not being able. A "Piercing Blow" is different than the "Pierce" special damage feature. 'Pierce' lets you spend a Success icon on a Bonus die to modify your feat die roll--increasing it so that your attack can qualify for a PB. This is only available to bows, swords, and spears.
@@AdventuresinLollygagging You're right! That totally makes sense now. Thank you! I very much appreciate your attention to explaining the rules / answering questions. There isn't much FAQ on the system out yet.
@@benH215 Happy to help! I had to do a double-take on this same situation before too. I think Ruins of the Lost Realm has some errata, but not a proper FAQ.
Hi, as the previous sessions, it is really great to watch you. About the little issue of Eryniel (th-cam.com/video/c1ObsNW94LQ/w-d-xo.html), I think the cause is that Melissa clicked on the bonus/penalty zone to add 2 success dice but she clicked on the left (which is penalty) so the system withdraw 2 dice from the pool and she only draw 2 feat dice :( Someone has reported to me that it wasn't really clear because the label is "Bonus/Penalty" and the input box is "Penalty/Bonus" :( So I have fixed that for the next release :) Hope you enjoy playing TOR with the system, it is a great RPG ;)
Thanks for clearing that up! I didn't warn about the update before stream, so we would normally sort that out ahead of time. Absolutely loving the game and the Foundry system so far! Question for you: Is there a recommended character portrait size? I noticed that the character portraits on rolls seem squished. Maybe we're using the wrong ratio? Anyway, thanks for everything you're doing! We are so thankful to have the system to run our games. Very excited to get back to TOR next week!
Actually being miserable is when shadow reaches current hope and rolling an eye on the feat die will trigger a bout of maddness prompting a player to describe a scene with the next flaw in their path. A player can harden will to gain a scar but those are very hard to get rid of. When shadow reaches max hope than a player can no longer harden will and the only way to reduce shadow is with a bout of maddness and all rolls are ill favoured. If a player does not have a bout before the end of the adventure they are forced to retire.
I don't think that's entirely correct. I'm not seeing where the rules say rolling an Eye triggers a Bout of Madness. When you're Miserable (p. 22), rolling an Eye means your roll is an auto-fail. That's the only penalty listed. Bouts of Madness only occur, like you note later, when your Shadow score reaches their maximum Hope rating (p. 139). This is how we're playing it, but we might have said something in error. Do you have a page number for the Eye = Bout of Madness? Thanks for checking!
@@AdventuresinLollygagging you are right. My brain is getting the rules confused with 1e. That was the case there. In 2e it's changed and makes a bout of maddness much more up to the player by giving them options to Harden Will before shadow reaches max hope. Than a bout of maddness is the only way to remove shadow once it reaches max hope.
@@MRdaBakkle Right on. I'll be curious to hear what folks more familiar with 1e think about that change. 2e's Harden Will seems to slow the descent a bit.
@@AdventuresinLollygagging shadow control seems to give a little bit more power to the players. I do like they removed the Heal Corruption undertaking and based losing shadow on actions done in the adventure. Often times players would pick Heal Shadow every undertaking and that's kind of boring.
Melissa, don't forget to do your prayers to the dice god! they are fickle and will get angry if not properly honoured!
but joking aside, I love this series so so much.
Thank you!!! We had so much fun playing it.
An Episode of "The Waking of Angmar" a day with such lovely people always manages to cheer me up.
Makes me so happy to hear that! Thank you for watching and for the support. :)
Finally made it to episode 3! Very excited by last episode Gilly with a clutch extraction and flying squirrel dwarves! By the way the audio on this third episode is so much better and I hope it continues because the rest of the show is flawless!!
Awesome! So glad to hear that! (The flying squirrel dwarf is still one of my favorite moments, haha.)
@@AdventuresinLollygagging The visuals are EPIC lol. I can hear Baruk Khazâd being yelled at he flies out of the tree lol
Such a wonderful romp through Middle Earth! I loved it so much on Twitch that I had to watch it again here. Well done Lollygaggers and Merry Christmas!
Thanks, Aaron! We're really enjoying One Ring 2e. Merry Christmas to you too!
Thanks much, Aaron! Merry Christmas!
I am so itching to get to the point I jumped in on in the stream lol The anticipation is killing me but I am loving it so far.
It's crazy to me to think we've been running this campaign for over a year now. We're going to be doing a big giveaway event for E50 too! It's such a fun game, but our Orbital Blues interlude was some of the greatest fun. We have to find the time to do it again.
@@AdventuresinLollygagging I am sure we will :)
@@AdventuresinLollygagging from next week I am back to running a game every Saturday. So if for no other stream I will make sure I stay up for the 50th =) I am old and will have forgotten everything by the time I get there anyway lol
@@AdventuresinLollygagging Oh, and I already have my PC for Orbital Blues ;p
Really enjoying this playthrough! I hope it continues all the way to Angmar :-D Enjoy the holidays!
We will get to Angmar if I have to drag them kicking and screaming! Come to think of it... that's not a bad idea. haha! Happy holidays to you as well. :)
@@AdventuresinLollygagging they'll have to survive that long first, haha.
@@somuchgame6048 Haha! They do indeed!
So glad I found the channel really enjoying it....i am so far behind though
Thank you so much for finding us! We love One Ring. The campaign has come so far from where we started. Hope you continue to enjoy the game!
that was brutal fight but you saved this guy life!
They did indeed!
Hey, thanks for the great series, really enjoying it while preparing for playing the game with our group.
One question: since your players have the audience pool available, do you make the encounters a bit more difficult on purpose? Or is the system just naturally that difficult on combat?
One thing I really like are the piercing blows, which seem to portray pretty well the brutality of combat. You can try to slowly wear down your enemies via endurance damage, but one or two lucky strikes going past the defences can end things suddenly. This seems far more realistic than the HP systems of many other games.
Thank you for watching!
Re: Audience Bits. How we used this evolved slightly over the campaign, but the basic idea was that the audience could contribute bits to help the players or help the GM. The players got extra dice, and I got a vague "complication" pool. I basically used it to up the difficulty of some encounters, yeah. Sometimes it was an extra enemy, or sometimes I added an enemy one tier higher (i.e. a slightly stronger orc).
We all really enjoyed the mechanics of the system, especially the duality of PBs and Endurance.
1:25:01 "Oh, okay. No, thanks."
Haha, 'so rude'!
I find myself wishing I could guest play.
That's as good a compliment as one can give. Thank you! :)
Which episode is the 1st time you do a journey phase? I'd like to see that in action
In E04 we do a short Journey from Bree to Fornost Erain. In E07, we begin a lengthier journey.
Finished binge of Cinders of Heaven, up to date with Gradient Descent. This is next 👍
Hope you enjoy it! We LOVE playing One Ring.
Where can i found your background music ??? I want then !!! Plz
I mostly use Tabletop Audio for background music while we play (our opening theme music is from a different source). Tabletop Audio is amazing! I support their Patreon, and that gives me access to music-only and ambience-only files, which I highly recommend. But there's plenty of freely accessible content on their website. The SoundPad is really cool!
Website: tabletopaudio.com/
Patreon: www.patreon.com/tabletopaudio
Is it easier to play this irl or better to use the website u use?
I imagine that's a personal preference. We're using FoundryVTT and there's a good system up there for One Ring. Definitely makes it easy on the players to keep track of character sheets and what not.
I didn't think all types of weapons were eligible for piecing blows. Isn't it only swords and spears and such "Piercing weapons"? Clubs shouldn't be able to do that right?
I think only Unarmed attacks are unable to deal Piercing Blows. On p. 99, the book says any attack can cause PB, and in the weapons charts Unarmed is the only weapon noted as not being able. A "Piercing Blow" is different than the "Pierce" special damage feature. 'Pierce' lets you spend a Success icon on a Bonus die to modify your feat die roll--increasing it so that your attack can qualify for a PB. This is only available to bows, swords, and spears.
@@AdventuresinLollygagging You're right! That totally makes sense now. Thank you! I very much appreciate your attention to explaining the rules / answering questions. There isn't much FAQ on the system out yet.
@@benH215 Happy to help! I had to do a double-take on this same situation before too. I think Ruins of the Lost Realm has some errata, but not a proper FAQ.
Hi, as the previous sessions, it is really great to watch you. About the little issue of Eryniel (th-cam.com/video/c1ObsNW94LQ/w-d-xo.html), I think the cause is that Melissa clicked on the bonus/penalty zone to add 2 success dice but she clicked on the left (which is penalty) so the system withdraw 2 dice from the pool and she only draw 2 feat dice :( Someone has reported to me that it wasn't really clear because the label is "Bonus/Penalty" and the input box is "Penalty/Bonus" :( So I have fixed that for the next release :) Hope you enjoy playing TOR with the system, it is a great RPG ;)
Thanks for clearing that up! I didn't warn about the update before stream, so we would normally sort that out ahead of time. Absolutely loving the game and the Foundry system so far! Question for you: Is there a recommended character portrait size? I noticed that the character portraits on rolls seem squished. Maybe we're using the wrong ratio? Anyway, thanks for everything you're doing! We are so thankful to have the system to run our games. Very excited to get back to TOR next week!
Actually being miserable is when shadow reaches current hope and rolling an eye on the feat die will trigger a bout of maddness prompting a player to describe a scene with the next flaw in their path. A player can harden will to gain a scar but those are very hard to get rid of. When shadow reaches max hope than a player can no longer harden will and the only way to reduce shadow is with a bout of maddness and all rolls are ill favoured. If a player does not have a bout before the end of the adventure they are forced to retire.
I don't think that's entirely correct. I'm not seeing where the rules say rolling an Eye triggers a Bout of Madness. When you're Miserable (p. 22), rolling an Eye means your roll is an auto-fail. That's the only penalty listed. Bouts of Madness only occur, like you note later, when your Shadow score reaches their maximum Hope rating (p. 139). This is how we're playing it, but we might have said something in error. Do you have a page number for the Eye = Bout of Madness? Thanks for checking!
@@AdventuresinLollygagging you are right. My brain is getting the rules confused with 1e. That was the case there. In 2e it's changed and makes a bout of maddness much more up to the player by giving them options to Harden Will before shadow reaches max hope. Than a bout of maddness is the only way to remove shadow once it reaches max hope.
@@MRdaBakkle Right on. I'll be curious to hear what folks more familiar with 1e think about that change. 2e's Harden Will seems to slow the descent a bit.
@@AdventuresinLollygagging shadow control seems to give a little bit more power to the players. I do like they removed the Heal Corruption undertaking and based losing shadow on actions done in the adventure. Often times players would pick Heal Shadow every undertaking and that's kind of boring.