Ruins of the Lost Realm Review
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- Опубликовано: 3 дек 2024
- Ruins of the Lost Realm is the first expansion for The One Ring 2e RPG by Free League. The book is a guide to the peoples inhabiting the Lone-lands of Southern Eriador, the places they dwell in and the hopes they hold for their future in the Twilight of the Third Age.
In this video I cover what is included in the book as well as my general thoughts.
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Good review! I really like this book as the narravtive elements presented are fantastic, I will be most certainly putting a pre order in for Tales from The Lone Lands as the adventures sound interesting.
Preordered Lone Lands and I'd give it a glowing recommendation, a lot of the cubical 7 OR stuff felt very non-Tolkien to me and a few things in Lost Realm did too (although I still love most of it, especially Tharbad and the Numenorians) but for Lone Lands they did the unthinkable and managed to put together a really faithful feeling thematic campaign.
There are a few elements I don't love but it's got rangers and trolls and lost heirs and some really really deep cuts (the lossoth! Elves from the sea of Rhun!) along with a little bit of whimsy, it all feels like it properly belongs in Middle-Earth instead of being more generic sword and sorcery.
That sounds really good. I might order it soon. I'll be using the Lossoth in a future landmark adventure so I'd be interested to see how Lone Lands uses them.
@@willattheworldsend You mostly just show up to help them, but there's a really cool quest hook the book drops with them hunting a Fastitocalon that I'd be eager to expand upon
Agree 100%
Huzzah. Ive been waiting for this. Thanks for the review Will
I also didnt know about Tales from the lone lands. I missed that announcement somehow
Funny how a person from us mentioned cost of shipping from UK. That's how we feel most of the time but with FL it's nothing
I'm surprised you can't buy your books locally. At the least from a business in the same country. Even Amazon carries the books.
Did you try strider mode with this settings? Es the white towers?
@andreasilvestrini1199 I haven't used any Ruins of the Lost Realm content with Strider Mode. I have used Tales from the Lone Lands and Moria.
@@willattheworldsend do you think it's possible use that ruins for strider mode? How do you play with them?
@@andreasilvestrini1199 It should be possible. I find it helpful to set up the adventure in the same way I would if I was going to run it for other players. So if there are any notable set-pieces or events have them ready to go and include some elements that are connected to your character's story. Obviously, as the LM you are going to know everything so there won't be any surprises, but your character doesn't know everything. Use the telling table and the other tables from Strider Mode to introduce some random elements as you go.
That's how I'd do it at any rate. Running an rpg solo is a tricky thing. Probably watch some videos of people that do it a lot to get some pointers. Hopefully this helps.
The ruins of the lost realm spoke to me in a way that has made it really hard not to run it now, immediately. Alas as we have very limited possibilities to play and we are in the begining phases of two different campaigns it hurts me to having to shelf it. For now.
That's great that you're liking it so much. If you have Strider Mode do you think you'd try that?
@@willattheworldsend yes, I do and the thought have'nt even crossed my mind. I really should. Thanks for the question! =)
as a ttrpg noob i would love to see some content on planning/starting/playing strider mode campaigns with the two expansion books and the upcoming moria book too.
Why does Snow White make an appearance!? :D
Just came to check the comments for this. :-P
"Snow Wight" lol
Knowing how serious Disney takes copy rights, I thought that was a questionable inclusion. But it fits under the parody clause so is legal. I'm just scratching my head as to the addition and will have to look up if that is in the lore.
Nice review. I don't think the PDF that comes with it is free, they're just forcing you to buy them together if you want the book. It's not a practice that we want the RPG companies to normalize. It's almost as bad as proprietary dice.
Not sure where you got that impression. I've bought this material from Free League themselves, and the orders come with a link to DriveThru-RPG for a free copy of the PDFs.
I agree that WoTC do this - making people pay for both physical and free copies - but Free League give out free PDFs with physical purchases.
Many publishers charge an extra amount for the PDF, Free League includes it in the base price. Since producing a layout makes you well placed to make a PDF, I know I would rather get it included in the base price rather than being charged for it separately.
Also, since you're getting that PDF by ordering directly from them (instead of them spending money on distribution), there is margin there to cover the cost of making a useful PDF with bookmarks optimized for on-screen reading.