Our first TOR session is this coming Sunday, Mar.10th. One of my players has chosen that Laketown Man template that can be found on Azrapes's character generator, which I have come to discover is detailed in the Laketown/LM Screen expansion.. which, as luck would have it, is currently out of stock. ugghh

I will order this soon as possible but for the first session I will not have it.

Is there anything specific I need to know about Laketown? I have MERP material but I want to stay within the scope of TOR's source materials.

I'm thinking of bypassing Laketown altogether until I get the source material.

what would you like to know? Personally I think the Men of the Lake Culture is a bit lackluster compared to the other ones, although they have 2 things which in my opinion strike out as very good:

1. Their cultural "Perk" is, I believe called "Tenacious". Whenever they take a wound or would otherwise roll in such a way to leave them harmed (gaining shadow points I believe counts), they gain 1 XP. I think that's pretty cool.

2. They also have a great virtue called, I believe, Shield Fighter. Any time they make an attack and hit, they roll the feat die. If they get an 8+, they hit with their shiled, doing body damage, or body + shield's encumbrance ( I can't remember which).

I think I need to know some important features of Laketown itself. I need a smithy for a dwarf character to have a working relationship with, an Inn or tavern, who is in charge, the main official "government" building and info.

A library or place where a chronicler /story writer might find writing materials(the laketown man will be a chronicler in my game)

Important places like a market, or important features like statues and memorable places. So that when I get the source material, the stuff I have presented already will jive

Ah, ok. So you really didn't need character info. There is a beautiful hand drawn map/image of the town in a 3d/isometric view. It's quite lovely. I know all the major features you are looking for are there, but I don't know their names. Someone with the sourcebook nearby will need to help out :-(

I just fired off an email to Angus Abranson to see if there were a PDF version of Laketown available to see me through until my order can be delivered.

Angus departed the company almost a year before Lake-town was published.



The Lake-town Sourcebook and LM's Screen is expected back into our US warehouse any day now. There was an unforeseen delay at US customs which held things up a little, but it should happily be back in stock very soon.

The Laketown unboxing video, from about 3 mins 50 seconds will probably help in the meantime.

http://youtu.be/kcp2eVZwYmY?t=3m50s

FYI Angus no longer works for Cubicle 7 but he informed me PDF's of One Ring material are no longer available due to licensing issues.
Sooooo looks like I'll have to wing it

Ahh thanks Jon.
We must have posted nearly at the same time.

Here is my dilemma, the Material I have concerns mostly MERP Old Laketown.

I am guessing that the TOR material encompasses new Laketown.

The awesome painting shows many buildings, would I be safe just creating a couple important spots for my early adventures to revolve around?

Would it be a license infraction to drop a name or two of important NPC's that will be known by a denizen of Laketown?

Jon - any idea when it might be available in the UK please ?

It usually takes a couple of weeks between arriving at the US warehouse and the UK warehouse.

Cool, thanks Jon

My usually reliable German retailers have been having issues getting this in. I hope this printing finally makes it across.