Regarding Mithril Armour

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Re: Regarding Mithril Armour

Post by Angelalex242 » Fri Mar 27, 2015 2:29 am

Well...you could also let people reassign their Valor points. If the hobbit had a King's Blade before finding his Mithril armor...'Your sword broke in that last battle. On the plus side, your new armor is wonderfully light and made of mithril. So, win win right?'

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Re: Regarding Mithril Armour

Post by doctheweasel » Fri Mar 27, 2015 3:13 am

Angelalex242 wrote:Well...you could also let people reassign their Valor points. If the hobbit had a King's Blade before finding his Mithril armor...'Your sword broke in that last battle. On the plus side, your new armor is wonderfully light and made of mithril. So, win win right?'
There's an Undertaking to take care of that (Visiting the Treasury of your Folk).

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Re: Regarding Mithril Armour

Post by Angelalex242 » Fri Mar 27, 2015 3:16 am

Well, sure, but I'm not sure Bilbo had time to take a fellowship phase when Thorin gave him the mithril armor.

Unless that was a fellowship phase right there...

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Re: Regarding Mithril Armour

Post by Deadmanwalking » Fri Mar 27, 2015 5:06 am

Angelalex242 wrote:Well, sure, but I'm not sure Bilbo had time to take a fellowship phase when Thorin gave him the mithril armor.

Unless that was a fellowship phase right there...
Uh...there pretty clearly was between then and him actually using it. The LM would've needed to fudge the 'going home' part of the Undertaking, but a Fellowship Phase was clearly involved in there between the death of Smaug and the Battle of Five Armies.

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Re: Regarding Mithril Armour

Post by Majestic » Fri Mar 27, 2015 5:48 am

Not to mention - as has been mentioned here before - the game rules were made to fit the books, not the other way around. Professor Tolkien wasn't bound by game mechanics when he wrote his novels ("Hmmmm, it's clear Bilbo needs to take a Fellowship Phase here, so I'll have him travel back home...") :lol:
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Re: Regarding Mithril Armour

Post by Glorelendil » Fri Mar 27, 2015 7:34 am

Majestic wrote:Not to mention - as has been mentioned here before - the game rules were made to fit the books, not the other way around. Professor Tolkien wasn't bound by game mechanics when he wrote his novels ("Hmmmm, it's clear Bilbo needs to take a Fellowship Phase here, so I'll have him travel back home...") :lol:
I've been tempted to write a macro making this point.
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Re: Regarding Mithril Armour

Post by Rich H » Fri Mar 27, 2015 6:13 pm

Deadmanwalking wrote:Well, if you let the player state their purchases in advance, you could just conspire to have them buy up Valour or otherwise unlock the second quality before they run into any spiders (or possibly even right as they run into them, if you're willing to bend the rules).
I use "Wishlists" of player purchases for their characters in all the games I run for this reason and also so I know what the players are looking to invest in and what is catching their interests. It allows me to give them such opportunities and weave such elements into a campaign - foreshadowing them, making them key components of a scenario, etc.
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Re: Regarding Mithril Armour

Post by Robin Smallburrow » Mon Mar 30, 2015 11:29 am

I have completed a Magic Treasure Index for my campaign (see my sig for the link) where I tried to cover 'all contingencies' including giving such items as rewards, not to mention the items central to my campaign (Swordpiece etc.). I just felt it was easier to try and provide options/choices for the players, not knowing how things would pan out.

This approach was underlined for me with the ending to the very first adventure, where I had placed a Numenorean Steel Bow as part of the 'loot' from killing the adversary - but the player playing the elven archer had of course left my game by this stage, so none of the other players were interested!!

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