Proposed House Rules
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 4:08 am
So, I've thought of a couple house rules today and I was wondering what people thought of them.
First rule is 'Hope Refresh to max at Fellowship phase.' This assumes fellowship phases spent at Rivendell or Lothlorien would've refilled the company of the Ring to full power. Of course, whether that should be a general rule or limited only to places where one of the 3 elven rings are present is up for debate.
The other rule I was considering was 'double tap.' If you deal a piercing blow in two separate ways, (Usually meeting the edge of the weapon AND a racial virtue or racial reward), the TN of the injury roll doubles. This allows double taps to injure 'boss monsters' pretty consistently. While Maia (Balrog, Wizards, Sauron) and Nazgul are normally immune to protection tests, a double tap can wound then normally (But no doubling of the TN).
The only ways to get a double tap at the moment are King's Blade+Feat die for Hobbits, Stinging Arrow+Feat die for Elves, and Blade of Numenor+Feat Die for the Dunedain. I may consider an epic feat (Rune of Gandalf+at least one 6 on the die) to also be double taps.
If there were ever a way to get a triple tap, it would be an instant kill against normal foes and double TN protection test for Maia. This would require an epic feat+one of the 3 virtues above, so other races would never be able to triple tap.
Of course, it's only fair of enemies get to double tap too. But they can only do so with epic feats for bad guys (eye of sauron+at least one 6 on the die). This threat is what keeps Gandalf and Radagast and so on on their toes.
First rule is 'Hope Refresh to max at Fellowship phase.' This assumes fellowship phases spent at Rivendell or Lothlorien would've refilled the company of the Ring to full power. Of course, whether that should be a general rule or limited only to places where one of the 3 elven rings are present is up for debate.
The other rule I was considering was 'double tap.' If you deal a piercing blow in two separate ways, (Usually meeting the edge of the weapon AND a racial virtue or racial reward), the TN of the injury roll doubles. This allows double taps to injure 'boss monsters' pretty consistently. While Maia (Balrog, Wizards, Sauron) and Nazgul are normally immune to protection tests, a double tap can wound then normally (But no doubling of the TN).
The only ways to get a double tap at the moment are King's Blade+Feat die for Hobbits, Stinging Arrow+Feat die for Elves, and Blade of Numenor+Feat Die for the Dunedain. I may consider an epic feat (Rune of Gandalf+at least one 6 on the die) to also be double taps.
If there were ever a way to get a triple tap, it would be an instant kill against normal foes and double TN protection test for Maia. This would require an epic feat+one of the 3 virtues above, so other races would never be able to triple tap.
Of course, it's only fair of enemies get to double tap too. But they can only do so with epic feats for bad guys (eye of sauron+at least one 6 on the die). This threat is what keeps Gandalf and Radagast and so on on their toes.