I'm a long-time roleplayer and GM, and I've been reading this forum for months but have just joined up.
Tomorrow, if everything goes according to plan, I'll be running The One Ring for the first time. I have all the books (except Ruins of the North, which I might wait and buy from my FLGS when it's available). Any advice anyone has will be gratefully received!
I've recommended to the players that their Endurance should be about 12-15 higher than their starting Fatigue, so they can take 3 or 4 blows before becoming Weary. Is that a sensible number, or is my own inexperience causing me to give them bad advice?
I'm going to start with The Marsh-Bell, setting it in summer 2946, with a few changes: it makes no sense to me that Balin and Oin would try an untested and potentially lethal route without even taking any help along, while on a mission to carry a message and a valuable gift for the Lord of the Eagles. So I'm going to leave out the bit with the jewel, unless I can think of another reason to include it, and say their mission was simply to check out the old road. And I'll give them a dwarf guard or two. Maybe one got killed by the troll. Oh, and I might make the troll a Marsh-Ogre instead (from the Lake-Town sourcebook). It will be wounded, and will also be down about one-third of its Endurance and Hate, so hopefully it should be manageable.
Comments? Suggestions? Insults?
