Question on The Call of Mirkwood Cultural Virtue

[Majestic]

Being able to ignore Weary for the following skills would be really nice:

Athletics
Travel
Stealth
Explore
Healing
Hunting

Shoot (or should that be "Eh"? ), just being able to ignore Weary for Travel rolls could be huge! Still, my Mirkwood Elves didn't seem very tempted by it (they learned all about the Wayward Elves last session).

Kind of confusing, the way it's written, whether or not you'd have to spend Hope for the effect of being able to ignore Weary for those six skills. Personally, I'd make it so you only spent Hope for the automatic success with Stealth.

[Angelalex242]

Seriously, it's the fact you've gotta be a Valinor shunning 'wayward elf' that really kills it. It's a virtue worth taking, if it weren't for the fluff and the downside, which is just...really unpalatable for a virtue I have to pay experience for.

[Glorelendil]

Seriously, it's the fact you've gotta be a Valinor shunning 'wayward elf' that really kills it. It's a virtue worth taking, if it weren't for the fluff and the downside, which is just...really unpalatable for a virtue I have to pay experience for.

Again, only if you find the fluff a downside. (I wouldn't want to play ALL my elves that way; once in a while could be fun.)

However, I commend you for refusing a mechanically compelling virtue because of the fluff that comes with it.

[Deadmanwalking]

Yeah, the fluff's only a downside if you don't like that particular fluff. The Mirkwood Elf spearman in the game I'm playing in is planning to take it as his next Virtue purely because of the fluff. He's not even particularly Stealth focused (I think he finally bought it to a 3 this last Fellowship Phase), he just likes that flavor.

See, he's a Scholar obsessed with death, and the chronicling thereof, and following my character around purely to record his death whenever it occurs (they're also each other's Fellowship Focuses...my character notes that he'd complain about being followed for this purpose, except that the Elf has saved his life a number of times), and has clearly done the same with other men in the past, and wishes to continue to do so (or otherwise continue watching men and the vagaries of their lives and particularly deaths) forever. He probably wouldn't even know what to do with himself in Valinor.