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Vuriche wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 05, 2017 10:49 am

I'll throw my suggestions into the ring as well and I'll try to motivate my choices out of my experience of collecting all of the books released thus far. My apologies if I happen to repeat what others already may have stated, I read the thread itself last night.

Your first option after The Core Rulebook is one of preference I would say. If you want a collection of ready-to-play adventures, go with Tales from Wilderland. If you want a campaign-supplement that really fills out the world with more inhabitants and features and enables you to build your own campaign more readily, I'd recommend Heart of the Wild. I found the campaign description in the core rules, though thoroughly captivating, a bit devoid of people actually residing in the world described and that is something the campaign supplements work wonders to amend.

A pertinent bit of information here is that Heart of the Wild, while an excellent supplement, does not cover the entirety of Wilderland. It covers the western and central part of Wilderland, but not the eastern regions surrounding Dale, Lake-Town and Erebor. This means that if your players express interest in creating a group mostly consisting of these heroic cultures, or you wish to play in these areas, you might find that the Erebor supplement becomes a higher priority for you, as it details the lands of eastern Wilderland, as well as some regions to the east, as far away as the Iron Hills. The Lake-Town Sourcebook, is on the other hand very short and really only necessary if either you want to centre your campaign in and around Lake-Town, or your group absolutely demands to play Men of that culture and have access to rules distinguishing them from Men of Dale. The kick-ass screen might steal your cash out from under you regardless of course.

The Darkening of Mirkwood then is your grand campaign supplement spanning decades of in-game time and which is infinitely expandable, either with adventures and twists of your own, or by weaving in the ones from the Tales supplement.

The supplements listed above offers up a complete campaign description of Wilderland and the cultures therein. From this point, your choices become a matter of which region you might desire to expand your campaign into, or specific rules and cultures you might desire to add to your play, most of which is information easy to discern from reading the product descriptions.

I would however specifically recommend Rivendell for its rules, not its regional description, since I found that area to be mostly devoid of inhabitants even after reading the book and that made me lose interest for the region. However, the magical items, powerful adversaries, rules for the Eye and fascinating heroic cultures make it a very good book to acquire as I think it enriches any campaign it is added to.

Otaku-sempai wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 22, 2017 3:31 am

The absolute minimum that you need for TOR:
1. The core book, The One Ring Roleplaying Game.
2. Dice: either the official TOR dice set or 6d6 and 1d12.
3. a. For pre-generated adventures: Tales from Wilderland.
...b. A region guide you can use for your own adventures: The Heart of the Wild

Stormcrow wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 23, 2017 5:45 pm

The absolute minimum you need is (1) and (2). There are lots of sourcebooks available, including region guides, adventure books, and rule books, but they're all completely optional.