The Fantasy Fellowship | Lord of the Rings Inspired RPG

Creating your character

Every character will have the following attributes: Affinity with Nature Strength Knowledge Athleticism Stealth Inner Light It is up to you to rank these attributes for your character to determine what dice you get to use for relevant skill checks. For instance, Frodo may have a distribution of Inner Light - D20 Stealth - D12 Knowledge - D10 Affinity with Nature- D8 Athleticism - D6 Strength - D4 By prioritising Inner Light and Stealth, Frodo has a better chance to roll high on rolls relating to resisting corruption, courage, burglary, and hiding etc Arwen may have: Affinity with Nature - D20 Athleticism - D12 Inner Light - D10 Knowledge - D8 Strength - D6 Stealth - D4 By prioritising Affinity with Nature and Athleticism, Arwen has a better chance to roll high on rolls relating to forestry, animal communion, swordfighting and speed. Every skill check is up for discussion; the player can always make a case for and argue how their chosen action aligns with a given attribute for checking. This is a non comprehensive set of examples of what skills may fall under which particular attributes: 1. Affinity with Nature - Skills with ranged weapons - Keen eyes; noticing unusual things - Familiarity with animals - Wilderness and survival skills - Tracking and following - Herbcraft and foraging 2. Strength - Mastery of heavy weapons - Destroying things - Lifting heavy objects - Pain Endurance - Withstanding injuries 4. Knowledge - Very studied with intrinsic deep historical and cultural knowledge - Understanding of structures, where entrances or weak points may be, layouts of cities and mechanical devices - Intuiting enemy weaknesses - Diplomacy - Languages - Finding hidden magic in objects 5. Athletic - Proficiency in bladed weapons. (Swordsmanship etc) - High relflexes - Speed - Running, leaping, swimming, climbing - Initiative priority and ability to interrupt enemy actions 6. Stealth (Burglary) - Moving in unseen ways - Hiding - Keen ears - Soft social skills like persuasion, charm and trickery - Stealing things - Disguising - Discerning the most important objects in a space - Answering riddles - Opening locked doors 6. Inner light - Strength of will - Courage - Causing terror in your enemies - Commanding presence - Resisting corruption, and venoms - Finding light, rekindling flames and summoning starlight - Inspiring comrades - Some perception into Wraith realities This is a magic-light system, but you will be awarded limited tokens for "Blessings of the Valar". Tokens will be rare and distributed at the start of a session or awarded for excellent roleplaying. This will allow you to perform a magical action. The type of magic you want to perform will be determined by a check against the most relevant attribute and the difficulty will be determined by how ambitious the magic is. (If you wish to a play a wizard type character, then you will be awarded more Blessings of the Valar, but this will be balanced by nerfing one dice)

Preparing for the session

Discord and Roll20 accounts are required. Links will be available upon sign-up. The most important thing you can do to prepare is to think about what sort of character you'd like to be! Start daydreaming! And maybe re-watch/re-read the Lord of the Rings to get in the mood!

What Alexander brings to the table

I take immersion very seriously and so I supply a LOT of custom visuals and background music. The action-scenes will be largely Theatre of the Mind, with certain exceptions where maps and tokens would improve the story-telling. I generally embrace the Rule of Cool, and reward players for excellent Role-Playing and creativity.

Homebrew rules

I enjoy the Exploding Dice mechanic! I'm happy to roll in any Homebrew Rules pitched during Session Zero that the group feel is a good fit for the game.

How Alexander creates a safe table

A Lines a Veils Google Doc will be sent to you before Session Zero. I will review this document before we have our Session Zero. During Session Zero we will set our expectations for the game, and establish boundaries of what is appropriate in game and what is appropriate within the Discord Chat.