005--Geek-dive: The One Ring RPG

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8 ай бұрын

I gush about my favourite RPG, Free League's 'The One Ring', set in the world of fantasy grand-daddy JRR Tolkien. We look at the game's forebears, its mechanics, and its therapeutic applicability. I hope you enjoy it :)
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@bluecarpettiles 2 ай бұрын

Started my love of RPGs with MERP back in the 90s. I have TOR 1e and now 2e and I love the artwork, theme and style of these books more than other fantasy games. Thanks for the review.

@RPGTherapist 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for commenting! The other one I need to look at, at some point, is 'Against the Darkmaster', which is basically just MERP (not even with the numbers filed off!). Thanks for coming along 😀

@bluecarpettiles 2 ай бұрын

I've heard of it. Don't know who has tried it yet. @@RPGTherapist

@mattbarninger 8 ай бұрын

I like the One Ring. Nice video.

@RPGTherapist 8 ай бұрын

Thanks :)

@jane_austenz 8 ай бұрын

Great overview and explanations! I can’t believe how big that map is. Looks amazing.

@RPGTherapist 8 ай бұрын

It's sooooo lovely. I wish I had half that talent!

@CScott-wh5yk 8 ай бұрын

We’re gonna need a bookcase tour at some point 🤓

@RPGTherapist 8 ай бұрын

If you really want to see a man die under a pile of books, by all means 🤣. But sure, I'll have a ponder--thanks for the suggestion 😀

@Velzhaed 8 ай бұрын

I enjoyed your review. Thanks for the video.

@17joren 5 ай бұрын

Have you checked out any of the 3rd-party Middle Earth supplements for 5e dnd? One from early on in the game’s lifespan that featured a spell-less ranger, and now a new one I’ve seen at LGSs. They even have a book for adventuring in the shire 😆

@RPGTherapist 5 ай бұрын

I haven't personally played 'Adventures in Middle Earth', largely because both versions (Cubicle 7's and Free League's) are 'just' (word used advisedly) 5e-ified versions of TOR and its supplements. If the independent game didn't exist, I'm sure I'd enjoy them--but TOR's structure *feels* more Middle-Earth-ey to me, so I don't think I could play 'Adventures' without comparing it unfavourably to TOR. Have you played it? How have you found it? Thanks for the comment :-)

@17joren 5 ай бұрын

@@RPGTherapist ah glad to hear your perspective! I haven’t played but was considering. I spent a long time only playing 5e across different genre’s so it seemed like the right choice. But for the past couple years, I’m branching out across other systems (lots of OSR lately) so I may have to go straight for TOR. Helpful video!

@RPGTherapist 4 ай бұрын

Let us know how it goes! I'm only tentatively dipping my toe into OSR right now, so watch this space!

@WookieeRage 6 ай бұрын

Nice discussion of the game and subject's game history! Also cool Deadpool shirt 🙂

@RPGTherapist 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! I've got about half a dozen of them 😅

@FishNotGhOTi 8 ай бұрын

I never got to play TOR1e but was impressed by the way it was put together and 2e is looking just as good as Free League's other output. All of the Tolkien licensed RPGs have some merit, with but one exception - I can't understand how anyone can be happy squeezing Middle Earth into D&D. Great game but totally wrong for some styles and settings. I was always disappointed that Decipher's unrelated economic problems killed the LotR RPG. It used the movies as a starting point but was looking to bring move-goers into the wider world of the books if it had just been around long enough. As one last point: keep up the good work. TRPG as therapy fascinates me and it's good to see it with an English accent.

@RPGTherapist 8 ай бұрын

Glad the accent is OK--I've been working on it my whole life! 🤣 Yeah, I get why both Cubicle 7 and Free League decided to put out 5e compatable versions of their games (business is business), but, as you say, it feels completely inappropriate for the setting (to the point where it doesn't deserve the airtime in a video like this). And you're absolutely right, Decipher's expanded Middle Earth is going to remain one of the great missed opportunities of the hobby. Gotta say their mass combat rules were fairly solid. Thanks for such a thought provoking comment 😀

@lisan1010 5 ай бұрын

fantastic review Daniel, congratulations on your book

@RPGTherapist 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! ❤️❤️❤️

@Pikbube01 8 ай бұрын

A real fan there. Nice video!

@RPGTherapist 8 ай бұрын

Thanks! I'm still trying to find my feet!

@jonathankilby6636 8 ай бұрын

Watched mainly for your review. But using rpg games as a therapy aid is an interesting idea. Great video BTW mate 👍

@RPGTherapist 8 ай бұрын

Really good of you to say, thank you ❤️

@wizardtowergames 8 ай бұрын

Going to watch this after Gamers Health live this evening

@RPGTherapist 8 ай бұрын

Hope you find it useful 😀

@DeadMarsh 7 ай бұрын

Does the cloth map come with the starter set?

@RPGTherapist 7 ай бұрын

Alas, no, you have to buy it seperately. There IS a copy of the same map (of the same size) in the starter set, but it's only paper, I'm afraid. Really sturdy, good quality paper, but paper nonetheless. If you hurry, you might be able to nab one of the cloth Moria maps they're releasing alongside their new Khazad Dum expansion 🤞🤞

@Phavahg 29 күн бұрын

My play group ran it for 15 months. We had fun BUT the rule book is terrible. Things that ought to have been in the index aren't and the things that are often don't tell you how to implement them.

@RPGTherapist 27 күн бұрын

Do you know what, that's actually a fair point. I guess I forget that bit because I've become so familiar with it over the years 😅. Thanks for the comment 👍

@georgen9755 8 ай бұрын

we are wrestling for some cause but certainly not to intervene into your bookshelves or diaries ............. geek Hebrew

@RPGTherapist 8 ай бұрын

Both bookshelf and diary are certainly packed! 😅

@Morfp 11 күн бұрын

The starting set sucks man. Great idea, beautiful art, horrendous adventures for starting players. The adventures are some of the worst ones I have ever read from a published source, and do little to prepare for the actual game. They are written as 100% railroad and literally assume that every roll will be a success as not a single fail case is written. No random events tables or such are there to help the loremaster during the adventures.

@Drudenfusz 8 ай бұрын

I don't think it is a game for me. Sure, I enjoyed reading the books when I was young, but over the years I wrestled too much with all the issues, like the too strong emphasis on male characters (and even though the movies tried to fix that, I think they partly made it worse), the Euro-centrism of the good guys and the orientalism in the bad guys, and worst of all that the solution is basically the destruction of a cultural artifact from another society. All that makes it in my eyes very inappropriate, especially in a therapy context since there is sends for me too many wrong messages.

@RPGTherapist 8 ай бұрын

Oh wow, I'd never thought of the One Ring as a cultural artefact, more a weapon of mass destruction. 🤔 Fascinating take on it, thanks for the thought 😀

@Drudenfusz 7 ай бұрын

@@alexandergrant-xg2do You can believe whatever you like, but you are aware that proposing someone else's interpretation must be because they have not read it is a tactic that gets usually employed by fascists? But I guess you have to assume ignorance in others to get to sleep at night, then have at it. I cannot help but see in the destruction of the ring the same behaviour that the Taliban showed to Buddha statues, or that ISIS did with ancient Mesopotamian depictions of their deities. An annulet is just as any other artwork -- an cultural expression of the people who made it, and destroying any of it, especially if it has some mythological context is in my eyes always an act of bigotry. But I guess people with leanings towards fascism do not mind that. And in a sense that makes me sad about the LotR, since Tolkien seems to criticise fascism but then drops the ball in his choice of symbols.

@Crack_the_Skye 6 ай бұрын

@Drudenfusz When you look for a specific negative thing in all things, you will tell yourself you've found it. Very hostile mindset and terrible approach to therapy, basically saying in all things your client is the victim. Yikes..

@Drudenfusz 6 ай бұрын

@@Crack_the_Skye That is quite some projection going on there my dude. You don't know me and yet you make such nonsense assumptions about me. Maybe next time try use your brain first before attacking people on the internet just because they have different opinions from yours.

@Crack_the_Skye 6 ай бұрын

@@Drudenfusz Maybe look in the mirror? You have some hypocrisy on your face. Thanks for the insults, ye arbiter of morality.