Combat in The One Ring 2e

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This complete guide to combat in The One Ring 2e RPG by Free League will teach you everything you need to know with an example scenario.
0:07 - Basic Scenario
0:20 - Determine Surprise
0:47 - Opening Volley
1:04 - Making Attacks
1:26 - Successful Attack
1:40 - Piercing Blow
1:51 - Protection Rolls
2:40 - Wounds
3:14 - Close Quarters Combat & Stances
3:54 - Special Damage
4:41 - New Combat Round
4:47 - Combat Tasks
5:43 - Extra Rules
5:46 - Becoming Weary
6:04 - Healing Rolls
6:21 - Advantages and Complications
6:37 - Knock-back (reducing Endurance Loss)
6:50 - Adversary Special Damage Options
7:01 - Engagement Limits
7:18 - Reading Adversary Stat Blocks
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@willattheworldsend 4 ай бұрын

This video has been updated to fix the mistakes and add a few missed mechanics. You can find the new video here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r6tpY7OiyJrUimw.html

@davewilson13 10 ай бұрын

Other channels would have said half as much in a video three times as long. Nicely done! No filler.

@nuculearbazooka Жыл бұрын

this is great, thank you! I might ask that you slow down just a bit. Otherwise, the best vid I have seen so far

@willattheworldsend Жыл бұрын

You are not the first to mention that I speak too fast. I have tried to slow down a bit in my more recent videos and I've added captions to hopefully help a bit. Thanks!

@eibes Жыл бұрын

@@willattheworldsend As English is not my native language, I have to be very focused to understand when you speak. I am interested in The One Ring, and the job you did on your videos is amazing, so I watched several of them since I discovered your channel today, but now I am exhausted :D

@thomasboynton1 7 ай бұрын

If it helps, you can try watching the video at a slower playback speed by changing it in the video settings (the gear symbol)

@kieranf3021 4 ай бұрын

English is my first language and I struggled lol. 75% speed on playback helps out loads, good video otherwise, cheers.

@andrewdavies1193 Жыл бұрын

Great summary of the rules. Definitely will be checking out your other summaries. I picked up one error at 9:04. Valour is used to resist dread and wisdom to resist sorcery (p138 & p139 Core book). Keep up the good work!

@willattheworldsend Жыл бұрын

Thank you! And good catch. I almost made the same mistake on my video for Shadow.

@borusa32 5 ай бұрын

Very helpful,thank you.

@vaygo.forlorn Жыл бұрын

Amazing video, clear and concise.

@eastargamemanufacturing6914 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video, I love the way it animates!

@a.gjosaether Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for these videos!

@earendilorbit Жыл бұрын

Great work, quite nice use of visuals. One ring 2e is an amazing game. I hope free league publish more supplements.

@willattheworldsend Жыл бұрын

I've heard somewhere they they're working on a Moria book. But I don't know where I heard that so it might not be true.

@user-jt1js5mr3f 10 ай бұрын

@@willattheworldsendrejoice, the kickstarter launches this month!

@ekashotersen Жыл бұрын

That's what I'm looking for! Amazing video. Thank you so much. Since english isn't my primary language, I put the video in 0.75x speed. You speak very fast for my ears and brain. Again, thank you.

@user-jt1js5mr3f 10 ай бұрын

English IS my primary language and I also put it on .75 because he spoke so fast 😆

@danmorgan3685 5 ай бұрын

I just noticed the "Great Leap" trait would allow an Orc Chieftain (who was almost as big as a man) to leap into the room and stab Frodo before being killed during the Moria fight scene.

@willattheworldsend 5 ай бұрын

That is a good catch! I did not make that connection.

@maurerjerome4381 Жыл бұрын

Hey. When you rolled and killed the archer goblin he could resist his wound by rolling 1d12 and armor d6. His armor is 1 so I was wondering why you rolled 2 d6. It's around 2.10 min

@willattheworldsend Жыл бұрын

You are correct there. I should have only rolled 1d6. Good catch!

@azerodovskizhang425 7 ай бұрын

Great video! Can see that the Free League was trying to simplify the battle but I donnot think they have done well lol

@jordidelmetall1 Жыл бұрын

Great video!! There are no opportunity attacks?

@willattheworldsend Жыл бұрын

Not in this. Which would be a good thing to include. If you need to run from a fight there is a rule where you choose the Defensive stance and make an attack roll. If you succeed you don't inflict damage but do manage to get away.

@adammcguire8936 Жыл бұрын

This is gold! Thank you for making this. I can’t seem to find what the enemy attribute level means. I understand it represents difficulty but is there a baseline? What does 5 attribute level mean in terms of difficulty?

@willattheworldsend Жыл бұрын

The main mechanic of Attribute level seems to be that it can apply to Special Damage. For example, if an enemy deals a Heavy Blow, they deal extra Endurance loss up to their Attribute level. The book also says that it applies to some Fell Abilities but I can't find any examples of that. It might be a mistake from a previous idea. I can't find any way of really measuring the difficulty. I think after you ran a few combat encounters you would just get an idea of what the players can handle at their current level.

@Avankiri Жыл бұрын

At 2:00 you say that the goblin rolls 1 feat die plus a number of success guy equal to his Armor value, which is 1. Yet your demonstration rolls 1 feat die and 2 success dice. Did I misunderstand the ruling there? I only have the starter set, but I'm already hooked just from reading the rules and Shire adventures.

@willattheworldsend Жыл бұрын

You have the rules right there. I made a mistake in the video.

@MrHorhee Жыл бұрын

good god man, slow down :)

@willattheworldsend Жыл бұрын

Haha! I think I have slowed down a bit in my more recent videos. I'm just so excited to talk about The One Ring!

@MrHorhee Жыл бұрын

@@willattheworldsend and you are doing great job with it ! Thanks for the content

@greggcarter5254 Жыл бұрын

Decrease the playback speed. 🙂

@victormoreno1948 Жыл бұрын

great job! i'm dming the adventures of the starter set, and both there and in this video, the pc's parry seems to high for me! I mean, with normal enemies you have to make very high rolls to bother the party! Imean, of course i don't want to kill them at all, but at first view enemies will struggle too much to even hit! Do you feel the same or i'm missing something? Sorry for the bad english, obviously is not my mother language ..

@willattheworldsend Жыл бұрын

PCs can have high parry ratings. Remember that enemies can spend Hate to add an extra 1d6 as well their fell abilities can help make them pretty dangerous.

@MrHorhee Жыл бұрын

a question - at 10th secon you are showing some great tokens with beautifully added stats (endurance, defense etc) - how did you make them / is there any tool or do you know any link to download the tokens maybe (i know the showed one are book-scanned/snipped)

@willattheworldsend Жыл бұрын

I made them all inside of After Effects. If you want to make some yourself you can probably do it in Photopea or Gimp which are both free.

@garethmason7920 8 ай бұрын

So you have endurance that acts as secondary health but might is the main health if they suffer a piercing blow etc ?

@willattheworldsend 8 ай бұрын

That is correct. The players are really aiming to get piercing blows.

@FellVoice Жыл бұрын

Question - the Wound system seems a little arbitrary. How does this system reconcile something like Boromir getting skewered by several arrows and still fight on?

@willattheworldsend Жыл бұрын

Do you mean how players get Wounded is arbitrary or how the severity is determined is arbitrary or both? I think the system works well to make combat serious, but players still have a little wiggle room so they don't just get killed in one hit. Attacks in TOR are only wearing away Endurance, not hit points, so a 'hit' doesn't really hit you unless it's a Piercing Blow and that's when a character actually gets cut or stabbed. Does this answer your question?

@FellVoice Жыл бұрын

@@willattheworldsend Yes both, I'm a big fan of the books and the movies and in both Boromir got pierced several times, to me what looked like a Penetrating Blow. I took this to be a mark of his perseverance and will to fight on despite grievous injury. How would the One Ring rpg deal with this because to me it looks like you can only take two wounds and then you're dead.

@willattheworldsend Жыл бұрын

@@FellVoice I guess in the rules there's no option for this. You could look at it like if a player succeeds on their Protection roll vs a Piercing Blow they have sort of taken a Wound but are able to keep fighting. Or working your players or Loremaster you could have a rule where a player who takes a second Wound could make a Strength or Heart roll to keep fighting even though they'll still die at the end of combat.

@the_vanguard5314 Жыл бұрын

I guess in game terms, Boromir would have suffered multiple hits but only one of them would have caused a wound. He would lose a lot of Endurance thought, which would cause him to become Weary eventually, and then would fail his next Protection roll as a result. TOR's rules are somewhat arbitrary by design, as this will leave room for interpretation so you can always put narration first.

@nimlouth Жыл бұрын

This is a great reply! Wounds are really your health and endurance is more like a stamina thing. Player-heroes can fight on despite being wounded, just like boromir did, but he was weary too and probably miserable because of the ring's influence and burned through all of his hope too. I think the one ring 2e actually reflects perfectly that kind of fiction.

@simonmcdonald446 7 ай бұрын

Still note sure what happens in the next round after a knockback. Seems they cant attack or defend - correct?

@willattheworldsend 7 ай бұрын

You are correct. The hero will have to take their next main action to try to recover their position. It doesn't seem like there is any roll to make for this. The player will just say they are getting back into position and then can still take a secondary action such as shouting to allies, drawing a weapon, or dropping some war gear to lessen their load.

@simonmcdonald446 6 ай бұрын

@@willattheworldsend Not tried it in-game, but sounds nasty just being open to another attack. Thnaks for your comment.

@menakles 7 ай бұрын

Hi, I noticed that you're using 18-rating for TNs instead of the standard 20- .Was this in response to the "official" TNs being too high? I've not played yet, but I was worried that the standard method gave very high TN's for starting characters. The downside, I guess, is the game getting too easy for high level heroes. I'm wondering if I don't prefer 1e TOR with it's variable TNs.... I also noticed that Ingold's stats total 16, rather than the standard 14. Is this due to character leveling, or houseruling?

@willattheworldsend 7 ай бұрын

Yes, I start with TNs of 18. Even with the lowered starting point I find a lot of rolls fail which can get quite tedious. It's been a long time since I made that character, I think I took option 4 on the Rangers' Attributes giving me Strength 6, Heart 4, and Wits 4. Then using the 'Kings of Men' Cultural Blessing moved the Strength up to 7. I think I used the starting Virtue of Prowess to lower the Wits TN by 1 and I wrote that by raising the Attribute score by 1 which must be the wrong way to do it. Although, I'm not sure if it makes a difference.

@alignmentunknown3156 8 ай бұрын

Does anything special happen if a monster hits a PC and reduces them to negative endurance, besides falling unconscious?

@willattheworldsend 8 ай бұрын

Nothing extra happens. Just unconscious.

@alignmentunknown3156 8 ай бұрын

@@willattheworldsend thank you!

@michaellabarge2483 Жыл бұрын

Around 9:09 you mention that Sorcery Shadow checks use Valor....I believe only Fear Shadow checks use Valor. Sorcery and Greed Shadow checks both go against Virtue. Unless I misread the rules....anyone want to double check this?

@michaellabarge2483 Жыл бұрын

NM, I saw that someone else mentioned it earlier in the comments.....

@teethhuller8275 4 ай бұрын

Parrying a thrown spear with a bow?

@Jp421JP 5 ай бұрын

Why is your TN higher with higher strength? Seems to make no sense.

@willattheworldsend 5 ай бұрын

Can you add a timecode to where that is the case? A higher strength rating should result in a lower TN. For example, Ingold has a Strength rating of 7 so his TN is 11. Ellahir has a Strength rating of 5 and a TN of 13.

@Jp421JP 5 ай бұрын

@@willattheworldsend It was unclear at first that it is 20 minus str.

@christinebeckett7060 3 ай бұрын

This could be good, but your speech is a bit too fast.

@Tony-sq8vq 19 күн бұрын

The video and layout are excellent, but the speed of your speech needs to be slower. Rushing through the explanation is not beneficial for a tutorial.

@willattheworldsend 18 күн бұрын

I have made a new version that is a bit slower and fixes some mistakes: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r6tpY7OiyJrUimw.html