[Let's Study] The One Ring: Adventures over the Edge of the Wild part 4 – Advancement

Apologies for the delay in posting this particular chapter.  Work has had me tied up recently and I haven’t been able to do any sort of reading on TOR to make a post in time.  That said, let’s go ahead and take a look at TOR’s Character Development. The first thing that TOR tells you [...]

[Let's Study] The One Ring: Adventures over the Edge of the Wild part 3 – Characteristics

Hi, and welcome back to the third installment of our Let’s Study of The One Ring: Adventures over the Edge of the Wild.  Today we’ll be looking at the basic building blocks of a Player-Hero in TOR.  This won’t be a completely detailed account, as I wouldn’t want to spoil everything, of course. Attributes There [...]

[Let's Study] The One Ring: Adventures over the Edge of the Wild part 2 – Characters

Hello everyone, and welcome to today’s Let’s Study article for The One Ring discussing everyone’s favorite part of any RPG: Characters. Characters, or Player-Heroes as they are called in TOR are all assumed to be ordinary folk who found a motivation to abandon the comforts of everyday life to seek out adventures. Whether it be [...]

[Let's Study] The One Ring: Adventures over the Edge of the Wild part 1 – Introduction

The One Ring: Adventures over the Edge of the Wild (TOR) by Cubicle 7 is the latest role-playing game to be set in Tolkien’s Middle-Earth.  I’ve had a chance to weigh in my thoughts on TOR in my review, but today I start a Let’s Study series where we pick the game apart and see [...]

[Let's Study: Licensed Game Edition] And the winner is…

The One Ring: Adventures over the Edge of the Wild by Cubicle 7 games! The latest rpg to bear the license of one of the most influential and beloved fantasy settings, Cubicle 7′s The One Ring narrowly defeats A Song of Ice and Fire from Green Ronin by a mere two votes.  I’ll most likely [...]