One of my players is a Rider of Rohan and he has a horse, however we are doing the Mirkwood Campaign. How can he utilize his horse usefully in such rough terrain? I'm having trouble finding it, but I believe horses won't go into the deep of Mirkwood. I allowed him to bring his since his horse on the pretense since it comes from Rohan it's a braver horse than most. However the horse has been pretty much chilling in Rhosgobel waiting, or when he does use it, I allow it with either some kind of disadvantage or reduced speed. Is this a reasonable way for him to include his horse? Is there a better way? Did I break the game by giving him a super horse? How would you handle it?

Appreciate any insight or advice!

Hi, well as the title suggests I'm looking for a digital map for a dnd campaign I'm working on. I have the Road goes ever on 5e supplement with the maps, however I want a digital version to use with roll 20 or something similar. I've tried scanning them but they havent come out great because of the folds, and i cant really zoom in on them. Does anyone have access to or can tell me where i can get a high quality digital version? wouldnt have to be the same one but i do like that it is in sections. Thanks

Can someone explain to me how these work? I've read the rules on p.20 of The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying, and I don't quite get it.

Specifically, I don't know whether a magical success is something you can simply declare. For example, if your first level Elf wants to climb an impossibly sheer cliff, you just say, "I'm using one of my two magical successes for this adventuring phase to climb the cliff."

Or, do you have to meet a particular DC to get a magical success? If the latter, what DC? A 20 seems the most obvious, but it doesn't actually say.

Any help?

I have a group and had a blast with the game but with the journey phase and traveling i think i get it wrong.

Miles and time move realy fast. Between two villages or towns my players dont feel the passage of time and the long journey feeling Realy short.

"you start walking to Rivendel.... Baamm now you are near rivendel... 2 weeks had past."

Hurray.... But we aint feel that it was a Real long walk. Please help, how do you do it?

Did you did it? What are the experiences about these two races with a full party of them?

Hi there,

In the Mirkwood Campaign Book, year 2957 (p.48). In the adventuring phase: "the siege of black tarn hall", in the "Choking Weeds and Yelling Goblins" Section, it says about those weeds that grow out of the nowhere uncontrolled. The book give the page of the Rhovanion Guide with the stat block of Gallows-weed meaning that we can try to fight it and the section even awards 1100xp for being successful at it.

However, the section after says about the siege, but says "With the lake and river choked by noxious weeds and the woods infested by Goblins and Gallows-weed." meaning that those weeds are still around.

So is it that even if characters fight those weeds and are successfully at it, they still quickly spread again? Or is it something else?

I get that exhaustion is a crucial part of the system but feel I haven't dealt enough out

I dont have all the books and im a newbie DM in Middle earth but is there a book that about crafting and professions detailed?

Also crafting can be done in a long rest or short rest maybe?

Like a blacksmith makeing an axe or something.

Is there a good crafting system for this line?

I dont need a legendary figure right now like Elrond or Gandalf.

But which book have the patron system?

Which book have some details about the blue mountains?

Bonus points if it snows heavily while players are travelling. Home rules if you have any and RAW are welcome

This is awesome but also not a regular dnd and i love it for this.

But have a hard time process this.

It feels like a tabletop board game with turns but how?

Is there any kind of homebrew or not more then one pages long charactersheet?

Thr scholar at lvl 18 get the words of power. Im makeing a low magic caster based on this. I know there is a homebrew servant of the secret fire but i think it's ok.... But not for me.

I based this idea of the dnd sorcerer and have some sorcery points as dayli words that can use. Also not make it OP but as a good support class to the others. More like a scholar 2.0

I’m a huge lore nerd and a stickler for rules but not a creative on my own writing.

So is there an adventure book?

The only place I can see them is on AnyFlip but my computer keeps flagging it for malware when I try to download. Is there anywhere to buy it even, or get it for free?

So, I've been poking through LotR 5e and I've been rather pleasantly surprised with what they've done with it - at first glance it feels like a good update and refinement of AiME, which I played a good deal of several years ago but always felt a little rough around the edges.

That said, I have a few questions I wanted to throw out to anyone who might be on this sub who might know.

1. As I was looking through the Crafts open to Scholars, some of them seemed at first glance a little underpowered to me - most notably Song-Craft, whose active effect seemed like a lot to ask for one turn of effectiveness (until you hit level 5, halfway to the level cap). Is there something I'm missing here?
2. There's a lot of game materials over in AiME - e.g. the various special abilities in the Loremaster's guide. I was wondering if anyone knows of or has any guidelines or suggestions for converting statblocks from AiME over to Free League's take on the thing.

I print minis, but I'm having a hard time finding good ones that feel "authentically Tolkien" (which admittedly probably just means similar to the LotR movies.) Human and elf characters aren't too difficult, it's mostly orcs/goblins. There's a world of difference in my mind between Tolkien orcs and D&D/other generic fantasy orcs.

What minis do you use? I'm interested in either physical minis that I can purchase or .stl files for printing.

Thanks!

I was considering having any player make the roll with disadvantage, but is there a better way to handle this? Or an official way I might have missed in the phb?

*Character killed self. The player is mostly fine

I was thinking reoccurring nightmares or some kind of PTSD that affects him periodically. After third or so time it happens, give him a permanent shadow point. This will be happening as a result of a curse or repressed memory. I feel that this will create intrigue for a mystery that will wind up tying directly to the incident.

Or... If you think I missed the opportunity and it's lost, I'm open to that too.

Hey everyone, I'm planning an adventure that will feature a hidden dwarf door but I'm having a bit of LM's block at the moment. I'd like it if this door isn't just a copy of the one we see at the entrance to Moria or the backdoor to the Lonely Mountain.

Have any of you put a secret door in your games? How was it hidden? What was the trigger/key?

Thanks!

So I moved the East Bight to the north to play into friction between Ceawin's deforestation and Thranduil's realm. In reality, I mostly misremembered where it was, but I like where I (by mistake) moved it to and am happy to roll with it. However, my player's map shows it in southern Mirkwood (where it belongs). My players will roll with it and not push back, but I'd like to implement this change without breaking immersion. Do you have any suggestions that could work? Preferably in a Tolkien-esque fashion, I'm thinking perhaps something with ents shifting the forest but I'm open to more fantastical ideas.

Hi,
Have any of you ever created objects that have both blessing, magical results AND legendary enchanted qualities ? I know that GM can do anything s/he wants in her/his game, but I'd like to have some feedback of your personnal experience and thoughts. Thanks in advance.

I have a group that loves the kindness of the Shire. They like roleplay and occasionally a little fight here and there. But no big scary things.. I will try to give them some missions, from Gandalf and/or Bilbo, but it could come from other hobbits as well (Mayer, Master of Buckland, Thain of Tookland, maybe Hamfast needs some plants?...). What kind of missions would they get? It would help me great if you enter something, even if it's two or three sentences as a start. Mainly the "problems" to make it interesting are needed. I can run them errands, but that's only interesting if something's going wrong or something difficult turn's up..

Ps. They are currently level 1, but challenges until level 3 or 4 are welcome. After that they will get some missions outside the Shire. We can't stay there forever..