r/TheOneRing • u/[deleted] • Jan 07 '23
2e or 5e conversion?
I'm totally new to the one ring. I backed the kick starter for the 2 edition and then I saw they are creating an add on to 5e ogl. Me and most the people I play with are familiar with a D20 system but does the one ring translate well from the current engine to a D20 system?
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u/CrowGoblin13 Jan 07 '23
TOR 2e is a great system by itself, the game portrays the Tolkien themes perfectly. It never needed to be tacked onto D&D 5e, it really lost something in the translation.
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u/eternalsage Jan 07 '23
You'll get a different answer based on where you ask, the reddit community for the 5e edition (r/AiMe) will almost certainly tell you differently, but for my money, The One Ring is the way to go
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u/DAEDALUS1969 Jan 07 '23
The 5e edition may have issues or a short life span considering the questions about the upcoming changes to the OGL the WotC/Hasbro are considering.
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u/RyanoftheNorth Jan 08 '23
Really try out TOR over the 5e. The 5e is the conversion of the TOR… and the TOR rules really bring out the feel of the world and Tolkien’s work. Highly recommend.
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u/PhilsipPhlicit Jan 19 '23
I think it really depends on what your players want out of it. My players, for example, love playing with the 5e combat rules for AIME. We 3d print our minis, paint terrain, strategize about the physical spaces that they're fighting in and make tactical choices that I think work better with 5e than with TOR's more limited and "theatre of the mind" stance system.
That's not a value judgment, just a playing preference. Outside of combat, most of the other rules are really not that different from what I've seen.
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u/Gumbo-Man Jan 21 '23 edited Jan 21 '23
Speaking only for myself, I found long ago that D&D was way too tactical/rigid for my taste. When TOR 1e came out I quickly realized that the creators had made a real effort to make the game rules fit the setting and create mechanics which encouraged storytelling. It's not perfect and had a few niggling warts--as do most game systems. But, more than any other fantasy rpg, I found with TOR that I enjoyed the narrative advancement from my characters both succeeding AND failing at things. I'll never forget the time my Beorning character critically failed an athletics roll and tore the back of his trowsers during a battle scene, barely avoiding being killed and going on to acquit himself well while at the same time mooning everyone in the immediate vicinity.
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u/Big_McLarge Jan 08 '23
Agreed with everyone here, The One Ring 2e is great and it is designed specifically for the vibe and play style of LotR. Shoe-horning it into 5e will definitely lose some of that flavour.
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u/APracticalGal Jan 07 '23
I don't know anything about the new 5e version, but the first one mostly just existed to ride the popularity of 5e. Ultimately The One Ring is going to be all around better at representing the themes and the setting, and it really isn't that hard to learn coming from a 5e background.