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Out Of Character
« Thread Started on Apr 25, 2011, 8:55am »

A place for any out of character chat -- except rules discussion which has its very own thread here.

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Re: Out Of Character
« Reply #1 on May 14, 2011, 12:31am »

Gentlemen,

Firstly thank to you all for your participation. I hope I'll be able to run an enjoyable game for everyone

I have updated the Fellowship Summary with the first six PCs and their hirelings. As you can see, we are going to have a small army by the time everyone is done.

When you post please refer to your PC in third person!

I.e., write "Grodo hides behind the door" rather than "I hide behind the door". This will make it easier for me (and everyone else) to see who is doing what without having to figure out who all the "I"s refer to.

Just waiting for a few more PC sheets to go up, and then we can get underway!

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Re: Out Of Character
« Reply #2 on May 15, 2011, 9:57am »

You can't really plan role-play, which takes on a life of its own, but I noticed something kind of cool about the first five finished PCs.

All of us are Fair, except LÓMËLUIN, who is selfish; and he is also the only full-blooded elf. But, it being Middle Earth, probably a lot of us will assume LÓMËLUIN is Fair and maybe even look to him as a leader of sorts. Anyway, it might be kind of cool to make LÓMËLUIN's elf blood and potential for temptation one of the RP elements as we assault the mines, if it works out that way anyway.

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Re: Out Of Character
« Reply #3 on May 15, 2011, 2:57pm »

I like it, calithena. LÓMËLUIN is certainly selfish in terms of his cause. He is, however, basically honourable, if suspicious of other races - Men in particular. But he's a proud elf lord with a mission. It's a case of the end justifying the means - shades of Boromir, Denethor and Saruman... (and all sorts of proud, doomed elf lords in the Silmarillion...)

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Re: Out Of Character
« Reply #4 on May 16, 2011, 5:17am »

I've added Síli son of Víli to the Fellowship summary... he and his immense train of hirelings and mules, that is!

Might I comment at this point, with half the fellowship up, that this is going to be the largest company of adventurers EVA!!

Looking forward to getting underway

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Re: Out Of Character
« Reply #5 on May 16, 2011, 5:29am »

Monsters & Treasure, page 3:

Orcs, Number appearing: 30-300.

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Re: Out Of Character
« Reply #6 on May 16, 2011, 6:31am »

See now, for parties of this size, those things aren't quite so crazy.

One thing that we may want to do is create a 'scouting party' of elves, sneaks, and hobbits that runs out ahead of Easy Company as we go - stealth ahead of force, or the velvet glove over the iron fist, as it were.

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Re: Out Of Character
« Reply #7 on May 16, 2011, 8:38am »

May 16, 2011, 5:17am, waysoftheearth wrote:

I've added Síli son of Víli to the Fellowship summary... he and his immense train of hirelings and mules, that is!

Sili made a few last-minute changes to his inventory because, as his father Vili (distant cousin of Fili and Kili) once said, "There's more meat on a mule than a cart."

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Re: Out Of Character
« Reply #8 on May 16, 2011, 8:42am »

May 16, 2011, 8:38am, mushgnome wrote:

"There's more meat on a mule than a cart."

Ew.

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Re: Out Of Character
« Reply #9 on May 16, 2011, 9:06am »

May 16, 2011, 8:42am, ehiker133 wrote:

May 16, 2011, 8:38am, mushgnome wrote:

"There's more meat on a mule than a cart."

Ew.

Don't worry, Norin, when we run out of mules, we can eat the Elfs!

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Re: Out Of Character
« Reply #10 on May 16, 2011, 9:09am »

May 16, 2011, 9:06am, mushgnome wrote:

May 16, 2011, 8:42am, ehiker133 wrote:

Ew.

Don't worry, Norin, when we run out of mules, we can eat the Elfs!

Ah, *whew*. I'm cool with that.

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Re: Out Of Character
« Reply #11 on May 16, 2011, 9:44am »

May 16, 2011, 5:29am, waysoftheearth wrote:

Monsters & Treasure, page 3:

Orcs, Number appearing: 30-300.

Ha!

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Re: Out Of Character
« Reply #12 on May 16, 2011, 11:18am »

May 16, 2011, 6:31am, calithena wrote:

May 16, 2011, 9:06am, mushgnome wrote:

May 16, 2011, 8:42am, ehiker133 wrote:

Ew.

Don't worry, Norin, when we run out of mules, we can eat the Elfs!

How about a dwarvish version of 'The Forlorn Hope..?'

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Re: Out Of Character
« Reply #13 on May 16, 2011, 5:25pm »

We've got ten to this fellowship! That's a lot of guys! I haven't counted to hirelings or animals yet either... So maybe a few "marching orders" for different conditions might be in order? Someone mentioned a sneaky scout-ahead idea earlier which seems a good idea to me.

Here's a breakdown of characters so far (arranged alphabetically by biology, sorry no diacritics!)
Norin Dwarf Fighter 3
Sili Dwarf Fighter 4
Lomeluin Elf Bard 4
Enlardin Half Elf Bard 3
Legandir Half Elf Ranger 3
Celglin Half Elf Seer 3
Baraglin Hobbit Sneak 4
Arbenbard Human (Northman) Seer 4
Soval Human Fighter 4

We've obviously going to have a big "train" too...

This should be interesting!

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Re: Out Of Character
« Reply #14 on May 16, 2011, 6:07pm »

May 16, 2011, 5:25pm, ragnorakk wrote:

This should be interesting!

Let's just say some of the fights might get rather... BIG.

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