Tag Archives: saga expansion
Barliman Butterbur
By now you should known I’m partial to hobbits. Between my ramblings on the podcast and my exposition on here, it’s clear that I am a big fan of the halflings. They’re clever, funny, quaint, and idealistic. As such I find I am also drawn to the men of Bree. Really they’re just tall hobbits: […]
Mugash
Orcs ought to be regarded with a great deal more mystique and intrigue than we grant them. To many of us Orcs and Goblins are strictly sword-fodder, small black and green people of pure evil there to be destroyed with little thought put to the task. Really that does make sense: until we get a bit of […]
Merry
‘We have come a long way with you and been through some stiff times. We want to go on.’ – Merry, The Fellowship of the Ring Merry, Mister Meriadoc Brandybuck I should say, is an affable hobbit. But, for most of us, there are two Merrys: the goofy, stoner Merry of the films and the […]
Anticipating Angmar Awakened: The Heroes
With the release of The Road Darkens and the conclusion of The Ring-maker cycle, 2014 ended with a feeding frenzy of new content. Now, as players are getting caught up on new scenarios and deck-building possibilities, FFG has begun whetting our appetite for the next expansions. The saga continues with the first half of The […]
Andúril
We are all excited about the release of The Road Darkens in just a week or two, and the latest article by Caleb over on Fantasy Fight’s website only whet the appetite even more! One of the Boons to be included in this epic Saga Expansion is Andúril, Flame of the West, Aragorn’s sword reforged from […]
Ending and Failing
It was a truly great experience attending GenCon 2014. I got to meet my fellows in The Grey Company, along with the gentlemen of the COTR podcast, lots of other great players, and the designers of our game (Caleb & Matt). A real regret, though, was not playing more LOTR. As you can imagine, a Con […]
The Prancing Pony
The Bree folk were always there…or so they say. The Lord of the Rings tells us that, according to their own tales anyway, the Men of Bree were the original inhabitants and were the descendants of the first Men that ever wandered into the West. This might put them somewhere in the same family as […]
Master of Lore 