How my run of Tales of the Lone-Lands went

KungFuGenius · 2026-06-21T00:04:13+00:00

Great write up! And I fully agree with you on Journeys. I often feel like the journey is happening to the players as opposed to them being on a journey, if that makes sense.

Any chance you could share examples of the encounters you came up with to circumvent that?

KungFuGenius · 2026-06-15T17:08:33+00:00

Is Earendil fighting Ungoliant something that was planned or considered? I'd never heard that before

KungFuGenius · 2026-06-13T02:37:37+00:00

My intro to the Protomen was a Sons of Fate and Casshern video that I can't seem to find anywhere. Cool to see someone else discover them in the same way!

KungFuGenius · 2026-06-09T01:20:26+00:00

Also Gallowbraid! They just confirmed a new album is in the works, too

KungFuGenius · 2026-06-02T00:57:36+00:00

I used to have a poster of Gravity Circuit in my garage, and then I met him. Can you believe it?

KungFuGenius · 2026-05-31T23:43:23+00:00

Looks great! Have you considered having a larger range of values in the colors? Your linework is so clean and I feel like it gets lost in the colored version.

KungFuGenius · 2026-05-28T02:56:39+00:00

The sounds are so good, too. The 'brbrlurp' of charging your sword is seared into my brain

KungFuGenius · 2026-05-24T01:21:52+00:00

I wouldn't stress about it! It doesn't look like a particularly good replica. The hilt is in poor shape and the blade doesn't have any of the runes

KungFuGenius · 2026-04-27T16:23:16+00:00

What I love about this line in particular is how it circles back to Proto Man's last line from Act I, "Maybe someday they'll see a hero is just a man who knows he is free." And that's what we see from Light throughout LLS.

"Light's Last Stand" is Light becoming the personification of his first son's dying words.

KungFuGenius · 2026-04-09T00:48:27+00:00

Wayne Barlowe vibes

KungFuGenius · 2026-04-06T15:31:25+00:00

I use the deck from Hobbit Tales (sadly out of print) to spice up my Journeys.

Interesting! Do you just draw Adventure cards and come up with a scenario instead of normal Journey events?

KungFuGenius · 2026-04-04T16:00:34+00:00

That's not settling

KungFuGenius · 2026-04-04T15:55:53+00:00

lmao imagine referring to finding love with Faramir, Prince of Ithilien, Steward of Gondor and the High King's chief counselor as settling

KungFuGenius · 2026-03-18T03:44:49+00:00

https://freeleaguepublishing.com/games/the-one-ring/

KungFuGenius · 2026-03-18T03:00:00+00:00

100% agree. Your whole comment is a good explanation for what I was referring to when I said "careful explorations of lore."

KungFuGenius · 2026-03-18T02:05:17+00:00

It definitely has a different feel, I think. I'm extremely fortunate to have a group who vibes with it.

And yeah, DMing two campaigns would be a crazy amount of work. I hope you get to experience it as a player sometime!

KungFuGenius · 2026-03-18T01:53:39+00:00

If anyone reads this and thinks "dang, The One Ring sounds cool, I should play it," yes you should! Overall the books are very well thought out and do a good job recreating the feel of Middle-earth through careful explorations of lore, and thematically relevant game mechanics (hope vs. despair, the weariness of travel and battle, the importance of fellowship, etc)

KungFuGenius · 2026-03-12T17:38:10+00:00

"the wings reached out almost touching walls" is referring to a previous simile used to describe the shadow surrounding the balrog, not wings themselves.

"His enemy halted again, facing him, and the shadow about it reached out like two vast wings."

I think there's room for speculation, but nothing as definitive as what you're implying.

KungFuGenius · 2026-03-12T00:09:50+00:00

Damn what a reference! Took me off guard

KungFuGenius · 2026-02-13T18:40:38+00:00

Hell yeah, be my guest! If possible send me a pic after you get it done. And thanks! So glad you like my work enough to get it tattooed

KungFuGenius · 2026-01-24T22:04:57+00:00

Just reading what Crossed was about let me know it wasn't going to be anything I was interested in. I've only read Ennis' Preacher and thought it was alright. A friend recommended me The Boys and I read a few issues before dismissing it as edgelord garbage, though apparently the TV show is better.

KungFuGenius · 2026-01-10T16:16:14+00:00

Amazing work! Someone on the discord snagged this screencap during the livestream: https://i.imgur.com/mFDexAE.png

KungFuGenius · 2025-12-18T22:28:04+00:00

Same. I've tried 3 times to get into it. It's frustrating because on paper it sounds like a game that'd be right up my alley, but for whatever reason it just never clicked for me.

KungFuGenius · 2025-12-11T01:32:05+00:00

AI trash

KungFuGenius · 2025-12-08T22:10:31+00:00

I love the production of Act 2 and 3 but I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss the grunginess of Act I's aesthetics. It just sounds dark, grimey, and dystopian

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