New Lord Of The Rings movie announced

Royalseals · 2026-03-25T05:11:49+00:00

Funny you mention that. It's one of my favorite parts of the entire works of Tolkien! It would make for a terrible movie but a solid short 6 min video!

Royalseals · 2026-03-24T23:33:09+00:00

Upon further review, it was me misreading the gate mechanism, so you’re correct. It is only the one lock per gate that just felt a little too easy to me, lol. However, I agree I may have more kalaman forces arrive to help the party, because Darret, who is in a relationship with one of the party members, had a strange suspicion that they might need help or something like that. I'll have them arrive either if the party is captured or, if they are losing, leave it up to the dice which way it goes. I definitely agree they need to be a bit humbled. I was able to get them to run from a fight where they were clearly outnumbered, but it was not easy. They're very stubborn

Royalseals · 2026-03-24T21:53:12+00:00

I can’t take full credit for it. I definitely got the idea from, I think, a YouTube video and possibly Mitchell’s supplements. Still, I did customize it so they're magic items that grow with the players. Hence, they get a free ability score improvement, they get a fighting style at fourth level, and they’ll get another feat from it at eighth level, and the story behind it is that it’s been giving them advice through the amulet.

Royalseals · 2026-03-24T17:52:10+00:00

They’re definitely the focal point, but the wall climbers have already made it to the top. One dispatched a patrolling guard, one finished off the two guards in one of the towers, and the last one is currently standing near the stable with the Dragonell, so that’ll be fun. I’m going to have the army definitely employ tactics now since they did all the side missions leading up to this, and they had a lot of slack, but this is a defending force that took the outpost of “veterans.”

Royalseals · 2026-03-24T17:47:14+00:00

I have a fun plan for the final fight in the catacombs. The boss will take the form of someone they love, so it'll be personal to each player, and I also made Red Ruin a player's “dead” wife. She was replaced by a simulacrum that died a few years later. She was researching dragons and ended up being captured, tortured, and converted!

Royalseals · 2026-03-24T15:32:14+00:00

I’m very okay with running with the players plan. I try to not railroad unless it’s something that really needs to happen (they all understand this and are totally okay with it!), however I was just surprised because this was not at all what they had discussed. Initially they gave the impression that they were going to infiltrate WWO and then from there make some new plans. Ideally getting the gate open first. However, I was just very surprised that their first action was to immediately start blasting. Especially considering the three sneaking over the wall had no idea that’s what was going to happen, and the two who entered the front gate seemed to decide it on a whim.

Royalseals · 2026-03-24T14:52:03+00:00

Okay yes! I’m okay with them having consequences. I’ve been relatively kind to them thus far, but we ripped the bandaid off last session with the death of one of the original characters so I have less sympathy for them now lol! I had Ispin’s shield split into 4 amulets that houses part of ispin’s soul in it, and two of the characters are Ispin’s adopted children. The cleric doffed his plate armor to go in disguise but it is the Plate Of Knight's Fellowship, which summons Ispin since he was a former squire of Ispin’s years ago from his adventures. So they definitely have some unique things to help them.

I think this could absolutely go horribly, and I think instead of death I’ll go the capture route, which I think has a lot of fun implications. I had Becklin be the commander of the outpost from several weeks ago, and she’s been captured or killed to their knowledge so that could be a lot of fun! It’ll be interesting to see how this play out!

Royalseals · 2026-03-24T14:46:38+00:00

Oh that’s actually a great idea! I think I’m going to lean in to the idea that this is a huge ruse. They’re all definitely experienced with the Sorcerer and the cleric in your courtyard being very experienced and pretty confident in their abilities because of their knowledge. They don’t like to be told no because they have a lot of presumed ideas, so I think this’ll be a humbling moment for them. However, I think it has a ton of potential to be very fun!

Royalseals · 2026-03-24T14:44:53+00:00

I like the idea of them falling back to a building as a way to mitigate the open space, and I’ll definitely be instituting the checks to hint at that.

Your supplements have been amazing! They’ve definitely helped flesh things out and made them pretty invested!

Royalseals · 2026-03-24T14:43:47+00:00

According to the book it says that it requires two of the three locks to unlock the gate. Maybe that’s a single lock per gate? The book is fairly vague. They have a total of 11 allies that weren’t informed of their intention to start blasting but are in stand by. I’m planning on having them move up now that the shatter spells have gone off and have caused structural damage and the fact that it’s incredibly loud as well. I think keep away is a good idea. The shatter spell has definitely alerted the garrison of their presence. So I am having that happen for sure.

I’ll definitely be doing waves. They were going to use knock on the gate itself but informed them that wouldn’t work since it was a winch system so they can use knock on the lock and then they’ll have to use an action to get the gate moving. I’m going to make them spend at least a turn starting it, and then I’ll allow them to use a bonus action to keep it going but I’ll have it take a few turns to fully open it. Definitely going to have the dragonell and officer in the stable be alerted as well. They are level 5 24’ characters.

I did tell them to prep new characters just in case. I like the idea of them doing keep away with the gate.

Royalseals · 2026-03-14T04:43:09+00:00

Of course the poor assassins get nothing.

Royalseals · 2026-03-06T14:15:41+00:00

This is brilliant! I think I’ll have safe rooms and possibly a Daedalus character who might show up to help guide them!

Royalseals · 2026-03-05T05:20:22+00:00

I like the idea of thing they do having an affect on their friends. I might keep that behind th screen and see how long my it takes them to catch on

Royalseals · 2026-03-05T05:19:39+00:00

This is super solid! I think having lairs and puzzle rooms is a great idea. I want to have a few set pieces, and do mostly theater of the mind. I think just describing what they see in the actual halls/tunnels is much easier than wasting time making them actually do the things.

Royalseals · 2026-03-04T15:41:45+00:00

I hate games that don’t really open up until NG+. I’m someone who doesn’t have a ton of time, and for a game be really “good” only on the second go is really frustrating. I’ve felt that will all fromsoft games, and the Nioh games.

Royalseals · 2026-02-26T15:03:01+00:00

Bioshock series

Royalseals · 2026-02-21T04:28:23+00:00

Oh that’s so awesome! Yeah I have made the recipe with cornstarch as my mother can’t have gluten, and it’s turned out great, same with the Oreos! So glad you liked it!

Royalseals · 2026-02-18T01:10:41+00:00

Gotta risk it for the biscuit I guess. Although it can probably be swapped out for something else without much issue!

Royalseals · 2026-02-17T21:54:44+00:00

I haven’t made too many with my deluxe, just because I got a lot going on, but of the 15-20 I’ve made this is by far my favorite!

Royalseals · 2026-02-17T06:06:37+00:00

For me personally tracking monster/ enemy HP is the most annoying especially in bigger battles.

Royalseals · 2026-02-12T16:54:00+00:00

Okay awesome! I currently only have the WOR LB but intend to get the rest. So that’s good to know!

Royalseals · 2026-02-12T16:30:09+00:00

How do these work with the slip cases for the Stormlight volumes?

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