Strider is definitely one of the most important characters in War of the Ring. In the Fellowship, he opens the way to one of the “extreme” strategies that the Free Peoples player may use, the “Strider Sprint”, which uses his power as a Guide (hiding the Fellowship with any die) to get the Ringbearer to move towards Mordor using almost all the Action Dice available. At …
Since the very first draft of what was to become Lords of Middle-earth, we started to work around the idea of including alternate versions of the Companions. The idea of alternate versions of existing characters was already featured in Battles of the Third Age and we had already decided to revisit it in Lords – it is a good way to include personalities which are new …
Gollum is one of the most fascinating characters in The Lord of the Rings. Many critics consider Tolkien’s mythology to be a world of black and white, where the good is always unshakable and evil is absolute evil. Gollum, however, definitely proves that this is not really the case. This tormented figure, torn between his residual humanity (as shown by his feelings toward Frodo, the only …
The core of the expansion, for the Free Peoples player, was well defined: Elrond; Galadriel and Gandalf, Bearer of Narya; their new Keeper’s dice; and the extra abilities that the Elven Rings had when these characters entered play. The Balrog of Moria, Evil of the Ancient World For the Shadow Player, we had an almost symmetrical extension. The alternate version of the Witch-king, who gave to …
by Andrea Angiolino Andrea Angiolino, together with Pier Giorgio Paglia, is the author of the Wings of Glory system (previously published under the name of Wings of War). In this article, Andrea tells the story of the “roots” of this best-selling game, just at the time when it’s appearing in its most polished version ever, the WW1 Wings of Glory Rules & Accessory Pack. A question …
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