Love it!

The Worm Discord was thinking about keying Metroidvania maps and turned up this gem: maprando.com.

It generates a playable Super Metroid ROM with Rogue-like randomizations, including a random map.

More like Lord of the Rings THRILLOGY am I right?

If you run it, let me know! I'd love to hear your experiences with it.

Delvers

If you see this post a dawg

Anyway, it is just a free little game I whipped up to go along with my Middle-earth Hexcrawl project. I hope there's something here that resonates with you. If you end up running it, please let me know!

5. In Lore, there's a crunchy journey system that makes you have conversations about how you approach the puzzle of travel.

And, importantly, your company gains experience based on new hexes traveled and new dungeons explored. Each 10 points scored by the company gives 1 player a new level!

4. Lore has delightfully wonky combat. Roll on a combat chart to determine if you hit your opponent and how hard. And nested in the chart are super flavourful death and dismemberment results.
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3. In Lore, there are two twists on classic OSR procedures of languages and the reaction roll.

Characters in The Hobbit are true polyglots! Similarly, in Lore, the languages you know and don't know are determined during play. And if you speak with an NPC, you improve their reaction to you!
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2.5. If you choose to make your own character using the advanced rules, each character should prove to be totally unique with each culture having 50 random, flavorful abilities to gain (300 abilities in total). I think there's some real gems here!
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2. The original LOR was almost a capsule game. The game was about playing specific characters in this adventure. A funky premise, but one that I think is compelling! Lore has a similar default set up: play as a gang of burglars from Bree!

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1. Ever since I wrote my 1937 Hobbit blog post (almost ten years ago, good Lord), I've been making posts with rules that attempt to codify the "Treasure Hunting, Journeying, Singing" aesthetic of the original Hobbit. The Middle-earth Hexcrawl Project and Lore are the culmination of those efforts.
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LORE - A Lord of the Rings Adventure Game Retroclone "I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a ...

Every year, I reread the LotR trilogy. This last year's reread amped me up and I started keying Middle-earth 12 miles at a time

Concurrently, without meaning to, I wrote a game to run the hexcrawl

I call it Lore - a Lord of the Rings Adventure Game retroclone

Here's what I think is fun about it🧵

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My partner just hypercorrected their way into a delightful new term: in medias rex. In the middle of kings.

I agree, I love them!

Two page spread of The Castle Automatic, a creature called the grave golem dominating the left page

Oh yeah, it's all coming together

Sword & Sorcery is when the soft animal of your body has to slay a fucking necromancer.

Please enjoy.

This looks neat! An expansion and adaptation of my Middle-earth Hexcrawl crafting rules - now, for YOUR dungeon fantasy game.

Honestly, yeah, haha. There's some sincerely nice people in there. But as normal people, they might think adventurers are *terrible* if they show up bloody and acting all suspicious.

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A mechanical man with a face like a Grecian mask

A lizard like bird with peacock feathers

An ogrish king

A devil sitting on a pile of coins

Who knows who you'll encounter in The Castle Automatic?

A pawn of the Court of Swords?

A peacockatrice?

The Emperor of the Wide World?

Mammon, devil of greed?

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Thanks for the tips! I'll try them on my next run.
Which I can do just one more of
before I do any
thing else

White guy in front of a water fall

Did a little morel hunting hike last night. Too dry so far! Will keep looking.

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What are your top strategies? I'm still barely scraping by a win on basic decks if I get really lucky with a run.