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For questions about The One Ring, an RPG set in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth setting. The first edition was first published by Cubicle 7 in 2011. Cubicle 7 announced a second edition in May 2019, but was canceled when the company's licensing agreement ended in November 2019. Free League Publishing took over the license in 2020, and the second edition was released in 2021 following a successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter earlier that year.

For questions about The One Ring (often abbreviated as "TOR"), an RPG developed by Cubicle 7 and set in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth setting. It uses very simple rules and several narrative devices.

The first edition of TOR was initially published in 2011.

(Cubicle 7 later also released Adventures in Middle-earth, a redesigned version of TOR that is compatible with via the Open-Gaming License. For questions about Adventures in Middle-earth, see the tag.)

Cubicle 7 announced a second edition of TOR in May 2019, but it was initially canceled in November 2019 when the company ended its licensing agreement with Sophisticated Games, the company responsible for licensing Tolkien’s creations for the tabletop. Cubicle 7 also announced that it would cease publishing the first edition of The One Ring (as well as its Adventures in Middle-earth line) in the first half of 2020 as a result.

Later in 2020, Free League Publishing announced that it had acquired the license to publish new versions of these RPGs. The second edition of The One Ring was eventually released in December 2021, following a successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter earlier that year.

(Eventually, Free League announced in August 2022 that this second edition would also receive a D&D 5e adaptation, titled The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying, with preorders for the game's core compendium scheduled to open in fall 2022 and a retail release planned for early 2023.)

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Do Permanent Shadow Points Ever Go Away?

I'm new to the One Ring RPG (never played, just reading through it) and I'm having trouble understanding Shadow points. It sounds like Shadow points accumulate for a variety of reasons, making it harder to use Hope without becoming Miserable.…
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How do enemies retreat from combat?

What are the mechanics for enemies retreating from combat? Enemies can choose to retreat from combat for many reasons, both of mundane choice and special mechanics. One that can potentially come up often is the effect of the Craven ability of some…
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Advanced, non-canon armor in The One Ring?

As far as I know, Tolkien's works featured no armor heavier than chain mail, in general, and this is also what the rules reflect in The One Ring RPG. The movie adaptations, however, depict--apparently going "against the canon", yet rather believably…
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How often can a trait be invoked in a game?

I understand that you can only invoke a trait once per action in The One Ring, but I can't find anything that says how often per game a single trait can be invoked. How often can a trait be invoked in a game? Is there a limit to that, or is it…
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How to properly use The Speakers Cultural Virtue

This question is for the first edition since the site tags do not yet differentiate between the two. I am struggling with the Elves of Mirkwood - Cultural Virtue The Speakers on page 109 of the core rules. You have learnt how to communicate with…
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PC vs PC combat in The One Ring

Should such a situation arise that players should face one another (or NPCs built according to the rules for the playable "races") in The One Ring rpg, how would combat work? (Whose stance prevails, for example?) Later edit: Okay, maybe the question…
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If you get permanent shadow points without a Bout of Madness, do you still get a Degeneration?

My question is about what happens when you get Permanent Shadow Points without a Bout of Madness. In TOR you normally only get Permanent Shadow Points by becoming Miserable, rolling an Eye of Sauron, and thus suffering a Bout of Madness. This causes…
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What counts as being "wounded" for the purpose of the rules on recovering a point of Hope?

In The One Ring game, players are allowed to recover a point of Hope if their Fellowship focus is not wounded during the session. The issue is that the rules don't seem to state if they mean the Wounded condition (which involves a successful edge…
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