Tag: LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER

Just in case you were wondering whether there was actually going to be a second season of RINGS OF POWER. I am obligated to tell you that, yes, there will be. I unironically recommend that you do what I do, which is to pretend that this is somebody’s old college campaign on the small screen – and, as such, is not obligated to be canonical. Then you can focus on the stuff that’s not bad, like the Dwarven family life and a surprising amount of the proto-hobbit stuff and the way that Sauron… yeah, actually, that’s how Sauron would go about it.

You might as well, because I guess Bezos paid ahead of time anyway?

Short version: I would have loved to have played in whatever homebrew MERP/Rolemaster campaign RINGS OF POWER was based off of.

Continue reading My mini-review of Amazon’s LET’S PLAY: MIDDLE-EARTH ROLEPLAYING.

…I applaud the mad genius who convinced Jeff Bezos to turn what looked like a homebrew Lord of the Rings campaign using the 4e D&D rules into a major television series. Although your silver tongue is wasted upon such activities, my friend. You should be using your supernatural charm to promote something nobler, like clean water charities.

Continue reading So I watched LOTR: ROP.

Via Constant Reader nicklevi86 comes this act of sheer beauty. I have nothing to add to this. NOTHING.

[UPDATE: Screw it, I’m leaving it that way.]

The ironic bit? This would be a pretty good TTRPG campaign. Or video game. It’s a shame they decided to make LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER a TV show.

:sigh: Yeah, I’m still gonna watch. Don’t say it, I already know.