I think you need to read the rules on this scenario - no Ems in the game at
all. Ie no Em orders at all.
**My apologies, didn't realise emmies were out.
Do you mean that you don't think this is appropriate? Just say. 
I am
looking for feedback here not veiled criticism.
**I just think Gollum & Bilbo are gonna turn out 2b very useless chars,
that's all. The two owning nations will probably gonna end up wasting one
order on retiring them. Of course, that's my personal point of view, I be
very happy to hear of any viewpoints who can point on their usefulness
to me.
**Oh, I did notice that the 2 One Ring orders were missing. Anyway, will
the One Ring act like it does in normal me games ? Go missing by itself ?
But but but what happened to Balin ???
Only so many dwarves we could get in.
**And the best of them missed the boat, such a pity, that my fab stumpy
isn't there. Then again, I forgot this is Bot5A and NOT a F.A. scenario
game, nope, Balin don't fit in, either not born or too young.
**And seeing it's Bot5A, I'm disappointed with the stuff the dwarves have,
note that probably nearly all of them (in the cave) were equipped with
magical weapons and/or armor, given the treasure they found, Bilbo was
wearing a magical armor as well, if I recall truly (I unfortunately lost my
copy of the Hobbit).
Try it and get back to us - we're not sure it works yet but prefer comments
after you have played the game. We tried to get something that can
appeal to all sorts of players - we're not sure if we have the mix right yet
though. That's why it's a playtest.
**b.e. said "You need not poke your finger into shit to know it taste like
shit",
but that's normal with b.e., full of shit as usual, :).
**2 weeks turnabout, too slow for b.e. as it's a 5 player 10 turns game
only.
Also b.e. prefer to play ALL of one side (all 2 or all 3), no trust "allies"
at all
in such a game but that's totally against the point of this scenario or
rather
not following the "story line" at all.
b.e.