In game 2950-67 the BS got a LAT on the Ring, grabbed it and I think the
game ended before he could get it to Mt. Doom. Not that we needed it as we
had crushed the FP by that point.
If you want I can send you the pdf's off-list to your email.
Now we have been joined by the large US MEPBM community, we can finally get
an answer to that age old question: how many One Ring victories have there
been? (The last count I saw said zero.)
I have cast Locate Artifact True on the One Ring maybe 50 times in the last
year all games combined and never had the spell work once. In previous games
I at least got a glimpse of who had it and where! Given those odds, I don't
see the point of the possibility of such a win being included in the game.
I was on a team that found the Ring. We killed off Bilbo in a
challenge, got the ring, and it immediately fell off into the ether.
Never found it again. In another game, we LAT'd it once, sent a ton
of mages there to 900 and LAT and never found it again. We did see a
long thread about a game that did end in a one ring victory; the free
got to Barad-Dur and there was a party involving about a hundred
characters. The key 615 order failed and the free won. The
message they posted was amusing - cloud lord assassination thwarted by
the local Barad-dur militia (You say you work for cloud lord! Og no
care! Og say you go jail!)
I was on a team that found the Ring. We killed off Bilbo in a
challenge, got the ring, and it immediately fell off into the ether.
Never found it again. In another game, we LAT'd it once, sent a ton
of mages there to 900 and LAT and never found it again. We did see a
long thread about a game that did end in a one ring victory; the free
got to Barad-Dur and there was a party involving about a hundred
characters. The key 615 order failed and the free won. The
message they posted was amusing - cloud lord assassination thwarted by
the local Barad-dur militia (You say you work for cloud lord! Og no
care! Og say you go jail!)
I read once (cannot remember where) about a game where a mage picked up the
one ring on a special service turn not knowing it was there (on the
mandatory 900 order). Don't know how true this was or if he kept it.
The only game I have been involved in where the ring was picked up it was
lost almost immeadiately. I heard a theory about the stronger the character
the less likely he is to keep it. So you probably need to create a 10 point
emissary to hold it long term. Never had a chance to test this though.
Another theory I have heard is that a LA or LAT is more likely to work the
closer the mage is to the actual location of the ring.
In game 2950-67 the BS got a LAT on the Ring, grabbed it and I think the
game ended before he could get it to Mt. Doom. Not that we needed it as we
had crushed the FP by that point.
If you want I can send you the pdf's off-list to your email.
A few years ago game 83 (with Allsorts running it) finished with a Ring
Victory for the free. We found it, dropped it, then found it again and
managed to get it to Barad-dur. A lucky escape for us since the Dark
Servants controlled most of the map.
So that's a least one in the UK.
Duncan (Cardolan in #83)
"Ashley, Matthew" wrote:
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In game 2950-67 the BS got a LAT on the Ring, grabbed it and I think the
game ended before he could get it to Mt. Doom. Not that we needed it as we
had crushed the FP by that point.
If you want I can send you the pdf's off-list to your email.
Ooops! Sorry! I meant it in general terms, mostly for myself, and not for you
in person! I'm once again very sorry for offending you, I know nothing about
your social life and I'd very much like to play with you in the future!
/Pontus
Gavinwj skrev:
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Pontus Gustavsson wrote:
> Yes, but if you ever succeed in getting the One Ring victory, you could
> finally quit playing MEPBM and get a social life!
Ooops! Sorry! I meant it in general terms, mostly for myself, and not for you
in person! I'm once again very sorry for offending you, I know nothing about
your social life and I'd very much like to play with you in the future!
/Pontus
Gavinwj skrev:
Pontus Gustavsson wrote:
Yes, but if you ever succeed in getting the One Ring victory, you could
finally quit playing MEPBM and get a social life!
That wasn't very nice...
Gavin
No offence taken. I'm not sure what the emoticon for a mock hurt look would
be, so I went with the sad one.
