Free League Publishing

I'm Jared Logan.

Welcome to the Secret Fire, an actual play campaign of the One Ring second edition from Free League Publishing.

We're going to play a role-playing game, a tabletop role-playing game set in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth.

I already said my name, Jared Logan.

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Um, but also because, uh, the reality is, is that horror is just like a classic part of RPGs, right? Um, whether as part of a one shot or the whole world, right? Whether it's just like some individual adventure that has a tonal shift, that's very spooky or, um, the you know you've got like a whole world like Ravenloft or something right the reality is is that or even the whole game dedicated to horror as a concept okay so like Rifts Beyond the Supernatural Call of Cthulhu both of which are like sort of cosmic type of horror you've got Vasen I don't know how you say it V-A-E-S-E-N it's from our friends at Free League it's a really cool looking game I do want to talk about it at some point in the future on here um It's just a beautiful, like, kind of dark, more like a dark fantasy kind of story.

Think, like, northern Germanic Viking type of horror type of thing, right? Yeah.

You got Morkborg, one of the, like, most creative and amazingly, like, visual design games in history that is also, like, one of the most deadly games ever made.

The Armada of the First Come awaits your command.

You have listened to an episode of Red Moon Roleplaying, where we play the campaign Mercy of the Icons for Coriolis, which is published by Free League.

In this final part, we are taking on Wake of the Icons.

The music was created by Alpha Zone and Sable Sun, and was used with permission from their label, Cryochamber.

Not bad.

All right, so we're going to be playing the second edition of The One Ring by Free League Publishing using the Strider Mode rules for a solo game turned duo game.

And we're going to see how well that works.

It is something within the rules that they say you can do, but I've never tried it before.

I still think the industry at large has a little bit of work to do.

I think You mentioned Free League already.

We talk about Free League games a lot in the show, not in small part because they're really considerate and thoughtful about including quality solo content, not just tacked on stuff.

And so I think it is a really fantastic time to be a solo role player or to be a solo curious role player.

And we are going to come back later and talk and get a little bit of advice from you about how people can actually get started.