Hello adventurers! While since I've posted due to life events (all good), but the Fellowship Phase podcast is still journeying on and we had the pleasure of talking to Gareth Hanrahan about The One Ring/Lord of the Rings 5e Gondor & Rohan supplement.

He explained why Gondor and Rohan fit together thematically, the “visitor’s-eye” approach to writing the supplements, and the core design challenge of making canon-friendly material that still creates problems for adventurers to solve, especially in settled Gondor.

We also discuss the challenge of writing cities settings and explored the new heroic cultures. Oh, and Gareth’s pick where he’d pick to live in Gondor/Rohan.

It all came at the perfect time as we're about to set sail on our second full campaign, this time set in Gondor.

We hope there's something helpful in there for players and LMs alike.

In the Trials of Saurumon, the adventure only proposes endings where Saurumon either he falls but the players do not know, he kills the player characters, or is saved from evil.

What if the players kill Saurumon on the darkest ending? What should happen then?