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G REETINGS ,

Salutations.... Hello All!

Our great achievement continues into its fourth year with quite

a bang! Hey, maybe not with any news on the Decipher front

but at least we've brought to you a really BIG issue stuffed full

of great stuff per our usual. I hope you're impressed because I

certainly know I am. David went all out in his layout

presentation and certainly gets a ton of kudos from me. Sure it

may not be exactly printer-friendly on a few pages, but it looks

gorgeous!

I N THIS ISSUE

I T ’ S A LL O PTIONAL

• Creating Heroic Items

F AN F LAVOUR

• The Folk of Bór (Hill-Men)

• The History of Necromancy

• Morgul Wraiths

• The Legend of Bullroarer

Now on to the meat and potatoes of this issue. This, this

cornucopia of content just begs for your reading (and viewing)

pleasure: a new adventure, pictures of Elostirion that we missed

getting into last issue straight from Peter, a treatise on the

Hillmen, a story about 'Bullroarer' Took, plus a whole lot more!

A DVENTURING I N

• The Tower Hills

G ETTING S TARTED

• Aracar

Tuck in that napkin and ask for an extra plate as you step up to

this smorgasbord and enjoy!

• Racial Package: Ranger of the North

Happy Gaming,

T HE R OAD G OES E VER O N

• Shadows at Midnight

Matthew A. Kearns

aka GandalfOfBorg

Editor

C ROSSWORD

W ISDOM OF THE M ASSES

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Issue Thirty-Seven

T HE H ALL OF F IRE

January 2007

Hall of Fire * The Unofficial Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game Webzine

Issue 37 * January 2007

I T ’ S A LL O PTIONAL

C REATING H EROIC I TEMS by GandalfOfBorg

Anduril/Narsil, Herugrim, The Elf-stone – these are items of heroism and heroic worth. Their monetary worth is beyond measure to

those that find or inherit them. To PC’s, their worth in game mechanics is also quite high as they convey minor unique powers in the

form of skill bonuses and maybe edges or abilities.

First, a sword is just a sword until you give it a name. That gives it a start to becoming truly famous in the likes of those renowned items

above. Even if the item didn't have its own inherent heroic bonuses, using the rules for invoking the power of words could still be

appropriate.

Next, a character needs to give up something of himself to the item. It's his personal power that is used to help the subtle workings of

this world infuse power within the item. There are two ways of going about this while applying the restrictions below: spending

Advancement Picks or transferring acquired powers and skills.

S PENDING A DVANCEMENT P ICKS

When you've acquired an Advancement, you may spend picks on skill bonuses, edges, and abilities to apply to an item.

T RANSFERRING P OWER

At any time the Narrator approves, you may assign skill bonuses,

edges, abilities, or other personal effects to an item. To give an

effect to an item, the character removes that effect from his

character, ie. to give a skill bonus, remove an equal number of

ranks in the skill.

R ESTRICTIONS

• Effects may be applied to an item a maximum number of

times equal to the original owner's Bearing modifier.

• No bonus value can be greater than the Attribute Modifier of

the skill's associated attribute.

• A character must have at least 8 ranks in a skill to place a

bonus on an item for that skill.

• An item is limited to contain effects worth more

Advancement Picks than the original owner's total attribute

modifiers.

• No more than half of the bonuses placed in a Heroic Item

may be applied to any one effect.

• All effects purchased or transferred are permanent and

cannot be removed unless the weapon becomes cursed or

destroyed.

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Issue 37 * January 2007

F AN F LAVOUR

T HE F OLK OF B OR By Thomas Gingras

H ILLMAN (M AN OF D ARKNESS )

R HUDAUR C OMMONER (M AN OF D ARKNESS )

Armed Combat +1, Climb +1, Ranged Combat +1,

Stealth +1, Survival (Mountains) +1, Travel sense

Armed Combat +1, Climb +1, Craft +1, Ranged

Combat +1, Weather sense

H ISTORY

After the Edain a second wave of men migrated into Beleriand

during the later years of the First Age. The Swarthy Men or

Easterlings were not as true or noble as the Edain, and betrayed

the Elves, falling pray to the guiles of the shadow and entering

into secret alliance with Morgoth, while serving in the open the

sons of Feanor. The greatest chieftains of these people were Bór

and Ulfang.

Through the early years of the Second Age the Folk of Bór

establish themselves in the angle of land between the River

Mitheithel (W. Hoarwell) and the River Bruinen (W. Loudwater)

and reach as far north as Mount Gram. The majority of this

terrain is rolling and rocky, very much the foothills of the

mountains to the east. Within these geographical boundaries they

remained relatively isolated from the rest of the people of Eriador

and benefited little from the golden age of the region ushered in

by the arrival of Númenóreans. Reclusive by nature, they feared

the Men of Westernesse even during their most benevolent stage

and instead sought the refuge that their natural borders provided.

The establishment of havens and settlements in Middle-earth by

the Númenóreans affected them little.

The people of Bór remained loyal to the Elves and Edain, and in

the dark hour when their services were called upon by Morgoth

they forsook him and remained true, while those of Ulfang

betrayed their friendship and served Morgoth. The wars raged for

many years and in the end the forces of good were triumphant

over the shadow, but only through the intervention of the Valar,

who in their wrath destroyed much of Beleriand in order to

overthrow Morgoth the dark enemy.

The war between the Elves and Sauron that begins in 1693

largely passes the Hillmen by. The Forodrim to the east ally

themselves with the Númenóreans and the Elves and suffer

greatly as a consequence. Sauron's domination of Eriador and

desire to conquer all free men serves only to push the Hillmen

further to the north out of the low lands of the angle and into the

higher lands of the Trollshaws, as this land was largely

inaccessible due to the limited fording points. This fact was

known to Elrond Half-elven and contributed greatly to this area

being selected for the foundation of Imladris after the fall of

Eregion to Sauron in 1697.

Those who remained after the sundering were split and cast over

the land, the houses were divided and people were in a world that

had physically changed. The lands of Beleriand were gone, sunk

into the sea with many of their folk lost forever. Many of the

Edain managed to remain with their Elven allies and were spared

great suffering and pain at the sudden loss of their kingdoms and

homes, but the Swarthy Men were not so fortunate. Instead with

the sundering of the land they wandered alone and without

guidance, forced to seek out lands and places of their own.

Whether sundered through the chaos of the time or whether

those dealings with Morgoth left a lasting mark on the spirit of

the people, the people of Bór were not numbered among the

chosen to dwell in Númenor, the land of the gift. Fearing the sea

and the damage and loss it caused the folk of Bór, they fled to the

east, traveling across the expanses of Eriador to finally stop before

the barrier of the Hithaeglir Mountains.

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The Númenórean victory in the war sees a small return of the

Hillmen to the lowlands. The resulting age of imperialism has the

Hillmen of the lowlands under nominal Númenórean control but

otherwise unaffected in the north.

L ANDS

The Folk of Bór dwell solely in the area of Arnor known as

Rhudaur. The people were contained by the Hithaeglir mountains

in the east and would not migrate over their high passes. The

land starts as river basin to the west and steadily rises to foot hills

and rolling terrain as one moves north or east. The area is broken

into two distinct regions the lowlands and the highlands. The

lowlands are soft rolling hills of grass land good for growing and

pasture. The upper lands or highlands are distinguished by

steeper hills and rockier terrain. Small streams are numerous and

the vegetation is largely heavily wooded with dark pine the closer

to the mountains.

The Second Age passes with little direct impact on the lives of

the Hillmen until the founding of the realms in exile in 3320 of

that age. The establishment of the realm of the northern

kingdom sees the lowlanders incorporated into the Dúnedain

realm of Arnor by Elendil and they fight alongside him in the War

of the Last Alliance to the conclusion of the Second Age.

The Third Age sees the Hillmen dividing into two distinct groups

the independent minded Hillmen in the rugged terrain in the

north and the lowlanders of the south who welcome the rule of

the Dúnedain Kings of Arnor. The lowlanders come to inhabit all

of The Angle south of the Trollshaws and the open area

separating the North Downs and the river Mithiethel. The

Dúnedain population of the region remains small, though all

acknowledge the lordship of the King at Annúminas while peace

reigns for the first eight centuries of the Third Age.

The division of Arnor in 861 into the three kingdoms of

Arthedain, Cardolan, and Rhudaur finds the lands of the Hillmen

totally in the realm of Rhudaur under the kingship of the

youngest of the three sons of Eärendur, the tenth and last king of

united Arnor. The lowlanders make up the commoners of

Rhudaur and form the largest bulk of the population of Rhudaur

throughout the existence of the kingdom.

The incessant wars of the north throughout the first two

millennium of the Third Age would destroy the kingdom of

Rhudaur and destroy the lowlanders as a distinct people. The

Hillmen would survive into the Fourth Age largely unchanged

and remain independent even after the establishment of the

Reunited Kingdom under Elessar Telcontar.

P HYSICAL A PPEARANCE

The physical appearance of the Folk of Bór is much different than

all the other folk of lower Eriador. These people are not as tall and

lordly in appearance. Their height is less that of other peoples and

more pronounced the higher in the hills they are found. Dark hair

and swarthy complexion is prominent and where light skin is

found it is pale and sallow. The majority of the people are dark

haired and eyed as well. Some interbreeding in the low lands has

produced some browns and tans but the dominant trait of these

people is darker. The men average 5'5" with women being slightly

smaller.

The men often are seen wearing the skins of animals in the

highlands, while those in the low lands are dressed similar to the

other folk of Eriador, tunics and pants being the norm. The men

of the highlands also tend to grow their hair long and plaited,

while that of the lowlands is short and cropped. The women of

both folk grow their hair long and plaited and wear skirts of ankle

length and varying thickness depending on the climate.

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