Let's Make an Elf!
Welcome to my second blog post, where I’ll be creating a Player-Hero for my Strider Mode adventure in The One Ring . I’m going to start with the “flavor” aspects of this character – backstory, personality, appearance, etc. – and fill in the character sheet to line up with what I create. The storytelling aspect of the game is more interesting to me than the mechanics, and since this is my first time playing, I’m not going to worry too much about optimization. Writing her Story Starting with the basics, I know I want to play a female Elf. Several ideas came to mind for my solo Player-Hero, and I decided to go with the angsty scholar from Rivendell. (Yeah, I know, the Hero with a Tragic Past has been done, like, a zillion times. My goal here is to have fun, not write the next great fantasy novel.) After spending way too much time sifting through names and root words on Parf Edhellen , I decided on the name Saelin, pronounced “sigh-lin”. (It’s a variant of Saelind, which me...