During my childhood, Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit made me fall in love with fantasy and reading in general, so I was really excited to finally have the 2nd edition of The One Ring RPG from Free League Publishing in my hands. I bought both the Core Book and the Starter Set, but for this post I'm only going to look at the latter. Starter sets have been a mixed bag for me in the past, but the Forbidden Lands box (also from Free League) had such fantastic production values that I trusted them to deliver another quality product. My blog is focused on solo gaming, so that is the lens through which I'm going to focus my first impressions. At the time of writing this post, I have not yet read anything from the core book, but the beautiful hardcover alone makes me really excited to give it a go. I just thought it would be interesting to approach the starter set without any preconceived notions of how things 'should' be. The bullet points and pictures should be enough to giv...