Hobbit Games

I just learned about this Conqueror exercise challenge where you follow along on Frodo's 1815 mile journey. My eyes are probably a lot bigger than my feet on this one, but I'm going to try and do the whole thing on my own. They have the ability to form fellowships with other people, but I'm going to see if I can do it myself.

It's a pretty cool system where they send you messages and postcards and story events and eventually medals when you complete each challenge. The ones related to things like climbing Everest seem pretty cool, but I jumped on this when I saw the Lord of the Rings themed one.

I really wish this was directly integrated into my Peloton. But, sadly, I need to enter the distances manually. Still really cool though.

I love the Arkham Horror LCG, but I just couldn't get into the LOTR LCG. There just isn't enough story in it.

The funny thing is that I was motivated to try it because of the video game Lord of the Rings Adventure Card Game. It seems like it's a video game version of the card game, but there's all kinds of exposition that makes it really fun to play. When I tried the actual card game, I was really disappointed that it didn't do the same thing.

Love that this game is getting some new life via speedrunning.

The Lego Hobbit and Lego Lord of the Rings games are only $5 on Steam right now, so I'm buying both.

This is from the old game The Hobbit for the Apple II.

I think I might have played either it or The Fellowship of the Ring on the Apple II, but I don't have them in my old software collection, so I'm not sure.

But, if I recall correctly, these are actually kind of a mix of text adventure and graphics. A lot like an Infocom game, but with graphics for each room.

It took roughly a year for me to paint every one of the 205 pieces.

It is really satisfying to play the game with the pieces I painted.

Of course, all the action happens in the online client which I haven't tried yet. And weirdly, none of the pieces are painted in the digital version.