Rien à redire au niveau de l'écran, il est aussi beau que pratique. En revanche, j'ai été très déçu par le Rivendell Compendium : très peu de pages et surtout très peu de contenu. Même le plan des lieux laisse vraiment à désirer car il ne montre que quelques bâtiments (avec juste un nom). Rivendell méritait clairement mieux.

Have the physical product, it is very pretty and useful enough. The Rivendel module that comes with it is rediculous though. 12 pages of useless fluff and a dreadful cartoonish depiction of the vale of Elrond. All former Middle Earth games (Lotr RPG by Decipher and MERP by ICE) had way more useful and in depth depictions of Imladris.

The One Ring Loremaster's Screen & Rivendell Compendium

The One Ring Loremaster's Screen & Rivendell Compendium consists of the three-part Loremaster's Screen and the Rivendell Compendium. While the loremaster's screen summarizes the most important tables and rules in a compact three pages, the Rivendell Compendium provides insight into the Hidden Valley and Elrond's House. First, it briefly explains how to reach Rivendell and how this place and Elrond's house are structured (including corresponding maps). Besides this description of the location, there is a short introduction of the most important people like Elrond and his daughter Arwen (but without game statistics). Furthermore, one chapter presents the high elves of Rivendell as a playable race with appropriate character creation rules and additional selectable virtues.

Whether or not you need a game master screen certainly depends on the individual game master (and also requires some tinkering with the PDF version, which is complicated by the oddly different sized pages). The Rivendell Compendium is an interesting and compact addition to one of Eriador's legendary locations and provides inclined players with the opportunity to play the game as a high elf. However, this set seems somewhat expensive compared to the material offered in the rulebook, so it seems primarily aimed at loremasters who either need a game master screen as an essential tool or want Rivendell to appear in their stories.

(Björn Lippold)

The loremaster screen has great advice on running the rules and in running games in general. It discourages rolling for eveyrthing -- encouraging dice rolls only where there's a stake: some danger, discovering something unknown discovery, when trying to influence or manipulate an uncooperative Loremaster character. It has guides for each gameplay phase: journeys (roles, endurance, and events), combat, councils, and shadow tests. It's dense and table based. No fluff illustrations on the loremaster side -- every panel has related rules. The PDF does crop the loremaster screen player-side oddly when the interior panels are clearly ultrawide (looks like three, landscape oriented a5 papers).

Also, stay for the Rivendell Guidebook. It offers an additional player-hero culture and details about the Last Homely House, Imladris. It'll be quite delightful if more noteworth sites arcross Eriador, Rhovanion, Gondor, and Harad get this treatment. Doesn't overstay its welcome.