The Repping Game
Liven up dinner parties and family gatherings with this fun new game from
Barrow Downs Inc™. Each player starts with one green jewel. Players take it in turn to ask Tolkien-related questions from cards. All the other players must answer and then vote on who has provided the wisest or wittiest answer. That player receives a green jewel from each player or, if a player has none, from the bank. The aim of the game is to amass eleven jewels before anyone else can.
To make things more interesting, the game comes with various joker cards. Play the
HerenIstarion the Munificent card to instantly gain a jewel from every player. The
Wisdom of Davem card requires every player to give you one jewel a turn for the rest of the game, while the
Professor Hedgethistle's Canonicity card allows the current round to go on and on and on and ...
You can play the
Burrahobbit's Soundbite card to restrict players to a one line answer to the current question. And, if you don't like the question, the
Admin cards allow you to skip it and go to the next question. The
Mod cards (
Estelyn and
Legolas) do the same thing - but only for certain questions.
Play the
Child and
Pio cards to take the game into a special RPG round, or the
Saucepan Man card to start a Quiz or Quotes round (extra jewels here if you have the
Quotes of Guinevere or
Lindolirian's Six Degrees of Separation cards).
Fun for all the family. But if anyone starts taking it all seriously - remember it's just a game - it's the fun of taking part and the discussions that it engenders that count.
Warning: Requires a dangerously obsessive level of Tolkien-related knowledge.
Actually, that sounds like quite a fun game ...