From: "Caleb Diffell" <cdiffell@tampabay.rr.com>
Subject: Risk: LOTR - how to get the Fellowship more involved

A few comments & house rules submissions on the 'geek got me to thinking
about what I could do to make the fellowship more than a turn-limiting
mechanism in this game. I came up with the following possible rules. Does
anyone else play anything like these, or think they may have merit?

I was thinking about a rule regarding the location of the fellowship:
something like, for any territory the Fellowship is in, the person owning
that territory can make no attacks from it, nor move units out of it during
the free move. The rationale would be that the Evil nations would be using
all their time & resources hunting the Fellowship, and the Good nations
would be providing "aid and succor", so to speak.

Not sure if this would even have much of an effect on the game, but it would
definitely make the presence of the Fellowship more pronounced as they moved
along.

You might even go so far as to say that attacks INTO a territory containing
the fellowship are at an advantage since the occupants' attention would be
elsewhere.

A more radical approach would be to forbid combat between two Good nations
or between two Evil nations in the region where the Fellowship is (they'd be
cooperating to either aid or find and destroy the Fellowship). This would of
course have a far more pronounced effect on Rhovanion since it's got the
most Fellowship spaces (along with the 3 die roll spaces). Maybe instead, no
Good-Good or Evil-Evil combat within, say, 2 spaces of the Ring? This would
have no effect on "cooperative" or "team" games where the 2 good nations are
already allied.

CND