5th Edition LOTR Balrog?

[Trebuchet]

I just finished watching Fellowship of the Ring for the 6th time on DVD, and I was wondering if anyone here had ever put together a 5th Edition version of the demon? I've got a magic-based Champions game coming up soon, and this might be just the ticket for the final bad guy. My players are unlikely to read this particular forum. :)

To put it bluntly, that thing was incredible! I've probably seen literally dozens of paintings and drawings of the Balrog in the 31 years since I first read LotR, but Peter Jackson and his merry men did it perfectly. I wouldn't have changed a single detail.

[Herolover]

Only 6 times...tsk, tsk. Of course, The Two Towers have been out now for just a couple of days and I have watched all the special features and the movie itself 3 times.

I don't know about a 5th edition Balrog, but on Surbrooks site he has some LOTR characters made for 4th and I know the Balrog is one of them. Would be very easy to use and convert over.

As another side note, Peter Jackson used the much of the LOTR artwork as his conceptual work. Go look at some of the LOTR artwork and you can see time and time again that it looks just like the movies...well atleast for the most part it does.

[LordGhee]

Funny thing is treb in my game almost twenty years ago in his hero form of ranger fought a balrog twice, I will see if I can dig it up and modernize it.

and he was wearing a villa nova basket ball shirt:)


heheeheeh I bet J.S, from your gaem will read this.

:)

Lord Ghee

WoW as I type treb I remember this;

My fanasty Europe game treb as old tom, scribe and much more.

Scene treb as old tom and bard shannon have just drowed a prisest of the balrog in a fountain at the balrogs lair no less.
enter balrog behind old tom.
shannon drops behind fountain making stealt roll by alot old tom is surprised due to blown per roll.

balrog : what is this? (in black speach)
abeat
you ve dare to kill one of my priest!

Old tom in black speach: Sir just think of it as evoultion in action.

game master and group fall over
shannon and old tom make off and take good advantage of balrog distration:)

Treb is a good judge of Balrogs.

[rayoman]

...because I didn't understand a word that LG wrote.