did Sauron actually own a mace?

[Sky]

As seen in the recent Peter Jackson films, did Sauron fight with a warmace (according to Tolkien)??

If so, should he drop it?

I do like the idea of named drops, but sadly only Morgoth has them, when the game is over.

Radagast could drop is boots, and so could Wormtongue. Grishnak could drop an orcish shield. Azog would drop a mace, and the Nazguls would drop their morgul blades. Gothmog would obviously drop his whip, and maybe Ancalong has Glaurung stashed somewhere. Perhaps Smaug could drop Bard's bow?

[Nick]

No, no evidence of Sauron wielding any weapon. He did at times have a distinctive fighting style.

[Huqhox]

I think it's fair to say his weapons were treachery and guile, finding the greed and evil in others and using it to his advantage

But that's a tricky thing to make into a useful drop...

[Mondkalb]

You could nerf The One Ring and have Sauron drop it. As it is now, it is probably too powerful

[Derakon]

You could nerf The One Ring and have Sauron drop it. As it is now, it is probably too powerful

Heresy. It should be ridiculously powerful, it contains the bulk of the power of an in-universe god. An in-universe god, it should be noted, that spends much of the timeline without access to said ring.

I could see possibly making it more rare; it's not clear how often it's found these days but I feel like it might be more common now than it used to be.

[Mondkalb]

As part of the myth the ring should of course be very powerful, but within gameplay it needs some restrictions.
Maybe it should have more drawbacks? (If it were a regular drop from Sauron.)

[Derakon]

Well, like I said, Sauron doesn't have the Ring. That's the entire motivation behind the LotR trilogy: he wants his ring back.

If you want to link the Ring to a monster, give Smeagol a 1 in 1 million chance of dropping it.

[wobbly]

TY cursed in Z-variants. Ag is enough, how often do you find it? It can be a fun combination
OP and Ag.

[Mondkalb]

Well, like I said, Sauron doesn't have the Ring. That's the entire motivation behind the LotR trilogy: he wants his ring back.

If you want to link the Ring to a monster, give Smeagol a 1 in 1 million chance of dropping it.

Yeah, but it is all messed up in Angband, because there are critters from the early time out of the Silmarillion as well as from the third age out of TLotR.
Since Morgoth is in play, Sauron could still have the one ring just as well. Even with Bulroarer and Smeagol roaming around.

[Gwarl]

Well, like I said, Sauron doesn't have the Ring. That's the entire motivation behind the LotR trilogy: he wants his ring back.

If you want to link the Ring to a monster, give Smeagol a 1 in 1 million chance of dropping it.

In poslikes it's a 1 in 666 chance and I've still never heard of anyone who actually found it from him.

[wobbly]

Me. At about clvl 10. I was 1 not long after. Then blasted to smitherins

[Sky]

I wouldnt use The One Ring even if i found it (again, that is), i feel too strongly about it being an object to be destroyed, not worn.

If anything the ring is too powerful ingame, its sole purpose in the book is to overcome the willpower of the other ring wielders. I always thought the *Base, ESP and other stuff, the ridonkolous +15 damage, were inappropriate,as was the activation.
The ring should inexorably lead the wearer to death - always. The current xp drain is laughable.





(Apparently Bilbo managed to drop the ring, so it's not permanently cursed. Maybe Gandalf had a ?*RCurse tucked away in his sleeves)

[Derakon]

Hobbits are canonically possessed of incredible willpower, which is both why Bilbo was able to release the ring of his own free will, and why Frodo and Sam were able to make it through to the Cracks of Doom in Mordor.

As for the ring's powers, so far as I know the only stated powers in-universe are invisibility, the ability to control the wearers of the Elven, Dwarven, and Human Rings of Power, and the ability to tempt its wearer into wearing it. It's literally the most desirable object in the setting. Denethor believes that with the Ring, Gondor could win the war against Mordor, and he might well be right, but it would inevitably corrupt whoever tried to use it and turn them to evil.

In order for it to be tempting to the player to wear, it needs to have some pretty ridiculous stats. The problem in Vanilla is how to represent the inevitable corruption and turning to evil of anyone who uses the ring. There's not a lot of scope for expressiveness in the current system. You could apply stat debuffs or drain HP or etc. but that just changes how tempting the ring is to wear in the first place and might encourage e.g. stashing it at home only to put it on for the last fight so you can benefit before the downsides kick in.

I would support changing ***WINNER*** to ***TYRANT*** (or something similar) if the player wins while wearing the One Ring.

[EpicMan]

In TOME 2 before you can fight Morgoth you must get the One Ring (which is a probable drop from Sauron, who can appear again and again until the ring is taken) and either destroy it in mount doom (fighting Sauron one last time) or wear it. If you wear it, all the towns (Bree, Minas Tirith, Khazad Dum, and Gondolin) are destroyed and appear as burning ruins if you visit them.
Victory is easier if you use the One Ring, but it comes at a thematic cost.

[Sky]

TOME 2 was so awesome ...