Sorry, been busy. A few points:
@hyvee_doughboy: I think the progress is going well and working to a reasonable timetable. There's no reason to rush at all. But that said, I think we've had a good enough look at The One Ring for now and should start to look at something else (which, thought I haven't checked the forums closely enough yet, I believe we have!). We will probably come back to this.
@Playtesting: I like Kralik's suggestion! But I'm not sure we should do it now. Let's continue with some designer playtests for a few cards yet, then open out the Ring to the community.
@ES: Good point on the clarification text—I had missed that.
@The Ring: I love it! Looks great, clean and fun. And FM had some great ideas for the flavour and some great ideas for other rings (which I'm glad are now on the record, even if we don't use them now—as I said, we will come back to this at some point I'm sure). It's particularly interesting to me how discarding cards is not always a bad thing.
I think I've said what I wanted to say... Sorry for being slightly AWOL—once again the forum decided to stop sending me email notifications.
Thran