Bloodwych characters available, each with their own colour of Red, Blue, Green or Yellow. Each colour also has its own particular advantage, largely with respect to the families of spells the character will be most adept at casting and developing. However, that colour is also important when it comes to matching up coloured rings later in the game to magnify the effects of spell-casting. One particularly memorable quirk of the game is the ability granted to players to hold simple conversations with traders, other champions, and even enemies during combat. Stock pseudo-medieval phrases such as "Truly my courage is remarkable" and
The Lord of the Rings Online Rings Online" would be developed and maintained by Standing Stone Games, a newly formed independent game studio made up of the groups that have been working on "The Lord of the Rings Online" and "Dungeons & Dragons Online" under Turbine Inc. before. The game's milieu is based on "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit". However, Turbine does not have rights to any other works in Tolkien's legendarium, such as "The Silmarillion". Much of the gameplay is typical of the MMO format: The player controls a character avatar which can be moved around the game world and interacts with