Heeeeeey I know I'm super late to the party, but I can't find an indication of what a "community" is supposed to be and how big it should be.
Book 4 seems to suggest that each community is of a specific people save for a few exceptions.
Are you supposed to win the favor of entire regions of the world at once, or can there be a bunch of smaller settlements that each count as a community and offer you a Fellowship that makes sense?
Also, are you supposed to have Fellowship of a same people multiple times? Like is it possible and / or advised to, say, save two different elven settlements and get two elven-flavored Fellowships?
Finally, in terms of a pacing, about how many Fellowships should a Fellowship have before it's time for the final showdown?
Thanks in advance!
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a community is intended to be like, a single city/village/whatever. You can earn fellowship with multiple Elven communities, absolutely - what matters is you saved each from danger and earned their favor.
As for how many Fellowships you earn, in my games its been about 4-6. You don't need a ton of 'em, each one is fairly powerful and by that point everyone's got a Destiny playbook, which is really about when "go take down the overlord" feels right.