Name: Friend or Foe
Suggested era: End of the 3rd Age
Characters: Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Merry, Pippin and Sam.
The game starts with the breaking of the fellowship. Boromir and Frodo wandered...
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Name: Friend or Foe
Suggested era: End of the 3rd Age
Characters: Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Merry, Pippin and Sam.
The game starts with the breaking of the fellowship. Boromir and Frodo wandered...
I'm not saying it's a 'must', but that if you realy want to play with all of Tolkien's toys, it's pretty much the only way to do it. I'm sure you can play great games while sticking with the...
I think if you realy want to play with the concepts in the books, the only way to do that is to run an alternate timeline game, as recently discussed in the thread of that name. How else are you...
I think that when characetrs in star trek do things like fire weapons and scan for life signs, they are already using the computer, it's just that they are using a manual rather than voice interface....
Exelent, that's exactly the kind of protagonisation I was talking about. In hindsight (always easy, I know) I might have had the orc cast aside his equipment before diving in the river, so the party...
This is tricky because pretty much all of the evils left over by Morgoth have already been beaten up - Dragons, a Balrog and Sauron himself. You need something seriously dangerous though, for...
First of all I'm a big fan of the films, but have had a few issues with bits here and there.
Nobody can ever persuade me that Aragorn bitch-slapping a whole bunch of ringwraiths at weathertop does...
I think that's the key advantage. If you decide the events in the books are untouchable, then you eliminate most of what makes the setting fun from your game. Setting at the same time in an alternate...
Oops - wrong forum. Can a moderator move this to the other group?
Simon Hibbs
Has anyone else considered running a game in an alternate-timeline Middle Earth? I think there are a few entertaining possibilities in that regard.
1. Isildur keeps the ring.
Isildur becomes a...
Why not? after all, Frodo gets The One Ring right at the start of the 'game'. Characters should get resources and rewards based on the needs of the campaign story, rather than any artificial concept...