01-05-2013, 10:00 PM | #11 |
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Re: Fourth Age of Middle Earth gaming
Late Second Age could be cool, too.
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01-07-2013, 03:57 AM | #12 |
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I just moved a LOT of off-topic posts into a thread in Geek Culture. If you're wondering where your tangent went, now you know.
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01-07-2013, 05:02 AM | #13 |
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Shelob was not killed by Sam. Maybe she gets tired of eating orcs from Mordor and decides to hunt in Ithilien. Faramir's heir will have to send someone to put a stop to her once and for all. Smaug was not the last dragon, only the last fire-breather. Maybe one of the worms from the Withered Heath comes South and raids the elves in Greenwood(there will at least be some of them who have not left yet). Or, it raids the Woodmen and Beornings who live even further South. The PCs (being heroic types) have to stop the dragon. Three of the Wizards are (or may) reside in Middle-Earth. You could use one of the Blue Wizards in many different ways: new dark overlord, friendly good-natured mentor, indifferent seeker of knowledge. Radagast seems a good guy and might be a mentor who points the heroes in the direction of wrongs that need to be righted. |
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01-07-2013, 12:13 PM | #15 |
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Don't forget about the Mouth Of Sauron. The books did not say he was killed in the War of the Ring. He could have fled to Khand or Rhun. The book indicates he had great knowledge of sorcery. Maybe this knowledge was passed to his descendants. One or more of them could be a threat the PCs have to deal with. Maybe one of them becomes the Sorceress-Queen of Khand.
Before the making of the Rings of Power many lesser magic rings were created. Perhaps one of them could play a part in a scenario. |
01-07-2013, 01:56 PM | #16 |
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The books indicate that before his downfall Sauron liked to accumulate mithril. He undoubtedly kept it in vaults beneath the Dark Tower. When the Tower( and the mesa it rested on) collapsed it left an emporer's fortune of the world's most valuable metal under a mountain of debris. Clearly, that is something the Sorceress-Queen of Khand wants to get her hands on. How will Gondor react to an army of Khandites digging up the remains of the Dark Tower?
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01-07-2013, 03:13 PM | #17 |
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01-07-2013, 05:40 PM | #18 |
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That's certainly an issue as you go on into the Fourth Age, which is one of the reasons that I set my campaign in the first couple of decades of the Fourth Age (the other is that the later I set it, the more I have to write and the more my players have to read an remember). But it's not an immediate issue at the beginning. The Ring-bearers have gone, but Legolas and Gimli are setting up a new Elf-Dwarf realm on the borders of Rohan, and Celeborn and Thranduil have elves re-occupying the Greenwood. And for all that the orcs &c. have lost their decisive battle there is still a lot of mopping-up to do.
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I don't recall that every being established. Smaug was probably the greatest of the remaining dragons, but IDR that JRRT every said he was the last fire-breather. Quote:
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01-07-2013, 06:30 PM | #20 |
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Yeah, but that stuff doesn't happen all in one day. Probably the first several centuries of the Fourth Age, esp. in the Northwest region of Middle-earth, are much like the last few centuries of the Third in terms of what is present, though of course the mix will be different with Sauron gone. It's true that the Eldar are going away fast, of course, but the Avar Elves will still be around for some time, and the Dwarves will not die out overnight, nor will the Ents.
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