10-07-2014, 10:46 AM | #11 |
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Re: [Tolkien] Playing in the Second Age
Setting the campaign in faraway placed like Rhûn or Harad removes a lot of the LOTR feel, I think. And even more so if setting the campaign on another continent because even if that isn't actually made up, but is grounded in facts established by Tolkien on some half-destroyed napkin scrounged up by his son, it'll feel fictitious to the players. Much of the point of the campaign being Middle-earth will be lost, then.
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10-07-2014, 12:40 PM | #12 |
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Re: [Tolkien] Playing in the Second Age
Depends on which version. JRRT wrote a lot of background for his world, and there's a 'round-earth' version of the Silmarillion (which is newer but less complete, and in which the Earth was always rounds and circled the Sun as in reality) and the older 'flat earth' version in which the world went from flat to round at the Downfall of Numenor.
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10-08-2014, 12:15 PM | #13 | |
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Re: [Tolkien] Playing in the Second Age
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