01-10-2013, 10:14 AM | #31 |
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Re: Fourth Age of Middle Earth gaming
As I said there is room for gaming. The problem is that the good guys are now the top dog and it gets to be more like "Kipling with spooks and spirits" then Tolkien. Of course the good guys were always top dog if you go high enough, Melkor and Sauron being rebels. But Feanor was also a rebel, and the Valar didn't want to cause collateral to Middle Earth and so on. Now, not only are the cosmic rulers stronger then the bad guys, the Free Peoples are and that kind of takes away from the urgency. Whatever can be done, the new Numenorean empire can't be overthrown.
There is room for Heroic Fantasy but not for High Fantasy. And Tolkien preferred High Fantasy. So like I said, the Fourth Age has room. But earlier ages have more room.
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01-10-2013, 10:33 AM | #32 | |
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01-10-2013, 11:03 AM | #33 |
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Re: Fourth Age of Middle Earth gaming
You could, but there are lots of things in the Middle Earth as it is. Like the Hunt for Gollumn, or Gandalf's adventures in Dol Guldur.
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01-10-2013, 12:31 PM | #34 | |
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01-10-2013, 03:28 PM | #35 |
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Maybe one of the blue mages gets involved (or even leads) the cult of melkor behind the scenes, and has big big plans, something so big and grand I cant even conceive
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01-10-2013, 03:35 PM | #36 | |
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01-10-2013, 04:27 PM | #37 |
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I did something sort of like this in a D-Hopping campaign. The characters arrived in Dol Gulder while Gandalf was on his fact-finding mission investigating the Necromancer, and they helped him escape to Lorien. It worked for a single session adventure, but I don't think I could have run an extended campaign with such a setting.
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01-11-2013, 05:09 AM | #38 | |
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Not only that; but literature and gaming are not the same thing. And who says the new 'Numenorean Empire' ( Restored Kingdoms of Gondor and Arnor) can't be overthrown? It's clearly not around today, is it? So it obviously did not last forever. And who says the future is set in stone? Tolkien isn't going to come to your table and tell you how to run a Middle Earth game. Using Middle Earth as a game setting is no different than using any other real or imagined place and time as a starting point and backdrop for gaming. The future is up to the GM, the players, and the dice. |
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01-11-2013, 05:25 PM | #39 |
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Really? What if you have his ghost appear as an NPC?
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01-11-2013, 05:35 PM | #40 |
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