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<blockquote data-quote="FraserRonald" data-source="post: 4571186" data-attributes="member: 7892"><p>I've never read it that the Easterlings or the Southrons were all evil, rather they were allied with Sauron who was considered evil. Further, Denethor was on the "side of the angels," as was Saruman for some time.</p><p></p><p>I think there's room for moral ambiguity in ME, but only if one moves away from the central story and seeing it with "Westron" eyes. I wish I had a link for the article that postulated that Sauron was actually an anti-imperialist revolutionary and Gondor and its allies were imperialist powers attempting to reassert authority. That puts a whole different spin on it.</p><p></p><p>To each their own, but I have had no problem grafting on whatever elements I felt were necessary when playing in ME care of the ICE modules back in the day. Granted, we played 100 years after Aragorn's death, so things were a bit different.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I got the ME map poster from ICE that showed the area involved in the LotR to be a very small section of the continent. We had a LOT of fun filling in the blanks!</p><p></p><p>I think there are a few ways to approach an ME game. You can play in one of the pre-LotR eras where lots of stuff must have been happened that couldn't be recorded, you can play during the Hobbit or LotR, either in another area that faced different challenges OR as the troops on the ground--maybe a group of Rohirrim that fight the good fight from Helm's Deep to the Black Gate, and end up both in famous moments and perhaps not so famous ones.</p><p></p><p>I don't know, my co-DMs and I found lots of fodder both during the LotR era and our "Many Years Later" campaign.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FraserRonald, post: 4571186, member: 7892"] I've never read it that the Easterlings or the Southrons were all evil, rather they were allied with Sauron who was considered evil. Further, Denethor was on the "side of the angels," as was Saruman for some time. I think there's room for moral ambiguity in ME, but only if one moves away from the central story and seeing it with "Westron" eyes. I wish I had a link for the article that postulated that Sauron was actually an anti-imperialist revolutionary and Gondor and its allies were imperialist powers attempting to reassert authority. That puts a whole different spin on it. To each their own, but I have had no problem grafting on whatever elements I felt were necessary when playing in ME care of the ICE modules back in the day. Granted, we played 100 years after Aragorn's death, so things were a bit different. I got the ME map poster from ICE that showed the area involved in the LotR to be a very small section of the continent. We had a LOT of fun filling in the blanks! I think there are a few ways to approach an ME game. You can play in one of the pre-LotR eras where lots of stuff must have been happened that couldn't be recorded, you can play during the Hobbit or LotR, either in another area that faced different challenges OR as the troops on the ground--maybe a group of Rohirrim that fight the good fight from Helm's Deep to the Black Gate, and end up both in famous moments and perhaps not so famous ones. I don't know, my co-DMs and I found lots of fodder both during the LotR era and our "Many Years Later" campaign. [/QUOTE]
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