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<blockquote data-quote="scourger" data-source="post: 5388879" data-attributes="member: 12328"><p>I had a similar experience playtesting a different game once upon a time. It seemed like such a good idea at the time. It wasn't. </p><p></p><p>Anyway, if I ever do anything like a LOTR, I would use Savage Worlds. I've thought of things as simple as playing out a skirmish with a hobbit, a dwarf, an elf, a ranger and a wizard as the hereos (using a certain box of prepainted minis) to a full campaign of "orcs of the ring" with the players taking on the roles of orcs hunting the ring (same adversaries as above). </p><p></p><p>There just never seemed to me to be much to do that wasn't already a story told in the Tolkien world. The last set of RPG books did have some good ideas for adventures seeds in the reign of King Aragorn--missions on which he might send the heroes. Otherwise, the main story is already told. Unless Sauron wins and there is a sort of Midnight-type game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scourger, post: 5388879, member: 12328"] I had a similar experience playtesting a different game once upon a time. It seemed like such a good idea at the time. It wasn't. Anyway, if I ever do anything like a LOTR, I would use Savage Worlds. I've thought of things as simple as playing out a skirmish with a hobbit, a dwarf, an elf, a ranger and a wizard as the hereos (using a certain box of prepainted minis) to a full campaign of "orcs of the ring" with the players taking on the roles of orcs hunting the ring (same adversaries as above). There just never seemed to me to be much to do that wasn't already a story told in the Tolkien world. The last set of RPG books did have some good ideas for adventures seeds in the reign of King Aragorn--missions on which he might send the heroes. Otherwise, the main story is already told. Unless Sauron wins and there is a sort of Midnight-type game. [/QUOTE]
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