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Cool. Good luck with the Dragonblooded game. Enjoy the LoME .pdf.

Well, Achan, ask and ye shall receive.

In another thread, I mentioned parenthetically: Forum member Achan hiArusa then responded: Well, Achan, ask and ye shall receive. I had to go digging through tons of boxes in my mother's garage, but I found them, from nearly 8 years ago. I give you: Legend of Modern-earth: A d20 Modern...

Every game I run set in the Dark Times of the Star Wars universe is like this. I have yet to get anyone to actually fall...though not for want of trying.

Awesome, very helpful! Thanks, amerigo!

Awesome. Yeah, please do add to the blog post. I'm eating this stuff up. And the time is ripe, anyway. While I don't think the upcoming Hobbit films had anything to do with our gaming group's talk of delving into the Tolkien legendarium, I'm sure that the movies WILL spark many gamers to...

Okay...now I see what you mean.

Another insightful point, Colonel. True enough.

I'll add it to list, mmadsen. ;) I don't want to derail the thread, but I'm wondering if I agree with your assessment of LotR as high fantasy. Certainly the stuff of the Silmarillion, in the Time of the Two Trees and the First and Second Ages is high fantasy -- with their god-like...

Yes, I wholeheartedly agree, and intend to focus on that theme regardless of what system I ultimately choose to use to run it. That's interesting, amerigo. I am familiar with Conan through only the films and general pop culture references. I have never read the Conan books, and am not at all...

Ah, cool. Yeah, I remember waaaaaaaaay back when the game was first published, and I was interested in playing it, but never got my hands on it. I loved (and still love) Indiana Jones, and was intrigued by the game, but despite having such fun with Star Frontiers, I was leery about other TSR...

Which is what, exactly, Nytmare, if you don't mind me asking? (I'm not asking to be contentious, but rather out of a genuine interest in what folks feel a Middle-earth-based game should be like.) Are you talking about what Olgar mentions in the post immediately preceding this one, regarding...

I never played or read the game, but I read a review somewhere that said you're limited to playing the pre-gen characters, who are the movie characters. Is that so? It seems like an easy fix, but maybe not.

It's very interesting to see this thread. Only a few days ago, I posted a thread to this forum inquiring What's the Best System for Running Lord of the Rings, and I got a fair spread of folks voting for each system that has ever been designed for it. One of the systems I even inquired about in...

Yes, very good point, Mark, I should have specified in my OP. As dd.stevenson put it in the post immediately following yours (and with a nod to Mal Renolds), I'd like the PCs to be the Big Damn Heroes, always with some "narrative goodness." I'm not interested in "sandboxy kingdom building"...

DragonLancer, I'd be interested to know why, exactly. What is it specifically you feel D&D and Pathfinder are missing to make the systems fit the Middle Earth feel?

You folks rock. Thanks for your many informed responses! If you get a chance, I'd like to hear you weigh in on my other question about the best era to run in, which I've posted in a new thread.

With a debt of gratitude to all those who have responded (and continue to do so) in my other thread, about the best gaming system for LotR, I would now like to hear folks' opinions on what the best ERA is to run a game set in Middle-earth. The First Age? The Second? The Third? The Fourth...

MERP was the first, by ICE. They later put out a simpler version called LotR Adventure Game. Then Decipher put out the LotR RPG. Then Cubicle 7 put out The One Ring. Which, if any of these, is the best? Maybe none of them? Maybe there's a fan-made LotR-themed game out there that's better...