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How adaptable is that MERP material to TOR or 5e AIME?

Well dragons of course. 😊. There’s the witch king of Angmar. lower level but powerful troll, orc and human lords. You could do a warg themed bit. Giants are interesting in ME. There’s the barrows which could be controlled by an evil necromancer. Origins of the balrog and the watcher? You can...

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Are you thinking major villains?

Does anyone have experience with MERP or Against the Darkmaster? Be curious to know how those feel compared to The One Ring or 5e AIME.

Right. So if Harrison Ford becomes too old to play Indiana Jones anymore, you have a choice: end the movies or find another actor that plays that character well enough for the movies to continue. And since we're talking Star Trek, note the Abrams version that keeps the characters with all new...

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“Open to new systems but enjoying current system” covers it. Also “if it ain’t broke”

Agree here. It's really a character focus designating the "primary character" as "essential." Not to say they can't be hurt or go through the wringer, but that they will continue on in subsequent episodes.

I think they are "primary characters" because they have been written so as the focus of the show. In original Star Trek, you'd assume that Kirk, Spock and McCoy will live from week to week because they have been designated by the writers as needed for the show to continue. I don't assume that's...

So just getting down into some of the finer nuances and discovering a few things: Helms add 1-2 armor ranks and add a bane to Awareness and possibly ranged attacks Shield parry uses any STR weapon skill. Also doesn't count as inventory. You can carry an infinite number of Tiny items A Magic...

This goes to another point of character power. I think in at least one skill check system it says that say, a "Riding" (or any skill, really) roll would only be necessary if trying to perform a tricky or difficult maneuver on a horse. Simply riding a horse in a normal, unstressful way doesn't...

Well, that show does the neat trick of making secondary characters the focus (PCs) and moving the primary/canon characters (Kirk, Spock, etc) to the background (NPCs). I guess you could argue whether those secondary characters now become primary characters. I was just saying you could, if...

Yep, most likely those canon characters would be NPCs. Indiana Jones and Marvel/DC were the few RPGs where you could play canon characters.

We were talking about secondary characters as protagonists in relation to primary characters. That is, players living in a world where Elric exists but not playing Elric himself. Those secondary characters can still be the focus of a campaign and still be competent. The question was about...

Oh sure. I’d expect any character protagonist to be at least capable. The question is whether it’s possible for those characters to die, and if they can die, whether it must be a “heroic” death. For TTRPGs anyway I firmly say “it depends.” 😂 I’m not of the opinion that RPGs must fully emulate...

Sure those could work too if it was framed properly and everyone agreed. I mean there’s a whole show about Star Trek characters on the “Lower Decks.”

Maybe more like Batman or Aquaman.

I suppose it really comes down to whether the campaign is trying to produce that book protagonist feel. Playing The One Ring, Stormbringer or Lhankmar or Thieves World, the GM would need to decide whether the PCs are in Elric’s realm, or whether they’d are lesser or secondary personages in that...

Those are all great points. I could definitely see asking players if they prefer to pick/craft a character or whether they’d like random generation to see what it suggests to them. Random can be a great route for ideas if players don’t have a strong concept in mind.