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<blockquote data-quote="apoptosis" data-source="post: 4553457" data-attributes="member: 3226">4E seems a really bad choice to emulate LoTRs. It could of course be forced to do it like many FRPGs but would not be a particularly good choice.1E, 2E and 3E would also be pretty bad choices.I would probably use burning wheel though that is too magical really.MERP does a pretty fair job and a lot of the magic is not really flashy (just the mage class).One question is what does someone mean by running a LoTR game.Do they just mean setting or are they also talking about incoporating themes of the stories as well.A good game for LoTR would have some narrative devices to incoporate the themes such as Power corrupts.Also the hobbits while having done something effective in battle were not very good at it (they off course had the benefit of an author though), so rules that would give abilities like &quot;loyal to Frodo&quot; as a potent ability vs a more defined martial power/skill&nbsp; would be good.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="apoptosis, post: 4553457, member: 3226"] 4E seems a really bad choice to emulate LoTRs. It could of course be forced to do it like many FRPGs but would not be a particularly good choice. 1E, 2E and 3E would also be pretty bad choices. I would probably use burning wheel though that is too magical really. MERP does a pretty fair job and a lot of the magic is not really flashy (just the mage class). One question is what does someone mean by running a LoTR game. Do they just mean setting or are they also talking about incoporating themes of the stories as well. A good game for LoTR would have some narrative devices to incoporate the themes such as Power corrupts. Also the hobbits while having done something effective in battle were not very good at it (they off course had the benefit of an author though), so rules that would give abilities like "loyal to Frodo" as a potent ability vs a more defined martial power/skill would be good. [/QUOTE]

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