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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 1789608" data-attributes="member: 15651"><p>This is a good point.  I know that if I were to make the setting as hopeless and oppressive as it could be (some of the material in the netbook Tome of Sorrows really pushes this to the extreme in my opinion), my group would give up on it after a short time.  I am hoping to find a balance between the party feeling that their efforts are futile in the face of a truly dominant enemy, and being the heroic saviors of the world - which would go completely against the flavor of the setting.  My hopes are that as they gain in power, they will begin to see that their efforts are making in difference perhaps by allowing the resistance to start to work together better or maybe by being able to carve out a toehold outside of Erethor where the Shadow does not have control.</p></blockquote><p></p>