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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 7696466" data-attributes="member: 45197"><p>Hiya!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That was kind of my point. "True Tolkien Fans" are likely to be disappointed, as using the D&D system pretty much guarantees a large degree of "D&D'isms". Anyone will be able to play a wizard, for example. So a group of 5 PC's, you could have a fighter, a thief, and three wizards. They could also be a high elf, wood elf, halfling, dwarf and half-orc. Now, I'm sure that the races will get a good work out, and the classes will likely also be 'altered' to more easily fit into ME...but, if you take away levels, reduce HP's, introduce critical hits, place limits on race and classes, remove 90% of the monsters in the MM, and swtich "memorization" with "spell points"...well...the game may as well just have it's own system that does all that. ... ... er...wait...there is...I think it's called <em>The One Ring</em>. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>I think the bottom line will be, as I said..."Tolkien Fans" are going to be annoyed. "Movie Fans" are going to be rather excited. I'm in the later camp, with a couple toes into the former. I don't want to see a completely "D&D'ized" ME...but I do want to run around in Gondor, The Shire, and Mordor. I want to kill orcs and take their stuff. I want to visit all the cool locations I read about in the RPG, as well as have seen in the movies. I want to cast <em>lightning bolt</em> multiple times a day, and I want to be able to get bashed, hacked and stabbed a dozen times by goblins before I go down for the count. Yeah...I want to play D&D in Middle Earth. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>^_^</p><p></p><p>Paul L. Ming</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pming, post: 7696466, member: 45197"] Hiya! That was kind of my point. "True Tolkien Fans" are likely to be disappointed, as using the D&D system pretty much guarantees a large degree of "D&D'isms". Anyone will be able to play a wizard, for example. So a group of 5 PC's, you could have a fighter, a thief, and three wizards. They could also be a high elf, wood elf, halfling, dwarf and half-orc. Now, I'm sure that the races will get a good work out, and the classes will likely also be 'altered' to more easily fit into ME...but, if you take away levels, reduce HP's, introduce critical hits, place limits on race and classes, remove 90% of the monsters in the MM, and swtich "memorization" with "spell points"...well...the game may as well just have it's own system that does all that. ... ... er...wait...there is...I think it's called [I]The One Ring[/I]. ;) I think the bottom line will be, as I said..."Tolkien Fans" are going to be annoyed. "Movie Fans" are going to be rather excited. I'm in the later camp, with a couple toes into the former. I don't want to see a completely "D&D'ized" ME...but I do want to run around in Gondor, The Shire, and Mordor. I want to kill orcs and take their stuff. I want to visit all the cool locations I read about in the RPG, as well as have seen in the movies. I want to cast [I]lightning bolt[/I] multiple times a day, and I want to be able to get bashed, hacked and stabbed a dozen times by goblins before I go down for the count. Yeah...I want to play D&D in Middle Earth. :) ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]
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