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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Errant" data-source="post: 1293394" data-attributes="member: 1926">Wow. Lots of ideas. Why on earth isn't there a d20 publisher wangling a deal to publish adventures in this setting? Anyway...Dark Jezter - I thought about Moria, but being only able to play sparodically, I knew I could do that one justice. Plus I'd like to see the players see more of Middle Earth than just one dungeon, even one as epic as Moria.Mystaros - Consider Helkanarfae stolen. In the short term I think I'll portray her as a rising menace in the far north but if the PCs decide to investigate the rumours there'll be plenty for them to find.Agback - I'm trying to stick with 3E DnD because my group doesn't have the time or resources to master a new system. Not sure I agree with your proposition that high-level characters with grossly superhuman abilities don't fit Middle Earth. Yes Aragorn (a ranger with seventy years' experience) Boromir, Gimli, Legolas, Gandalf and four hobbits ran away from a group of orcs with a cave troll in tow, but remember that the four hobbits were relatively inexperienced & the others could easily be viewed as trying to get them out of harms way. Plus, I'm using the movies as cannon remember & the way the more experienced companions carved their way through orcs & the like seems well suited to high-level characters with grossly superhuman abilities. But I don't want to belabor the point. The campaign info you provide & the link to Lalaith's page were outstanding!Olgar - I think those opportunities will fuel a long term campaign & I'll be happily filing those ideas away for the day when I can DM often enough to run it. For now, I hope to run one high level (probably around L16) adventure to see how my players take to it.d4 - Nice catch. I don't know how yet, but I'm sure the blue wizards will feature somewhere. In fact I think I may have found the source for the BBEG the PCs will face when they investigate the silence of the Academy of Adepts (still don't have a ME name for it)...Alcareru - Already planning to drop at least hints of the risen Nazgul into the adventure. Doubt I'll use the Witch King though as his demise at the hands of Eowyn & Meriadoc during the Battle of Pelennor Fields. I think I'll be interpreting the 'destruction' of the other Nazgul when the One Ring was destroyed, as the removal of their immunity to sunlight. Their immunity gone, the sun over Pelennor Fields saw only the temporary destruction of their incorporeal forms. Forms that coalesced again as night fell upon the battle field. Weakened, they fled into the darkness to recuperate....Pants - The Mouth of Sauron! Another excellent BBEG. Strikes me as an excellent candidate for a leader of the Haradrim in an uprising/war against Gondor. Plus you can practically guarantee there are at least a couple of balrogs in the deep dark corners of ME.Mystaros - I think we're 'on the same page'.Steveroo - I wish I had your memory for details. Great material for a loonnggg campaign.So. No shortage of material for adventures in the 4th Age! Thanks all.How about some ME encounters? I've pondered Tolkien's monstrous elements of ME, largely with the help of this excellent site: <a href="http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-70531/Tolkien/" target="_blank">http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-70531/Tolkien/</a> ... & I see Balrogs, Dragons, Wights, Will o Wisps, fiendish crows (Crebain), Goblins, Orcs, colossal elephants (Oliphants), evil spiders, giants & murderous humans of many ilks.I'm thinking fiendish is probably a good template for creatures bred in Sauron's pits. Tieflings could likewise be descended from fiendish ancestors along the same lines (particularly if you drop the 'Darkness' special ability to fit 'low magic' ME). Did Aragorn have Aasimar blood? Does that explain how he had 70 years experience but was still fought as a warrior in his prime?</blockquote>

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