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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Riley37" data-source="post: 6522818" data-attributes="member: 6786839">Would LoTR have been a better story if "Frodo and Sam travelled for a month and arrived at Mount Doom"?Along the way, Tolkien showed us a fair bit about the terrain of Middle-Earth, and also developed the relationship between Sam, Frodo, Gollum and Smeagol (politely skipping over the more intimate aspects of that four-way connection). The loving description of plant species which I've never seen, weren't as meaningful to me as they might be an Englishman, but it was a decent setup for the desolation of Mordor.There's also seeing weird stuff without interacting with it, or at least without giving or taking damage, for example passing over the marshes where a huge battle had happened long ago.Have the party overtake a convoy of pilgrims. Mention that one pilgrim is telling a story to others. If someone says that they listen in, have them make an Int (Religion) check... then tell the group a story from the Canterbury Tales.Three months later, do a story which that Tale foreshadows - for example, a lost treasure, and the key clue is something they might remember from the pilgrim's story.</blockquote>