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Level Up Playtest Document #17: Journeys
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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8261394" data-attributes="member: 6796468"><p>The Lord of the Rings movies are not the Lord of the Rings. Which is much closer to the Journey System than the movies could hope to be.</p><p></p><p>There are 11 CHAPTERS before Frodo meets the Nazgul at Hilltop. Most of which are focused on traveling around the Shire on the way to the Prancing Pony, stopping at various farms and houses, and eventually getting captured by Barrow-Wights (Don't worry! Tom Bombadil saves the Hobbits and gives them Magic Daggers before they ever meet Strider).</p><p></p><p>The first book -ends- with Frodo reaching a safe-haven on the back of Glorfindel's horse.</p><p></p><p>The Lord of the Rings is a quintessential Journeyquest, where the travel is the big focus of the story. Not the set-piece big battles that Peter Jackson wanted to see.</p><p></p><p>Heck, the part of the Hobbit where the Battle of the Five Armies happens? Bilbo gets knocked out pretty much out of the gate and the book skips to him waking up in the aftermath! Because the adventure is the journey, the paths taken.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8261394, member: 6796468"] The Lord of the Rings movies are not the Lord of the Rings. Which is much closer to the Journey System than the movies could hope to be. There are 11 CHAPTERS before Frodo meets the Nazgul at Hilltop. Most of which are focused on traveling around the Shire on the way to the Prancing Pony, stopping at various farms and houses, and eventually getting captured by Barrow-Wights (Don't worry! Tom Bombadil saves the Hobbits and gives them Magic Daggers before they ever meet Strider). The first book -ends- with Frodo reaching a safe-haven on the back of Glorfindel's horse. The Lord of the Rings is a quintessential Journeyquest, where the travel is the big focus of the story. Not the set-piece big battles that Peter Jackson wanted to see. Heck, the part of the Hobbit where the Battle of the Five Armies happens? Bilbo gets knocked out pretty much out of the gate and the book skips to him waking up in the aftermath! Because the adventure is the journey, the paths taken. [/QUOTE]
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