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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 1538685" data-attributes="member: 7635">I love the concept... This MIGHT be the only way I'd ever run a Middle Earth set game. I'll don't know if I read it right, but it doesn't sound like Sauron won... yet. In fact, he suffered a number of setbacks. Pelenthor fields was still a bust, the Witch-King is dead, and Saruman is still defeated. The ring is not in Sauron's hand, but he is closer than he was previsously. Its not the Midnight "Sauron won" sceanrio, there is still a chance of Sauron's defeat, and not all the lands of Middle Earth are conquered, but the fight would be alot harder... For characters; you still have Faramir, Eowyn, Sam, Merry, Pippin, Radergast, Elrond, Gladriel, Arwyn, and Treebeard as potential allies. Saroman, Wormtongue, Gollum, and the eight other Wraiths as minor villains. Not to mention, you have the Ents, the few elves left, the dwarves, the rangers of the north, Gondor, and Rohan to oppose Sauron still. Babadil and the Blue Wizards are wild-cards.  This really strikes me as a campagin that, if run where Sauron's victory is NOT assured, could have all the drama and excitement of the books/movies. Imagine the PC's hunting for Gollum, recovering Narsil from Mordor, discovering a brooding, obsessed Sam with Sting and the Phial still searching for the Ring (to destroy it, he thinks), helping the Hobbits during the Scourging, enlisting more help from the various forces, even facing down a physical form of Sauron (in his 2nd Age armor) in a final decisive battle at the Crack of Doom.  Figure out how your going to do magic and classes (cough cough generics from UA) and you got one helluva game going. Can I play? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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