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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Apok" data-source="post: 384730" data-attributes="member: 1969">The game does favor the epic feel of the LotR novels, which is no suprise since that is what the book focuses on.  It seems to center on the events between the finding of the One Ring by Bilbo Baggins and the beginning of the War of the Ring as it's "primary" campaign timeline, though it offers suggestions and guidelines for running a game outside of that timeline.  Creating your own world and/or modifying the history of Middle Earth is completely acceptable, just make sure you aren't dealing with a group of "Tolkein Purist" setting lawyers.    Feel free to ignore the canon material and do what you think would make for a great campaign, just be sure to warn the players beforehand so they don't go into apoplexy when your Middle Earth doesn't quite jive with their knowledge of Tolkien's world.  After all, it's your game and your vision and if your players have a problem with it then they shouldn't be playing, right?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />As far as creating an epic feel, the game has that in spades.  It gives one that cinematic feel where one can do anything, be a  great hero and make an impact on history.  I suppose you could go the route of each player being one of the fellowship but that to me just doesn't seem like much fun.  If I were going to run LotR using Middle Earth, I would definitely run it during the Fourth Age of which precious little is written so there aren't any expectations.  Of course, I have already decided to use the system for my homebrew so, for me, it's a moot point.</blockquote>

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