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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hastur_nz" data-source="post: 7126623" data-attributes="member: 40592">If you are pitching the original AP, then it really is best and easiest to use Lord of the Rings as an analogy.  Everyone's read Lord of the Rings and/or seen the movies.  The War of the Lance AP, and War of the Rings, have:Epic Quest.Good vs Evil.Disparate group of slightly raw recruits become Adventurers and Heroes.Ancient Ruins to explore, with ancient foes.Ancient Cultures to cross paths with, which may (or may not) help you out.Conflict that varies from a very personal scale (PC's vs Monsters), to huge (i.e. armies clash).BBEG pulling the stings in the background.The list goes on and on.  Like I said initially, the original AP is about as close to being able to play a story along the lines of Lord of the Rings, without actually playing out the story in Lord of the Rings.  If you got a group of players who had not read the books, and got them on board with the whole "heroic fantasy" thing, I imagine it could be a pretty cool campaign.Personally I did in fact drag my players through the whole thing, some 30-odd years ago, but they were not really into "heroic fantasy", they were more "murder hobo", and I can't say my DM sytle did much to help either... so it wasn't as epic as one might have hoped.  But we still had some epic times, like the original black dragon encounter in Xak Tsaroth (which I stole and re-skinned in two future campaigns), and the battle at the High Clerist Tower.</blockquote>

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