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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 6073030" data-attributes="member: 463">I think 4e Martial classes can do very well emulating the feel of the LoTR movies. The books, not so much. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />If I were doing it, I'd suggest martial classes only, but allow a few arcane and divine multiclass feats, eg Aragorn might be a TWF Ranger with Multiclass Paladin, Elrond a Fighter with multiclass Wizard. Ritual caster feat lets Elves et al use non-battle magic. Gandalf type wizards as PCs would be a problem, but there is no indication of mortal human Wizard types in the books. In the books Gandalf had an at-will burning hands type power, but that derived from him being an Angel wielding the Ring of Fire. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I'm not sure if I would use Inherent bonuses in a LoTR game; acquiring magic bling is such a big part of the books that an Heroic-Tier campaign would work fine without them. If I were going into Paragon & Epic tier though I would use Inherents to avoid the economy-distorting effects of the standard item system, where high level PCs are acquiring and spending hundreds of thousands of gp on gear.</blockquote>

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