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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MARCVS AVRELIVS" data-source="post: 6732728" data-attributes="member: 6792955">MERP Campaign #1:  Premise was that we were playing an alternate Fellowship of the Ring.  Campaign started in Rivendell with the Council of Elrond, and the Hobbits being NPCs.  The wrinkle of the game was that the Ringwraiths hadn't been destroyed at the Ford, but instead were leading orcs from Angmar in a seige of Rivendell. There were five of us filling out the expected roles, but not playing the LotR characters.  So a human sage, an elf, dwarf, human and Dunedain.  First sessions started with us having to get out of Rivendell in a hurry, while Gandalf and Glorfindel were running a distraction.Things go wrong right from the get-go.  Our human warrior, clad in his Gondorian heavy armor, makes too much noise and brings down an orc patrol on our heads.  The combat rolls go from bad to worse, and he's now heavily wounded and telling us all to go on with out him.  Of course, we're RPG players, so instead we decide to try and fight off the orcs to save him.  Of course, the sounds of battle bring more orcs down on us, and now its the elf who's in trouble too.At this point, the sage decides to lead off the hobbits for safety and then, once he's out of sight of us, puts a firebolt into the back of Frodo's head and takes the Ring. He puts it on, the Ringwraiths immediately realize where we are and the GM folds up his screen and the game ends.  Running time, about 60 minutes.MERP Campaign #2: Post-LotR setting.  Someone is digging up Palantir, and our group ends up being the ones trying to figure out who.  Most of the big players have gone into the West, so there's not a lot of people around to help.  As players, we ended up digging into the Lost Tales and Simarillion and other lore, paralleling the research being done by our characters, to figure out where the Palantirs would have been lost and how to find them.  We ended up travelling over most of Eriador, delving into ruins and lost places, and facing a variety of challenges.  The game ended up with us the tip of a lost tower far out in the western sea trying to stop a restored Saruman from using the Palantirs to bring about the Dagor Dagorath by pulling Morgoth through the Door of Night.  Saruman's plan was defeated by heroic sacrifice ... and by the PCs knocking over his palantir stands and dropping the stones into the ocean.</blockquote>

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