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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAntiSummit" data-source="post: 1337193" data-attributes="member: 12710">Hi everyone.  I wanted to ask anyone who has experience in either running or playing a game in a world or setting of a heavily character influenced book or series of books like Lord of the Rings, or A Song of Ice and Fire.I have heard of people running LOTR games, and I have been thinking about trying to run aSoIaF game, and the thread thats floating around here about Dragonlance Campaigns has raised alot of questions for me.  The chief complaint in that thread is that the DL books and their characters steal the spotlight away from the game and its players so that the characters in the game are just minor accessories to the events that are already predestined to happen as determined in the books.  So in a book where everything has already happened and the characters have already said their lines and played their parts, what is left for roleplaying?  Anyone who has played a LotR game, how did it work?  did you play characters from the fellowship, and just go along with the book?  Or did you play in the Lord of the Rings Setting in a different time?  If anyone has played in aSoIaF game, I would be similarly interested in knowing how you handled it and how it turned out.I don't want to just use the setting and not the characters and events of the books, because then it would be a Westeros game, or a Middle Earth game, not aSoIaF or LotR game.  I dont want to simply follow the book's plot, because then i might as well just reread them, or play a videogame.  I dont want to just plop the characters down in some other part of the world while the events of the book happen elsewhere because again, then it is the setting, not the book.HELP!</blockquote>

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