While I mostly prefer to run homebrew, I've run campaigns in Star Wars, Middle Earth and Dragonlance (the last one wasn't a success, since we played the modules and I just ran out of interest). Just last month I started a new SW campaign, set 10 years before Yavin, which will be mostly "Firefly in the SW universe". My ME campaigns have been set between the time of the Hobbit and the War of the Ring.
But if I were to run an adventure concurrent with the events of the books/movies, I'd take the starting situation and tell my players, "Consider the book/movie to be how another adventuring party completed this adventure. You do it your own way."
Has anyone here ever played The War of the Ring boardgame? You begin with the same starting situation, but after that your own decisions and actions shape how the events play out.
But if I were to run an adventure concurrent with the events of the books/movies, I'd take the starting situation and tell my players, "Consider the book/movie to be how another adventuring party completed this adventure. You do it your own way."
Has anyone here ever played The War of the Ring boardgame? You begin with the same starting situation, but after that your own decisions and actions shape how the events play out.