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<blockquote data-quote="BookBarbarian" data-source="post: 7392845" data-attributes="member: 6802553">It's interesting how some of it is the game encouraging a type of play and some of it is player expectations.I'm running a very successful game of AiME, but with players that haven't played that much D&amp;D. Some LMoP and a few one shots, but never over 3rd level, and only one of them played spellcasters. So far no one misses magic missile or fireball. For us AiME does a fine job of a Middle Earth game, if more action packed than you'd expect from the books, but actually pretty spot on for what you would expect from the films. Shadow points, Journeys, and Audiences do a good job of filling in the non-combat pillars of the game.I can't say if TOR does it better, I've yet to play it. It probably does as it doesn't have the D&amp;D baggage.But for lots of people AiME may be good enough. As far as I can tell it's outselling TOR by a pretty wide margin these days. Sometimes good enough and popular is preferable to better but more obscure. In fact that's about how I feel about 5e in general.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BookBarbarian, post: 7392845, member: 6802553"] It's interesting how some of it is the game encouraging a type of play and some of it is player expectations. I'm running a very successful game of AiME, but with players that haven't played that much D&D. Some LMoP and a few one shots, but never over 3rd level, and only one of them played spellcasters. So far no one misses magic missile or fireball. For us AiME does a fine job of a Middle Earth game, if more action packed than you'd expect from the books, but actually pretty spot on for what you would expect from the films. Shadow points, Journeys, and Audiences do a good job of filling in the non-combat pillars of the game. I can't say if TOR does it better, I've yet to play it. It probably does as it doesn't have the D&D baggage. But for lots of people AiME may be good enough. As far as I can tell it's outselling TOR by a pretty wide margin these days. Sometimes good enough and popular is preferable to better but more obscure. In fact that's about how I feel about 5e in general. [/QUOTE]

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