Imaro
Legend
And if there is, so what?
A good idea is a good idea regardless of whether it's someone else's, a modification of someone else's, or entirely your own. If what you end up with is a reasonably cohesive setting that provides a decent backdrop for a fun playable game, who cares where that setting's component parts came from or how they were mashed together? Ditto for rules and systems, for all that.
Lanefan
I do... if I enjoy the originality and inventiveness of homebrews (mainly things I haven't seen before or haven't been overly exposed too), I'm not going to be keen on a setting that's a rehash of LotR... regardless of how well constructed it is or that heavily adopts from settings I already have or know about... again this was about my preferences. If you're not interested in hearing about why I have them cool... but it's kind of rude and dismissive to answer my post with a "so what..." especially if other posters have stated their own preferences.
EDIT: I think LotR was a good story and a really good rpg... doesn't mean I want everything to be a copy, steal parts from or re-purpose stuff from LotR... doesn't matter how playable it is, how cohesive it is or how decent a backdrop it provides I'd rather have all of those and create/buy something original (personally I'm more into weird fantasy and non-eurocentric settings for my games now than eurocentric settings). It's not an either or proposition, especially in this day and age of gaming.
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