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<blockquote data-quote="RobShanti" data-source="post: 6032208" data-attributes="member: 82745">Yes, very good point, Mark, I should have specified in my OP.&nbsp; As dd.stevenson put it in the post immediately following yours (and with a nod to Mal Renolds), I'd like the PCs to be the Big Damn Heroes, always with some &quot;narrative goodness.&quot;&nbsp; I'm not interested in &quot;sandboxy kingdom building&quot; though the idea of &quot;little people trying to push back against the shadow in the wilderness&quot; has a good bit of appeal too.To S'mon and Razjah, who recommended the Third Age, my chief concern is how the established events of Tolkien's Legendarium may limit the PCs (unless I resort to letting the PCs change canon, which will mean more work for me and fewer touchstones for everyone)...although:I must admit, Olgar, you do make the era sound appealing here.Very good point, Orlus, and one I hadn't considered.&nbsp; Yeah, I'm not so sure I want my PCs to feel like little fish in a big pond.I will dig them up this afternoon and post them in a dedicated thread to these forums for your amusement, Achan.Well, I didn't...except to the extent that the dystopia was a present-time dystopia, rather than a futuristic one.&nbsp; The game was to culminate with the Dagor Dathorath, the End of Days.&nbsp; Unfortunately, we never got to finish it.HOLY CRAP!&nbsp; Not only is it okay, Colonel, your blog post sealed the deal for me.&nbsp; I think I will go with a Fourth Age game, and, if YOU don't mind, use your blog post as my campaign outline!&nbsp; That was AWESOME.&nbsp; Thank you for writing that!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RobShanti, post: 6032208, member: 82745"] Yes, very good point, Mark, I should have specified in my OP. As dd.stevenson put it in the post immediately following yours (and with a nod to Mal Renolds), I'd like the PCs to be the Big Damn Heroes, always with some "narrative goodness." I'm not interested in "sandboxy kingdom building" though the idea of "little people trying to push back against the shadow in the wilderness" has a good bit of appeal too. To S'mon and Razjah, who recommended the Third Age, my chief concern is how the established events of Tolkien's Legendarium may limit the PCs (unless I resort to letting the PCs change canon, which will mean more work for me and fewer touchstones for everyone)...although: I must admit, Olgar, you do make the era sound appealing here. Very good point, Orlus, and one I hadn't considered. Yeah, I'm not so sure I want my PCs to feel like little fish in a big pond. I will dig them up this afternoon and post them in a dedicated thread to these forums for your amusement, Achan. Well, I didn't...except to the extent that the dystopia was a present-time dystopia, rather than a futuristic one. The game was to culminate with the Dagor Dathorath, the End of Days. Unfortunately, we never got to finish it. HOLY CRAP! Not only is it okay, Colonel, your blog post sealed the deal for me. I think I will go with a Fourth Age game, and, if YOU don't mind, use your blog post as my campaign outline! That was AWESOME. Thank you for writing that! [/QUOTE]

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