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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 5014585" data-attributes="member: 18280">Lord of the Rings could be run as a sandbox.  The GM need merely know what Sauron is doing, what the other major players of Middle Earth are doing, and set things in motion.If the PCs destroy the Ring, then it is the story of their triumph.  If they fail, then it is the story of their failure.  If they go do something else, then it is the story of their dealing with the collapse of the Third Age and the Rule of Sauron in the Fourth Age.  Perhaps they even try to use the Ring themselves, as Boromir sought to do.  Again, this will tell a different story.Easy enough to do, and the marching armies of Sauron foreshadow major changes to the milieu, regardless of what happens.RC</blockquote>