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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neowolf" data-source="post: 863279" data-attributes="member: 673">Another thing you could do is base your game on an alternate version of events.  For instance, what if the Trollocs had managed to kill Rand that night in the Two Rivers?  No one would ever have known that the Dragon had been reborn, and the world would probably be in complete upheaval... wait a minute, sounds like heroes would be needed! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I did something similar to this when I was planning a LotR campaign a while back (the basic idea came from someone here at ENWorld... sorry, but I can't remember who).  In my version of events, the Fellowship failed after Gandalf fell in Moria.  Frodo, Sam and the Ring were lost, and the War of the Ring went on for ten more long years.  Aragorn became king of Gondor, Gimli and Legolas returned to their people, and Sauron's armies marched across the world, destroying everything that wasn't defended.  The hobbits were massacred, and only one in four survived.The real plot though was that King Elessar (Aragorn) decided to call together a new Fellowship to recover and destroy the One Ring. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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