Would you rather play a lord of the rings campaign as second

>third age
>players are common men dark elves and dwarves
>blue wizard gives you jobs to try and stop sauron from bringing southrons and easterlings under his control
>political infighting among kingdoms of men
>orcs raping and pillaging
>trollmen of harad
>the long slow defeat

>>53188764
What about a late 6th age game about cold war espionage?

>>53189153
>running goblins around like their nazi rocket scientists
>maglor boredly wandering around the fjords of norway
>plots to steal venus

>>53188764
I wouldn't be stoked about LotR, but the second sounds better.

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>>53189109
>>the long slow defeat
of Sauron or the players?

>>53188764
a few select MERP modules were set in the 2nd age, the rest mid third age. maybe wanna look at them and compare?

>>53189324
I'd be surprised if Morgoth's creatures made it past the 4th age.

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>>53188764
The blue wizards would make good gandalf equivalents, and they were to be spirits of the huntsman god, so they ought to be something like demigod rangers.

>>53189426
tolkien directly attributes the invention of modern barbed wire to goblins in government employ

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>>53189443
That's beautiful.
Go little swarthy foul fucks, go.
I bet you they bombed pearl harbor and nuked Japan too.

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>>53190098
>they saw the times were changing and changed with them