Hi charlse.
I'm not sure about a none rpg lotr game simply because of the subject
matter. yes, there are now brawlers and other games based on the films, but
those are heavily based around the battle sequences which peter jaxon
heavily extended, indeed the battle of the hornburg in the two towers (or
the battle of helms deep as most film fans know it), takes a grand total of
ten pages in the entire book, does not feature the elves, and is over
relatively quickly, particularly considdering that in the book only the
fighting force of the rohirim was at the hornburg, not everyone else
(theoden really comes across as an idiot in the films).
Anyway, if we get on to film/book differences I could be hear all day, my
point is that most of the games based on lotr that are not! rpgs are pretty
battle exclusivee and thus really just fairly standard games as games go
just with a lotr flavour.
Myself, I'd like to see either A, a full on exploration rpg that let you
walk the really large world of middle earth, or B, a strategic game set in
the eldadays similar to castaways in which you could play either the first
elves, dwarves, dunedain or easterlings and have to forge a home in the
world under the depradations of Morgoth's creatures.
Indeed that could be especially interesting since significant events,
particularly the creation of the sun and moon, the return of the Noldor to
middle earth and the war of wrath could have an affect on your settlement.
the best lotr game I've played recently is the rpg adventure for the eamon
system Thror's ring, written by Tom zuchowski, since the writting, the
puzzles, the combat everything just really worked! to give you a good
impression of Moria. i've also played a good few more by Sam Ruby (one of
the most famous eamon rpg authors), and while those were lots of fun, some
were simply combat fests and skimped a little on the description in some
places which was a trifle disappointing.
Still, if you want a good accessible rp game of lotr, I'd advise Eamon
deluxe.
Beware the Grue!¬
Dark.
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