<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=307047.msg15006568#msg15006568">Quote from: Dhi on 06-08-2019, 02:41:33</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">You're not a fan of Middle-Earth? I'd like to run it on Elliquiy one day. Cubicle 7 did a terrific translation to the 5e system with the Adventures in Middle-Earth books. Unfortunately Adventures in Middle-Earth uses its own races and classes, and any kind of buy in is going to be a dealbreaker for PbP.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Tolkien's fiction never really interested me - perhaps it's just his style.  Subconsciously, it's also probably an effect of starting tabletop roleplaying around the early 2000s, when the aesthetic of the baseline fantasy RPGs had changed, and JRPGs had gone mainstream.  The only time I played 2nd Edition AD&D rules was via CRPGs like Baldur's Gate.  Classic high fantasy was somewhat out of fashion, and my first forays into the fantasy genre were usually mannerpunk, steampunk, or dark fantasy.  Partly that's due to the lives of ordinary people in a fantasy setting being more compelling to me than the usual high courtly intrigue of a hundred barely distinguishable medieval settings.