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Originally Posted by Rurik
Logolas 'shieldboarding' down stairs while firing off two arrows at a time was a low point for me.
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I quite enjoyed it. Every gamers wet dream (and I include *all* gamers).. IMHO
I am not a big Tolkien fan but I respect his work and the Silmarillion and the Children of Hurin are full of Germanic (Anglo-saxon and Norse and German) and Finnish inspired tales and names. His world outlook is also quite doomed and fated, also very Germanic. I have run many short Middle Earth BRP games, slotted around the main LOTR stories, using the Pinnacles source books, I wish they had published the final one.
Now, there is a standing joke between me and my mate that NEXT year I will run a BRP Vikings game, but I never have, despite having all the sagas, and history books, and novels and most rpg books.
I welcome a tight very NORSE setting book with a series of adventures. I also think the generational approach works, so that you play the summer Viking season and then summarise harvest and winter in a few rolls (but not always of course, the draugr and wyrms come out in winter some years) and then off again next year.
If this was supported by fan or web based supplements for Britain and Russia and Byzantium it would be fun. the danger is that it becomes the RQ Alternate Earth which was quite dry. So some depth and/or optional twists need to be in there.
Maybe NEXT year, after all, Ragnarok is always an option.