Fascinating. Though I read this only a few weeks ago, I'd promptly forgotten it (look...I'm 41 years OOLLLDD). Here I was, only moments ago, flipping back and forth from Holmes to my house rules doc to Zach's 3rd level MU spells, ruminating upon Gandalf's spell use in The Hobbit and Fellowship vs. his apparent spell use after he 'came back' (seems like he was 6th level, felled by the Balrog and was sent back "naked" as 8th or 9th level...anyway...) and looking over this and that in my copy of ICE's "Bree and the Barrow-Downs" imagining what Holmesian/Tolkienien (Tolkienian? Guh.) terrors and dangers I could unleash. Glad I noted this again. It will no doubt prove useful. :) What's just as useful? Ignoring (though I honestly love them) Jackson's films and focusing mostly on Bakshi's excellent take as well as looking to the fun and ignoring the poor (though not necessarily the 'silly') of the Rankin-Bass Hobbit and RotK flicks. I mean, c'mon. The Witch-King in the RB RotK. Saw it when I was six. Never forgot it. Also. Sam. Sam. Sam is awesome. A simply country boy who comes out on top as an absolute bad-a**. Yeah. Just perfect that in the books, near perfectly that in the Rankin-Bass interpretation, almost kinda but not as much as he should have obviously been in Jackson's take...so...so yeah. So...I'm babbling like a madman now so ...thank you. Thank you and goodnight.
Very very cool. I especially like the unified xp for the multiclass elves, as well as the rebuild of the ranger class.
ReplyDeleteFascinating. Though I read this only a few weeks ago, I'd promptly forgotten it (look...I'm 41 years OOLLLDD). Here I was, only moments ago, flipping back and forth from Holmes to my house rules doc to Zach's 3rd level MU spells, ruminating upon Gandalf's spell use in The Hobbit and Fellowship vs. his apparent spell use after he 'came back' (seems like he was 6th level, felled by the Balrog and was sent back "naked" as 8th or 9th level...anyway...) and looking over this and that in my copy of ICE's "Bree and the Barrow-Downs" imagining what Holmesian/Tolkienien (Tolkienian? Guh.) terrors and dangers I could unleash. Glad I noted this again. It will no doubt prove useful. :) What's just as useful? Ignoring (though I honestly love them) Jackson's films and focusing mostly on Bakshi's excellent take as well as looking to the fun and ignoring the poor (though not necessarily the 'silly') of the Rankin-Bass Hobbit and RotK flicks. I mean, c'mon. The Witch-King in the RB RotK. Saw it when I was six. Never forgot it. Also. Sam. Sam. Sam is awesome. A simply country boy who comes out on top as an absolute bad-a**. Yeah. Just perfect that in the books, near perfectly that in the Rankin-Bass interpretation, almost kinda but not as much as he should have obviously been in Jackson's take...so...so yeah. So...I'm babbling like a madman now so ...thank you. Thank you and goodnight.
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