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Adapting Linear Stories
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You didn't read the article, did you?
Everything else you said was just irrelevant.
Yup. Never noticed the article, only saw the single line he bothered to post on this website.
But please, if it's only 3 steps, tell me then. Should be easy. How do I take Lord of the rings and make a campaign out of it while following it to a certain extend ? Because I doubt it's possible without intense railroading OR insane luck.
It's an interesting article, you should read it. You're thinking of too direct a translation. The idea is that you strip out all of the events, and just adapt the scenario. For Lord of the Rings, the important part is that the One Ring exists, and it needs to be taken to Mt. Doom to be destroyed. Everything in between there is a complete sandbox.
You can then pull in lots of characters and places from the books, but they will almost certainly all show up out of order as your players won't take the same route that they did in the books.
The OP article talks more about the steps to adapt a scenario including a Star Wars example, but here's the LotR one: https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/47543/roleplaying-games/ask-the-alexandrian-7-classic-quests-are-railroads
@melmi @sammytheman666 Yeah, like Council of Elrond is probably Session 0 or Session 1, the alternative to "you meet in a tavern".
Then there's every chance that they run off to try and recruit Saruman as biggest baddest wizard right off the bat, and suddenly you're thinking about where his plans are that early.