Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published
by saiya-jin on Thursday June 23, 2022 @10:46AM
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It helps making for example artefacts/weapons/anything else worth striving for much less obtainable. For example 'every good smith can forge top class dragon slayer sword', instead of 'this unique magic sword from 2nd era forged by legendary smith xyz from unobtainium pooped by long-extinct fire dragons'
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Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published
by TheCoelacanth on Thursday June 23, 2022 @12:27PM
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There are plenty of stories you can tell that don't rely on tracking down a MacGuffin and plenty of ways of making a MacGuffin unique other than being from a lost golden age.