IIRC, Elrond isn’t as stuck-up in the book, but it’s been a year or two since I last read Fellowship.

Ah sweet, manmade horrors beyond mortal comprehension.

Star Wars: Empire at War is a classic with more nontraditional gameplay and light 4x elements (no diplomacy). The modding scene is rich too, with Thrawn’s Revenge for the EU and multiple Clone Wars mods.

The EVE Online doc was legendary

For sure. After I beat Morrowind, I was impressed to find out it’s possible to kill any character and still beat the main quest if you know what you’re doing. Hopefully as indie development continues to grow we’ll start to see games inspired by it.

Project Tamriel and Tamriel Rebuilt will keep me busy in the meantime.

With this character’s death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created.

These suggestions rock, I guess my weekend is set!

I mean, it’s more humane than the mermaid farms…

Cool, makes it much easier to visualize how living on a spinning globe works.