Picking through the ruins of a civilization

It looks like my son and I have arrived too late to see the heyday of the Lord of the Rings Risk Trilogy Edition community. Such a sinking feeling when you find a great website/forum and realize that the last post was two years ago, with most of the action taking place long before that. The oldness of the internet sometimes catches me by surprise.

This is the site:

http://lordoftheringsrisk.com/forums/index.php

The streets are well-ordered, but empty. It’s like a collection of grand Mayan stelae and ball courts left empty in an abandoned city, c. 900 A.D. It’s like the silted harbors of Greytown, Nicaragua, a decade after the Panama Canal has opened and no one needs to travel overland across the isthmus anymore. It’s like the hall of images in the dead city of Charn. It’s like . . . you see what I mean.