Immune to player card effects.
The Old Ford gets +5 quest points for each enemy in play.
Forced: After The Old Ford becomes the active location, each enemy in the staging area makes an immediate attack against the first player.
Grateful for your help, one of the Woodmen offers to journey with you to The Old Ford. He wants to warn Grimbeorn of the growing danger, but when you reach the forst you find the Beornings already fighting to defend the passage of the river from dangerous creatures.
When Revealed: The first player adds The Old Ford to the staging area. Each other player adds the top card of the Evil Creatures deck to the staging area.
The players cannot travel toThe Old Ford unless there is at least 5 progress here.
Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, add the top card of the Evil Creatures deck to the staging area.
This stage cannot be defeated while The Old Ford is in play. When The Old Ford is explored, the players win the game.
While traveling north through the Vales of Anduin on your way to Dale, you are alarmed by the number of dangerous creatures that you encounter.
Setup: Set Woodmen Village and The Old Ford aside, out of play. Create the Evil Creatures deck (see insert) and place it next to the quest deck. Shuffle the encounter deck and discard cards from the top until X locations are discarded, where X is the number of players. Add each discarded location to the staging area.
Forced: After placing progress here from questing successfully, place 1 resource here.
Forced: At the beginning of the encounter phase, remove 1 resource from this stage. Then, add the top card of the Evil Creatures deck to the staging area.
This stage cannot be defeated while an enemy from the Evil Creatures deck in play.