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Shadow: Wolf Rider attacks the defending player. That player may declare 1 character as a defender. Deal Wolf Rider its own Shadow card. After combat, return Wolf Rider to the top of the encounter deck.
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Excess combat damage dealt by Hill Troll (damage that is dealt beyond the remaining hit points of the character damaged by its attack) must be assigned as an increase to your threat.
"Mutton yesterday, mutton today, and blimey, if it don't look like mutton again tomorrow."
–Troll, The Hobbit
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During the encounter phase, players cannot optionally engage Goblin Sniper if there are other enemies in the staging area.
Forced: If Goblin Sniper is in the staging area at the end of the combat phase, each player deals 1 point of damage to 1 character he controls.
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Forced: Each time Marsh Adder attacks you, raise your threat by 1.
Under the boughs of Mirkwood there was deadly strife of Elves and Men and fell beasts.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Forced: If Wargs is dealt a shadow card with no effect, return Wargs to the staging area after it attacks.
Shadow: attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if this attack is undefended.)
When Revealed: Remove 4 progress tokens from the current quest card. (If there are fewer than 4 progress tokens on the quest, remove all progress tokens from that quest.)
Shadow: Defending character does not count its
Forced: After the players travel to The Brown Lands, place 1 progress token on it.
They had come to the Brown Lands that lay, vast and desolate, between Southern Mirkwood and the hills of the Emyn Muil. What pestilence or war or evil deed of the Enemy had so blasted all that region even Aragorn could not tell.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
When faced with the option to travel, the players must travel to The East Bight if there is no active location.
"...to the east the lands are waste, and full of Sauron's creatures..."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring
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When Revealed: The first player chooses 1 character currently committed to a quest. Deal 2 damage to that character.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if this attack is undefended.)
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Chieftain Ufthak get +2 for each resource token on him.
Forced: After Chieftain Ufthak attacks, place 1 resource token on him.
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Forced: When Dol Guldur Beastmaster attacks, deal it 1 additional shadow card.
When Revealed: Each enemy and each location currently in the staging area gets +1 until the end of the phase. If there are no cards in the staging area, Driven by Shadow gains Surge.
Shadow: Choose and discard 1 attachment from the defending character. (If this attack is undefended, discard all attachments you control.)
When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to each exhausted character.
There was an eye in the Dark Tower that did not sleep. He knew that it had become aware of his gaze. A fierce eager will was there. – The Fellowship of the Ring
Travel: The first player must discard 2 cards from his hand at random to travel here.
"It is clad in a forest of dark fir, where the trees strive one against another and their branches rot and wither. In the midst upon a stony height stands Dol Guldur, where long the hidden Enemy had his dwelling."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring
While Enchanted Stream is the active location, players cannot draw cards.
"There is one stream, I know, black and strong which crosses the path. That you should neither drink of, nor bathe in; for I have heard that it carries enchantment and a great drowsiness and forgetfulness."
–Beorn, The Hobbit
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Forced: After Misty Mountain Goblins attacks, remove 1 progress token from the current quest.
Shadow: Remove 1 progress token from the current quest. (3 progress tokens instead if this attack is undefended.)
When Revealed: Reveal X additional cards from the encounter deck. X is the number of players in the game.
Shadow: Deal X shadow cards to this attacker. X is the number of players in the game.
Forced: If Banks of the Anduin leaves play, return it to the top of the encounter deck instead of placing it in the discard pile.
Here and there through openings Frodo could catch sudden glimpses of rolling mounds, and far beyond them hills in the sunset, and away on the edge of sight a dark line, where marches the southernmost ranks of the Misty Mountains.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Forced: While Gladden Fields is the active location, each player must raise his threat by an additional point during the refresh phase.
"On a time they took a boat and went down to the Gladden Fields, where there were great beds of iris and flowering reeds."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Forced: After Eastern Crows is defeated, shuffle it back into the encounter deck.
Shadow: attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if defending player's threat is 35 or higher.)
When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to each character controlled by each player with a threat of 35 or higher.
"They say in my land he can govern the storms in the Mountains of Shadow..."
–Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Each player raises his threat by 1 for each character he controls that is not currently committed to a quest.
Shadow: Defending player chooses and returns 1 exhausted ally he controls to its owner's hand. If he controls no exhausted allies, raise his threat by 3.
When Revealed: Each location in the staging area gets +1 until the end of the phase. Then, each player with a threat of 35 or higher chooses and discards 1 card from his hand.
"But it will be hard to find the path unless the fog lifts a little later on."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Setup: Each player reveals 1 card from the top of the encounter deck, and adds it to the staging area.
Emerging from Mirkwood Forest with an urgent message from Lady Galadriel, you must make your way south along the Anduin River in order to reach the forst of Lórien. As you leave the forest behind, you notice that you are being pursued, and thus quicken your pace...
When Revealed: Search the encounter deck for 1 Hill Troll is one is not already in play, and place it in the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Players cannot defeat this stage while any Hill Troll cards are in play.
As you approach the location of a small raft stashed on the riverbank, a fearsome Hill Troll emerges from behind a grouping of rocks, and attacks!
Reveal 1 additional card from the encounter deck each quest phase. Do not make engagement checks during the encounter phase. (Each player may still optionally engage 1 enemy each encounter phase.)
After defeating the Troll, you are able to board the raft and embark upon a river voyage. As you depart, your enemies pursue, harassing the small vessel as you attempt to navigate the river...
As your enemies harass the raft, it is difficult to maintain balance and effectively fight them off.
When Revealed: Reveal 2 encounter cards per player, and add them to the staging area.
Skip the staging step of the quest phase for the remainder of the game.
Once there are no enemies in play, the players have won the game.
The ongoing harassment from your enemies has forced your raft to the shore, and you must now confront their ambush head on. If you survive this attack, your path to the Golden Wood should be open before you...
You are playing Nightmare mode.
All Troll enemies gain the text: "Cannot have attachments."
If the encounter deck is empty (at any time), shuffle the encounter discard pile back into the encounter deck.
Begin with the standard quest deck and encounter deck for the Journey Along the Anduin scenario found in the LOTR LCG core set.
Remove the following cards, in the specified quantities, from the standard encounter deck:
3x Evil Storm
2x Treacherous Fog
2x Banks of the Anduin
3x Dol Guldur Orcs
2x Enchanted Stream
2x Despair
3x Misty Mountain Goblins
2x Necromancer's Pass
Then, shuffle the encounter cards in this Nightmare Deck into the remainder of the standard Journey Along the Anduin encounter deck.
Finally, flip this setup card over and place it next to the quest deck. Its effects remain active throughout the game, which is now ready to begin.
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If you are engaged with this enemy, you cannot attack or deal damage (through effects) to enemies with a title other than Marshland Outlaws.
Shadow: Raise your threat by X. X is the amount of damage dealt by this attack.
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If there is no Hill Troll in play, Anduin Troll Spawn gains surge.
Forced: At the beginning of the combat phase, Anduin Troll Spawn engages a player engaged with a Hill Troll.
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Brown Water Rats cannot be damaged.
Forced: If the players are on stage 3 and all remaining enemies have the printed Rat trait, discard Brown Water Rats from play.
Shadow: Attacking enemy cannot be damaged this round.
Each card revealed by the encounter deck gains doomed X. X is the number of progress tokens on this card.
Shadow: If this attack is undefended, put A Flooded Ford into the staging area with 1 progress token on it.
Action: Deal 1 damage to a hero you control to reduce Gladden Marshlands by 1 until the end of the phase. Any player may trigger this effect.
Shadow: Each enemy engaged with the defender player gets +1 until the end of the phase. (+2 instead if this attack is undefended.)
When Revealed: Search the victory display and encounter discard pile for the enemy with the most hit points. Return that enemy to the staging area. If no enemy is returned by this effect, Pursuit on the Shore gains surge. (Cannot be canceled.)
When Revealed: All engaged Troll enemies attack. If no Troll enemies are engaged, Troll gains surge.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is a Troll resolve this attack against each player. is undefended against each player not engaged with this enemy.)
When Revealed: Remove all damage from all enemies. Then, each player raises his threat by the amount of just removed from his engaged enemies. If no damage is removed by this effect, Smoking Blood gains surge.
Shadow: Move all damage on this enemy to the defending character. (If undefended, move the damage to the hero damaged by this attack.)