X is the number of players in the game.
Forced: At the end of the round, remove X progress tokens from the current quest.
There were many paths that led up into those mountains, and many passes over them. But most of the paths were cheats and deceptions and led nowhere or to bad ends. –The Hobbit
When Revealed: Starting with the first player, each player must choose 1 Goblin enemy from the discard pile and add it to the staging area.
Shadow: Defending player deals damage among characters he controls equal to the number of Goblin enemies engaged with him.
When Revealed: All engaged enemies return to the staging area. Then, each Goblin enemy gets +1 until the end of the phase.
Shadow: attacking enemy is returned to the staging area after its attack resolves.
When Revealed: The first player chooses a questing character. That character takes 3 damage and is removed from the quest.
Shadow: Put this card on top of the encounter deck.
When Revealed: The first player chooses 1 Stone-giant in the staging area. At the end of the quest phase, that Stone-giant engages the player with the highest threat. If there are no Stone-giant cards in the staging area, search the encounter deck for 1 Stone-giant and add it to the staging area.
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Forced: After the first player answers a riddle and fails to find at least 1 match, Gollum attacks Bilbo Baggins. (Do not deal a shadow card for this attack.)
"If precious asks, and it doesn't answer, we eats it, my precious." – Gollum, The Hobbit
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Forced: If Great Gray Wolf is dealt a shadow card with a riddle, return all Creature enemies to the staging area at the end of the combat phase.
Riddle: The first player names a card type, sphere and cost, shuffles his deck, then discards the top 3 cards. For each of those cards that matches all three items, place 1 progress token on stage 2.
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Forced: If Wild Wargs is dealt a shadow card with a riddle, it gets +2.
Riddle: The first player names a card type, shuffles his deck, and discards the top 2 cards. For each of those cards that matches, place 1 progress token on stage 2.
Forced: After a character takes damage from an attack made by a Creature enemy, remove 1 progress from the current quest.
Riddle: The first player names a sphere, shuffles his deck, and discards the top card. For each of those cards that matches, place 1 progress token on stage 2.
X is twice the number of players in the game.
Players cannot travel here.
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: After players advance to stage 3, remove Lake in the Cavern from the game.
Attach to Bilbo Baggins.
Action: When answering a riddle, spend 1 
resource to discard an additional player card from the top of your deck.
Action: Exhaust Bilbo’s Magic Ring and raise each player's threat by 2 to add 1 resource to Bilbo Baggins' resource pool.
When Revealed: Starting with the first player, each player must search the encounter deck and encounter discard pile for 1 Creature enemy and put it into play engaged with him. Then, shuffle the encounter deck.
Riddle: The first player names a card type and cost, shuffles his deck, then discards the top 3 cards. For each of those cards that matches both items, place 1 progress token on stage 2.
When Revealed: The first player must choose to answer the riddle on this card. If he finds at least 1 match, discard cards from the encounter deck until another card with a riddle is discarded. Then, answer that riddle.
Riddle: The first player names a cost, shuffles his deck, then discards the top 2 cards. For each of those cards that matches, place 1 progress token on stage 2.
When Revealed: Characters get -1
and cannot attack until the end of the round.
Riddle: The first player names a card type and sphere, shuffles his deck, then discards the top 3 cards. For each of those cards that matches both items, place 1 progress token on stage 2.
When Revealed: The first player must choose to answer the riddle on this card. This effect cannot be canceled.
Riddle: The first player names a sphere and cost, shuffles his deck, then discards the top 2 cards. For each of those cards that matches both items, place 1 progress token on stage 2.
When Revealed: The first player names a card type and then discards the top 3 cards of the encounter deck. For each of those cards that does not match the named type, remove 1 progress token from stage 2. This effect cannot be canceled.
Immune to player card effects.
Travel: Exhaust Bilbo Baggins to travel here.
Forced: At the start of each quest phase, search the encounter deck for 1 Spider enemy and add it to the staging area. (2 Spider enemies instead if 3 or more players are at this stage.) Shuffle the encounter deck.
While Giant Web is the active location, each character gets -1 -1 and -1 for each poison it has.
Response: After Giant Web leaves play as an explored location, ready an unconscious character.
While Forest Stream is the active location, poisoned characters cannot quest.
Response: After Forest Stream leaves play as an explored location, discard 4 poison.
It flowed fast and strong but not very wide right across the way, and it was black, or looked it in the gloom. –The Hobbit
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Forced: At the end of each round, each player must give a hero he controls 1 poison.
...hairy legs waving, nippers an dspinners snapping, eyes popping, full of froth and rage. –The Hobbit
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This enemy gets +3 while engaged with a player who controls at least 1 poisoned character.
Shadow: Defending character gets 1 poison. (Give 2 poison to a character you control if undefended.)
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Forced: When this enemy attacks, defending player must attach 1 poison to a character he controls.
Shadow: Defending character gets 2 poison.
When Revealed: Choose a hero to be removed from the quest and make that hero unconscious. If no hero was removed from the quest by this effect, this card gains surge.
"What nasty thick skins they have to be sure, but I'll wager there is good juice inside." –Spider, The Hobbit
When Revealed: Each character takes damage equal to the number of poison it has. If no characters were damaged by this effect, this card gains surge.
Shadow: Discard an unconscious character you control.
While Hidden Path is the active location, locations in the staging area get -1 .
Travel: Spend 2 resources to travel here.
About midday, creeping behind a great stone that stood alone like a pillar, Bilbo came on what looked like rough steps going upwards. –The Hobbit
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Forced: After Dark Bats damages a character, attach it to that character. (While attached, counts as a Condition attachment with the text: 'Attached character gets -1 , -1 , and -1 .")
Shadow: Attach this card to the defending character.
When Revealed: The first player names a sphere. Then, all non- characters who do not belong to the named sphere are removed from the quest.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 . (+2 instead if undefended.)
When Revealed: Until the end of the round, exhausted characters get -1 , -1 , and -1 .
Shadow: If the defending character is destroyed by this attack, its controller must raise his threat by 5.
While attached, Smaug the Magnificent gets -3 .
Response: After the players quest successfully, the first player makes a burgle attempt. If successful, attach A Bare Patch to Smaug the Magnificent.
"Old fool! Why there is a large patch in the hollow of this left breast as bare as a snail out of its shell!
—Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit
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Indestructible. Immune to player card effects
X is the number of non-Burglar characters committed to the quest.
Forced: After the 6th progress token is placed here, the players advance to stage 4A.
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Indestructible. Immune to player card effects.
Cannot leave the staging area (except by quest effect) but is considered to be engaged with the first player.
Forced: If Smaug the Magnificent is dealt a shadow card with a burgle effect, he makes an additional attack immediately after this one.
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Forced: When a location is revealed from the encounter deck, put 1 progress on Smaug the Golden.
Burgle: The first player shuffles his deck and reveals the top card. He may discard 1 card from his hand that matches the revealed card's sphere and type.
While at least 1 card is stacked underneath, The Lonely Mountain is immune to player card effects, cannot leave the staging area, and gets -2 for each card stacked under it.
Action: While making a burgle attempt, the first player may spend 2 resources to take the revealed card into hand and reveal the next card of his deck.
While Great Hall is the active location, it gains: "Forced: Put 1 progress on Smaug the Golden at the end of each round."
Burgle: The first player shuffles his deck and reveals the top card. He may discard 3 cards from his hand that match the revealed card's type.
While Secret Entrance is the active location, The Lonely Mountain's is reduced by half (round up).
Travel: The first player must exhaust a hero and name a card type to travel here. Then, look at the top card of the encounter deck. If the looked at card is not the named type, return Secret Entrance to the staging area. (The players cannot travel again this round.)
While Desolation of Smaug is the active location, the first treachery card revealed each round gains surge.
Burgle: The first player shuffles his deck and reveals the top card. He may discard 2 cards from his hand that match the revealed card's cost.
Response: When Western Slopes leaves play as an explored location (choose one): the first player draws 2 cards, or remove 1 progress token from Smaug the Golden.
Burgle: The first player shuffles his deck and reveals the top card. He may discard 2 cards from his hand that match the revealed card's sphere.
When Revealed: Put 1 progress token on Smaug the Golden. Then, spend X resources or advance to stage 4A. X is the number of progress tokens on Smaug the Golden.
Burgle: The first player shuffles his deck and reveals the top card. He may discard 2 cards from his hand that match the revealed card's type.
When Revealed: Each player discards 2 random cards from hand. Until the end of the phase, each Dragon enemy in play gets +1 for each event discarded by this effect.
Burgle: The first player shuffles his deck and reveals the top card. He may discard 1 card from his hand that matches the revealed card's sphere and cost.
When Revealed: Each Dragon enemy in the staging area makes an immediate attack against the player with the highest total committed to the quest. (Do not deal a shadow card for this attack.)
Burgle: The first player shuffles his deck and reveals the top card. He may discard 1 card from his hand that matches the revealed card's type and cost.
When Revealed: Attach to the hero with the most resources without Dragon-Spell attached. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:
"Attached hero gets -1 for each resource in its resource pool.
Forced: When attached hero spends resources, attached hero takes X damage. X is equal to the number of resources spent.")
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Action: The first player may spend 2 resources to (choose one): take control of Misty Mountain Eagle, or discard this ally to discard a non-unique enemy in the staging area.
Shadow: Deal 3 damage to attacking enemy.
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Bolg cannot take damage.
Forced: When this enemy attacks, deal it an additional shadow card for each quest stage in play with no progress tokens on it.
...with them came the bodyguard of Bolg, goblins of huge size with scimitars of steel. –The Hobbit
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Forced: When this enemy attacks, remove 1 progress from the current quest.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each quest stage in play with no progress on it.
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When Revealed: Remove 1 progress from every quest stage in play. (2 progress instead if 3 or more players in the game.)
Goblins had scaled the Mountain from the other side and already many were on the slopes aboe the Gate…
–The Hobbit
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This enemy gets +1 , +1 , and +1 for each quest stage in play with no progress on it.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, remove all progress from the current quest.
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When Revealed: Each player must deal 2 damage to a character he controls.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to defending character for each quest stage in play with no progress on it.