While Lightless Grotto is in the staging area, non-unique enemies in the staging area cannot take damage.
Travel: The first player chooses an enemy in the staging area and engages it.
Response: After Belfalas Shipyard is explored as the active location, the players as a group spend 5 resources to heal 5 damage from a Ship objective in any group. Ready that Ship and flip it to its Upgraded side.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 and gains Pillage 3.
While Cobas Haven is the active location, reduce the Boading value on each Ship enemy by 1.
But beyond, in the great fief of Belfalas, dwelt Prince Imrahil in his castle of Dol Amroth by the sea.
–The Return of the King
Isle of Fortune enters play with 1 resource per player on it.
Forced: After a Ship enemy enters play, discard 1 resource from Isle of Fortune.
Response: When Isle of Fortune is explored as the active location, move each resource on it to a hero's resource pool.
While Mouths of Anduin is in the staging area, is gains:"Forced: After a 'when revealed' effect is canceled, reveal the top card of the encounter deck."
Shadow: If this attack is undefended, reveal the top card of the encounter deck.
While Tofalas Landing is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a player draws any number of cards from a player card effect, that player raises their threat by that number."
Shadow: Raise your threat by 1 (3 instead if you have 5 or more cards in hand).
Each location in the staging area is immune to player card effects.
Shadow: Until the end of the round, attacking enemy is immune to player card effects and gets +2
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: After Abandoned Camp leaves play, each player must deal 2 damage to each exhausted character he controls.
Shadow: If this attack is undefended, discard all attachment cards players control.
While Glade of the Spawn is the active location, it gains:"Forced: After a Spider enemy enters play, each player must choose and exhaust 1 character he controls."
...black even for that forest, like a patch of midnight that had never been cleared away. –The Hobbit
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.)
If Torture Chamber has 4 or more resource tokens on it, all "prisoners" were killed, and the players have lost the game.
Forced: At the end of each round, place 1 resource token on each Dol Guldur location in play.
Dungeon Labyrinth gets +1 and +1 quest point for each resource token on it
Forced: At the end of each round, place 1 resource token on Dungeon Labyrinth for each player in the game.
"Some here will remember that many years ago I myself dared to pass the doors of the Necromancer in Dol Guldur..." –Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Each player who does not control at least 1 Clue card cannot draw cards through card effects.
Shadow: If you do not control at least 1 Clue card, discard all cards from your hand.
"The Road is watched, but we should have to cross it..."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Each Mordor enemy with at least 1 Clue card attached gets +2
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each Clue card in play until the end of the round.
Progress cannot be placed on Dark Pools while it is in the staging area.
Forced: After Dark Pools becomes the active location, each player must discard an ally with the highest printed cost among the allies he controls.
'And there in the dark pools amid the Gladden Fields,'he said, 'the Ring passed out of knowledge and legend...'
–The Fellowship of the Ring
While Troll Lair is in the staging area, players cannot reduce their threat.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is a Troll remove 4 damage tokens from it.
Forced: After any amount of progress is placed on Hives and Hives, deal 1 damage to each character in play.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2
There was a buzzing and a whirring and a droning in the air. Bees were busy everywhere. And such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. –The Hobbit
Dark-wood Grove gets +1 and +1 quest point for each Athelas card in play.
Shadow: If defending player controls at least 1 Athelas card, attacking enemy makes an additional attack after this one.
While Labyrinthine Woods is in the staging area, Creature enemies get +1 and +1
Shadow: After this attack, attacking enemy engages the next player and makes an immediate attack.
While Pitch-dark Thicket is the active location, all characters lose the ranged keyword.
Shadow: Attacking enemy cannot be attacked by characters with the ranged keyword until the end of the phase.
...so black that you really could see nothing. –The Hobbit
Forced: After a character commits to the quest, deal 1 damage to that character if it has not been dealt damage by another copy of Brambles and Thorns this round.
..and on both shores there were steep slopes buried in deep brakes of thorn and sloe, tangled with brambles and creepers. –The Fellowship of the Ring
While Sarn Gebir Rapids is the active location, the "when revealed" effects of Hazard cards cannot be canceled.
"What a horrible place! Just let me get out of this boat, and I'll never wet my toes in a puddle again, let alone a river!"
–Sam Gamgee, The Fellowship of the Ring
X is the number of resource tokens here. Cannot leave the staging area.
If Gollum is not in play, any resource tokens that would be placed on Gollum are placed here instead.
Forced: After Gollum enters play, place 2 resource tokens on Gollum then move all resource tokens from The Mere of Dead Faces to Gollum.
While Stagnant Quagmire is in play, it adds its Escape value to all escape tests.
Escape: 2
Shadow: Perform an escape test, dealing 1 card the encounter deck. If this test is failed, discard the defending character.
Progress cannot be placed on Deceptive Path while it is in the staging area.
Forced: After Deceptive Path becomes the active location, shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until a location is discarded. Reveal that location and make it the active location. Then, discard Deceptive Path.
When Revealed: Reveal the topmost Spider enemy in the encounter discard pile and add it to the staging area.
Shadow: The player guarding Gollum must discard all resources from each of his heroes' resource pools.
X is the number of Dark locations in play.
When Revealed: Remove all progress from each Dark location in play.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each Dark location in play.
Each Dark location in play gets +2 quest points.
While Cave Torch is ready, progress cannot be placed on Narrow Fissure.
There were fissures and chasms in the walls...
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Immune to player card effects.
Each Goblin enemy with at least 1 resource on it is immune to player events.
Forced: When a Goblin enemy engages a player, add 2 resources to that enemy.
"Now, I fear, we must say farewell to Balin son of Fundin."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Forced: When a Goblin enemy enters play, add 1 resource to that enemy if Deep-Mines is in the staging area.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 Then, if attacking enemy is a Goblin deal it another shadow card.
Each Goblin in play gets +1 for each resource on it. This ability does not stack with other copies of Western Hall
Away beyond the shadows at the western end of the hall there came cries and horn–calls.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
As an additional cost to bypass a quest card, each player must raise his threat by 2.
Shadow: If the defending character is a hero, discard all resources in its resource pool. Deal attacking enemy another shadow card for each resource discarded in this way.
X is the number of Snow cards in the staging area.
Travel: Search the encounter deck and discard pile for 1 copy of Freezing Cold and reveal it to travel here. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Shadow: Defending character gets -1 Deal the attacking enemy 1 additional shadow card.
While Frozen Silverlode is in the staging area, characters cannot gain from player card effects.
Shadow: Defending character gets -1 Deal the attacking enemy 1 additional shadow card.
"...and there the River Silverlode rises in its icy springs."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Forced: When an engaged enemy with the ambush keyword engages a player, Treacherous Bluffs gets +2 until the end of the phase.
Shadow: Excess damage dealt by this attack must be assigned to Arwen Undómiel.
While Concealed Woods is the active location, the first enemy with the ambush keyword revealed from the encounter deck each round gains surge.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 if engaged with the first player.
While Banks of Sirannon is in the staging area, each Tentacle enemy gets +2
Shadow: For each point of damage dealt by this attack, the defending player must discard a random card from his hand.
Forced: After a player looks at one or more cards in the encounter deck, shuffle the encounter deck.
Travel: Reveal the topmost Tentacle enemy in the encounter discard pile to travel here.
Travel: The first player must make a locate test to travel here. If this test is failed, return Eastern Mines to the staging area and trigger all "Lost:" effects in play.
Shadow: Defending player must choose and trigger 1 "Lost:" effect in play.
For each point of progress that is placed on Bottomless Chasm, the players must choose and discard 1 card from a player's hand, if able
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, the defending player discards all cards in his hand.
While Nest of Horrors is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: When one or more cards are attached to a Nameless enemy from the top of a player's deck, attach an additional card from the top of that player's deck."
Travel: Each player at this stage discards the top card of the encounter deck to travel here. Reveal each Nameless enemy discarded by this effect.
While Shivering River is in the staging area, it contributes its to the total in each other player's staging area.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if there is more than one player at this staging area.)
Progress cannot be placed on Fiery Depths while it is in the staging area.
Travel: Each player must move 1 damage from Durin's Bane to a hero to travel here.
Out of it a fierce red light came, and now and again flames licked at the brink and curled about the bases of the columns. –The Fellowship of the Ring
While Crumbling Stairs is in the staging area, event cards cost 1 additional matching resource to play from hand.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, the defending player must discard all event cards in his hand.
While Dockside Street is in the staging area, enemies in the staging area cannot be damaged or optionally engaged.
Travel: Exhaust the hero with Alcaron's Scroll attached to travel here.
While Alcaron's Scroll is not attached to a hero, Pelargir Alley gets +3
Shadow: If the defending player controls a hero with Alcaron's Scroll attached, attach Alcaron's Scroll to the attacking enemy.
When assigning archery damage to a character, you must continue assigning archery damage to that character until that character is destroyed or there is no more archery damage to assign.
While Dense Thickets is in the staging area, each Forest location in play gets +1
Shadow: Excess damage dealt by this attack (damage that is dealt beyond the remaining hit points of the character damaged by this attack) must be assigned to a Ranger objective in play.
While the current quest has battle, Cormallen Fields gets +2
While the current quest has siege, when faced with the option to travel, the players must travel to Cormallen Fields, if able.