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Response: After Bilbo Baggins commits to the quest, choose an enemy in the staging area. Until the end of the phase, Bilbo Baggins gets +X where X is that enemy's
If the players quest successfully, deal 1 damage to that enemy (2 damage instead if it is guarding a card).
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![](/Images/Cards/The-Fellowship-of-the-Ring/Bilbo-Baggins.jpg)
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Response: After Bilbo Baggins enters play, search your deck for a Pipe attachment and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
"Elves may thrive on speech alone, and Dwarves endure great weariness, but I am an old Hobbit, and I miss my meal at noon." –The Fellowship of the Ring
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![](/Images/Cards/Mount-Gundabad/Bilbo-Baggins.jpg)
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![Defense](/Images/defense-small.png)
![Hit Points](/Images/heart-small.png)
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Response: After Bilbo Baggins commits to the quest, choose an enemy in the staging area. Until the end of the phase, Bilbo Baggins gets +X where X is that enemy's
If the players quest successfully, deal 1 damage to that enemy (2 damage instead if it is guarding a card).
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![](/Images/Cards/The-Hobbit-Over-Hill-and-Under-Hill/Bilbo-Baggins.jpg)
![Willpower](/Images/willpower-small.png)
![Attack](/Images/attack-small.png)
![Defense](/Images/defense-small.png)
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The first player gains control of Bilbo Baggins.
Bilbo Baggins cannot gain resources from player card effects.
If Bilbo Baggins leaves play, the players lose the game.
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![](/Images/Cards/The-Hobbit-On-the-Doorstep/Bilbo-Baggins.jpg)
![Willpower](/Images/willpower-small.png)
![Attack](/Images/attack-small.png)
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Bilbo Baggins does not count against the hero limit and cannot gain resources from non-treasure cards. The first player gains control of Bilbo Baggins.
Action: Spend 1 resource to search your deck for a treasure card and add it to your hand.
If Bilbo Baggins leaves play, the players have lost the game.
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![](/Images/Cards/The-Road-Darkens/Bilbo-Baggins.jpg)
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Response: After Bilbo Baggins enters play, search your deck for a Pipe attachment and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
"Elves may thrive on speech alone, and Dwarves endure great weariness, but I am an old Hobbit, and I miss my meal at noon." –The Fellowship of the Ring
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![](/Images/Cards/The-Hunt-for-Gollum/Bilbo-Baggins.jpg)
![Willpower](/Images/willpower-small.png)
![Attack](/Images/attack-small.png)
![Defense](/Images/defense-small.png)
![Hit Points](/Images/heart-small.png)
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The first player draws 1 additional card in the resource phase.
"Well, my dear fellow," said Bilbo, "now you've heard the news, can't you spare me a moment? I want your help in something urgent."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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![](/Images/Cards/The-Mines-of-Moria/Bilbo-Baggins.jpg)
![Willpower](/Images/willpower-small.png)
![Attack](/Images/attack-small.png)
![Defense](/Images/defense-small.png)
![Hit Points](/Images/heart-small.png)
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The first player draws 1 additional card in the resource phase.
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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.
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Attach to Bilbo Baggins.
Action: Exhaust Bilbo’s Magic Ring and raise your threat by 1 to gain 1 resource. (Limit once per round.)
Response: After Bilbo Baggins exhausts to defend an attack, exhaust Bilbo’s Magic Ring and raise your threat by 3 to cancel all damage from this attack.
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![](/Images/Cards/The-Land-of-Sorrow/Bilbo's-Plan.jpg)
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Response: After you attack and destroy an enemy, shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the top until an enemy is discarded. Add that enemy to the staging area to discard a non-unique location with equal to or less that that enemy's
![](/Images/Baggins-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/The-Hobbit-Over-Hill-and-Under-Hill/Burglar-Baggins.jpg)
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Action: Bilbo Baggins gets +2 +2
and +2
until the end of the phase. (You may spend a
resource from Bilbo Baggins' resource pool to play this card even if you do not control Bilbo Baggins.)
“You can say Expert Treasure-hunter instead of Burglar if you like. Some of them do.”
– Glóin, The Hobbit
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Attach to Bilbo Baggins. Restricted.
Bilbo Baggins gets +1 +1
and +1
.
Response: After Bilbo Baggins exhausts to defend, discard the top card of the encounter deck. Deal damage to the attacking enemy equal to the discarded card's .
"I shall call you Sting." –Bilbo, The Hobbit
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During the confusion, bilbo stumbled won a tunnel and into Gollum's cave. There the Hobbit had to outwit the creature Gollum in a dangerous riddle contest to discover the way out.
Setup: Search the encounter deck for Gollum and Bilbo's Magic Ring. Place Gollum and Bilbo Baggins in the riddle area and attach Bilbo's Magic Ring to Bilbo Baggins. Then, shuffle the encounter deck.
Players cannot advance to stage 3A unless both 1B and 2B are complete.
Progress tokens cannot be added to, or removed from, this quest except by answering riddles.
Cards in the riddle area are immune to player card effects and cannot leave the riddle area except by quest effects.
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![Threat](/Images/threat-small.png)
While Troll Camp is in the staging area, Troll enemies get +1 for each player in the game.
While Troll Camp is in play, Bilbo Baggins gains:"Action: Exhaust Bilbo Baggins and spend 1 resource to remove 1 Sack card from a character. Bilbo Baggins may trigger this effect even with a Sack card attached to him."
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![Threat](/Images/threat-small.png)
Forced: After placing 1 or more progress tokens on Dreary Hills, each player must discard 1 card at random from his hand.
Response: After Dreary Hills leaves play as an explored location, Bilbo Baggins gains 1 resource.
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Forced: After placing 1 or more progress tokens on Lone-Lands, each player removes 1 resource from one of his hero's resource pools, if able.
Response: After Lone-Lands leaves play as an explored location, Bilbo Baggins gains 1 resource.
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If Troll Key is discarded, add it to the staging area.
If Troll Key is unattached and in the staging area, attach it to a Troll enemy, if able.
Response: After attached Troll enemy takes damage as the result of an attack, the first player may exhaust Bilbo Baggins to claim this objective and attach it to him.
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![Threat](/Images/threat-small.png)
![Attack](/Images/attack-small.png)
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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
![](/Images/Baggins-med.png)
![](/Images/Cards/The-Hobbit-On-the-Doorstep/The-Lucky-Number.jpg)
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Action: Choose a character in play (other than Bilbo Baggins). Add Bilbo Baggins' total ,
, and
to that character's
and
respectively until the end of the phase.
"I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number."
–Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit
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Attach to Bilbo Baggins.
Attached hero gets +1 and +1 hit point.
"Mr. Baggins!" he cried. "Here is the first payment of your reward! Cast off your old coat and put on this!" – Thorin, The Hobbit
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![Threat](/Images/threat-small.png)
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.
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"Stick to the forest–track, keep your spirits up, hope for the best, and with a tremendous slice of luck you may come out one day and see the Long Marshes lying below you, and beyond them, high in the East, the Lonely Mountain where dear old Smaug lives."
–Gandalf, The Hobbit
Setup: Each player may shuffle 1 copy Bilbo's Magic Ring into his deck. Search the encounter deck for The Spider's Glade and set it aside, out of play. Then, shuffle the encounter deck and reveal 1 encounter card per player.
Unconscious characters cannot quest, attack, defend, collect resources, trigger abilities, be poisoned, or ready (except by effects that target unconscious character).
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Bilbo was horrified, now that he noticed them for the first time dangling in the shadows, to see a dwarvish foot sticking out from the bottoms of some of the bundles, or here and there the tip of a nose, or a bit of beard or of a hood. –The Hobbit
When Revealed: Remove all resources from each hero's resource pool. Then, make each character you control (except Bilbo Baggins) unconscious.
Unconscious characters cannot quest, attack, defend, collect resources, trigger abilities, be poisoned, or ready (except by effects that target unconscious character).
Do not pass the first player token. When this stage is complete, do not advance to stage 4 until the end of the quest phase. (Combine staging areas if necessary.)
Action: Spend 2 resources to ready an unconscious character you control.
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You are playing Nightmare mode.
When resolving the "when revealed" effect of stage 3B, no more than X resources may be spent from Bilbo Baggins's resource pool, where X is the number of players in the game.
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Begin with the standard quest deck and encounter deck for the Over the Misty Mountains Grim scenario. This scenario has two encounter decks. The first encounter deck consists of Over the Misty Mountains Grim and Western Lands encounter sets, and the second consists of The Great Goblin and Misty Mountain Goblins encounter sets.
Remove the following cards, in the specified quantities, from both of the standard encounter deck:
2x Cave Entrance
2x Lone-lands
2x Dreary Hills
2x Overhanging Rock
1x Great Cavern Room
1x The Great Goblin
3x Goblin Miners
3x Goblin Axeman
Then, shuffle the encounter cards in this Nightmare Deck with the Over the Misty Mountains Grim encounter set icons into the remainder of the first encounter deck. Shuffle the cards with The Great Goblin encounter set icon into the second 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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![Threat](/Images/threat-small.png)
![Attack](/Images/attack-small.png)
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Bilbo's Magic Ring does not ready during the refresh phase.
![Shadow Effect](/Images/ShadowDivider.png)
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3
instead if Bilbo's Magic Ring is exhausted.)
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When Revealed: Discard 2 resources from Bilbo Baggins's resource pool, or Gollum makes an attack against Bilbo Baggins.
Riddle: The first player names a sphere, a cost, and a card type, shuffles his deck, and discards the top 3 cards. For each card that matches all three items, place 1 progress on stage 2.
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![Threat](/Images/threat-small.png)
Foced: After a player fails a burgle attempt, each player raises his threat by 2.
Travel: Exhaust Bilbo and spend 1
resource to travel here.
It was a red light steadily getting redder and redder. Also it was now undoubtedly hot in the tunnel. Wisps of vapour floated up and past him and he began to sweat.
–The Hobbit
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![](/Images/Cards/The-Hobbit-Over-Hill-and-Under-Hill/Down-Down-to-Goblin-Town-3A.jpg)
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Out jumped the goblins, big goblins, great ugly–looking goblins, lots of goblins, before you could say rocks and blocks. – The Hobbit
When Revealed: Shuffle all encounter cards back into the encounter deck and set it aside, inactive. The second encounter deck becomes the active encounter deck. Search the encounter deck for The Great Goblin and add it to the staging area. Then, shuffle the encounter deck.
Players cannot defeat this stage unless The Great Goblin is in the victory display.
When Revealed: Reveal 3 encounter cards per player, Bilbo Baggins may spend X resources to reduce the total number of encounter cards revealed by X. (To a minimum of 1.)
If the players defeat this stage, they have won the game.
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To everyone's surprise, Bilbo Baggins rejoined his companions on the eastern side of the Misty Mountains. However, their celebration was cut short by the chilling sound of wolves howling close by. To the frightened hobbit, it seemed that they had escaped from the goblins only to be eaten by wargs.
When Revealed: The first player gains control of Bilbo Baggins. Reveal 1 encounter card per player and add it to the staging area.
Gollum engages the first player. Damage from undefended attacks made by Gollum must be placed on Bilbo Baggins.
All riddle effects are ignored. Treachery cards gain surge.
If players defeat this stage, they have won the game.
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![](/Images/Cards/The-Hobbit-On-the-Doorstep/Battle-with-the-Spiders-4A.jpg)
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Then the battle began. Some of the dwarves had knives, and some had sticks, and all of them could get stones; and Bilbo had his elvish dagger. Again and again the spiders were beaten off, and many of them were killed. But it could not go on for long. –The Hobbit
When Revealed: Add The Spider's Glade to the staging area.
Unconscious characters cannot quest, attack, defend, collect resources, trigger abilities, be poisoned, or ready (except by effects that target unconscious character).
Progress cannot be placed on this stage while The Spider's Glade is in play.
Action: Spend 2 resources to ready an unconscious character you control.
If the players defeat this stage, they have won the game and discovered the treasure card Bilbo's Magic Ring.