When Revealed: Each character gets -1
-1
and -1
until the end of the round.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, raise the defending player's threat by 3.
When Revealed: Each player chooses and exhausts a character he controls. Until the end of the round, character cannot be readied by player card effects.
The search for the legendary sword of Fram has led you to the long–forgotten city of Framsburg. There is an evil air inside the keep, and you wonder what dangers wait for you in the darkness within.
Setup: Set The Cursed Tomb aside, out of play. Each player searches the encounter deck for a different location and adds it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
A curse lays on the keep and foul creatures prowl through the night, but you will not be deterred from your search.
This stage cannot be defeated unless the players control at least 1 Loot objective.
Night deepends outside and a sense of dread grows with each passing hour you spend inside the haunted keep. You fear that if you don't find Fram's sword and escape quickly, you will lose yourself to the darkness.
When Revealed: Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck. Then, each player reveals an encounter card.
Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, the first player must choose: either raise each player's threat by 2, or discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until a location is discarded and add that location to the staging area.
This stage cannot be defeated unless the players control at least 2 Loot objectives.
You've found Fram's Tomb in the catacombs below the keep, but it is guarded by the ghastly shade of Fram himself. You must defeat him in order to win his blade, but you're not sure you can face the terror of his cold gaze.
When Revealed: The first player adds The Cursed Tomb to the staging area. Each other player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for a non-unique Undead enemy and adds it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Fram's Shade is immune to player card effects.
While The Cursed Tomb is in the victory display, Fram's Shade gains victory 6.
This stage cannot be defeated unless Fram's Shadw is in the victory display. When player defeat this stage, they win the game.
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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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Response: After Greenwood Defender enters play, it does not exhaust to defend until the end of the round.
...after the coming of Men they took ever more and more to the gloaming and the dusk.
–The Hobbit
Action: Return a Silvan ally you control to your hand to choose a hero. Add 1 resource to that hero's pool.
...soon Haldir turned aside into the trees and halted on the bank of the river under their shadows.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Combat Action: Return Gaffer Gamgee to your hand to choose an enemy with engagement cost higher than your threat. Until the end of the round, that enemy cannot attack you.
"Why? Why's none of my business, or yours."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Count the number of cards in your hand and shuffle your hand into your deck. Then, draw an equal number of cards. Draw 1 additional card if you control a unique Hobbit character.
Ho! Ho! Ho! to the bottle I go
To heal my heart and drown my woe.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Hobbit hero. Restricted
Attach hero gets +1 , +1 , and +1 .
Response: After attached hero is declared as an attacker or defender against an enemy, deal 1 damage to that enemy.
Attach to a character. Restricted.
Response: After a shadow effect is triggered during combat, exhaust Round Shield to give attached character +2 for this attack.
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Response: After you play Erebor Toymaker from your hand, reduce the cost of the next attachment played this phase by 2.
There were toys the like of which they had never seen before, all beautiful and some obviously magical.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Dale or Dwarf character. Restricted.
Attached character gets +1 and gains sentinel.
"We make good armour and keen swords, but we cannot again make mail or blade to match those that were made before the dragon came."
–Glóin, The Fellowship of the Ring
Play only if each of your heroes is a Hobbit.
Action: Reduce your threat by 4.
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
–Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: After The First Forge becomes the active location, exhaust the hero with Wormsbane attached. That hero cannot ready while The First Forge is the active location.
Response: After the First Forge is explored, flip Wormsbane to its Reforged side and attach it to any hero.
Forced: When Dagnir's Hoard is explored, Dagnir returns to the staging area and makes an immediate attack against each player in turn order.
Response: After Dagnir's Hoard is explored, each player may search his deck for an Item attachment, add it to his hand, and shuffle his deck.
Response: When Throat of the Mountain is explored, search the quest deck for a quest card and make it the current main quest. Then, flip it over. Shuffle the rest of the quest deck.
At the end of the hall the floor vanished and fell to an unknown depth.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
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Indestructible. Immune to player card effects. X is 1 more than the number of quest cards in the victory display.
Cannot take more than X damage each round.
While there are 5 or more quest cards in the victory display, Dagnir cannot leave the staging area and is considered to be engaged with each player.
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While there are 3 or more quest cards in the victory display, Guardian of Gundabad gets +2
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 until the end of the phase.
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Dagnir cannot take damage from non-quest effects.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if Dagnir is engaged with you).
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Forced: When Deep-dweller engages you, it makes an immediate attack.
Forced: After Deep-dweller take any amount of damage (and survives), return it to the staging area.
Dagnir gets -10 engagement cost.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is Dagnir, the defending player must assign X damage among characters he controls, where X is 1 more than the number of quest cards in the victory display.
When faced with the option to travel, the players must travel to Narrow Stair.
Shadow: Until the end of the round, defending character cannot be readied by player card effects.
Deep. While there are 3 or more quest cards in the victory display, Desecrated Ruins gets +2 .
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 . If this attack destroys a character, each player discards a random card from his hand.
When Revealed: Dagnir makes an immediate attack against each engaged player. If no attacks were made this way, Dagnir gets -30 engagement cost until the end of the round.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
When Revealed: Each player assigns X damage among allies he controls, where X is 1 more than the number of quest cards in the victory display.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if there are 3 or more quests in the victory display).
Mount Gundabad rises before you, and the Dragon, Dagnir, waits within.
Setup: Add Dagnir to the staging area and set The First Forge aside, out of play. Create the Caves deck and the quest deck (see insert). Attach Wormsbane to a hero, Broken side face-up. Shuffle the encounter deck and discard cards from the top until X locations have been discarded, where X is 1 less than the number of players in the game. Add those locations to the staging area.
It doesn't take you long to discover Urdug's secret entrance, and with a turn from Durin's Key the way into Mount Gundabad lies open before you. You must find Durin's Forge, repair Wormsbane, and use it to kill Dagnir.
Forced: At the end of the planning phase, the first player looks at the top 2 cards of the quest deck and chooses 1 to place on the bottom of the quest deck. Then, add The Side Door to the victory display and advance to the top stage 2A of the quest deck.
The interior of Gundabad is dark and vast. Only by exploring the mines can you find your way.
When Revealed: Return Dagnir to the staging area.
If Exploring Gundabad is the current main quest, do not flip it over until the beginning of the quest phase.
Forced: After characters are committed to the quest, raise each player's threat by 1.
Forced: When this stage is defeated, shuffle The First Forge into the Caves deck.
At the end of the combat phase, the players may bypass this stage.
The interior of Gundabad is dark and vast. Only by exploring the mines can you find your way.
When Revealed: Return Dagnir to the staging area.
If Exploring Gundabad is the current main quest, do not flip it over until the beginning of the quest phase.
The 'when revealed' effects of the first treachery revealed each round cannot be canceled.
Forced: When this stage is defeated, search the Caves deck for a location and make it the active location. Shuffle the Caves deck.
At the end of the combat phase, the players may bypass this stage.
The interior of Gundabad is dark and vast. Only by exploring the mines can you find your way.
When Revealed: Return Dagnir to the staging area.
If Exploring Gundabad is the current main quest, do not flip it over until the beginning of the quest phase.
Forced: After characters are committed to the quest, discard the top 5 cards of the encounter deck. Add a random enemy discarded this way to the staging area.
Forced: When this stage is defeated, reduce each player's threat by 5.
At the end of the combat phase, the players may bypass this stage.
The interior of Gundabad is dark and vast. Only by exploring the mines can you find your way.
When Revealed: Return Dagnir to the staging area.
If Exploring Gundabad is the current main quest, do not flip it over until the beginning of the quest phase.
Forced: After characters are committed to the quest, Dagnir makes an immediate attack against each player with 6 or more characters.
Forced: When this stage is defeated, deal 5 damage to Dagnir. This damage is not limited by Dagnir's text, and does not count toward her X value.
At the end of the combat phase, the players may bypass this stage.
The interior of Gundabad is dark and vast. Only by exploring the mines can you find your way.
When Revealed: Return Dagnir to the staging area.
If Exploring Gundabad is the current main quest, do not flip it over until the beginning of the quest phase.
Each player cannot play more than 1 card each phase.
Forced: When this stage is defeated, the first player looks at the top 2 cards of the quest deck and chooses 1 to place on the bottom of the quest deck. Then, flip over the top card of the quest deck.
At the end of the combat phase, the players may bypass this stage.
The interior of Gundabad is dark and vast. Only by exploring the mines can you find your way.
When Revealed: Return Dagnir to the staging area.
If Exploring Gundabad is the current main quest, do not flip it over until the beginning of the quest phase.
Forced: After characters are committed to the quest, each player must deal 2 damage to a questing character he controls.
Forced: When this stage is defeated, discard a non-unique enemy from play.
At the end of the combat phase, the players may bypass this stage.
The interior of Gundabad is dark and vast. Only by exploring the mines can you find your way.
When Revealed: Return Dagnir to the staging area.
If Exploring Gundabad is the current main quest, do not flip it over until the beginning of the quest phase.
Dagnir gets -5 engagement cost for each character the first player controls.
Response: After a player resolve an attack against Dagnir, if Dagnir has no hit points remaining, that player may discard a Reforged Wormsbane he controls to add Dagnir to the victory display. Then, the players win the game.
At the end of the combat phase, if there are 4 or fewer quests in the victory display, the players must bypass this stage.
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +1 .
If attached hero leaves play, the players lose the game.
...they tell that he slew Scatha, the great Dragon of Ered Mithrin, and the land had peace from the long-worms afterwards.
–The Return of the King
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Attached hero gets +X , where X is 1 more than the number of quest cards in the victory display.
If attached hero leaves play, the players lose the game.
...they tell that he slew Scatha, the great Dragon of Ered Mithrin, and the land had peace from the long-worms afterwards.
–The Return of the King
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You may use resources from Radagast's pool to pay for Creature allies of any sphere.
Response: After you play a Creature card, Radagast does not exhaust to quest this round.
"..he has much lore of herbs and beasts, and birds are especially his friends."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Cannot attack, defend, or have attachments.
Refresh Action: Return Messenger Raven to it's owner's hand and name a card type. Choose a player to look at the top card of his deck. If that card is the named type, add it to its owner's hand. If it is not, discard it.
Action: Search your deck for a Guarded attachment and put it into play. Shuffle your deck.
His crown shall be upholden,
His harp shall be restrung,
His halls shall echo golden
To songs of yore re–sung
–The Hobbit
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Cannot have attachments.
Response: Discard Loyal Hound to cancel up to 2 damage just dealt to a hero you control.
You must use resources from 3 different heroes' pools to pay for this card.
Combat Action: Choose and discard a non-unique enemy in the staging area.
...it seemed they could hear the noise of a great hunt going by to the north of the path...
–The Hobbit
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Bywater Shirriff gets +1 +1 and +1 while you are engaged with an enemy with engagement cost higher than your threat.
The Shirriffs was the name that the Hobbits gave to their police, or the nearest equivalent that they possessed.
–The Hobbit
Play only if you control a unique character with the Istari trait and another unique character with the Eagle trait.
Action: Search the top 5 cards of your deck for an Eagle or Istari ally and put it into play. Shuffle your deck. At the end of the round, if that ally is still in play, return it to your hand.
Attach to a hero.
Response: When attached hero is dealt any amount of damage, reduce that damage by 1.
It was of silver-steel which the Elves call mithril, and with it went a belt of pearls and crystals. –The Hobbit
Action: Choose an attachment with a printed cost of X in any player's discard pile and play that attachment for no cost. (The chosen attachment can belong to any sphere of influence.)
The Sword of Elendil was forged anew by Elvish smiths... –The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to Radagast.
Action: Exhaust Radagast's Staff to choose one: Reduce the cost of the next Creature ally you play this phase by 2, ready a Creature ally, or return a non-unique Creature enemy engaged with you to the staging area.
Urdug gets +2 for each other enemy in play and cannot be dealt damage unless he had resolved an attack this phase.
Forced: After players quest unsuccessfully, place 1 progress here for each player in the game.
While there are X or more resources on The Heroes' Defense, Urdug is considered to be engaged with each player, X is five times the number of players.
Response: After an enemy is destroyed, place 1 resource here.