While Submerged Crawlway is the active location, deal each engaged enemy 1 additional shadow card at the beginning of the combat phase.
Forced: If Submerged Crawlway is the active location at the end of the quest phase, each player must search the encounter deck and discard pile for an enemy and add it to the staging area. Then, you may flip Submerged Crawlway to its Grotto side.
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Great Shark gets +1 +1 and +1 for each Underwater location in the victory display.
Great Shark cannot be engaged or damaged unless the active location is Underwater.
Forced: At the beginning of the encounter phase, return Great Shark to the staging area unless the active location is Underwater.
If Flooded Caverns is in the staging area and the active location is Underwater add that location's to the of Flooded Caverns.
Forced: If Flooed Caverns is the active location at the end of the quest phase, return an Underwater location from the victory display to the bottom of the Grotto deck, Grotto side faceup. Then, return Flooded Caverns to the staging area.
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Cannot have attachments.
Forced: After Ramming Ship engages you, it gets +4 until the end of the round.
Shadow: Put the top card of Corsair deck into play engaged with you and deal it a shadow card.
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Forced: When Fang of Sahír engages you, either deal 3 damage to a Ship objective you control, or Fang of Sahír makes an immediate attack.
While War-torn Waters is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: At the end of the quest phase, if War-torn Waters is not guarding an objective and there is an unguarded objective in the staging area, attach War-torn Waters to that objective, guarding it.
Travel: Deal 2 damage to each Ship objective to travel here.
When Revealed: Attach to a Ship objective. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "During saling tests, for each Wheel symbol found, cancel it unless you deal 1 damage to the attached objective.Action: Exhaust 3 character you control to discard Broken Rudder.")
*Forced: After this Sailing test ends, attach Broken Rudder to a Ship objective committed to that test.
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Forced: After you shift your heading on-course, Patrol Ship gets -40 engagement cost this round.
*Forced: After Patrol Ship is discarded from the encounter deck during a Sailing test, cancel all Wheel symbols found unless you add it to the staging area.
While Walls of Umbar is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a player commits an ally to a Sailing test, raise his or her threat by 1.
*Forced: After Walls of Umbar is discarded from the encounter deck during a Sailing test, raise each player's threat by 1 for each ally he or she committed to that test.
Cannot be discarded by player card effects.
The Cursed Sword counts as a Weapon attachment with the text:"Forced: After Captain Sahír attacks and deals excess damage, assign that excess damage to Captain Sahír as resources. (Limit once per round.)"
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Forced: At the end of the encounter phase, if Umbar Patrol is in the staging area, add 2 resources to the Raider enemy with the most resources on it.
Shadow: Add 1 resource to each Raider enemy engaged with you.
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When Revealed: Reveal a random card from the encounter discard pile and add it to the staging area, if able.
Forced: If A Murder of Crows would be destroyed, shuffle it back into the encounter deck instead.
Forced: At the beginning of the refresh phase, place the top card of the encounter discard pile on the bottom of the encounter deck and raise each player's threat bu that card's
I don't know what river is way, a rushing red one, swollen with the rains of the last few days... –The Hobbit
Forced: After placing 1 or more progress tokens on Wicked Hilltops, each player must discard an ally he controls without an attached Sack card.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 (+3 instead if attacking enemy is a Troll.)
Progress cannot be placed here.
Travel: Sack 1.
Forced: After Comfortable Light becomes the active location, discard it.
Out of the dark mass of the trees they could now see a light shining, a reddish comfortable–looking light... –The Hobbit
Forced: When this card is discarded from the top of the encounter deck as a result of a quest card effect, immediately stop making progress and end the quest phase.
When Revealed: Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck. Reveal 1 additional encounter card.
Action: Exhaust Bilbo
and spend 1 resource to place 5 progress on Dim Valley.
Forced: At the end of the round, each player must discard a random card from his hand.
They were high up in a narrow place, with a dreadful fall into a dim vally at one side of them. –The Hobbit
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Progress cannot be placed on the current quest.
Forced: When The Great Goblin attacks, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If it is a Goblin enemy, put it into play engaged with the defending player and deal it a shadow card.
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Goblin Prowler gets -30 engagement cost if The Great Goblin is in the victory display.
Forced: When Goblin Prowler engages you, discard a character you control.
...neither Bilbo, nor the dwarves, nor even Gandalf heard them coming. –The Hobbit
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Forced: If Wicked Wolf is dealt a shadow card with a riddle, the defending player must exhaust a character he controls.
Shadow: Return attacking enemy to the staging area after this attack.
Forced: Each time a resource is spent or discarded, raise each player's threat by 1.
Shadow: Deal attacking enemy 2 additional shadow cards for this attack.
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Forced: After a character is declared as a defender against Venomous Spider give it 1 poison.
Shadow: Give 2 poison to the defending character.
X is the number of poison in play.
Forced: When this location is explored, make 1 hero unconscious.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each poisoned character you control.
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Forced: After Great Warg attacks and destroys a character, remove all progress from the current quest.
Shadow: Defending player discards 1 attachment he controls.
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Forced: When Frenzied Warg-Rider attacks, remove 1 progress from each quest stage.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character (2 damage instead if the current quest has no progress on it).
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Cannot be optionally engaged.
Forced: At the end of the round, if Gundabad Elite is in the staging area, either remove 2 progress from the current quest, or Gundabad Elite makes an attack against the first player.
Forced: At the end of the round, each player assigns X damage among heroes he controls. X is the number of quest stages with no progress on them.
Travel: The players (as a group) exhaust X characters. X is the number of quest stages with no progress on them.
Forced: At the end of the round, raise each player's threat by 1 for each quest stage with no progress on it.
Shadow: Until the end of the phase, attacking enemy gets +1 for each quest stage with no progress on it.
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Cannot have non-Morgul attachments.
Kham–l the Easterling gets -30 engagement cost while The One Ring is exhausted.
Forced: At the beginning of the refresh phase, the engaged player makes a Hide 2 test. If the engaged player fails the hide test, Kham–l the Easterling makes an immediate attack.
Eastfarthing gets +2 for each resource token on it.
Forced: After a player fails a Hide test, place 1 resource token here.
After a while they plunged into a deeply cloven track between tall trees that rustled their dry leaves in the night. –The Fellowship of the Ring
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Cannot have non-Morgul attachments.
Forced: After The One Ring is exhausted, Menacing Weath engages the first player and makes an immediate attack.
"Open, in the name of Mordor!" said a voice thin and menacing, –The Fellowship of the Ring
Immune to player card effects.
The Witch-king cannot be damaged.
Forced: After Weathertop becomes the active location, exhaust The One Ring. The One Ring cannot ready while Weathertop is the active location.
The Old Road enters play with 3 resource tokens on it.
Forced: At the end of the round, discard 1 resource token here. Then, if there are no resource tokens here, shuffle 1 out of play Ringwraith into the encounter deck.
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Cannot have non-Morgul attachments.
Forced: After Fell Rider attacks and destroys a character, reduce the Ring-bearer's life by 1.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if The One Ring is exhausted).
While Trollshaw Forest is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a 'when revealed' effect is canceled, reduce the Ring-bearer's life by 1."
Travel: Reduce the Ring-bearer's life by 1 to travel here.
Pathless Wilderness enters play with 3 resource tokens on it.
Forced: At the end of the round, discard 1 resource token here. Then, if there are no resource tokens here, reduce the Ring-bearer's life by 3.
Before the first day's march was over Frodo's pain began to grow again. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Forced: When Ettendales is explored, shuffle the top card of the burden deck into the encounter deck.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 If this attack destroys a character, reduce the Ring-bearer's life by 1.
When Revealed: Attach to the Ring-bearer. Limit 1 per hero. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: At the beginning of the planning phase, either exhaust The One Ring, or reduce the Ring-bearer's life by 1.")
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Cannot have attachments.
Watcher in the Water Cannot take damage.
Forced: After Pale-green Tentacle attacks and destroys a character, return Pale-green Tentacle to the staging area.
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Cannot have attachments or be optionally engaged.
While Hunting Hawk is in the staging area it gains,"Forced: After a player plays an ally, he must either exhaust it, or place 1 damage on an active location."
X is 1 more than the number of enemies in play.
Forced: When Expanse of Hollin is explored, shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck. Then, discard the top card of the encounter deck for each damage here. Add each enemy discarded by this effect to the staging area.
Forced: After a "when revealed" effect is cancelled, place 1 damage on each active location.
Forced: When Slopes of Hithaeglir is explored, each player raises his threat by 1 for each damage here.
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Cannot have attachments.
Forced: When Slab-bearer is destroyed, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If the discarded card is an enemy, add it to the staging area.
...they bore great slabs of stone, and flung them down to serve as gangways over the fire.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
X is 1 more than the number of damaged characters.
Forced: After a player commits characters to the quest, he deals 1 damage to a character he controls.
Out of it a fierce red light came, and now and again flames licked at the brink... –The Fellowship of the Ring
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Forced: After Isengard Archer enters the staging area, each player at this stage deals 2 damage to a character he controls.
Shadow: Deal 2 damage to an ally you control.
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Forced: After Isengard Tracker destroys a character, move it to the first player's staging area.
Shadow: After this attack, move attacking enemy to the first player's staging area.
While Langflood River is in the staging area, no more than 4 progress can be placed on this quest stage each round.
Forced: When Langflood River leaves play as an explored location, add it to the staging area to the left, if able.
When Revealed: Attach to the current quest. (Counts a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: At the end of the round, each player at this stage raises his threat by 1 for each enemy in the staging area. Then, discard Hunting the Ring and move each enemy in this staging area to the first player's staging area.")