Setup: Add The Crossroads and Black Númenorean to the staging area. Put the Faramir and Lord Alcaron objective allies into play. Shuffle the encounter deck and reveal 1 card from the encounter deck per player and add it to the staging area.
After the assault on Osgiliath, Lord Alcaron urges Boromi to pursue the retreating enemy. Boromir agrees and gives permission to Faramir and his rangers. Grateful for you valiant efforts in Gondor's defense, Faramir invites you to join the hunt...
At the beginning of the quest phase, each player takes 1 hidden card.
At the beginning of the combat phase, each player must either turn each of his hidden cards faceup or take 1 hidden card.
You've pursued the enemy all the way to the Crossroads when a wicked horn blares in the distance. Within minutes, a host of orcs swarms out of the trees from all sides, led by a foreboding robed figure...
When Revealed: The first player either places 3 progress tokens on To the Tower or reveals X additional cards from the encounter deck and adds them to the staging area. X is the number of players in the game.
The air above was heavy with fog, and a reek lay on the land about them.
–The Two Towers
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Action: Choose another player. That player gains control of Blue Mountain Trader. Then, that player moves 1 resource from the resource pool of a hero he controls to the resource pool of a hero you control, or Blue Mountain Trader is discarded. (Limit once per round.)
Attach to a Ranger hero.
Response: After attached hero commits to a quest, name enemy, location or treachery. If a card of the named type is revealed during this quest phase, exhaust Wingfoot to ready attached hero.
"Wingfoot I name you. This deed of the three friends should be sung in many a hall. Forty leagues and five you have measured ere the forth day is ended!"
–Éomer, The Two Towers
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Response: After Ered Luin Miner is discarded from your deck, put it into play under your control.
Tools were to be found in plenty that the miners and quarriers and builders of old had used; and at such work the dwarves were still very skilled.
–The Hobbit
Attach to a Dwarf character. Limit 1 per character.
Response: After a card is discarded from your deck, exhaust Dwarf Pipe to place that card on the bottom of your deck.
He held a small pipe with a wide flattened bowl...
–The Two Towers
Limit 1 per deck.
Action: Choose a hero you control and discard all tokens from it. Select a different non-
, non-
hero from your collection with a threat cost less than or equal to the chosen hero. Swap those heroes, moving all eligible attachments to the hero from your collection.
Attach to a hero.
Travel Action: Discard Thrór’s Map to choose a location in the staging area. Make that location the active location. (If there is another active location, return it to the staging area.)
"This was made by Thror, your grandfather, Thorin." he said in answer to the dwarves' excited questions. "It is a plan of the Mountain." –Gandalf, The Hobbit
If Troll Purse is discarded, add it to the staging area.
If Troll Purse is unattached and in the staging area, attach it to a Troll enemy, if able.
Response: After attached Troll enemy is destroyed, the first player may spend 1 resource to claim this objective and attach it to Bilbo Baggins.
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.
Action: Exhaust a hero you control to shuffle the encounter deck and look at its top card. Place progress tokens on the current quest equal to the revealed card's . Then, put that card back on top of the encounter deck.
As they worked the ravens brought them constant tidings. –The Hobbit
Attach to a hero. Limit 1 per hero.
Response: After attached hero quests successfully, name a card type and discard the top card of your deck. If the discarded card is the named type, take it into your hand.
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.)
The nights were the worst. It then became pitch–dark – not what you call pitch–dark, but really pitch, so black that you really could see nothing. Bilbo tried flapping his hand in front of his nose but he could not see it at all. Well, perhaps it is not true to say they could see nothing: they could see eyes. –The Hobbit
When Revealed: Reveal stage 3 and create a separate staging area for the first player using that stage. If there are no other players in the game, discard this stage and each card in the staging area. All other players advance to stage 4.
... the cries of the others got steadily further and fainter, and though after a while it seemed to him they changed to yells and cries for help in the far distance, all noise at last died right away, and he was left alone in complete silence and darkness. –The Hobbit
When Revealed: Place 3 progress on the main quest (bypassing any active location). Until the end of the round, treat each character's text box as if it was blank (except for Traits).
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 and gains Toughness 2 until the end of the round.
You are playing campaign mode.
Setup: Each player may change hero cards he controls without incurring the +1 threat penalty. Each player shuffles 1 copy of The Searching Eye into his deck. Remove each burden with the following burden set icons from the encounter deck and each player's deck: Helm's Deep, The Road to Isengard
"It's that Gollum! Snakes and adders! And to think that I thought that we'd puzzle him with our bit of a climb! Look at him! Like a nasty crawling spider on a wall." -Sam Gamgee, The Two Towers
Resolution: Each player must choose: either take a permanent +2 starting threat penalty, or earn 1 copy of The Searching Eye. Record each player's choice in the campaign log.
The marshes were at an end, dying away into dead peats and wide flats of dry cracked mud. The land ahead rose in long shallow slopes, barren and pitiless, towards the desert that lay at Sauron's gate.
–The Two Towers