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While On Track is in play, Spider Broodling gains surge.
Shadow: If On Track is in play, put Spider Broodling into play engaged with you and deal it a shadow card.
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Forced: After Spider of Dol Guldur attacks and destroys an ally, return it to the staging area.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
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Forced: After Spider Broodling engages you, remove 2 progress from the main quest.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, remove 2 progress from the main quest.
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If there are any unclaimed objectives in play, Spider of Dol Guldur gains surge.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +3 for each unclaimed objective in play.
Quest Action: Search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Spider enemy and put it into play engaged with you to discard Spider Den. (Any player may trigger this effect.)
Quest Action: Search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Spider enemy and put it into play engaged with you to discard Spider Den. (Any player may trigger this effect.)
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: After Spider Burrow becomes the active location, flip the Search objective to On Track and add Brood Mother to the staging area.
Forced: When Spider Burrow leaves play as an explored location, set Brood Mother aside, out of play (unless the players are at stage 3B).
While Spider Burrow is in the staging area, each Spider enemy gets +1
Forced: When Spider Burrow is explored, the opposing team searches the encounter deck and discard pile for a Spider enemy with cost 1 or less and adds it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Immune to player card effects.
Travel: The opposing team searches the encounter deck and discard pile for a 0 cost enemy and adds it to the staging area, if able (1 cost or less if there are two or more players). Shuffle the encounter deck.
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Forced: After Forest Spider engages a player, it gets +1 until the end of the round.
Shadow: Defending player must choose and discard 1 attachment he controls.
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Forced: After Gret Spider engages you, exhaust a character you control.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to an exhausted character you control.
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Forced: After Forest Spider engages a player, it gets +1 until the end of the round.
Shadow: Defending player must choose and discard 1 attachment he controls.
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Forced: After Gret Spider engages you, exhaust a character you control.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to an exhausted character you control.
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When Revealed: The first player draws 1 card. Then, that player must choose and discard 4 cards from his hand, if able.
Forced: After Cave Spider engages a player, that player must choose and discard 1 card from his hand, if able.
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When Revealed: Until the end of the round, Morgul Spider gets +1 for each character not currently committed to a quest.
Far and wide her lesser broods, bastards of the miserable mates, her own offspring, that she slew, spread from glen to glen... –The Two Towers
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Forced: After Ravenous Spider engages you, it makes an immediate attack.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against you after this one.
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Forced: After Giant Spider attacks and damages a character, that character cannot ready until the end of the round.
Shadow: Defending character cannot ready until the end of the round.
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Forced: After Ravenous Spider attacks and destroys a character, the defending player exhausts a character he controls.
Shadow: If this attack destroys a character, exhaust a character you control.
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Forced: After Venomous Spider attacks and damages a character, that character cannot ready until the end of the round.
Shadow: Defending character cannot ready until the end of the round.
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Forced: After Wicked Spider engages you, discard an exhausted character you control.
Shadow: Attacking enemy cannot take damage this phase.
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Forced: When Cave Spider attacks, either remove 2 progress from the main quest, or Cave Spider gets +2 for this attack.
Shadow: Either remove 2 progress from the main quest or attacking enemy gets +2
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Forced: If Trapdoor Spider damages a character, discard that character from play.
Lost: Trapdoor Spider engages the last player and makes an immediate 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.
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When Revealed: Each player must choose and exhaust 1 character he controls.
Shadow: Defending player must choose and exhaust 1 character he controls. (2 characters instead if this attack is undefended.)
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When Revealed: Each player must choose and exhaust 1 character he controls.
Shadow: Defending player must choose and exhaust 1 character he controls. (2 characters instead if this attack is undefended.)
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This enemy gets +3 while engaged with a player who controls at least 1 poisoned character.
Shadow: Defending character gets 1 poison. (Give 2 poison to a character you control if undefended.)
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Forced: When this enemy attacks, defending player must attach 1 poison to a character he controls.
Shadow: Defending character gets 2 poison.
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Cannot have attachments.
X is the number of Brigand enemies in play.
While at least 1 other Brigand is in play, Susie the Spider cannot take damage.
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When Revealed: Each player exhausts a character he controls.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
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While it is engaged with you, Spiders of Mirkwood gets +1 for each exhausted character you control.
Shadow: Choose and exhaust 1 character you control. If this attack was undefended, also deal that character 2 damage.
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While it is engaged with you, Spiders of Mirkwood gets +1 for each exhausted character you control.
Shadow: Choose and exhaust 1 character you control. If this attack was undefended, also deal that character 2 damage.
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Forced: After Spiders of Mirkwood engages you, exhaust a character you control.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if it has the Spider trait).
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While it is engaged with you, Spiders of Mirkwood gets +1 for each exhausted character you control.
Shadow: Choose and exhaust 1 character you control. If this attack is undefended, also deal that character 2 damage.
You've got a better idea of where you are, but you have unfortunately wandered too far north and into the territory of the giant spiders of Mirkwood.
When Revealed: Shuffle the Spiders of Mirkwood encounter set into the encounter deck. Then, reveal 1 encounter card per player.
You fight to keep the spiders at bay as you continue to search for landmarks or a better view of the forest to find your way out.
The first Spider enemy revealed each quest phase gains surge.
Forced: When a Spider enemy attacks and damages a character, that character cannot ready until the end of the round.
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.
You are traveling through Mirkwood forest in search of The Elvenking's hidden halls, when you hear a desperate cry for help from a dark path of woods.
Setup: Add Spider Den to the staging area. The opposing team searches the encounter deck for one different 0 cost enemy or 0 cost location per player and adds it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
The cries are those of an Elf who has been captured within a spider den. You must rescue him!
Forced: When Spider Den is explored, flip it over and put Mendor into play under the first player's control, ready.
This stage cannot be defeated unless the first player controls Mendor.
Setup: Search the encounter deck for 1 copy of the Forest Spider and 1 copy of the Old Forest Road, and add them to the staging area. Then, shuffle the encounter deck.
You are traveling through Mirkwood forest, carrying an urgent message from King Thanduil to the Lady Galadriel of Lorien. As you move along the dark trail, the spiders gather around you...
The nastiest things they saw were the cobwebs; dark dense cobwebs, with threads extradionairly thick, often stretched from tree to tree, or tangled in the lower branches on either side of them. There were none stretched across the path, but whether because some magic kept it clear, or for what other reasons they could not guess. - The Hobbit
Presently they were under the shadow, and there in the midst of it they saw the opening of a cave. "This is the way in," said Gollum softly. "This is the entrance to the tunnel." He did not speak its name: Torech Ungol, Shelob's Lair. -The Two Towers
When Revealed: Add Shelob to the staging area and shuffle all cards from The Great Spider encounter set and the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck.
Shelob cannot leave the staging area and Sméagol cannot attack or defend.
Each player cannot play, or put into play, more than 1 ally each round.
No more than 4 progress can be placed on this stage each round.
They had not gone more than a few yards when from behind them came a sound, startling and horrible in the heavy padded silence: a gurgling, bubbling noise, and a long venomous hiss. —The Two Towers
Forced: When The Spider's Lair is explored, remove 1 resource from Shelob.
Forced: After The Spider's Lair becomes the active location, Shelob makes an attack against the first player.
There agelong she had dwelt, an evil thing in spider–form, even such as once of old had lived in the Land of the Elves in the West that is now under the Sea... -The Two Towers
Setup: Search the encounter deck for 1 copy of the Forest Spider and 1 copy of the Old Forest Road, and add them to the staging area. Then, shuffle the encounter deck.
You are traveling through Mirkwood forest, carrying an urgent message from King Thanduil to the Lady Galadriel of Lorien. As you move along the dark trail, the spiders gather around you...
The nastiest things they saw were the cobwebs; dark dense cobwebs, with threads extradionairly thick, often stretched from tree to tree, or tangled in the lower branches on either side of them. There were none stretched across the path, but whether because some magic kept it clear, or for what other reasons they could not guess. - The Hobbit
While The Spiders’ Ring is the active location, the player guarding Gollum cannot change.
Shadow: If this attack is undefended, return any current active location to the staging area. The Spiders’ Ring becomes the active location.
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.
Forced: When The Spider's Lair is explored, remove 1 resource from Shelob.
Forced: After The Spider's Lair becomes the active location, Shelob makes an attack against the first player.
There agelong she had dwelt, an evil thing in spider–form, even such as once of old had lived in the Land of the Elves in the West that is now under the Sea... -The Two Towers
Presently they were under the shadow, and there in the midst of it they saw the opening of a cave. "This is the way in," said Gollum softly. "This is the entrance to the tunnel." He did not speak its name: Torech Ungol, Shelob's Lair. -The Two Towers
When Revealed: Add Shelob to the staging area and shuffle all cards from The Great Spider encounter set and the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck.
Shelob cannot leave the staging area and Sméagol cannot attack or defend.
Each player cannot play, or put into play, more than 1 ally each round.
No more than 4 progress can be placed on this stage each round.
They had not gone more than a few yards when from behind them came a sound, startling and horrible in the heavy padded silence: a gurgling, bubbling noise, and a long venomous hiss. —The Two Towers
While The Spiders' Ring is in the staging area, each Spider enemy gets +1
Forced: When The Spiders' Ring is explored, the opposing team searches the encounter deck and discard pile for a non-unique Spider enemy and adds it to the staging area.
When Revealed: Remove X characters from the quest, where X is the number of Spider enemies in play. If there are no Spider enemies in play, Grabbed by Spiders gains surge.
Shadow: Defending character cannot ready until the end of the round.
You are playing Nightmare mode.
Setup: Each player gives 1 poison to a hero he controls.
Hundreds of angry spiders were goggling at them all round and about and above. It looked pretty hopeless. –The Hobbit
Begin with the standard quest deck and encounter deck for the Flies and Spiders scenario.
Remove the following cards, in the specified quantities, from the standard encounter deck:
3x Dark Bats
3x Hidden Path
2x Fighting Among Friends
5x Wicked Spider
1x Fat Spider
1x Giant Web
Then, shuffle the encounter cards in this Nightmare Deck into the remainder of the standard Flies and Spiders 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.
Your search has led you far underground, to a large cavern full of giant spider eggs. Along the walls, you see the cocooned bodies of your friends bound with many strands. At the center of the chamber is the enormous brood mother. She glares at you through many bulbous eyes and a poisonous froth bubbles from her fangs. You must find a way to defeat her in order to rescue your friends.
When Revealed: The first player adds Brood Mother to the staging area. Each other player reveals an encounter card. Flip the Search objective to Off Track.
While there are at least 5 progress tokens on this stage, Brood Mother loses the text: "Cannot take damage."
Forced: After the Search objective is flipped to Off Track, remove all progress tokens from this stage.
This stage cannot be defeated while Brood Mother is in play. If the players defeat this stage, they win the game.