Shadow: Wolf Rider attacks the defending player. That player may declare 1 character as a defender. Deal Wolf Rider its own Shadow card. After combat, return Wolf Rider to the top of the encounter deck.
Excess combat damage dealt by Hill Troll (damage that is dealt beyond the remaining hit points of the character damaged by its attack) must be assigned as an increase to your threat.
"Mutton yesterday, mutton today, and blimey, if it don't look like mutton again tomorrow."
–Troll, The Hobbit
During the encounter phase, players cannot optionally engage Goblin Sniper if there are other enemies in the staging area.
Forced: If Goblin Sniper is in the staging area at the end of the combat phase, each player deals 1 point of damage to 1 character he controls.
Forced: Each time Marsh Adder attacks you, raise your threat by 1.
Under the boughs of Mirkwood there was deadly strife of Elves and Men and fell beasts.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Forced: If Wargs is dealt a shadow card with no effect, return Wargs to the staging area after it attacks.
Shadow: attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if this attack is undefended.)
When Revealed: Remove 4 progress tokens from the current quest card. (If there are fewer than 4 progress tokens on the quest, remove all progress tokens from that quest.)
Shadow: Defending character does not count its
Forced: After the players travel to The Brown Lands, place 1 progress token on it.
They had come to the Brown Lands that lay, vast and desolate, between Southern Mirkwood and the hills of the Emyn Muil. What pestilence or war or evil deed of the Enemy had so blasted all that region even Aragorn could not tell.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
When faced with the option to travel, the players must travel to The East Bight if there is no active location.
"...to the east the lands are waste, and full of Sauron's creatures..."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring
Forced: After Misty Mountain Goblins attacks, remove 1 progress token from the current quest.
Shadow: Remove 1 progress token from the current quest. (3 progress tokens instead if this attack is undefended.)
When Revealed: Reveal X additional cards from the encounter deck. X is the number of players in the game.
Shadow: Deal X shadow cards to this attacker. X is the number of players in the game.
Forced: If Banks of the Anduin leaves play, return it to the top of the encounter deck instead of placing it in the discard pile.
Here and there through openings Frodo could catch sudden glimpses of rolling mounds, and far beyond them hills in the sunset, and away on the edge of sight a dark line, where marches the southernmost ranks of the Misty Mountains.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Forced: While Gladden Fields is the active location, each player must raise his threat by an additional point during the refresh phase.
"On a time they took a boat and went down to the Gladden Fields, where there were great beds of iris and flowering reeds."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Setup: Add The Carrock to the staging area. Remove 4 unique Troll cards and 4 copies of the “Sacked!” card from the encounter deck and set them aside, out of play. Then shuffle 1 “Sacked!” card per player back into the encounter deck.
While searching for Gollum in the Anduin valley, you recieve word that a group of Trolls have come to the Carrock.
Forced: After placing the 7th progress token on Grimbeorn's Quest, The Carrock becomes the active location. Discard the previous active location from play.
As this area is under the watch of the Beornings, you seek out their leader, Grimbeorn the Old, and discover he has already set out in a rage. You follow, hoping to find him before he confronts the Trolls.
You approach the Carrock, and find that the Trolls have been watching you from the top of the rocky river landmark. As you approach, the Trolls close in and attack!
When Revealed: Place the unique Troll cards previously set aside into the staging area.
Players cannot defeat this stage if there are any Troll enemies in play.
Forced: If Muck Adder damages a character, discard that character from play.
Shadow: Defending character gets -1 for the duration of this attack.
Immune to player card effects.
Players cannot travel to The Carrock except through quest card effects.
While The Carrock is the active location, Troll enemies get +1 and +1
While it is in the staging area, River Langflood gets +1 for each Troll enemy in play.
Response: After you travel to Bee Pastures, search the encounter deck and discard pile for Grimbeorn the Old and add him to the staging area. Then, shuffle the encounter deck.
When Revealed: Each player raises his threat by the total of all cards in the staging area. Any player may choose to discard from play 1 Creature card he controls to cancel this effect.
Then, one of the ponies took fright at nothing and bolted. –The Hobbit
When Revealed: Attach to a hero with no “Sacked!” cards attached controlled by the first player. (Cannot be canceled.) Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:
Attached hero cannot attack, defend, commit to a quest, trigger its effect, or collect resources.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is a Troll resolve this card's 'when revealed' effect.
You are playing Nightmare mode.
Stage 1A should read, "Remove 5 unique Troll cards" instead of 4.
Stage 2B should read, "WhenRevealed: Place Louis, Morris, Rupert and Stuart into the staging area."
Forced: At the end of the quest phase, if no progress was placed on the current quest this phase, place 1 progress on the current quest (bypassing the active location).
Reponse: After defeating a unique Troll enemy, you may choose and discard 1 “Sacked!” card from play.
Begin with the standard quest deck and encounter deck for the Conflict at the Carrock scenario.
Remove the following cards, in the specified quantities, from the standard encounter deck:
1x Grimbeorn the Old
1x Louis
1x Morris
1x Stuart
1x Rupert
3x Bee Pastures
3x Oak-wood Grove
1x Roasted Slowly
3x Misty Mountain Goblins
2x Banks of the Anduin
1x Wolf Rider
2x Goblin Sniper
2x Wargs
2x Despair
2x The Brown Lands
2x The East Bight
Then, shuffle the encounter cards in this Nightmare Deck into the remainder of the standard Conflict at the Carrock encounter deck.
Finally, flip this setup card over and place it next to the quest deck. Its effect remains active throughout the game, which is now ready to begin.
While Savage Hill-troll is in the victory display, each Troll enemy gets +1 hit point.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is a Troll defending character does not ready during the refresh phase this round.
Forced: After Rob and Bob makes its first attack each round, if there are two or more players, it engages the next player and makes an additional attack (discard and deal a new shadow card for this attack).
Yes, I am afraid trolls do behave like that, even those with only one head each. –The Hobbit
While Troll Lair is in the staging area, players cannot reduce their threat.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is a Troll remove 4 damage tokens from it.
Forced: After any amount of progress is placed on Hives and Hives, deal 1 damage to each character in play.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2
There was a buzzing and a whirring and a droning in the air. Bees were busy everywhere. And such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. –The Hobbit
When Revealed: The first player chooses a hero in any player's discard pile and removes that hero from the game. Then, heal all damage from each Troll enemy in play. If no damage is removed from any Troll enemy as a result of this effect, Time for Supper gains surge.
In the end they decided to mince them fine and boil them. So they got a black pot, and they took out their knives. –The Hobbit
Just as you think the fight is over, you find tracks that lead you to what appears to be the leader of this group of Trolls. You can see Grimbeorn the Old, captured and ready to be cooked. It's up to you to save him!
When Revealed: Add Rob and Bob to the staging area. Then, each player must search the encounter deck and discard pile for a non-unique Troll enemy and add it to the staging area, if able. Shuffle the encounter deck.
A nice pickle they were all in now. –The Hobbit
When Rob and Bob have been defeated, the players have rescued Grimbeon the Old from certain death, and won the game.