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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Forced: After Eastern Crows is defeated, shuffle it back into the encounter deck.
Shadow: attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if defending player's threat is 35 or higher.)
When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to each character controlled by each player with a threat of 35 or higher.
"They say in my land he can govern the storms in the Mountains of Shadow..."
–Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Each player raises his threat by 1 for each character he controls that is not currently committed to a quest.
Shadow: Defending player chooses and returns 1 exhausted ally he controls to its owner's hand. If he controls no exhausted allies, raise his threat by 3.
When Revealed: Each location in the staging area gets +1 until the end of the phase. Then, each player with a threat of 35 or higher chooses and discards 1 card from his hand.
"But it will be hard to find the path unless the fog lifts a little later on."
–Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
You have followed Gollum's trail for days, and are now closing in fast pursuit. In a last ditch effort to escape you, the creature has fled to The Dead Marshes.
Setup: Search the encounter deck for Gollum, and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck, then reveal 1 card per player from the encounter deck and add it to the staging area.
'Yes, yes,' said Gollum. 'All dead, all rotten. Elves and Men and Orcs. The Dead Marshes. There was a great battle long ago, yes, so they told him when Smeagol was young, when I was young before teh Precious came. It was a great battle. Tall Men with long swords, and terrible Elves and Orcses shrieking. They fought on th eplain for days and months at the Black Gates. But the Marshes have grown since then, swallowed up the graves; always creeping, creeping.'
–The Two Towers.
After a tiring pursuit through the treacherous marshland, you have cornered Gollum, and move in for the capture.
Forced: After this stage is defeated, the first player chooses a player. That player must pass an Escape test, dealing 1 card from the encounter deck for each resource token on Gollum, to capture him. If Gollum is not captured at this time, reset the quest deck to stage 1B.
If this final Escape test is passed, the players have captured Gollum and won the game.
If Gollum ever has 8 or more resource tokens on him, shuffle him back into the encounter deck.
Forced: At the end of the quest phase, the party must make an escape test, dealing 1 card per player from the encounter deck. If this test is failed, place 2 resource tokens on Gollum.
When Revealed: Place 2 resource tokens on Gollum. Any player may exhaust a 
hero to reduce this effect to 1 resource token.
Escape: 4
Presently it grew altogether dark; the air itself seemed black and heavy to breathe. When lights appeared Sam rubbed his eyes: he thought his head was going queer. He first saw one with the corner of his left eye, a wisp of pale sheen that faded away...
–The Two Towers
When Revealed: The first player makes an escape test counting instead of 
, dealing 2 cards from the encounter deck. If this test is failed, place 1 resource token on Gollum and raise each player's threat by 1.
Escape: 3
When Revealed: Each player must make an escape test, dealing 2 cards from the encounter deck for each test. Each player that fails this test places 1 resource token on Gollum, and raises his threat by 1.
Escape: 5
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Forced: Remove 2 damage from Giant Marsh Worm at the end of each round.
Escape: 2
"No birds here. There are snakeses, wormses, things in the pools. Lot of things, lots of nasty things."
–Gollum, The Two Towers
While The Heart of the Marshes is the active location, all cards dealt from the encounter deck for escape tests get +1 Escape. (Cards receive this bonus even if they do not have a printed escape value.)
Escape: 1
You are playing Nightmare mode.
Players cannot reduce their threat.
Setup: Search the encounter deck for The Mere of Dead Faces, and add it to the stage area. Then, shuffle the encounter deck.
Forced: After Gollum is placed in the discard pile, shuffle him into the encounter deck.
"They lie in all the pools, pale faces, deep deep under the dark water." –Frodo, The Two Towers
Begin with the standard quest deck and encounter deck for The Dead Marshes scenario.
Remove the following cards, in the specified quantities, from the standard encounter deck:
1x A Wisp of Pale Sheen
1x Through the Mist
2x Great Marsh Worm
4x Fens and Mires
3x Eastern Crows
2x Pursued by Shadow
2x Treacherous Fog
1x Wolf Rider
2x Hill Troll
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 The Dead Marshes 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.
X is the number of resource tokens here. Cannot leave the staging area.
If Gollum is not in play, any resource tokens that would be placed on Gollum are placed here instead.
Forced: After Gollum enters play, place 2 resource tokens on Gollum then move all resource tokens from The Mere of Dead Faces to Gollum.
While Stagnant Quagmire is in play, it adds its Escape value to all escape tests.
Escape: 2
Shadow: Perform an escape test, dealing 1 card the encounter deck. If this test is failed, discard the defending character.
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Forced: After a character commit to an escape test, deal 1 damage to that character.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if attacking enemy is Undead.)
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Forced: After Marsh-wight engages a player, that player makes an escape test, dealing 3 cards from the encounter deck. If this test is failed, place 2 resources on Gollum and Marsh-wigth makes an immediate attack.
"But all foul, all rotting, all dead. A fell light is in them." –Frodo, The Two Towers
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Forced: After Lost Soul of L≤rien is destroyed, attach it to a hero with 1 or more Willpower, if able. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Limit 1 per hero. Attached hero's Willpower is reduced to 0.")
"Many faces proud and fair, and weeds in their silver hair."
-Frodo, The Two Towers
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While Ill-fated Guard is engaged with a player, that player cannot commit more than 1 character to each escape test.
Shadow: Discard all attachments from each character you control with 3 or more
When Revealed: Each player makes an escape test, dealing 1 card from the encounter deck. Each player who fails this test must either discard a hero from play or raise his threat by 5.
Escape: 5
"You should not look in when the candles are lit." –Gollum, The Two Towers
When Revealed: The first player makes an escape test counting intead of dealing 2 cards from the encounter deck. If this test is failed, place 1 resource token on Gollum and deal 1 damage to each character in play.
Escape: 3
When Revealed: Return the top X Undead enemies in the encounter discard pile to the staging area, where X is the number of players. If no enemies were returned to the staging area as a result of this effect, Devilry of the Dark Land gains surge.
Escape: 10
'But that is an age and more ago,' said Sam. 'The Dead can't be really there!' –The Two Towers