The wizard Gandalf has chosen Bilbo Baggins to join Thorin and company on their quest to the Lonley Mountain.
Setup: Remove and shuffle the 7 Sack cards into a Sack deck and set it aside face down. Remove the 3 Troll enemies and the Troll Cave from the encounter deck and set them aside out of play. Then, shuffle the encounter deck. Each player reveals 1 card from the top of the encounter deck and adds it to the staging area.
At first they had passed through hobbit–lands, a wild respectable country inhabited by decent folk, with good roads, an inn or two, and now and then, a dwarf or a farmer ambling by on business. Then they came to lands where people spoke strangely, and sang songs Bilbo had never heard before. – The Hobbit.
Obviously trolls. Even Bilbo, in spite of his sheltered life, could see that: from the great heavy faces of them, and their size, and the shape of their legs, not to mention their language, which was not drawing–room fashion at all – The Hobbit
When Revealed: Add the set-aside Troll enemies and the Troll Cave to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter discard pile back into the encounter deck.
Forced: If there are no Troll enemies left in play, or if there are no cards left in the encounter deck, advance it to the next stage.
Any time players would place progress tokens on this quest, discard an equal number of cards from the encounter deck instead. (Progress is placed on the active location before triggering this effect.)
"Dawn take you all, and be stone to you!" said a voice that sounded like William's but it wasn't. For just at that moment the light came over the hill, and there was a mighty twitter in the branches. William never spoke for he stood turned to stone as he stooped; and Bert and Tom were stuck like rocks as they looked at him. –The Hobbit
When Revealed: Remove all Troll enemies and Sack cards from the game. If Troll Cave is in the victory display, the players have discovered the treasure cards Sting, Glamdring, and Orcrist.
The players have won the game.
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When Revealed: Reveal the top card of the encounter discard pile and add it to the staging area, if able.
Shadow: If this attack deals at least 1 damage, shuffle this card back into the encounter deck.
While Troll Camp is in the staging area, Troll enemies get +1 for each player in the game.
While Troll Camp is in play, Bilbo Baggins gains:"Action: Exhaust Bilbo Baggins and spend 1
resource to remove 1 Sack card from a character. Bilbo Baggins may trigger this effect even with a Sack card attached to him."
Immune to player card effects.
Players cannot travel to Troll Cave unless Bilbo Baggins has the Troll Key attached and the first player spends 5 resources. (2 resources instead if Bilbo Baggins has the Troll Purse attached.)
Response: After placing 1 or more progress tokens on Hobbit-lands, the first player draws 1 card.
Shadow: Defending player must put the top card of the encounter deck discard pile on top of the encounter deck.
Forced: After placing 1 or more progress tokens on Dreary Hills, each player must discard 1 card at random from his hand.
Response: After Dreary Hills leaves play as an explored location, Bilbo Baggins gains 1 resource.
Forced: After placing 1 or more progress tokens on Lone-Lands, each player removes 1 resource from one of his hero's resource pools, if able.
Response: After Lone-Lands leaves play as an explored location, Bilbo Baggins gains 1 resource.
While Cave Entrance is in the staging area, it gains:'Forced: At the end of the round, place the top X cards of the encounter discard pile on the bottom of the encounter deck. X is the number of players in the game.'
That, of course, is the dangerous part about caves: you don't know how far they go back. –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.
When Sacked: Attach to the ally (excluding Gandalf) with the highest printed cost without a Sack attached.
Attached character cannot ready, attack, defend, commit to quests, or trigger effects. If this Sack card is removed, shuffle it into the sack deck.
When Sacked: Attach to the character (excluding Gandalf) with the highest printed without a Sack attached.
Attached character cannot ready, attack, defend, commit to quests, or trigger effects. If this Sack card is removed, shuffle it into the sack deck.
When Sacked: Attach to the character (excluding Gandalf) with the highest printed without a Sack attached.
Attached character cannot ready, attack, defend, commit to quests, or trigger effects. If this Sack card is removed, shuffle it into the sack deck.
When Sacked: Attach to the character (excluding Gandalf) with the highest printed hit points without a Sack attached.
Attached character cannot ready, attack, defend, commit to quests, or trigger effects. If this Sack card is removed, shuffle it into the sack deck.
When Sacked: Attach to the character (excluding Gandalf) with the highest printed
without a Sack attached.
Attached character cannot ready, attack, defend, commit to quests, or trigger effects. If this Sack card is removed, shuffle it into the sack deck.
When Sacked: Attach to the character (excluding Gandalf) with the most attachments without a Sack attached.
Attached character cannot ready, attack, defend, commit to quests, or trigger effects. If this Sack card is removed, shuffle it into the sack deck.
When Sacked: Attach to hero with the most resources without a Sack attached.
Attached character cannot ready, attack, defend, commit to quests, or trigger effects. If this Sack card is removed, shuffle it into the sack deck.
When Revealed: Place the top X cards of the encounter discard pile on the bottom of the encounter deck. X is equal to twice the number of players in the game.
Shadow: Shuffle this card into the encounter deck.
When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to each ally. (2 damage instead if there is a Troll enemy in the staging area.)
Shadow: Search the encounter deck for Troll Camp and add it to the staging area. Then, shuffle the encounter deck.
When Revealed: The first player chooses a Troll enemy in the staging area and engages that enemy. If there are no Troll enemies in the staging area, this card gains Surge.
Shadow: Deal 4 damage to each character with a Sack card attached. (The first player may spend 2 resources to cancel this effect.)
When Revealed: Each player must choose one: increase his threat by 4, or reveal an additional encounter card from the encounter deck and add it to the staging area.
Shadow: The defending player raises his threat by 2.
When Revealed: Discard all non-treasure, non-objective attachments in play.
Shadow: The defending character gets -1
“I'm sure the rain has got into the dry clothes and into the food-bags.” –Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit
When Revealed: Discard all resources.
Shadow: Resolve this card's 'When Revealed' effect.
"As soon as I clapped eyes on the little fellow bobbing and puffing on the mat, I had my doubts. He looks more like a grocer than a burglar!" –Glóin The Hobbit
You are playing Nightmare mode.
The objective cards Troll Key and Troll Purse gain surge.
A nice pickle they were all in now: all neatly tied up in sacks, with three angry trolls (and two with burns and bashes to remember) sitting by them, arguing whether they should roast them slowly, or mince them fine and boil them, or just sit on them one by one and squash them into jelly... –The Hobbit
Begin with the standard quest deck and encounter deck for the We Must Away, Ere Break of Day scenario.
Remove the following cards, in the specified quantities, from the standard encounter deck:
3x A Suspicious Crow
1x Lone-lands
1x Dreary Hills
2x Hobbit-lands
2x A Nice Pickle
Then, shuffle the encounter cards in this Nightmare Deck into the remainder of the standard We Must Away, Ere Break of Day 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.
Play Tip: The treachery card, Night Wanes Slow, has a Forced effect that triggers when it is discarded from the encounter deck as a result of stage 2B's effect. When discarding cards from the encounter deck at stage 2B, discard them one at a time in case Night Wanes Slow is one of them.
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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
When Revealed: Each engaged Troll enemy makes an immediate attack. If the players are at stage 1, immediately advance to stage 2A.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is a Troll return it to the staging area after this attack.
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.
