2
0
3
Forced: After Hummerhorns engages you, deal 5 damage to a single hero you control.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to each character the defending player controls. (2 damage instead if this attack is undefended.)
2
0
2
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.
4
1
7
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
3
1
3
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.)
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
3
3
6
Chieftain Ufthak get +2 for each resource token on him.
Forced: After Chieftain Ufthak attacks, place 1 resource token on him.
3
1
5
Forced: When Dol Guldur Beastmaster attacks, deal it 1 additional shadow card.
2
1
4
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.
2
3
5
4
3
9
No attachments can be played on Nazgûl of Dol Guldur.
Forced: When the prisoner is 'rescued', move Nazgûl of Dol Guldur into the staging area.
Forced: After a shadow effect dealt to Nazgûl of Dol Guldur resolves, the engaged player must choose and discard 1 character he controls.
Forced: After travelling to Tower Gate each player places the top card of his deck, face down in front of him, as if it just engaged him from the staging area. These cards are called 'Orc Guard', and act as enemies with: 1 hit point, 1 and 1
"I myself dared to pass the doors of the Necromancer in Dol Guldur, and secretly explored his ways."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Raise your threat by 2 to claim this objective when it is free of encounters. When claimed, attach Dungeon Torch to a hero you control. (Counts as an attachment. If detached, return Dungeon Torch to the staging area.)
Forced: At the end of each round, raise attached hero's controller's threat by 2.
Action: Raise your threat by 2 to claim this objective when it is free of encounters. When claimed, attach Shadow Key to a hero you control. (Counts as an attachment. If detached, return Shadow Key to the staging area.)
Forced: At the end of each round, attached hero suffers 1 damage.
2
1
3
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.)
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
1
0
1
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.)
2
2
5
1 
Forced: After Ungoliant's Swarm engages a player, that player must choose and exhaust 2 characters they control.
Shadow: Put Ungoliant's Swarm into play engaged with you.
Permanent. Limit 1 per hero.
Forced: After a character you control is destroyed, raise your threat by 1.
3
1
3
3
Forced: After Gret Spider engages you, exhaust a character you control.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to an exhausted character you control.
2
0
2
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.
2
1
3
Forced: After Wild Wargs engages you, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card is a Goblin enemy, put it into play engaged with you.
“Where the Warg howls, there the Orc prowls.”
X
X
8
2
X is the stage number of the quest.
Cannot take damage. Cannot have attachments.
Forced: After Goblin Chieftain attacks, either remove X progress from the quest, or return it to the staging area.
Attach to a hero. Restricted.
Action: Exhause Cave Torch to place up to 3 progress tokens on a Dark location.
Forced: After Cave Torch exhausts, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card is an enemy, add it to the staging area.
While Goblin Tunnels is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a Goblin is revealed from the encounter deck, remove a progress token from the current quest card."
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if attacking enemy is a Goblin.)
While Branching Paths is in the staging area, each Dark location gets +1
Forced: After Branching Paths leaves play as an explored location, look at the top 3 cards of the encounter deck. Players must choose 1 of those to reveal and add to the staging area, moving the other 2 to the bottom of the deck.
While Crumbling Stairs is in the staging area, progress cannot be placed on it.
Forced: When Crumbling Stairs leaves play as an explored location, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If the discarded card is a location, put it into play as the active location.
When Revealed: The first player attaches Watchful Eyes to one of his heroes. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Limit 1 per hero.Forced: If attached hero is exhausted at the end of the combat phase, reveal 1 card from the encounter deck and add it to the staging area.")
2
2
2
Forced: After Stalking Goblin engages you, search the encounter deck, discard pile, and your collection (in that order) for a Goblin Sniper and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Shadow: Add Stalking Goblin to the staging area.
When Revealed: Attach to the hero with the highest threat cost. (Counts as an Adaptation attachment with the text: “Forced: Raise your threat by 2 at the end of the round. Action: Spend 2 resources from attached hero's pool to discard this card.”)
Forced: After an attack damages a character, place 1 damage on Protect the Innocent.
When progress would be placed on Protect the Innocent remove that much damage from it instead.
If Protect the Innocent has 10 or more damage on it (20 or more if there are 3 or 4 players in the game), the players lose the game.
Setup: Add Arnor Ravaged to the staging area with damage on it equal to the amount of damage marked for it in the Campaign Log.
Forced: After an attack damages a character but does not destroy it, move 1 damage from Arnor Ravaged to that character.
Forced: After Mysterious Omens becomes the current quest, each player discards 1 random card from their hand.
Forced: When Mysterious Omens is defeated, remove it from the Campaign Pool. Then, each player may choose 1 of the following boons and attach it to a hero they control: Cunning, Hardy, Resolute, Ruthless, or Stalwart.
Setup: Attach to Thaurdir (even if he is out of play). Otherwise, remove this card from the game.
Forced: After a Sorcery treachery is revealed, move Thaurdir's Legacy to the hero with the most resources. (Counts as a Sorcery attachment with the text: "Attached hero gets -2
and is treated as if its printed text box were blank.")
Setup: Attach to Thaurdir (even if he is out of play). Otherwise, remove this card from the game.
Forced: After a Sorcery treachery is revealed, move Thaurdir's Majests to the hero with the most non-objective attachments. (Counts as a Sorcery attachment with the text: "Attached hero gets -2 and cannot commit to the quest.")
Setup: Attach to Thaurdir (even if he is out of play). Otherwise, remove this card from the game.
Forced: After a Sorcery treachery is revealed, move Thaurdir's Spite to the hero with the most damage. (Counts as a Sorcery attachment with the text: "Attached hero gets -2 and cannot be healed.")
The loss of Iârion at the hands of the wraith weighs upon you and your companions, sapping your resolve and making you question every decision you make in your pursuit. Yet if you give in, there will surely be no rescue for him from the foul sorcery of Angmar...
Each event card gains doomed 1.
Forced: When Fend Off Despair is defeated, mark in the Campaign Log that each player's starting threat by 2. (This reduction is cumulative.)
Loot the Dungeons is considered to be in each player's staging area and gets +4 quest points for each player in the game at every staging area.
Forced: When Loot the Dungeons is defeated, each player (at every staging area) may choose one of the following boons and add it to their hand: Berelind, Chieftain's Brooch, Coruhaer, Laermuin, Mail of Eärnur, or Silverthorn. Add the chosen cards to the Campaign Pool.
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8
1
Immune to player card effects. Cannot be engaged.
The Thing in the Depths gets +3 hit points per player.
Forced: When a Creature enemy is destroyed, deal damage to The Thing in the Depths equal to that enemy's
6
-
4
1
Campaign Mode only.
Immune to player card effects. Cannot be engaged.
The Thing in the Depths gets +3 hit points per player.
Forced: When a Creature enemy is destroyed, deal 2 damage to The Thing in the Depths.
2
2
2
For each resource on Crowley, he gets +1 , +1 , +1 , and +1 hit point. If Crowley has 3 or more resources on him, he gains victory 3.
Forced: When Crowley engages you, place 1 resource on him. At the end of the combat phase, return him to the staging area.
3
3
3
Immune to player card effects. Revenant gets +2 and +2 for each resource on the campaign card.
Forced: When 3 or more damage would be placed on Revenant, place 2 damage instead.
Forced: After Revenant is destroyed, shuffle it into the encounter deck. Place 1 resource on the campaign card.
3
0
10
Immune to player card effects. No more than 1 character can attack Graxar each round.
Graxar gets +1 for each damage on him and +1 for each resource on him.
Forced: When Graxar is dealt a shadow card, place 1 resource on him.
When Black Key leaves play, remove it from the game.
Attached enemy gets +1 +1 +1 and gainst immune to player card effects.
Forced: At the end of the quest phase, if Captain Sahír is in play, place 1 resource on him for each player in the game.
6
X
6
Immune to player card effects. X is the number of players in the game.
Forced: After Sea Serpent attacks and destroys an ally, the defending player deals X damage divided among characters they control.
Forced: After Sea Serpent is destroyed, flip it over and put it into play in the staging area.
8
X
8
Immune to player card effects. X is twice the number of players in the game.
Forced: After Sea Serpent attacks and destroys an ally, the defending player deals X damage divided among characters they control.
Forced: At the end of the round, Sea Serpent makes an attack against the first player.
5
X
6
X is the number of players in the game.
When Recurring Nightmare leaves play, shuffle it into any player's deck.
Forced: When Recurring Nightmare enters your hand, add it to the staging area.
Immune to player card effects. The Black Sword enters play with 3 resources on it.
Captain Sahír gets +2 and gains indestructible.
Forced: After Captain Sahír attacks for the first time each round, he makes an attack against each other player (in turn order).
Captain Sahír gains indestructible.
Forced: After Captain Sahír attacks for the first time each round, he makes an attack against each other player (in turn order).
Each player's threat cannot be reduced by more than 1 each round.
Forced: After a player draws any number of cards, that player raises their threat by that number.
Resolution: Gain 1 XP.
Forced: After a player fails a Hide test, shuffle a Nazgûl enemy from the discard pile into the encounter deck, if able.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+2 instead if the defending player failed a Hide test this round).