Forced: After Orc Trail leaves play as an explored location, choose an out of play Orc enemy, either set aside or in the victory display, and add it to the staging area. Then, the first player searches 4.
"No other folk make such a trampling."
–Legolas, The Two Towers
While Narrow Ledge is the active location, each player cannot commit more than 3 characters to the quest.
Shadow: Shuffle all copies of Galloping Boulders from the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck.
No more than 4 progress can be placed on the current quest each round.
Creature enemies get +1
Goblin enemies get +1
It was still ajar, but a goblin had pushed it nearly to. Bilbo struggled but he could not move it. –The Hobbit
Travel: Deal 3 damage to each ready character. The first player may spend up to 3 resources to reduce the damage dealt to each character by 1 for each resource spent.
Riddle: The first player names a card title, shuffles his deck, and discards the top 5 cards. For each card that matches, place 1 progress on stage 2.
Foced: At the end of the planning phase, each player who played at least 1 ally this phase must raise his threat by 1.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 If this attack destroys a character, raise each player's threat by 3.
Foced: When the Front Gate is explored, each Dragon enemy in play makes an attack against the first player. (Deal and resolve a shadow card for this attack.)
Burgle: The first player shuffles his deck and reveals the top card. He may discard 3 cards from his hand that match the revealed card's cost.
Forced: At the end of the round, raise each player's threat by 1 for each quest stage with no progress on it.
Shadow: Until the end of the phase, attacking enemy gets +1 for each quest stage with no progress on it.