You are playing campaign mode.
Setup: Each player may change hero cards without incurring the +1 threat penalty, and Amarthiúl may be included among a player's heroes. Then, each player in turn order may select one of the following boons and add it to their opening hand: Elrond's Champion, Lore of Ancient Arnor, Raiment of the Second Age, or Rivendell Skirmishers. Add the chosen cards to the Campaign Pool.
Resolution: Note the amount of damage on each hero at the end of the game.
As the heroes slew Thaurdir, his remains crumbled and decayed into ash before their very eyes, and his armor and weapon clattered to the ground harmlessly. But before they could rejoice in their victory, the howling of wolves sounded in the air, as if all around them.
"Goblins!" one of the Rangers in the rear ranks shouted, "Goblins from Mount Gram!" The company found themselves assaulted from the south by Goblins while the Orcs of Carn Dûm rallied their defenses once more. They had but a moment to slip into the fortress before they were surrounded on all sides. One of the Elves that had accompanied them from Rivendell turned to the heroes with a grim expression and shouted over the clamour of battle, "You must make your way into the fortress and stop Daechanar's ritual!"
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Draw 1 additional card at the beginning of the resource phase.
Forced: After drawing cards at the beginning of the resource phase, choose and discard 1 of those cards.
Very tall he was, and his beard was long, and he was grey and old, save that his eyes were keen as stars...
–The Return of the King
Attach to a hero.
Response: After Dúnedain Remedy is attached to a hero, heal 1 damage on that hero.
Action: Pay 1 resource from attached hero's resource pool to attach Dúnedain Remedy to another hero.
Attach to a Ranger or
hero.
Response: After a Signal attachment is attached to a hero, exhaust Rune-master to add 1 resource to that hero's resource pool.
As an additional cost to play Skyward Volley, exhaust a ranged character you control.
Combat Action: Deal 2 damage to an enemy engaged with a player. Resolve that effect again for each copy of Skyward Volley currently in your discard pile (you may choose different targets).
Play Entagling Nets into the staging area, unattached.
If unattached, attach Entangling Nets to the next eligible enemy that enters the staging area.
Attached enemy gets -2 and -2
Play only after making engagement checks.
Encounter Action: If no enemies were engaged this phase, deal 1 damage to each enemy in the staging area. Then, the players as a group may spend 3
resources to deal 2 additional damage to each enemy in the staging area.
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As an additional cost to play Guardian of Rivendell from your hand, you must discard 2 cards from your hand.
"Indeed there is a power in Rivendell to withstand the might of Mordor, for a while."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to Prince Imrahil.
Price Imrahil gains the Outlands trait.
While you control Outlands allies that belong to 4 different spheres, add 1 additional resource to Prince Imrahil's resource pool when you collect resources during the resource phase (if Prince Imrahil is a hero).
Limit 1 per deck.
Planning Action: Add Justice Shall Be Done to the victory display to draw 3 cards and add 3 resources to the resource pool of each hero you control. At the end of the round, you are eliminated from the game.
"...it is the last move in a great jeopardy, and for one side or the other it will bring the end of the game."
–Aragorn, The Return of the King
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X is the number of players in the game.
Immune to player card effects. Cannot be optionally engaged.
Temple Guardian gets -50 engagement cost while Cursed Temple is the active location.
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Archery X. X is the number of players in the game.
Immune to player card effects. Cannot be optionally engaged.
Temple Guardian gets -50 engagement cost while Cursed Temple is the active location.
If unattached, return Gate Key to the staging and it gains:"Action: Exhaust a hero to claim Gate Key and attach it to that hero."
Action: Exhaust Gate Key and attached hero and spend 3 resources for attached hero's resource pool to look at the facedown side of a Temple of the Deceived location.
Campaign Mode only.
If unattached, return Gate Key to the staging and it gains:"Action: Exhaust a hero to claim Gate Key and attach it to that hero."
Action: Exhaust Gate Key and attached hero to look at the facedown side of a Temple of the Deceived location or secret.
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Immune to player card effects. Sentinel.
Raise your starting threat by 3.
Draw 1 additional card during the resource phase.
If the Dawn Start is destroyed, its controller is eliminated from the game.
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Immune to player card effects. Sentinel.
Draw 1 additional card during the resource phase.
If the Dawn Start is destroyed, its controller is eliminated from the game.
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Immune to player card effects. Sentinel.
Response: After you play a card with an odd printed cost, add 1 resource to a hero's resource pool. (Limit once per round.)
If the Duskbringer is destroyed, its controller is eliminated from the game.
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Immune to player card effects. Sentinel. Ranged.
Reduce your starting threat by 3.
Each hero you control gets +1
If the Silver Wing is destroyed, its controller is eliminated from the game.
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Immune to player card effects. Sentinel. Ranged.
Reduce your starting threat by 6. Each hero you control gets +1
If the Silver Wing is destroyed, its controller is eliminated from the game.
When Enlarged Quarters leaves play, remove it from the game.
Attached Ship gets +3 hit points and can be commited to any Sailing test. It counts as 1 additional character when committed to a Sailing test.
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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.
You are playing Campaign Mode.
Setup: Attach Spyglass to Calphon. Shuffle Revenant into the encounter deck. For each character in play, its controller may deal 1 damage to it to reduce their threat by 1.
"Can it be? Are we standing on the fabled island of lost Númenor?" asked Calphon, excitedly. He raised his spyglass and peered through it. "Long have I yearned to stand on such revered land. What a sight to behold!"
Resolution: Gain the following:
• 1 XP for each surviving player.
• 1 XP for each Lush Jungle and Drowned Graves in the victory display.
• 1 XP for each resource on this card (to a maximum of 3 XP).
• 1 XP if each surviving player's threat is 40 or less.
• -1 XP if Ominous Fate is in the victory display.
Calphon gazed at the black key, deep in thought. "An ancient relic of Númenor," he whispered, "but what is its purpose?" The perilous journey ended with a profound discovery, and he sensed an even more dangerous adventure lie ahead.
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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.
You are playing Campaign Mode.
Setup: Attach Black Key (boon) to Captain Sahír. Shuffle Revenant into the encounter deck. Shuffle Starla and both Recurring Nightmares together and place one facedown under each Temple of the Deceived location, as secrets. For each character in play, its controller may deal 1 damage to it to reduce their threat by 1. One player may raise their threat by 4 to attach Spyglass to a hero.
Travel Action: Flip over a secret at your location. If it is a Recurring Nightmare, it engages you. If it is Starla, you gain control of her (ready).
A member of your party has disappeared. Can you find her?
Resolution: If Starla is under a player's control, add her to the Campaign Pool. For each Recurring Nightmare that is not a secret, add it to the Campaign Pool and choose a player. For the remainder of the campaign, that player shuffles that Recurring Nightmare into their deck after they draw their starting hand.
Gain the following:
• 1 XP for each surviving player.
• 1 XP for each resource on this card (to a maximum of 3 XP).
• 1 XP for each faceup Temple Halls.
• 1 XP if 4 or fewer Uncharted locations are faceup.
• 1 XP if Temple Guardian is in the victory display.
• 1 XP if each surviving player's threat is 40 or less.
• -1 XP if Ominous Fate is in the victory display.
Surge.
When Revealed: Choose one: resource, planning, combat, or refresh. After the current phase, there is an additional instance of the chosen phase. If Send for Help
UNRECOGNIZED TYPE: spirit
is upgraded, choose two instead (resolve them in any order). Remove Send for Help from the game
Shadow: Resolve this card's when revealed effect.
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Cannot attack, defend, or have attachments.
Refresh Action: Return Messenger Raven to it's owner's hand and name a card type. Choose a player to look at the top card of his deck. If that card is the named type, add it to its owner's hand. If it is not, discard it.
Play into your play area unattached.
If unattached, attach to the next eligible enemy that engages you.
Response: After attached enemy resolves its attack, ready the defending character.
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Response: After Long Lake Fisherman enters play, name a number. Then, search the top 5 cards of your deck for a card whose printed cost is equal to that number and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
Action: Count the number of cards in your hand and shuffle your hand into your deck. Then, draw an equal number of cards. Draw 1 additional card if you control a unique Hobbit character.
Ho! Ho! Ho! to the bottle I go
To heal my heart and drown my woe.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a hero.
Attached hero gets +2 and collects an additional resource during the resource phase.
...the necklace of Girion, Lord of Dale, made of five hundred emeralds green as grass, which he gave for the arming of his eldest son...–The Hobbit
You are playing campaign mode.
Setup: Each player may change hero cards without incurring the +1 threat penalty, and Haldan may be included among a player’s heroes. Any player gains control of Isolde. Add The Threat to Wilderland to the staging area, shuffle Dagnir’s Spawn into the encounter deck, and shuffle Abandoned Ruin into the Caves deck. If “Turayn has taken an oath of vigilance,” search the encounter deck for 3 treacheries and remove them from the game.
Resolution: While the Fire-drake has been vanquished, it was not the beast the heroes were sent to defeat. With the Fire-drake’s mother still at large, Isolde has resolved to continue the hunt. If the heroes choose to fight alongside her, add Isolde to the campaign pool (any player may add her to their deck). Otherwise, mark in the campaign log that “Isolde is on the hunt” (the dragon’s minions will pose less of a threat on your quest).
The players discover each treasure they control.
Add Abandoned Ruin to the campaign pool. The first player chooses either Threat to Wilderland or Dagnir’s Spawn and add it to the campaign pool.
The Fire-drake coughed and cackled, “Fools! When my mother learns of my death, she will set all Wilderland ablaze!”
There was a long silven as each member of the company reeled at the dragon's words.
“If that is true, then we must seek the mother before she hears of what has happened here, or else the Bardings and many more will pay the price for our victory,” said one of the companions at last.
You are playing campaign mode.
Setup: A player may search their deck for a unique boon ally and add it to their hand. If “Melanwar has given you guidance on traversing Wilderland,” search the encounter deck for 3 non-unique enemies not named Grey Mountain Giant and remove them from the game. The first player may put their trust in Urdug by placing a resource on him (from the token pool). If they don’t, shuffle a copy of the Urdug’s Cunning burden into the encounter deck. Flip this card over.
Forced: After the first player claims an objective, they may put their trust in Urdug by placing a resource on him (from the token pool). If they don’t, shuffle a copy of the Urdug’s Cunning burden into the encounter deck.
Ignore the deep keyword. Urdug gets +1 , +1 , +1 , and +1 for each resource on him.
Resolution: If there are 3 or more resources on Urdug, each player adds a copy of Misplaced Trust to the campaign pool (and their deck). Otherwise, each player adds a copy of Urdug’s Cunning to the campaign pool.
Each player chooses a location in the staging area and adds a copy of it to the campaign pool. Players must choose different locations, if able.
“We have the key to the Goblin's door but it is still a long way to Mount Gundabad, and we are ill supplied for a such a journey,” said one of the heroes.
You are playing campaign mode.
Setup: Each player may change hero cards without incurring the +1 threat penalty. Shuffle Ashen Brazier, Gundabad Hunter, and Gundabad Stalker into the encounter deck. A player may search their deck for a unique boon ally and add it to their hand. If “Isolde is on the hunt,” search the encounter deck for 3 treacheries and remove them from the game. If “Beldis’s care has bolstered the heroes’ spirits,” search the encounter deck for 3 non-unique locations and remove them from the game. Flip this card.
Ignore the deep keyword.
Response: After Fram’s Shade engages a player while the players are at stage 1B or 2B, look at 3 random undiscovered treasures and attach 1 of them to Fram’s Shade as a guarded objective. When the treasure is free of encounters, the players claim it and attach it to an eligible character. (Group limit once per game.)
Action: Raise each player’s threat by 1 to shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck. (Any player may trigger this ability.)
Resolution: The players discover each treasure they control.
Add either Gundabad Hunter or Gundabad Stalker to the campaign pool.
Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the top until 2 Hazard cards are discarded. The players, as a group, must choose 1 of those cards and add it to the campaign pool.
If unattached, the first player claims Ashen Brazier and attaches it to a hero they control.
Action: Exhaust Ashen Brazier to look at a facedown shadow card.
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Gundabad Stalker cannot be optionally engaged except by a player who is engaged with a unique enemy.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is unique, return it to the staging area after this attack.
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).
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Cannot have non-Morgul attachments.
While Rider of Mordor is engaged with a player, characters that player controls get -1 .
While The One Ring is exhausted, Rider of Mordor gets -10 engagement cost.
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Players cannot optionally engage Bill Ferny.
Forced: At the beginning of the staging step, either shuffle 1 out of play Ringwraith into the encounter deck or each player raises their threat by 1 for each non-
hero he committed to the quest.
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While The One Ring is exhausted, Shady Bree-lander gains: "Cannot be optionally engaged."
Shadow: Defending character get -1 (-2 instead if The One Ring is exhausted).
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When Revealed: You must either shuffle an out of play Ringwraith into the encounter deck or reveal an additional encounter card.
Presently he slipped out of the door, followed by the squint–eyed southerner: the two had been whispering together a good deal during the evening.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
While Ettenmoors is the active location, do not deal Nazgûl enemies a shadow card during the combat phase.
Forced: After any amount of progress is placed on Ettenmoors reduce the Ring-bearer's life by 1.
Before long Frodo was obliged to dismount and stuggle along on foot. –The Fellowship of the Ring
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Cannot have non-Morgul attachments.
While Fell Rider is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: At the beginning of the encounter phase, the first player must either reduce the Ring-bearer's life by 1 or engage Fell Rider."
When Revealed: You must either shuffle the top card of the burden deck into the encounter deck and reveal an additional encounter card, or raise each player's threat by 3 and immediately end the quest phase (do not resolve the quest).
Then the leader, who was now half across the Ford, stood up menacing in his stirrups, and raised up his hand.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Attach to the Ring-bearer. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: At the beginning of each quest phase, either exhaust The One Ring or reveal and additional encounter card this phase.")
Once more the desire to slip on the Ring came over Frodo... –The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: The first player must either exhaust the Ring-bearer or reveal and additional encounter card
Shadow: Defending player raises his threat by 3.
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Cannot have attachments.
Forced: After Great Warg Chief enages you, discard cards from the encounter deck until a Warg enemy is discarded. Put that enemy into play engaged with you.