You are playing Nightmare mode.
Gollum cannot take damage.
Setup: Search the encounter deck for The Lower Gate and set it aside, out of play.
Forced: When stage 3B is revealed, add The Lower Gate to the staging area.
Begin with the standard quest deck and encounter deck for the Dungeons Deep and Caverns Dim scenario.
Remove the following cards, in the specified quantities, from the standard encounter deck:
3x Goblin Miners
3x Goblin Axeman
3x The Goblins' Caves
3x Grip, grab! Pinch, nab!
1x Not fair! Not fair!
Then, shuffle the encounter cards in this Nightmare Deck into the remainder of the standard Dungeons Deep and Caverns Dim 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.
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
Forced: If Wicked Wolf is dealt a shadow card with a riddle, the defending player must exhaust a character he controls.
Shadow: Return attacking enemy to the staging area after this attack.
Bilbo's Magic Ring does not ready during the refresh phase.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 (+3 instead if Bilbo's Magic Ring is exhausted.)
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.
When Revealed: Discard 2 resources from Bilbo Baggins's resource pool, or Gollum makes an attack against Bilbo Baggins.
Riddle: The first player names a sphere, a cost, and a card type, shuffles his deck, and discards the top 3 cards. For each card that matches all three items, place 1 progress on stage 2.
When Revealed: Attach We Hates It! to Gollum. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "If the players are on stage 3, Gollum gets +2 .")
Riddle: The first player names a Trait, shuffles his deck, and discards the top card. For each card that has at least 1 matching Trait, place 1 progress on stage 2.