Action: Reduce your threat by 3 to give control of Wandering Took to another player. Raise that player's threat by 3. (Limit once per round.)
...but certainly there was something not entirely hobbit-like about them, and once in a while members of the Took-clan would go and have adventures. –The Hobbit
Action: Reduce one player's threat by 6, or reduce each player's threat by 2.
"Welcome to Caras Galadhan!" he said. "Here is the city of the Galadhrim where dwell the Lord Celeborn and Galadriel the Lady of Lórien."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
At the end of the round, discard Gandalf from play.
Response: After Gandalf enters play, (choose 1):
- draw 3 cards
- deal 4 damage to 1 enemy in play
- reduce your threat by 5.
When playing this card, choose one:
Quest Action: Remove No Time to Waste! from the game and from the Campaign Pool to reduce each player's threat by 3. Reveal the top card of the encounter deck.
Quest Action: Draw 1 card.
At the end of the round, discard Gandalf from play.
Response: After Gandalf enters play, (choose 1):
- draw 3 cards
- deal 4 damage to 1 enemy in play
- reduce your threat by 5.
Galadriel cannot quest, attack, or defend. Allies you control do not exhaust to commit to the quest during the round they enter play.
Action: Exhaust Galadriel to choose a player. That player reduces his threat by 1 and draws 1 card. (Limit once per round.)
Response: After Galadriel's Handmaiden enters play, choose a player. That player reduces his threat by 1.
Her maidens stood silent about her, and a while she looked upon her guests. -The Fellowship of the Ring
At the end of the round, discard Gandalf from play.
Response: After Gandalf enters play, (choose 1): draw 3 cards, deal 4 damage to 1 enemy in play, or reduce your threat by 5.
Action: If you control a unique Noldor character, give another character +1 until the end of the phase and lower your threat by 3.
"Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world."
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
At the end of the round, discard Gandalf from play.
Response: After Gandalf enters play, (choose 1):
- draw 3 cards
- deal 4 damage to 1 enemy in play
- reduce your threat by 5.
At the end of the round, discard Gandalf from play.
Response: After Gandalf enters play, (choose 1):
- draw 3 cards
- deal 4 damage to 1 enemy in play
- reduce your threat by 5.
Response: After Fastred defends an enemy attack, return that enemy to the staging area to reduce your threat by 2. (Limit once per phase.)
"King's man! King's man!" his heart cried within him.
–The Return of the King
Response: After an enemy is revealed from the top of the encounter deck, exhaust Merry to reduce your threat by that enemy's .
"We have come a long way with you and been through some stiff times. We want to go on."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to an enemy. Limit 1 per enemy.
Attached enemy gets -1 .
Response: When attached enemy is destroyed, reduce each player's threat by the attached enemy's printed .
"If simple folk are free from care and fear, simple they will be, and we must be secret to keep them so." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
He was taking a wandering course with many turns and doublings, to put off any pursuit. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Limit 1 per deck.
Response: When this stage is defeated, reduce each player's threat by 5.
Attach to a player's threat dial. Limit 1 per player.
Forced: When you would be eliminated by reaching your threat elimination level, instead discard Favor of the Valar and reduce your threat to 5 less than your threat elimination level. You are not eliminated.
"...their hearts were lifted up in such a hope as they had not known since the darkness came out of the East..."
–The Return of the King
Reduce the cost to play Keen as Lances by 1 for each card worth no victory points in the victory display.
Action: Add Keen as Lances to the victory display. Then, choose one: add 2 resources to a hero's resource pool, draw 3 cards, or reduce your threat by 4.
Play only after the staging step.
Quest Action: Choose X questing Hobbit characters you control. Ready each chosen character and remove them from the quest. Then, reduce your threat by X.
"The road goes on for ever," said Pippin; "but I can't without a rest. It is high time for lunch."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Travel Action: Choose a location in the staging area with a player card attachment and make it the active location, returning any previous active location to the staging area. Reduce each player's threat by X, where X is the number of attachments on the active location.
South away! and South away!
Seek the sunlight and the day.
–The Hobbit
Attach to a location. Limit 1 per location.
Response: When attached location leaves play as an explored location, the first player reduces his threat by 3.
Attach to a hero.
Each unique character you control gains +1 .
Action: Reduce your threat by 2 to attach The Arkenstone to a hero controlled by another player and raise that player's threat by 2. (Limit once per round.)
Play only if each of your heroes is a Hobbit.
Action: Reduce your threat by 4.
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
–Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit
Setup: Attach to a hero in play.
Action: Add Three Golden Hairs to the victory display and remove it from the campaign pool, to lower each player's threat by 3. Then, each player draws 3 cards.
"...your hands shall flow with gold, and yet over you gold shall have no dominion." –Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring
Play only if you control the Ring-bearer.
Planning Action: Brace of Coneys to the victory display to (choose 2): heal up to 2 damage from a hero, add 2 resources to a hero's pool, draw 2 cards, or reduce a player's threat by 2.
“'Sméagol always helps,' he said. 'He has brought rabbits, nice rabbits.'”
—Gollum, The Two Towers
Setup: Reduce your threat by 3.
Action: Raise your threat by 3 to ready Éowyn. She gets +9 Attack until the end of the phase. (Limit once per game for the group.)
"But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter."
-The Return of the King
Response: After Beregond defends an attack and takes no damage, reduce the defending player's threat by 1. (L
"The Lord does not permit those who wear the black and silver to leave their post for any cause..."
-The Return of the King
Action: Reduce your threat by 3 to give control of Wandering Took to another player. Raise that player's threat by 3. (Limit once per round.)
...but certainly there was something not entirely hobbit-like about them, and once in a while members of the Took-clan would go and have adventures. –The Hobbit
Action: Reduce one player's threat by 6, or reduce each player's threat by 2.
"Welcome to Caras Galadhan!" he said. "Here is the city of the Galadhrim where dwell the Lord Celeborn and Galadriel the Lady of Lórien."
–The Fellowship of the Ring
At the end of the round, discard Gandalf from play.
Response: After Gandalf enters play, (choose 1):
- draw 3 cards
- deal 4 damage to 1 enemy in play
- reduce your threat by 5.
Response: After you play a Dwarf character from your hand, reduce your threat by 1.
"Nori, at your service." –Nori, The Hobbit
At the end of the round, discard Gandalf from play.
Response: After Gandalf enters play, (choose 1): draw 3 cards, deal 4 damage to 1 enemy in play, or reduce your threat by 5.
At the end of the round, discard Gandalf from play.
Response: After Gandalf enters play, (choose 1): draw 3 cards, deal 4 damage to 1 enemy in play, or reduce your threat by 5.
While Elfhelm is ready, he gains:
Response: After your threat is raised as the result of questing unsuccessfully, or by an encounter or quest card effect, reduce your threat by 1.
"But my lord sends word that we must set ourselves in readiness: orders may come for a sudden move." –The Return of the King
Response: After another player plays an attachment on a hero you control, you may (choose 1):
- ready 1 of that player's heroes
- have that player draw 1 card
- lower that player's threat by 2.
Action: Raise your threat by 1 to look at the top card of the encounter deck. Then, reduce your threat by X, where X is the threat of that card.
Action: If you control a unique Noldor character, give another character +1 until the end of the phase and lower your threat by 3.
"Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world."
–Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to a Dwarf character.
Response: After you travel to a Mountain or Underground location, ready attached character and reduce your threat by 1
'This is more to my liking,' said the dwarf, stomping on the stones. 'Ever my heart rises as we draw near the mountains.'
–The Two Towers
Limit 1 per deck. Attach to a hero.
Response: When attached hero is destroyed, add The Fall of Gil-Galad to the victory display to reduce your threat by X, where X is the attached hero's threat cost.
...for into darkness fell his star
in Mordor where the shadows are.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After your threat is raised by an encounter card effect, reduce your threat by an equal amount.
Suddenly he was aware of himself again. Frodo, neither the Voice nor the Eye; free to choose, and with one remaining instant in which to do so. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Action: Return a Silvan ally you control to your hand to reduce your threat by X where X is the printed cost of the ally returned to your hand.
"...we dare not by our own trust endanger our land. We live now upon an island amid many perils..."
–Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring
Galadriel cannot quest, attack, or defend. Allies you control do not exhaust to commit to the quest during the round they enter play.
Action: Exhaust Galadriel to choose a player. That player reduces his threat by 1 and draws 1 card. (Limit once per round.)
Response: After Galadriel’s Handmaiden enters play, choose a player. That player reduces his threat by 1.
Her maidens stood silent about her, and a while she looked upon her guests. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Attach to an enemy. Limit 1 per enemy.
Attached enemy gets -1 .
Response: When attached enemy is destroyed, reduce each player's threat by the attached enemy's printed .
"If simple folk are free from care and fear, simple they will be, and we must be secret to keep them so." –Aragorn, The Fellowship of the Ring
Response: After an enemy is revealed from the top of the encounter deck, exhaust Merry to reduce your threat by that enemy's .
"We have come a long way with you and been through some stiff times. We want to go on."
–The Fellowship of the Ring