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Immune to player card effects.
The Nameless Fear cannot engage or be engaged.
X is the number of victory points in the victory display.
Immune to player card effects.
Travel: Each player must spend 1 resource from one of his heroes’ resource pools to travel here.
Shadow: Defending player discards all resources in his heroes' resource pools.
Immune to player card effects.
Shadow: Remove X progress tokens from the current quest, where X is the attacking enemy's .
"...the garden of Gondor now desolate kept still a dishevelled dryad loveliness." –The Two Towers
Immune to player card effects.
While The Islet is the active location, each Dunland enemy in play gets +1 .
There were three lines of flat stepping–stones across the stream, and between them fords for horses, that went from either brink to a bare eyot in the midst. –The Two Towers
Immune to player card effects.
Travel: Search the encounter deck and discard pile for a Huorn enemy and add it to the staging area to travel here (2 Huorn enemies instead if there are 3 or more players in the game).
"...we are on the very edge of Fangorn, and it is perilous to touch the trees of that wood, it is said."
–Aragorn, The Two Towers
Immune to player card effects. Cannot leave the staging area.
The Crossing at Tharbad gets +2 quest points for each player in the game.
When The Crossing at Tharbad is explored, the players win the game.
X is the number of players in the game. Immune to player card effects.
Travel: Remove 3 progress from the current quest to travel here.
If The Secret Chamber is placed underneath The Orcs’ Search, the players lose the game.
Immune to player card effects.
Travel: The first player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for a Warg enemy, reveals it, and puts it into play engages with him. Shuffle the encounter deck.
The howling of the wolves was now all around them... –The Fellowship of the Ring
Aflame 12. Immune to player card effects.
The players cannot travel to the Dream-chaser.
When the Dream-chaser is placed underneath The Havens Burn, the players lose the game.
Immune to player card effects.
Helm of the Stormcaller gets +1 quest point for each resource token on a Raider enemy in play.
Forced: When Helm of the Stormcaller becomes the active location, add Captain Sahír and Na'asiyah to the staging area from out of play (enemy side faceup).
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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
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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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Boarding 1. Immune to player card effects.
Only Ship objectives can be declared as attackers againt Raider Flagship.
Forced: At the end of the encounter phase, the engaged player reveals the top card of the Corsair deck and engages it.
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Boarding 1. Immune to player card effects.
Response: After Corsair Skirmisher is destroyed as an enemy, the engaged player may discard allies he controls with a total of at least 3
ti take control of Corsair Skirmisher as a Ship-Objective with equal to its (It loses the Ship-Enemy card type and gains the Ship-Objective card type).
When Revealed: Discard cards from the encounter deck until a Harad enemy is discarded. Add that enemy to the staging area and place a resource token on it. That enemy is "the Champion." While this stage is in play, the Champion gets +2 +2 +2 and gains: Immune to player card effects. The main quest stage cannot be defeated while the Champion is in play."
The champion cannot take damage unless there are at least 4 progress tokens here. This stage cannot be defeated while the champion is in play.
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Indestructible. Immune to player card effects.
Cannot take more tha 3 damage each round.
Forced: At the end of the round, the engaged player must choose: either return Wild Mûmak to the staging area, or it makes an immediate attack.
Immune to player card effects.
The players cannot travel here unless there are at least 20 progress tokens on stage 4B.
Travel: Reveal 1 encounter card per player.
Stage 4B cannot be defeated while River Harnen is in play.
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: After Spider Burrow becomes the active location, flip the Search objective to On Track and add Brood Mother to the staging area.
Forced: When Spider Burrow leaves play as an explored location, set Brood Mother aside, out of play (unless the players are at stage 3B).
Attached encounter card gets +2 and is immune to player card effects.
Action: Exhaust The Serpent's Garb and raise your threat by 1 to give a Harad enemy in the staging area -2 until the end of the phase.
Immune to player card effects.
The Old Ford gets +5 quest points for each enemy in play.
Forced: After The Old Ford becomes the active location, each enemy in the staging area makes an immediate attack against the first player.
When Revealed: Add the top card of the Evil Creatures deck to the staging area and attach Frenzied Creature to it. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Attached enemy gets +1 +1 +1 and is immune to player card effects")
Shadow: Attach this card to attacking enemy.
Each objective-location, and each card guarding one, is immune to player card effects.
Forced: When progress would be placed on the main quest, if there are no objective-locations in play, discard an equal number of cards from the encounter deck instead. Then, put the topmost objective-location in the encounter discard pile into play.
Immune to player card effects.
Fire-drake cannot take damage.
Response: After Dragon Hoard becomes the active location, the first player chooses a player to attach an Artifact attachment from his hand to Dragon Hoard. That attachment gains the guarded (location) keyword. If that attachment has the printed guarded keyword, do not resolve it when the attachment enters play.
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: When Woodmen Village is explored, add the top card of the Evil Creatures deck to the staging area. Then, flip over Woodmen Village and attach Haldan to the just-added enemy as a guarded objective.
Attached enemy or location is immune to player card effects.
When Dragon Sign is free of encounters, add it to the victory display.
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Indestructible. Immune to player card effects.
While Urdug is engaged with a player, he gains,"Forced: At the beginning of the quest phase, Urdug makes an immediate attack. If this attack deals damage, return Urdug and Tiny (if he is in play) to the staging area."
Dagnir's assault is relentless and the people of Hrogar's Hill need time to regroup. Someone mst draw the Dragon's attention away from the town.
Shadow cards dealt to Dagnir are immune to player card effects and their effects cannot be canceled.
Forced: After Draw Her Fire becomes the current quest, Dagnir makes an immediate attack against the first player.
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Immune to player card effects. X is 1 more than the number of side quests in the victory display.
Cannot leave the staging are or take more than X damage from non-quest effects each round.
While at least 3 side quests are in the victory display, Dagnir is considered to be engaged with each player.
Immune to player card effects.
The players cannot travel to The Cursed Tomb unless they control 3 Loot objectives.
Forced: After the player travel to The Cursed Tomb, search the encounter deck and discard pile for Fram's Shade and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck. Fram's Shade makes an immediate attack against each player in turn order.
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: After Forgotten Crypt becomes the active location, discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until an Undead enemy is discarded and add it to the staging area. Then, attach a Loot objective in the encounter discard pile to that enemy as a guarded objective.
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: After The First Forge becomes the active location, exhaust the hero with Wormsbane attached. That hero cannot ready while The First Forge is the active location.
Response: After the First Forge is explored, flip Wormsbane to its Reforged side and attach it to any hero.
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Indestructible. Immune to player card effects. X is 1 more than the number of quest cards in the victory display.
Cannot take more than X damage each round.
While there are 5 or more quest cards in the victory display, Dagnir cannot leave the staging area and is considered to be engaged with each player.
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Immune to player card effects. Cannot leave the staging area.
Forced: When Urdug attacks, discard the top card of the encounter deck. He gets +X for this attack, where X is the discarded card's printed
When Urdug is destroyed, the players win the game.
Immune to player card effects.
While Gate of Gundabad is in the staging area, resources cannot be placed on The Heroes' Defense.
Travel: Search the encounter deck, discard pile, and victory display for a Goblin Troop and add it to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter deck.
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Immune to player card effects.
Cannot be optionally engaged.
Forced: After Priest of Sauron attacks and destroys an ally, raise each player's threat by 2.
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Immune to player card effects.
Forced: After a location is revealed from the encounter deck, The Governor engages the first player and makes an immediate attack.
"In all the long wars with the Dark Tower treason has ever been our greatest foe."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Immune to player card effects.
Do not discard shadow cards dealt to Black Númenórean if they have a shadow effect.
Forward: When Black Númenórean attacks, resolve each of his faceup shadow cards as if they had been dealt this round.
Immune to player card effects.
Forced: When Seedy Travern is explored, reveal each facedown card under it.
Travel: Look at the top 5 cards of the encounter deck. Put one of those cards facedown under Seedy Tavern and shuffle the rest back into the encounter deck.
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Indestructible. Immune to player card effects.
X is 1 more than the number of quest stages in the victory display. Cannot be engaged unless X is equal to 5.
Forced: When Thane Ulchor attacks and destroys a character, place 1 damage token on Tribute to Mordor.
While attached to an enemy, counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Attached enemy gets +1 +1 +1 and is immune to player card effects."
When Revealed: Attach to the Easterling enemy with the lowest without a copy of Fanaticism. Otherwise, Fanaticism gains surge.