Forced: After progress is placed on Northern Chetwood (and it is still in play), search the encounter deck, discard pile and victory display for Lost in the Wilderness, and reveal it.
Shadow: Discard 1 card at random from your hand for each point of damage deal by this attack.
While Lush Jungle is in the staging area, characters get -1
and lose ranged.
Forced: After Lush Jungle is flipped over while active, return it to the staging area unless each player exhausts each ready hero he controls.
Cannot have player card attachments.
Forced: After Lost Island becomes the active location, flip it over.
Action: Remove 4 progress from Lost Island to look at its facedown side.
While Overgrown Steps is in the staging area, it gains: "Each Uncharted location in the staging area gets +1
Travel: Raise each player's threat by 2 to travel here.
Forced: Each time a
resource is spent or discarded, raise each player's threat by 1.
Shadow: Deal attacking enemy 2 additional shadow cards for this attack.
While Dark Colony is the active location, poisoned characters cannot ready.
Travel: A player at this stage must give 1 poison to a hero he controls to travel here.
Suddenly he saw, too, that there were spiders huge and horrible sitting in the branches above him, and ring or no ring he trembled with fear lest they should discover him.
–The Hobbit
X is the number of poison in play.
Forced: When this location is explored, make 1 hero unconscious.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 for each poisoned character you control.
While Patch of Midnight is the active location, treat the text box of each poisoned character as if it were blank (except for Traits).
Shadow: Raise your threat by 1 for each poisoned character you control.
While Green-Hill Country is in the staging area, add 1 to each Hide X value.
Travel: The first player makes a Hide 1 test.
Shadow: After this attack, attacking enemy engages the next player then makes an immediate attack.
While Stock Woods is in the staging area, players cannot commit more than 2 characters to a Hide test.
Travel: The first player makes a Hide 1 test.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 (+3 instead if you have failed a Hide test this round).
While Trollshaw Forest is in the staging area, it gains:"Forced: After a 'when revealed' effect is canceled, reduce the Ring-bearer's life by 1."
Travel: Reduce the Ring-bearer's life by 1 to travel here.
Pathless Wilderness enters play with 3 resource tokens on it.
Forced: At the end of the round, discard 1 resource token here. Then, if there are no resource tokens here, reduce the Ring-bearer's life by 3.
Before the first day's march was over Frodo's pain began to grow again. –The Fellowship of the Ring
Forced: When Ettendales is explored, shuffle the top card of the burden deck into the encounter deck.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 If this attack destroys a character, reduce the Ring-bearer's life by 1.
While Langflood River is in the staging area, no more than 4 progress can be placed on this quest stage each round.
Forced: When Langflood River leaves play as an explored location, add it to the staging area to the left, if able.
While Western Emyn Muil is in the staging area, each Uruk-hai enemy at this stage gains Toughness 1.
Travel: A player at this stage must engage the highest toughness enemy in the staging area to travel here.
While Wooded Glade is the active location, treat each non-objective attachment's text box as if it were blank.
Shadow: Discard a non-objective attachment you control.
While Dense Fern-brake is the active location, enemies in the staging area are immune to player card effects.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control.
Shadowy Thicket gets +2 for each facedown card under The Black Gate.
Travel: The first player reveals the top facedown card under The Cross-roads and adds it to the staging area to travel here.
...presently the noise of fighting broke out near at hand, just above their hiding–place.
–The Two Towers