Reply: The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game:: Rules:: Re: Do trapped engaged...
by boardgamemonster Thanks for the clarification. I've been playing it that way but any little help I can get from loopholes in the rules would have been useful in the harder quests!C
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by peterk1 Just arrange players in pairs as though it were a chess tournament. When one plays, the opponent observes - and then switch after the first play. After 2-3 plays each - winner of each pair...
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by Dbrundin Ok, so the Artscow cards for fan-created DECK3 arrived today!The card quality is quite good, just barely a step below the quality of the original LOTR game itself. Since we sleeve the...
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by Thanee boardgamemonster wrote:Reading through the recent posts here I notice that even Thanee thought the same thing :)Yep, I was wondering about that same thing recently, which is why I now know...
View ArticleThread: The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game:: Rules:: Caught in a Web and...
by Thanee Here's another thing I am wondering about.When one of your heroes has been Caught in a Web.Do you have control of that card?i.e. can you choose to discard it when the Forest Spider is dealt...
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by cosined You don't control the Caught in the Web card, as you didn't play it.Can't discard it for Forest Spider, but you CAN for Driven by Shadow, but only on the defending character.Yay subtle...
View ArticleThread: The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game:: General:: thematically why do...
by pomander This always puzzled me. Thematically how does it make sense that a location (or locations) card in the the staging area make it harder to progress with the quest? Don't locations in the...
View ArticleThread: The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game:: General:: thematically why do...
by pomander This always puzzled me. Thematically how does it make sense that a location (or locations) card in the the staging area make it harder to progress with the quest? Don't locations in the...
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by Pericles1958 you see before you an old well-trodden forest road and to your right a dark path covered with spider webs and what seems like animal remains. Would you take either of them with the...
View ArticleThread: The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game:: Rules:: Number of cards in a deck
by Aimon Hi.I'm sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere, but a quick search revealed nothing.I recently bought the game, tried all four pre-made decks in the Core set, with very few wins as a...
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by Kamakaze Locations represent distant dangers, that if left unchecked will lead to your eventual demise. Traveling there is heading to that location to eliminate the threat.
View ArticleReply: The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game:: Rules:: Re: Caught in a Web and...
by Thanee Makes sense. Thank you! :)ByeThanee
View ArticleReply: The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game:: Rules:: Re: Number of cards in...
by Thanee Aimon wrote:Now, I was wondering if there's anything that says that you must have either 30 or 50 cards in your deck.The official deckbuilding rules for tournaments are in the rulebook.1-3...
View ArticleThread: The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game:: General:: To have 2 or 3...
by brighknight_216 Dear all,I just want to know how do you determine whether you should have 2 or 3 copies of the same cards in a deck. My idea of having 3 cards in a deck is when I need to be able to...
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by Aimon OK, thanks.Yeah, I saw that in the rulebook, but wasn't sure if that applied since I'm not in a tournament setting.Of course I realize I can do whatever I want, but I don't want to break the...
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by mjd83 This has puzzled me too for a long while. It is especially hard to justify in scenarios like the Hunt for Gollum where you end up getting threat locked by locations.I tend to think of them in...
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by Thanee Cards that are non-unique and you are basically always happy to have in your hand (like Sneak Attack or A Test of Will) end up in the deck as often as possible (3 copies, or as many as you...
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by Thanee Basically, everything in the staging area are threats to your quest, which you have to deal with.Enemies are pretty obvious obstacles. Locations are a bit trickier.Maybe it is not the...
View ArticleReply: The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game:: General:: Re: Quest, or defend,...
by Thanee boardgamemonster wrote:After all, it's not like Aragorn and Gimli didn't do some serious damage whilst 'defending' the gates of Helm's Deep!Maybe they had Unexpected Courage there... :DOr is...
View ArticleReply: The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game:: Rules:: Re: Number of cards in...
by Thanee I would actually recommend trying to narrow the deck to 30 cards.The decision about which cards to keep and which to remove get much harder the more cards you have to remove.It is a useful...
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