Ennemi (6)
Pale Faces
30
2
4
3
5
Undead.
The engaged player cannot reduce his threat.
Forced: When Pale Faces attacks, raise your threat by 4.
Shadow: Attacking enemy get +X, where X is the Mire X value of the active location.
Rotting Thing
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Undead.
Cannot have attachments.
The engaged player cannot reduce his threat.
Forced: After Rotting Thing attacks and destroys a character, place 1 mire token on the active location for each excess point of damage.
Southron Warrior
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Harad.
Archery 2.
Forced: After Southron Warrior engages you, discard an ally you control.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1(+2instead if the defending character is damaged.
Southron Rearguard
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Harad.
Cannot have attachments or be placed under The Black Gate.
Southron Rearguard gets -1 engagement cost for each progress token on stage 1B.
Shadow: Return attacking enemy to the staging area.
Orc of Minas Morgul
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Orc.
Peril.
When Revealed: Either discard a random card from your hand, or engage Orc of Minas Morgul and reveal an additional encounter card.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2.
Under-gate Sentry
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Orc. Uruk.
Forced: After Under-gate Sentry attacks and destroys a character you control, discard a random card from your hand.
Shadow: Either discard a random card from your hand, or exhaust a character you control.
Lieu (9)
Festering Mire
56
Marsh.
Mire 2.
Forced: When Festering Mire is discarded by the Mire keyword, each player discards his hand.
Travel: Each player discard 1 random card from his hand to travel here.
Candle-lit Pool
45
Marsh.
Mire 3.
Forced: When Candle-lit Pool is discarded by the Mire keyword, each player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for an Undead enemy and puts it into play engaged with him.
Travel: Spend 2
resources to travel here.
Great Reed Thicket
23
Marsh.
Mire 2.
Forced: When Great Reed Thicket is discarded by the Mire keyword, either flip Sméagol to Gollum, or Gollum makes an immediate attack.
Travel: Exhaust Sméagol to travel here.
Wooded Glade
44
Forest.
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.
Dense Fern-brake
55
Forest.
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
28
Forest.
Shadowy Thicket gets +2for 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
Foul-smelling Cave
41
Underground.
Forced: When Foul-smelling Cave is explored, place 1 resource on Shelob, if able.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1(+2instead if attacking enemy is Shelob).
Torech Ungol
24
Underground.
While Torech Ungol is in the staging area, Shelob gets +1and +1.
Travel: Exhaust Sméagol to travel here.
There agelong she had dwelt, an evil thing in spider-form, even such as once of old had lived in the Land of the Elves in the West that is now under the Sea... - The Two Towers
Cobwebbed Tunnel
25
Underground.
Immune to player card effects.
While Cobwebbed Tunnel is in the staging area, each Underground location in the staging area gets +1and +5 quest points.
Travel: The first player reveals an encounter card to travel here.
Traîtrise (6)
Rot and Vapors
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either raise your threat by 1 for each questing character you control, or deal 1 damage to each character you control.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 Attack. If this attack destroys a character, place 1 mire token on the active location.
Gollum's Rage
Peril. Surge.
When Revealed: Deal Gollum's Rage to Gollum as a facedown shadow card, if able.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is Gollum, it gets +1and makes an additional attack against you after this one.
Blind Wrath
When Revealed: Until the end of the round, each Harad enemy in the staging area gets +2, -30 engagement cost, and cannot be optionally engaged.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1. If this attack destroys a character, return attacking enemy to the staging area.
Ware! Ware!
Peril. Surge.
When Revealed: Either place this card facedown under The Black Gate, or put the top card under The Cross-roads into play engaged with you.
Shadow: Choose an enemy in the staging area. Engage that enemy and deal it a shadow card.
Impenetrable Dark
When Revealed: Each player removes a character he controls from the quest and exhausts that character. Until the end of the round, characters cannot be readied by player card effects.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control. Until the end of the round, that character cannot ready.
Growing Stench
Surge.
When Revealed: Deal Growing Stench to Shelob as a facedown shadow card.
Shadow: Defending character cannot ready. If the attacking enemy is Shelob and this attack destroys a character, place 1 progress on Shelob.
Préparation (3)
The Passage of the Marshes
You are playing Nightmare mode.
Forced: When a location in the staging are is explored, raise each player's threat by X, where X is that location's Mire value.
Often they floundered, stepping or falling hands-first into waters as noisome as a cesspool, till they were slimed and fouled almost up to their necks and stank in one another's nostrils. - The Two Towers
Begin with the standard quest deck and encounter deck for The Passage of the Marshes scenario.
Remove the following cards, in the specified quantities, from the standard encounter deck:
- 3x Groping Dead
- 3x Dead Things
- 3x Soft Mires
- 3x Haunted Mere
- 3x Bitter Reek
Then, shuffle the encounter cards in this Nightmare Deck into the remainder of the standard The Passage of the Marshes 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.
Journey to the Cross-roads
You are playing Nightmare mode.
Setup: Place 1 Southron Warrior per player facedown under The Cross-roads, then shuffle the facedown cards under The Cross-roads. Set any remaining Southron Warriors aside, out of play.
« Great strength of them was reported to us some days ago, marching north. One of their regiments is due by our reckoning to pass by, some time ere noon... » - Mablung, The Two Towers
Begin with the standard quest deck and encounter deck for the Journey to the Cross-roads scenario.
Remove the following cards, in the specified quantities, from the standard encounter deck:
- 1x Captain of Harad
- 1x Henneth Annun
- 2x Southward Road
- 4x Hills of Ithilien
- 3x The Dark Lord's Summons
Then, shuffle the encounter cards in this Nightmare Deck into the remainder of the standard Journey to the Cross-roads 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.
Shelob's Lair
You are playing Nightmare mode.
Do not discard unresolved shadow cards from Shelob at the end of the combat phase.
While Cleft of Cirith Ungol is in the staging area, players cannot travel to locations not named Cleft of Cirith Ungol.
...she was there, who was there before Sauron, and before the first stone of barad-dûr; and she served none but herself, drinking the blood of Elves and Men, bloated and grown fat with endless brooding on her feasts, weaving webs of shadow... - The Two Towers
Begin with the standard quest deck and encounter deck for the Shelob's Lair scenario.
Remove the following cards, in the specified quantities, from the standard encounter deck:
- 4x Mogul Orc
- 2x The Under-way
- 3x Deep Dark Passage
- 2x Many Openings
Then, shuffle the encounter cards in this Nightmare Deck into the remainder of the standard Shelob's Lair 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.