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My journey with Fantasy Flight’s Lord of the Rings living card game.
The Orcs that attached the Fellowship at Amon Hen captured several members of the Company and are carrying them to Isengard. Aragorn and his companions decide to chase the Uruk-hai in an effort to rescue their friends. This has to be done before they escape into the forest of Fangorn. If the Orcs reach its borders, they will escape into the woods, taking their captives with them and there will be no chance to track them there.
Having barely escaped from Moria, the Company of the Ring flees into the forest of Lórien where they are welcomed by the Elves of the Golden Wood and supplied with boats and other gifts by their Lord and Lady, Celeborn and Galadriel. Then they set out upon the River Anduin. But soon they are swarmed by enemies and are forced to go ashore. Seduced by the Ring and divided what to do next, the party splits up.
Trapped inside the Mines of Moria, the Company of the Ring must find their way tto reach the eastern door. But with every step they take into the Mines, there is a growing sense of dread, named the Balrog.
In the House of Elrond, the evil wound that Frodo received on Weathertop gets healed. The council decides that the One Ring cannot remain hidden in Rivendell and sends out a party to destroy the ring. This chapter depicts the first part of the journey — up to the entrace to the Mines of Moria through the hidden gate.
The third part concludes the first of the six saga expansion boxes for the Lord of the Rings (LCG). I did not liked this quest, because you get swarmed by Nasguls and as far as I rember you have to use the addional burden deck cards a lot to cancel all the attacks. Also, the ring bearers‘ life is ticking away which makes it quite uncomfortable to play.
Continuing my campaign from the Lord of the Rings (LCG), reaching the Prancing Pony and continuing to Weathertop.
Winter time. Stay-at-home season. Get a candle (or two). Best mood to play through the Lord of the Rings (LCG) campaign. Last time that I’ve played the campaign, only half of the game boxes for narrative game play were published, so I had to stop half way through. Now, I have all the needed expasions. Lets see how far I get.
Taking some advice from the community into account (mostly from dalestephenson), I revised my Outlands cards. Gogasgil can now generate resources himself. The allies are a bit more steamlined (they either can participate at questing or use their boni) and the events share the game mechanic revolving around cards at the bottom of the deck. Trade-off is the Sword of Morthond is not that much pushed anymore.
With the recent cycle many traits got buffed. A very old trait got no love. The Outlands. One could argue that with the current meta that trait does not need to be strengthened more. Partways, I have to disagree. While using them in a mixed deck (like my Drinking Outlands deck) they are strong, if not to say overpowered and very easy to play at the same time, but not in a somewhat all purple deck. Even within the original cycle where they appeared first was Lord of Morthond, a card that was ment to fix a downside (card draw) of a pure purple Outlands deck, but at no time of the game that card was somewhat powerfull. So, in conclusion, Lord of Morthond never had its place in an Outlands deck.
This beeing said, I think that playing all purple Outlands today would result in a weak deck and could use some buffs to be on par with todays meta. I had the idea to explore the Outlands trait a bit and design cards to strengthen them, but especially with all-purple-heroes in mind.
When adding a game to the database, there is now a feature to modify the duration of the game. Adjusted the user voted difficulty (from LotR Quest Companion) of the later missions and added the last mission, The Fortress of Nurn.
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