2014 catch up, creativity and “1066, Tears To Many Mothers” gamers wanted!

EDIT – 1066 has now been added to the BGG database here: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/155122/1066-the-tears-of-many-mothers For numerous horrible reasons 2013 was a difficult year for us.  I’m not going to dwell on it, and I’m determined to minimise its impact on 2014.  The end result is that after an unusually long drought, I’ve recently undergone a period of renewed creativity, the first in a long time.  The kind where ideas keep me awake at night so I have to pen them down and get them worked out as quickly as possible. Truthfully I’d been banging my head against the wall on a... View Article

Branching Paths at LCGPARIS 2012

Big shout out to Michael Hatik and all the French LOTR: LCG gamers at LCGPARIS 2012 who, whilst also play-testing FFG’s new scenario Foundations of Stone, also played through my own Branching Paths scenario.  More info including photos of the event can be found here: http://sdajce.forumactif.org/t837p120-championnat-des-lcg-samedi-23-juin-2012-photos Looks like a great time was had by all!  🙂

Brand, Son Of Ugly

We’ve been having problems looking at the ugliest character ever depicted in a card game: So I came up with a solution:

Lost in The Long Dark

From the FFG article here: http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=3244 The passage twisted round a few turns, and then began to descend… In the pale ray of the wizard’s staff, Frodo caught glimpses of stairs and arches, and of other passages and tunnels, sloping up, or running steeply down, or opening blankly dark on either side. It was bewildering beyond hope of remembering.    –The Fellowship of the Ring, “A Journey in the Dark” After surviving a desperate struggle with The Watcher in the Water, the heroes of Middle-earth pass at last through the Doors of Durin and into the ancient mines of Moria. Within those... View Article

Something Tookish Woke Up

Something Tookish Woke Up “The hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves. Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains… and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.”    –The HobbitWe recently had the privilege to announce the upcoming release of The Hobbit: Over Hill and Under Hill for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game. The response has been fantastic, and today we’ll take a... View Article

Sneaking Past The Watcher in the Water, Part One

From the original FFG article here: http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=3171 “The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.”    –Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring Through The Redhorn Gate and along the Road to Rivendell, Arwen and the heroes of Middle-earth have been taxed nearly to their limits... View Article

FFG News – Ambushed on the Road to Rivendell

Fantasy Flight Games [News] – Ambushed on the Road to Rivendell: “Road to Rivendell “ ‘via Blog this’ Suddenly Aragorn leapt to his feet. “How the wind howls!” he cried. “It is howling with wolf-voices. The Wargs have come west of the Mountains!”    –The Fellowship of the Ring Having barely pushed their way through the raging snowstorms along The Redhorn Gate, the heroes of Middle-earth continue their journey to Rivendell, heading down the westward slopes of the Misty Mountains. Though they leave the drifting snow and wintry weather behind them, the Road to Rivendell is not yet clear. Wargs, goblins, and other ferocious... View Article

Shadow and Flame – the climactic final Adventure Pack of the Dwarrowdelf saga!

With a rush it leaped across the fissure. The flames roared up to greet it, and wreathed about it; and a black smoke swirled in the air. Its streaming mane kindled, and blazed behind it. In its right hand was a blade like a stabbing tongue of fire; in its left it held a whip of many thongs.    “Ai! ai!” wailed Legolas. “A Balrog! A Balrog is come!”    Gimli stared with wide eyes. “Durin’s Bane!” he cried, and letting his axe fall he covered his face.   –J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring In the Dwarrowdelf cycle of Adventure Packs for The Lord of... View Article

Heroes in The Redhorn Gate, Part Three

From the FFG article here: http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=3084 “If Gandalf would go before us with a bright flame, he might melt a path for you,” said Legolas. The storm had troubled him little, and he alone of the Company remained still light of heart.   “If Elves could fly over mountains, they might fetch the Sun to save us,” answered Gandalf. “But I must have something to work on. I cannot burn snow.”   “Well,” said Boromir, “when heads are at a loss bodies must serve, as we say in my country. The strongest of us must seek a way.”    –J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship... View Article