Rock, Paper, Shotgun LOTR Review

Rockpapershotgun’s review of The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game… Not Cardboard Children: Two’s Company | Rock, Paper, Shotgun: “The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game.” Skim’s over the difficulty of finding the best way to play the game and misses the scaling issues, but all in all a good review. Recommended.

Finding The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game too easy?

Then try this one: But seriously, I’ll try and get round to designing some harder quests if I get the opportunity.  The main criticisms have been that my scenarios are too easy, especially from deck-building types who have more than one core set.  Since they play well for me and my group I doubt I’d play quests of much harder difficulty lest they become as frustrating as Dol Guldur can be.  But we shall see once Hunt for Gollum lands…

Lord of the Rings: The Card Game Scenario 5 – Ungoliant’s Lair

Courtesy of BGG user GeckoTH all of my scenarios are now available in hi res format and ready for download here: Lord of the Rings: The Card Game Scenario 5 – Ungoliant’s LairLinks to my other scenarios:Lord of the Rings: The Card Game Scenario 1 – The Old Foresthttp://ratdorg.blogspot.com/2011/04/lord-of-rings-card-game-scenario.htmlLord of the Rings: The Card Game Scenario 2 – The Lost Roadhttp://ratdorg.blogspot.com/2011/04/lord-of-rings-card-game-scenario-lost.htmlLord of the Rings: The Card Game Scenario 3 – Forgotten Ruinshttp://ratdorg.blogspot.com/2011/05/lord-of-rings-card-game-scenario-3.htmlLord of the Rings: The Card Game Scenario 4 – The Elven Assembly:http://ratdorg.blogspot.com/2011/05/lord-of-rings-card-game-scenario-4.htmlOkay, I just couldn’t resist designing another scenario.  And hopefully it’s a lot harder than my previous... View Article

The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Prologues and Epilogues

Prologues and Epilogues Something that has been missing from the Lord of the Rings card game is an end to the story once you’ve completed the scenario.  What happens once you’ve escaped from Dol Guldur?  Did King Thranduil’s message carry?  But I can understand why they didn’t include cards for this in the game, especially since there was such an outcry already about the rip-off card distribution in one core set. In any case, in order to complete the short stories I designed for my own scenarios, I developed the following Prologue cards to be read before starting the adventure.... View Article