The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game

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What is The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game

The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game is a cooperative adventure game in which the players attempt to complete a scenario, each with up to three heroes of their choice and a deck of allies, events and attachments to support them. Each round, players send their heroes and allies to quest or to fight with enemies that engage them. However, as the heroes and allies exhaust after questing, defending, or attacking, the players' options are typically insufficient to deal with everything at once. Therefore, players need to determine whether it is more urgent to quest and make progress in the scenario while the enemy forces gain power, or to take down enemies while making no progress, not knowing what will come next.

The core set contains three scenarios, twelve famous heroes from the works of J.R.R. Tolkien (including Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Denethor, and Éowyn), and four pre-constructed player decks. Players can either use one of these decks or construct their own deck to increase their chances of success and to explore new strategies. Additionally, The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game is a Living Card Game with over ten years of content, and much of its content has been re-released in the form of Campaign and Hero Expansions. Campaign Expansions contain new scenarios for players to embark upon, and Hero Expansions contain new heroes and new cards for players to use in their decks. (Older products include Deluxe Expansions, each containing two heroes, three quests and a medium-sized number of new player cards, and Adventure Packs, each containing one hero, one quest that continues the story started in a Deluxe Expansion and a small number of new player cards.)

Although this game is set in Tolkien's Middle-earth, most scenarios in the game do not represent scenes from The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings; rather, they are original scenes set in the 17 years between Bilbo's 111th birthday and Frodo's departure from the Shire, allowing players to create their own stories and adventures in Middle-earth. Scenarios from the game's Saga Expansions do follow the events of the books, and can be played not only individually but also together in sequence as a campaign, with lasting consequences from game to game arising from the players' actions and decisions.

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Players: 1–2
Age: +13
Duration: 60 min
Difficulty: Heavy
Type: Board game
Year: 2011
Mechanics: Cooperative Game · Deck Construction · Events
Categories: Adventure · Card Game · Collectible Components
Designer: Nate French
Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games · ADC Blackfire Entertainment · Edge Entertainment · Galakta

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Meeplay_136059/10

This is an amazing game. I have played more than 300 games. there are a total of 16 expansions, and some how at 8th, it is just too much. I would like to liked more, but it is enough. I will be always in my heart but not in my table.

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davidarribas5/10

después de darle unas cuantas partidas y jugar la primera caja del Hobbit y el ciclo de Rhovanion el juego está bastante bien, pero no es para mí. El problema que tengo con este juego es que lo más importante de el no es el desarrollo de la partida, es la creación del mazo, experimentar, buscar y conseguir resultados para vencer al juego. Una vez que tienes el mazo afinado, pasarse el escenario es pan comido. Mi deseo es que el juego tuviera mas importancia y desarrollo en la partida que en la de crear un mazo que resuelva el problema con la misión.

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