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Just put in an order for Khazad-Dum and the Dwarrodelf cycle, excited to find a thread with a lot of LotR LCG talk. I have been buying the expansions slowly for about a year and a half now and I get a bug every month or two and play a bunch. For the Core Set I went on eBay and got a parted out "get up to 3 of each" auction so it cost about the same as getting a 2nd core set but I didn't have to get a big pile of Sauron cards I wasn't going to need. I also get FFS05 sleeves for all the cards, but in general getting them from CoolStuffInc is a good deal because they sell the major expansions for $20 and the adventure packs for $10. Does anybody have a good solution for storing sleeved cards? I have them in regular card boxes but you have to put them at an angle and so you can't store as many in a box and it looks weird and bad.
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Epi Lepi posted:We now know enough about the quest to plan for this stuff, but it got me wondering. How many of you read the quest/encounter cards of a new quest before you do the quest? We usually just go in blind, and I think I like it better this way, even though it can lead to situations like last night where we lose horribly. I mean I know you're only wasting what, a half hour or an hour maybe, but still. Also, maybe that was just my fault for trying to make a functioning fighting eagles deck using mono Tactics based only on Core + Mirkwood cards.
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Jun 9, 2014 01:01
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You will probably have to make a special deck to beat the A Journey to Rhosgobel quest, although that one is almost more dependent on luck. It's such a huge pain.
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Jul 8, 2014 14:26
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Currently I have the whole Mirkwood cycle and the whole Khazad/Dwarrowdelf cycle but I'm slowly going through quests. The deck I've had recent success with is Eowyn, Glorfindel (Foundations 5 threat version), and Denethor, and today I gave Return to Mirkwood my first try. Try 1 the game surged Wolf Rider into King Spider on turn 1 and since I had used Denethor to scry already he couldn't defend and Gollum was immediately killed. I love how brutal the game can be, and I kept a marginal hand without any foreknowledge of the quest cards and was summarily punished. Try 2 I managed to win on turn 8, Denethor scryed a Hill Troll to the bottom at one point and I hit a run of locations during the part where you can't play cards, so I was able to quest for 8 each turn with Eowyn and a Light of Valinor'ed Glorfindel. Next up I'm finally going to go back and try to Escape from Dol Guldur, since I was able to complete the other two as well as the whole Mirkwood cycle. Maybe this Questing and Scrying list can get me through that as well without having to overhaul it too much.
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Jul 8, 2014 22:24
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For people looking to fill out their core 1s and 2s for LotR be sure to search eBay. A few years back I was able to get a custom compiled set from an auction instead of buying 2 more Core sets and ending up with a million extra enemy cards. Although I don't see a set exactly like that right now when I'm searching, there are some similar ones like $8 for a 3rd copy of all the 2-ofs.
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Apr 5, 2015 00:56
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Just did The Seventh Level in the Khazad Dum expansion. Was running Frodo, Good Glorfindel, and Watcher Aragorn. Thought my nut opening hand of Fast Hitch, Asfaloth, and Light would be enough to cruise even with no allies in it, but then I drew basically nothing for the first 5 turns of the game (got 2 more Lights and another Asfaloth), but the first real card I drew was Arwen so that was nice. Fought through an Orc Horn Blower turning over 2 Goblins so that I'd be engaged by 3 enemies on one turn, and then when I was about finish stage 1 a Cave-Troll appeared. I needed exactly Gandalf in 1 or maybe 2 turns or I had no chance on the quest, but luckily he was the top card of the deck. Still, had to fight through the Troll's trample and manage to get the damage on it through its 4 defense, so, well, Arwen had to get squashed by the troll. After that it was smooth sailing, but I definitely felt more oppressed than the quest's 3 difficulty would indicate, but it was a real fun time.
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Apr 21, 2015 02:21
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I paid the $20 for this http://www.coolstuffinc.com/p/146012 and just ordered enough LotR expansions and sleeves to put me over the $100 for free shipping. I have 3x Core and then everything chronologically through Heirs of Numenor and all the sleeved cards fit in the first 3 boxes of the 12 box hotel. They have the Fantasy Flight FFS05 sleeves for $2.89 per 50 so it is only slightly more expensive than Potomac unless you can get your Potomac order up enough to get free shipping. Although I guess I live in NoVA and one of my friends goes out to Potomac every few months to get stuff so I should just have him get me a box of sleeves next time.
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Apr 29, 2015 01:11
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Revise your decklist so that it contains literally every healing card you have access to, then hope your draw lines up. I think it's generally accepted to be one of the worst-designed quests as far as just bringing a one-size-fits-all deck to challenge with. My notes from the Quest Log, where I see I used a deck with Dunhere, Denethor, and Core Set Glorfindel: Boco_T posted:Had 20 cards in hand, only 11 remaining in deck by the end, including a turn where I drew 8 cards. Asfaloth helped quite a bit, and having no ranged allies ever hurt. In the end I had 2 Athelas and 11 damage on Wilyador, so I used my final resource point on Glorfindel to heal the final odd point and win, at the expense of Glorfindel suiciding himself out of the game. Very tense, I used all 3 healing herbs but actually had to use 1 very early to prevent Denethor from being killed by a Treachery card. Only drew 1 Lore of Imladris, the other 2 in my remaining 11 cards in the deck.
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Apr 30, 2015 19:48
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LotR LCG Core is a self-contained box for one or two, and there's a lot of good content in there. Maybe get Hobbit Over Hill and Under Hill because that has book-based quests that would be familiar to people and also two suggested deck lists so you can get into the quests without having to do a deep dive into deck building strategy. I tried Massing at Osgiliath last night with the Frodo Glorfindel Aragorn questing deck, but because it is quite ally-light it I basically got dead-ended at the fourth stage when the Witch-King swoops in. It didn't really help that I had Burning Brand and two Unexpected Courage on Aragorn but then drew all 3 Hasty Strokes. Probably would have been better to have any 3 other cards in the deck, although I also got a second Light for Glorfindel. Sold Frodo down the river on stage 3 and just didn't have enough allies to ever clear the Witch-King's 6 threat and -1 quest on every character, nor did I have any good number of allies to eat his attacks to make questing easier.
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May 5, 2015 03:50
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There are also some cheap parted out Core Set auctions on eBay where you can top off some of the less-than-3 cards with out paying the full price of an extra Core and without then owning doubles of all the Sauron enemy cards that you won't ever need. 1 extra of the 2-ofs to make a playset, $8 1 extra of 1-ofs, $20 That was how I made it so I had 3 of everything and no extra stuff.
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Aug 18, 2015 19:34
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Shout out to The Redhorn Gate for milling over all the Victory Point cards before stage 3 so that I was only at 4 points after passing Caradhras and had to cycle through the entire Encounter deck and get a reshuffle before I could win. Luckily I was able to use West Road Traveller to double trigger The Dimrill Stair so my Threat was only at like 8 when I found myself in that predicament. In the end it took me 39 turns to clear. Fun quest though, even if I had to take Spirit Arwen out of the deck because the quest gave you the objective/ally one.
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Aug 19, 2015 03:33
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I know this is dumb for me to be asking with like 20 LotR things unpurchased and even more scenarios unplayed by me yet, but is the Pathfinder Card Game any good, particularly as a solo game? I saw some of the card packs at the game store today and it looked interesting.
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Oct 12, 2015 03:36
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That settles that, thanks.
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Oct 12, 2015 03:42
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The 6-set series (i.e. Hunt for Gollum through Return to Mirkwood) have the same symbol because they're a "cycle" but each major release has its own symbol, similar to Magic. So they won't use the Spider again.
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Dec 17, 2015 14:49
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Zephro posted:Can someone clear something up regarding LOTR?
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Dec 21, 2015 18:18
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Zephro posted:OK, thanks! Finally, if I'm planning to play with a friend, we can play with just one Core and one box between us, right? But if we want to start building our own decks to take around we'll want a Core + expansion each so that we can hang on to the player cards? But yeah, the more expansions you buy, the larger your player card pool is going to be. The Postscript section on this page has some tips if you just want to buy a few expansions to improve the quality of a Dwarf deck or just get a themed start to your expansion buying. It also has breakdowns of what kind of cards you get in the expansions to help you decide what order to buy them in.
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Dec 21, 2015 18:28
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Probably worrying too much. I'd say the first time you probably want to just build a good deck to beat scenarios, you can always go back and replay stuff with themed decks later. If you're making a deck focused on questing, I'd say the best tip then is to see if your friend will build a deck more focused on combat.
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Dec 24, 2015 20:59
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It's on the boat according to FFG's site, so in a month or whatever it'll be back to normal price.
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Dec 25, 2015 17:58
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This might help as well: https://talesfromthecards.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/new-player-buying-guide/
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Jan 14, 2016 22:44
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For solo play you start playing Spirit Glorfindel because of Asfaloth and Light of Valinor. At least, that's what I've ended up doing. The deck that does the best against the most scenarios for me is Conflict Frodo, Foundations Glorfindel, and Watcher Aragorn.
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Jan 22, 2016 17:00
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RIP in peace Arwen, died on the road to Rivendell after 2 "deal 1 damage" effects came off the Encounter deck in the same turn and I didn't engage the evil crows so I wasn't able to Hasty Stroke the second one.
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Jan 25, 2016 22:52
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Tonight I played The Watcher in the Water and the game mechanic they used for Stage 2 when you're trying to get into the Door of Durin was great. Took me 3 turns of flipping because my Spirit/Lore deck has no chance to kill the Watcher, but finally Lore of Imladris matched the flipped Light of Valinor to get me the win. Super tense and really fun, even if I will be happy to never see another Warg Lair again in my life.
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Jan 27, 2016 04:06
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After the first few sets they started putting gold rings around some of the cards in the Encounter deck that you could take out if you wanted a more casual version of a quest, but yeah I guess the No Shadow Cards is also a rulebook-listed way of making the game easier on new players as well.
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Jan 28, 2016 17:44
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Wow, that site looks fantastic.
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Mar 23, 2016 02:27
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There's enough content in that set for you to figure out if you like to play the game and the way it's set up you can get a good amount of replay value out of it. I think the general recommendation for a single first purchase to go with the core set would be the first Hobbit Saga expansion, Over Hill and Under Hill. This is a helpful list if you like to read, but also it's probably most helpful once you've played the Core Set a few times: https://talesfromthecards.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/new-player-buying-guide/
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Apr 17, 2016 03:11
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I love Tactics Eowyn, that is some premium flavor
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Apr 27, 2016 04:14
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It's Youtube, turn it on 2x and watch it in 21 minutes
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Dec 16, 2016 04:06
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I don't know anything about the L5R game, are you guys talking about mechanically unique promos or just alternate arts or what
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Oct 5, 2017 18:58
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Did anyone watch the stream? I’m at work so I didn’t get to see it yet.
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Dec 12, 2017 21:22
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The Steam version of the Lord of the Rings LCG comes out on August 28 and they are releasing a special card game box set that is a bunch of Core Set physical cards combined with the Founder Pack digital stuff: https://steamcommunity.com/games/509580/announcements/detail/1674658681936786191
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Jun 22, 2018 01:11
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The playmat was what sold me, I'm a mark who was going to buy all the digital tiers anyway so the math worked out. More money than sense when it comes to card games.
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Jun 23, 2018 19:09
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Seems pretty cool, I guess Terrinoth is a FFG-owned IP setting? The Eldritch setting was never my thing so I didn't get any Arkham stuff but I'll probably get this.
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Jun 24, 2018 14:40
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https://twitter.com/ffi_games/status/1034456066120212481 Gonna try it out this evening. Free-to-play.
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Aug 28, 2018 16:45
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Once you do the Tutorial it unlocks enough cards to build a deck I think, you don’t have to buy anything. It just limits you to one hero of each sphere and a very small card pool. I only had time to do the Tutorial so I didn’t see how much Valor you win from doing a scenario. I did see I had a Daily Quest for 90 Valor and the items that cost $2 to unlock cost 3500 Valor or something, lmao.
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Aug 28, 2018 18:31
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I ran through the first quest on Easy with a default deck and Normal with a Faramir Gimli Legolas deck I built. Difficulty seemed equal on both levels, and I scored 215 on Easy and 210 on Normal. It seems very difficult to get up to the 250 you need to get a lootbox, but I guess the first time you do that you get three lootboxes so I guess they want to gate it a bit. Like, maybe you're supposed to waste a bunch of extra turns putting Willpower into the Fate abilities to increase your score at the end of the run? Game seems fun though. I will probably play just 1-2 quests a day for a while so that I don't burn out all the content in a single weekend.
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Aug 29, 2018 01:57
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I doubt it’s specifically what people on Steam are complaining about, but for me the biggest problem is that it’s not clear how much a playset of all playable cards costs. For every FFG LCG paper product, it’s always been “three cores plus each monthly release” and you can calculate that out. Here, I can’t even see a way where you can buy the Valor Cards you want if you run out of dust, and the total dust cost of a complete collection is nebulous. The whole point of an LCG is you start with all the cards and you can build any deck you want.
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Aug 29, 2018 14:30
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Shadow cards are now basically Hearthstone Secrets.
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The LOTR digital game came out on Switch this week, I saw it on the New Releases list
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