When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to each character without any attachments.
Shadow: If a character (including Wilyador) has more damage than each other character, deal 3 additional damage to that character.
When Revealed: Deal 2 damage to each wounded character.
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to each wounded character. (2 damage instead if this attack is undefended.)
When Revealed: Remove 1 progress token from each location in play. Then, discard the top card of each player's deck for each progress token removed by this effect.
When Revealed: Place 2 resource tokens on Gollum. Any player may exhaust a hero to reduce this effect to 1 resource token.
Escape: 4
Presently it grew altogether dark; the air itself seemed black and heavy to breathe. When lights appeared Sam rubbed his eyes: he thought his head was going queer. He first saw one with the corner of his left eye, a wisp of pale sheen that faded away...
–The Two Towers
When Revealed: The first player makes an escape test counting instead of , dealing 2 cards from the encounter deck. If this test is failed, place 1 resource token on Gollum and raise each player's threat by 1.
Escape: 3
When Revealed: Each player must make an escape test, dealing 2 cards from the encounter deck for each test. Each player that fails this test places 1 resource token on Gollum, and raises his threat by 1.
Escape: 5
When Revealed: Raise the threat of the player guarding Gollum by 8. That player must choose a new player to guard Gollum, if able.
Shadow: Raise the threat of the player guarding Gollum by 4.
When Revealed: Each player must raise his threat by 1 for each enemy in the staging area. Then, the last player discards an attachment he controls.
When Revealed: If the players are not on stage 1, shuffle the current quest card into the quest deck, then reveal a new quest card. Otherwise, New Devilry gains Surge.
Shadow: If this attack is undefended, raise your threat by The Nameless Fear's
When Revealed: The first player attaches Shadow of Fear to one of his heroes. Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:
Limit 1 per hero. Attached hero cannot exhaust or ready and its text box is treated as if it were blank.
Action: Pay 3 resources from attached hero's pool to discard this card.
When Revealed: The last player deals damage equal to The Nameless Fear's to a hero he controls. This effect cannot be canceled.
Shadow: Deal damage equal to The Nameless Fear's to the defending character.
When Revealed: Each player must deal X damage to 1 ally he controls. X is the number of allies he controls.
Shadow: If the defending character is an ally, discard it from play.
When Revealed: Each enemy and location currently in the staging area gets +1 until the end of the phase. (+3 instead if it is a Dark location.) Players may exhaust a Cave Torch to cancel this effect.
Shadow: attacking enemy gets +2
When Revealed: Reveal X additional cards from the encounter deck and add them to the staging area. X is the number of players in the game.
Shadow: attacking enemy gets +X . X is the number of players in the game.
When Revealed: Each player must exhaust a character and discard the top card of his deck, if able. If the printed cost of the discarded card is equal to or higher than the remaining hit points of the exhausted character, discard the exhausted character.
When Revealed: The first player must discard 1 questing character he controls, if able. This effect cannot be canceled.
Shadow: Discard the defending character from play.
When Revealed: The first player must discard 3 resources from each hero he controls.
Shadow: Defending player must discard 2 resources from each hero he controls.
When Revealed: The first player (choose 1):
- removes all progress tokens from play
- reveals 2 cards from the encounter deck and adds them to the staging area
Shadow: attacking enemy gets +1 for each progress token on the active location.
When Revealed: Exhaust each ready character and if it is the quest phase commit them to the quest.
Every now and again they heard a dull rumble, as a great boulder rolled down from hidden heights.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Deal 1 damage to each exhausted character. Then, exhaust all ready characters.
Shadow: Defending player must discard all exhausted characters he controls.
When Revealed: The first player (choose 1): deals 1 damage to all allies in play and Followed by Night gains surge, or all enemies enaged with players make an immediate attack, if able.
Shadow: Return attacking enemy to the staging area after it attacks.
...there came a soft sound: a swish, followed by a plop, as if a fish had disturbed the still surface of the water. Turning quickly they saw ripples, black-edged with shadow in the waning light: great rings were widening outwards from a point far out in the lake. There was a bubbling noise, and then silence
–The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: The first player attaches Wrapped! to a hero he controls. Counts as a Tentacle attachment with the text:
Limit 1 per hero. Attached hero cannot exhaust or ready. At the end of the round, discard attached hero from play.
Combat Action: Exhaust a hero you control without a Tentacle attachment to discard Wrapped!.
When Revealed: The first player makes a locate test. If this test is failed, deal 2 damage to all characters and trigger all "Lost:" effects in play.
"...I do not like the smell of the left–hand way: there is a foul air down there, or I am not guide."
–Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: The first player makes a locate test. If this test is failed, raise each player's threat by 7, remove all progress tokens from play, and trigger all "Lost:" effects in play.
The Mines of Moria were vast and intricate beyond the imagination of Gimli, Glóin's son, dwarf of the mountain-race though he was.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Attach Counter-Spell to Durin's Bane. Counts as a Condition attachment with the text:
Forced: When a player plays an event, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card is a treachery card, cancel the effects of the event, discard the event player's hand, and discard Counter-spell from play.
When Revealed: Durin's Bane gets +3 until the end of the round. The first player may remove 1 questing hero he controls from the quest to cancel the effect.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is Durin's Bane, it gets +3 .
When Revealed: Heal 5 damage from Durin's Bane, if able. The first player may remove 1 questing hero he controls from the quest to cancel this effect.
The fire in it seemed to die, but the darkness grew.
–The Fellowship of the Ring
When Revealed: Each player must discard 1 attachment he controls, if able.
Shadow: If attacking enemy is Durin's Bane, the defending player discards all attachments he controls.