When Revealed: Each player must choose and discard 3 cards from his hand. Each player assigns X damage among characters he controls, where X is the combined printed cost of the cards he discarded.
The lighning splinters on the peaks, and rocks shiver, and great crashes split the air and go rolling and tumbling into every cave and hallow... –The Hobbit
When Revealed: Choose a location in the staging area with a title other than Dark Passages and make it the active location. (If there was already an actice location, there are now 2 active locations.)
Travel: Raise each player's threat by X to travel here, where X is the number of Cave locations in the staging area.
When Revealed: Each player must assign damage among characters he controls equal to the total number of Goblin enemies engaged with him and in the staging area.
Shadow: Attacking enemy cannot take damage this round.
When Revealed: Each player must either give 1 poison to each hero he controls, or reveal an encounter card.
Shadow: Attacking enemy makes an additional attack against the defending player after this one.
Foced: After a player fails a burgle attempt, each player raises his threat by 2.
Travel: Exhaust Bilbo and spend 1 resource to travel here.
It was a red light steadily getting redder and redder. Also it was now undoubtedly hot in the tunnel. Wisps of vapour floated up and past him and he began to sweat.
–The Hobbit
Foced: At the end of the planning phase, each player who played at least 1 ally this phase must raise his threat by 1.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 If this attack destroys a character, raise each player's threat by 3.
When Revealed: Each Dragon enemy in play makes an immediate attack against each player in turn order. Do not deal shadow cards for these attacks. For each character that is destroyed by one of these attacks, place 1 progress on each Dragon enemy in play.
When Revealed: Each player raises his threat by 1 for each attachment attached to a character he controls.
Burgle: The first player shuffles his deck and reveals the top card. He may discard 1 card from his hand that matches the revealed card's sphere, type, and cost.
Forced: At the end of the round, each player assigns X damage among heroes he controls. X is the number of quest stages with no progress on them.
Travel: The players (as a group) exhaust X characters. X is the number of quest stages with no progress on them.
Forced: At the end of the round, raise each player's threat by 1 for each quest stage with no progress on it.
Shadow: Until the end of the phase, attacking enemy gets +1 for each quest stage with no progress on it.
When Revealed: Bolg makes an attack against each player in turn order. If at least 1 character is destroyed by one of these attacks, the players cannot place progress on the current quest phase this round.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +2 .
When Revealed: Starting with the first player, each player makes a Hide 2 test. Each player who fails this Hide test raises his threat by 5.
Shadow: If the defending player has failed a Hide test this round, this attack is considered undefended.
When Revealed: Raise each player's threat by 5. This effect cannot be canceled by the Ring-bearer's effect, or if The One Ring is exhausted.
Shadow: After this attack, attacking enemy engages the next player then makes an immediate attack.
Immune to player card effects.
Travel: Each player searches the encounter deck and discard pile for a Nazgûl enemy and puts it into play engaged with him. Shuffle the encounter deck.
Forced: After a "when revealed" effect is cancelled, place 1 damage on each active location.
Forced: When Slopes of Hithaeglir is explored, each player raises his threat by 1 for each damage here.
When Revealed: Each player deals 1 damage to a questing character he controls. Until the end of the phase, each damaged character gets -2
Shadow: Deal 1 damage to the defending character.
Forced: After Isengard Archer enters the staging area, each player at this stage deals 2 damage to a character he controls.
Shadow: Deal 2 damage to an ally you control.
When Revealed: Attach to the current quest. (Counts a Condition attachment with the text:"Forced: At the end of the round, each player at this stage raises his threat by 1 for each enemy in the staging area. Then, discard Hunting the Ring and move each enemy in this staging area to the first player's staging area.")
Immune to player card effects.
The players cannot travel here unless they are at stage 4B.
While Glittering Caves is the active location, it gains: "Skip the combat phase.Forced: At the end of the round, add Glittering Caves to the victory display and raise each player's threat by 2."
When Revealed: Each player exhausts a character he controls. Until the end of the round, characters cannot be readied by player card effects.
Shadow: Until the end of the round, defending character cannot ready.
While Poisonous Shaft is in the staging area, damaged characters cannot be readied by player card effects.
Wizardry: Each player discards a damaged character he controls.
At night plumes of vapour steamed from the vents, lit from beneath with red light, or blue, or venomous green.
–THe Two Towers
When Revealed: Each player assigns X damage among questing characters he controls, where X is the of the active location. If there is no active location, Fire and Foul Fumes gains surge.
Shadow: Assign X damage among characters you control. X is the of the active location.
When Revealed: Until the end of the round, characters cannot be declared as attackers. If there are no engaged enemies, raise each player's threat by 4.
Shadow: Until the end of the round, defending character cannot ready.
When Revealed: Each player must choose: either raise your threat by 1 for each questing character you control, or deal 1 damage to each character you control.
Shadow: Attacking enemy gets +1 If this attack destroys a character, place 1 mire token on the active location.
When Revealed: Each player removes a character he controls from the quest and exhausts that character. Until the end of the round, characters cannot be readied by player card effects.
Shadow: Exhaust a character you control. Until the end of the round, that character cannot ready.