When Revealed: Discard cards from the top of the encounter deck until an enemy is discarded. Add that enemy to the staging area.
Shadow: Discard the top card of the encounter deck. If that card is an enemy, add it to the staging area.
While Narrow Opening is the active location, each player cannot play more than 1 card each round.
Forced: When Narrow Opening leaves play, each player discards 1 random card from his hand.
"I got stuck in the door, which was only open a crack, and I lost lots of buttons..."
–Bilbo, The Hobbit
When Revealed: Make Crumbling Passage the active location, returning any previously active location to the staging area.
Forced: When Crumbling Passage leaves play, deal 1 damage to each exhausted character.
...at that moment a stone hurtling from above smote heavily on his helm, and he fell with a crash and knew no more.
–The Hobbit
When Revealed: Until the end of the round, treat the printed text box of each character as if it were blank (except for Traits).
Shadow: Defending character cannot ready until the end of the round.
It's nearly impossible to find your way through this maze of dark tunnels.
When Revealed: Each player places the top 10 cards of his deck facedown under his threat dial (without looking at them). When this stage is defeated, each player shuffles all cards under his threat dial back into his deck.
Forced: After a player raises his threat by any amount, he discards the top card from under his threat dial.