Lore. Sorry for not specifying that, the thought of there being another version of Pippin never crossed my mind.

Lore. Sorry for not specifying that, the thought of there being another version of Pippin never crossed my mind.

Access to Spirit and threat reduction is pretty good on TRD quests, especially through Moria, but sure, Lore Pippen is much better in a vacuum.

Lore. Sorry for not specifying that, the thought of there being another version of Pippin never crossed my mind.

Access to Spirit and threat reduction is pretty good on TRD quests, especially through Moria, but sure, Lore Pippen is much better in a vacuum.

Gandalf brought threat reduction to the Tactics deck with Galadrim's Greeting, and Black Riders Frodo offers cancellation, so I've found using a Spirit hero to be less crucial than it is in other scenarios.

While struggling with Journey in the Dark I went back and forth between Lore and Spirit Pippin several times. The encounter deck just didn't give me much time to fish out a song, and I wanted cancellation and Power or Orthanc early. In the end I won while using the Lore version, though.

My struggle exactly. I feel that Pippen being the only spirit hero adds to the difficulty.

Also, the campaign card in Breaking of the Fellowship says that each player chooses a hero to be taken captive from among the heroes he controls. Meaning Merry and Pippin need to be in different decks if you want them both to be chosen.

Also, the campaign card in Breaking of the Fellowship says that each player chooses a hero to be taken captive from among the heroes he controls. Meaning Merry and Pippin need to be in different decks if you want them both to be chosen.

They were. I stopped using the all-Hobbit deck at Ring Goes South, when I swapped Aragorn over to Sam-Pippin and ran a Gandalf-Boromir-Legolas Tactics deck. After sacrificing Gandalf to defeat the Balrog, I swapped Merry into the Tactics deck so he could be the captive.

For condition removal, I used Sneak Attack plus Elrond (or straight up played Elrond). Grievous Wound was an easy workaround with Warden of Healing etc. and I avoided Overcome by Grief long enough to have Elrond around to remove it. Playing two handed (my prefered way to play) makes a big difference though, and I haven't been interested in trying them solo yet.

Started a new campaign now that I've changed Legolas to Celeborn.

Here is my new campaign so far:

TWO HANDED CAMPAIGN

Elven Fury: Celeborn, Elladan and Elrohir

31 Starting Threat

Elven Finesse: Elrond, Glorfindel (S) and Haldir

27 Starting Threat

QUEST 1 - A Shadow Of The Past
Score of 74

Campaign Pool Choices:

Boons: Gildor Inglorian (shuffled into encounter deck)

Burdens: The Ring Draws Them (shuffled into encounter deck)

QUEST 1.1 - The Old Forest

Score of 80

Campaign Pool Choices:

Boons: Old Bogey Stories (attached to a hero of the first players choice during setup, best on the lore/tactics deck)

QUEST 1.2 - Fog On the Barrow Downs

Score of 73

Campaign Pool Choices:

Boons: Ho, Tom Bombadil! (placed in the first players hand during setup)

QUEST 2 - A Knife In The Dark

Score of 85

Campaign Pool:

Boons: Valiant Warrior (attached to Haldir during setup), Noble Hero (attached to Celeborn during setup)

QUEST 3 - Flight to the Ford

Score of 77

Campaign Pool Choices:

Burdens: Panicked! (shuffled into encounter deck)

QUEST 4 - The Ring Goes South

Score of 79

Campaign Pool Choices:

Boons: Glamdring (shuffled into the lore/spirit deck), Anduril (shuffled into the tactics/leadership deck), Mithril Shirt (shuffled into the lore/spirit deck), Sting (shuffled into the tactics/leadership deck)

QUEST 5 - Journey In The Dark

Score of 96

Campaign Pool Choices:

Burdens: Grevious Wound (starts in staging at the beginning of the game), Pursued by the Enemy (shuffled into the encounter deck)

Balrog avoided altogether by escaping the Mines of Moria with a single damage token still left on Doom, Doom, Doom

QUEST 6 - Breaking of the Fellowship

Score of 80

Campaign Pool Choices:

Boons: Phial of Galadriel (attached to a hero in the tactics/leadership deck), Three Golden Hairs (attached to a hero in the lore/spirit deck)

Burdens: Ill Fate (shuffled into the encounter deck)

PRISONERS TAKEN: Celeborn and Haldir
*Removed Grevious Wound from the campaign pool by using Seat of Seeing

*Ho, Tom Bombabil removed from campaign pool when used to cancel Fallen Into Evil on one of the last turns (It would have remained attached at the end and included in the campaign burden pool if it wasn't cancelled)

OVERALL CAMPAIGN POOL:

Boons: Gildor Inglorian (shuffled into encounter deck), Old Bogey Stories (attached to a hero of the first players choice during setup, best on the lore/tactics deck), Valiant Warrior (attached to Haldir during setup), Noble Hero (attached to Celeborn during setup), Glamdring (shuffled into the lore/spirit deck), Anduril (shuffled into the tactics/leadership deck), Mithril Shirt (shuffled into the lore/spirit deck), Sting (shuffled into the tactics/leadership deck), Phial of Galadriel (attached to a hero in the tactics/leadership deck during setup), Three Golden Hairs (attached to a hero in the lore/spirit deck during setup)

Burdens: The Ring Draws Them (shuffled into encounter deck), Panicked! (shuffled into encounter deck), Pursued by the Enemy (shuffled into the encounter deck), Ill Fate (shuffled into encounter deck)