Hey Everyone,
Just picked up the Core Set today. I used to play the LOTR TCG, love the George R. R. Martin books, and am intrigued by the benefit of the LCG format over traditional booster packs.
So I was really excited to try the game, but after reading the Core Set rules a couple of times, plus the FAQ document, plus this forum, I still find myself unsure about a couple of key rules. I realize these are extremely basic for those of you who have been playing for a while, and appreciate your patience:
1) Challenges: If you choose to do more than one type of challenge in a turn, do all your challenges have to be directed against the same player?
2) Challenges: Do you have to pre-announce all your challenges at the beginning of the challenge phase, or do you announce them one at a time after seeing the result of the previous challenge?
3) Duplicates: As far as I can tell from the rules on duplicates, it appears that if you have a character in your dead pile and a duplicate card in your hand, you can neither play nor discard that duplicate. Seems kind of harsh from a hand-clog perspective. Is my interpretation correct?
I apologize if any of these questions seem to be coming way out of left field. I was an ASL player many years ago, so I tend to get paralyzed by even vaguely ambiguous wording...
Thank you!