I have spare Polish LOTR LCG cards.
Now they are on Polish Trade site but if someone is interested I can put them on Ebay
Singles Purchase
signoftheserpent said:
I could sell the cards to who, exactly? Who is interested in buying a completely redundant set of cards they can't use alone and will already own if they play the game? There's no other market. That's the whole point. I have no interest in creating 'fan based' scenarios and why would I need extra encounter cards to do it - I already own them!
Clearly you don't understand any of this.
The need to buy the core sets is obvious: there aren't enough copies of all the player cards in the box. You need those cards to play the game properly.
If you're happy randomly building silly decks and not being able to play the game properly as opposed to drawing any old random rubbish, whether it fits a strategy or is even playable (such as including 3 cost cards paid for by one hero in your deck only) that's fine. But don't pretend that's playing the game properly. if it was FFG wouldn't have included multiples at all. This isn't Poker or Rummy, it's CCG deckbuilding which is entirely different. That's how the game is meant to be played, and that's why they tell you the rules for deckbuilding.
How you can defend a half baked marketing choice beggars belief. You simply don't understand at all what I'm saying to you. Either try and listen or don't respond because anything else is just insulting. No one has complained about the price of the core set: it's the distribution of cards. The people that buy 3x core set do so because they are happy to spend the extra money. That's their choice. It's also, again, irrelevant. The point is not whether or not some people can. It's whether they should have to. FFG could very easily rectify this mistake but they don't. That tells me they don't care about my money. That's fine, I don't have to support their game. Constantly defending this lazy nonsense is demeaning.
Also, my dear signoftheserpent, clearly you are the one who doesn't understand any of this!
The proper way to play this game is to play using a single core set with the pre-built decks.
The core set has been created with the goal to appeal to casual gamers and Tolkien fans. Casual gamers care about having fun. Toklien fans care about the theme and artwork. That the game has elements that may appeal to more 'serious' gamers and will eventually be appealing to players enjoying deckbuilding is clearly a bonus.
Obviously, your limited world-view revolves around competitive CCGs. That's fine but you may want to ponder on the difference between a competitive CCG and a cooperative LCG for a moment.
I think, you need to understand that you belong to a minority. Your views do not represent everyone else's view.
The only person who's been insulting so far, has been you. Get a grip, dude! Chill down and think before you post!
The factor that handicaps this game is the need for an encounter deck. Otherwise you could have every card be a player's card as opposed to 84 slots taken up by the opposition. FFG is attempting to appeal to all kinds of gamers, casual and hardcore. They keep the cost fairly low for the casual and are betting that the hardcore will be willing to spend extra for more cards. They've gotten it from both sides, as we have had people complain that there should have been less doubles and triples and more variety.
The core set already brings a grand total of 226 cards. In order to have 3 of each, that number would have had to be increased to about 280 cards. All in one package, which means that it would have been far more expensive to buy. If you can't afford to buy 2 core sets could you afford a more expensive one? Maybe, maybe not. But it certainly could scare off the casual players who make up the core of the game. It's either that or having 3 of everything but far less variety to keep the price the same.
Lastly, believe it not, FFG has improved the model already. Warhammer Invasion had a core set, a cycle of 6 packs and another box set out before they switched to a 3 of everything format. Here, we are getting 3 of everything already in the first pack.
Wow this thread took off like a bolt. I agree about the price point of buying the singles from that website not making sense after doing the math, but I just cannot justify buying 2 core sets let alone 3. I have no need for more hero, quest or encounter cards so why would I buy another core set? I like the Idea of having 2 more threat trackers but not 4 more and why would I want 6 copies of "The Old Forest Road"? I think that all of the player deck cards should've come in sets of 3 so that you had more viable deck building options. I feel that the nature of this game and the freshness of it has it at a disadvantage when it comes to deck building. I've tried to build solid decks but the options are too limiting. If I had three copies each of "Unexpected Courage", "Celebrian's Stone", "Steward of Gondor" and "Grim Resolve" I could make a deck that the encounter deck would have a hard time beating.... well it would at least give me a fighting chance each time I sat down to play.
This game is hard enough as it is without adding in even more difficulty buy limiting the options of attaining singles from the core set.
Titan said:
The core set already brings a grand total of 226 cards. In order to have 3 of each, that number would have had to be increased to about 280 cards. All in one package, which means that it would have been far more expensive to buy. If you can't afford to buy 2 core sets could you afford a more expensive one? Maybe, maybe not. But it certainly could scare off the casual players who make up the core of the game. It's either that or having 3 of everything but far less variety to keep the price the same.
Lastly, believe it not, FFG has improved the model already. Warhammer Invasion had a core set, a cycle of 6 packs and another box set out before they switched to a 3 of everything format. Here, we are getting 3 of everything already in the first pack.
I'm not trying to complain here, but the producers could've included the 54 cards for no more than a 15$ increase so I'd say that buying a core set for 55$ as opposed to 3 core sets for 120$ is a significant savings. This would've provided a more "user friendly" product as opposed to a more "business friendly" model. I'm sure that everybody who bought the game for 40$ would've bought it for 55$ if they knew that the game was more modifiable and flexible right out of the box. I am glad that the LCG format is getting better; however, do I have to wait for the next LCG to come out before I'm greeted with deck maximum's of all cards in the core set?
Who knows? However, according to what I've heard, this might be as good as it gets....................
Maybe FFG would consider marketing a 'top up pack' for those 54 cards to make the single core set up to a full play set? Presumably this could only cost around the same as an expansion set as it would have about the same number of cards.
On the other side of the coin though, it may not be good business sense if people are buying more than 1 core set...
Just a FYI to Strolling Bones, if you buy 3 cores, that means you have 3 sets of Orc cards, which means you can build each scenario and not have to resort between quests.
Until expansion packs come along... (adventure packs will make use of the same encounter decks we have in the core set).
The fact that you can build multiple encounter decks if you have several core sets is actually a good one. That way you don´t need to separate and re-mix to play another scenario.
I can see a tiny bit of utility with the "full" encounter decks for each quest; however, the way that I have organized my cards makes swapping a few cards out to play a new quest relatively quick and painless. I do like the idea of having more encounter cards for the possibility of creating custom encounter decks but the game is still so fresh that this seems like only a viable game plan later down the road.
All I want are the extra player relevant cards, not even the Heros, just the player deck cards. Once again I'm not complaining just wishfully thinking.
Maybe the "print on demand" feature could be used by FFG to provide this "core set completion pack" to their players. Even if they were pricing it higher than a second core set, they could probably sell some (so long as the price is lower than for 2 additional core sets). A lot of the complains weren't so much about the additional cost of the extra core sets, but about the waste of cards and material they represent.
I play it fine with one core set though I will get a second core at some point when I have some money. I need more Gandalfs 
I want to be able to have two or three decks built up and ready to go without having to pull cards out and mix them around any more than necessary.
Hmm, really weird thoughts some people have here 
No offence, but on the one hand people complain the game is too easy and on the other hand they want 3 gandalfs and 3 unexpected courage in their deck...well, maybe for Solo that is necessary to win let say "Anduin" or "dol gundor", but still, after all the expansions have been released, image the amount of cards for each sphere. That will give players that only own one core set great deck building abilities!
Just my 2 cents guys! When you play solo, you have a good enough choice of good cards for your deck (if its too hard for you, take a hero or two more if u need to... ), with 2 players, the game is really well balanced with the core sent from my experience! Its even playable with 3 players, I did that and we still had fun building decks and deciding which heros who takes and so on...
And please stop the intolerance and rants here, this forum has been so greatly low on hate-carp, let's try to keep it that way please.