Heirs of Numenor!

By Narsil0420, in The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game

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richsabre said:

however i still do not think this method solves all of the problem i state in my above post….once they start with the fellowship theyve basically sent themselves on a path to end the game in a very controlled manner….maybe thats what they want, i dont know…but once 5 years is here and we have the end of return of the king, players will probably lose interest as it will feel a little anti-climatic to have anything else…..

I think that this applies only to the end of the return of the king, rather than to the beginning of fellowship. They don't have to do them one after the other. They can make, say, first half of fellowship, then something else, then second half, then a Rhoann cycle or whatever, and finally finish with the retunr of the king.

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One thing allways is how long time they have the license! The ending of the license has ended many LOTR cards games before "natural" end. How fun would it be to have 4/18 part of the LOTR saga ready and then end the production? Smaller sets don't cause so much bad feeling I think…

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I already have the Decipher TCG for Frodo's journey. I don't need/want this game to retread that path.

I'd much rather have this game for The Hobbit, the time between the Hobbit and the time Frodo left the Shire, and for other adventures that happened during the Lord of the Rings that were not part of the "ringbound" journey of Frodo. For example, the Battle of Mirkwood, the Battle of Dale, etc.

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richsabre said:

ive always seen this game as doing the books anyways…just in a parallels. for example throwing the balrog into moria was obviously the khazad dum chapter, i assume we'll defend minas tirith and gondor in the next cycle which is obviously the early return of the king

I'm exactly the same, here. In this sense, I don't feel a need to have the actual book done as a series of saga expansions, it's sometimes more fun to say "well, that's how Frodo and Sam dealt with the orcs in Mordor - how would Aragorn and Glorfindel do?" or whatever. Having the same situations that you can play with different characters makes this a very RPG-y card game, it has an epic feel to it that I really like.

But I do feel that the introduction of Saga Expansions is leaving the door open for them to do the book. I doubt they'll have so much fanfare for just two deluxe boxes and leave it at that. Unless they present the book as an Epic Expansion, something proportionate to the core set, though weighted towards the encounter decks than player decks. Say, six quests with eighteen encounter sets or something, giving us a set chunk of the book. These days, I just think anything's possible…

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Bryon said:

I already have the Decipher TCG for Frodo's journey. I don't need/want this game to retread that path.

I'd much rather have this game for The Hobbit, the time between the Hobbit and the time Frodo left the Shire, and for other adventures that happened during the Lord of the Rings that were not part of the "ringbound" journey of Frodo. For example, the Battle of Mirkwood, the Battle of Dale, etc.

Same same

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Maybe one day comes a deluxe expansion for the three books made up like the miskatonic expansion for arkham horror, recycling the old encounter cards for saga quests.