I was thinking about LOTR campaign in the form of "traveling" in Middle-earth, so that the plots together a bit of it is not. It looked like it would more or less, the players after passing certain quests would have access to locations such as Lorien, Rivendell, Minas Tirith, which would take his way trip. after completing the quest will go back to, or go to another location have the opportunity to choose the next available quests. following note on something like this would look like. ">)" Show next quests or locations, to which players get after completing the quest. Sorry for my english.

I do something similar. I start with the stories from The Hobbit boxes, then Battle of Lake Town PoD, then do the stories in order, but I add Massing at Osgilliath PoD after the Heirs of Numinor stories.

I wanted the players to feel like they traveled through Middle-earth, and have the choice further down the road - with the currently available quests a little limited. From Lorien example, players can go to Rivendell by Khazad-Dum or escorting Arwen. To Lorien from Rivendell can go through the cycle Dwarrowdelf (starting Watchcer in the water). to Minas Tirith far you can travel only from Rivendell. in Rivendell you hear stories about journeys of Bilbo Baggins or about Smaug the attack on the city on the lake. as pointed out after a trip to Rivendell by Khazad-Dum can not return to Lorien by the cycle dwarrowdelf - the characters seem Elrond relationships with travel through Moria and he does not need to send another team to Moria. for the same reason after returning to Lorien from Rivendell by a series of Dwarrowdelf players can not return to Moria by Khazad-Dum - White council does not need to send messages to Balin. After passing Assault on Osgiliath characters can not choose Massing Of Osgiliath - Boromir would not send scouts to bounce conquered city.

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This kind of think can be god for orginize play. Kind of tournanents with a path like this . Also number of heroes limited and if some heroes die cannot be used in next quests.

You can also make the game easier - for example, in Lorien, Rivendell or Minas Tirith, the team can regroup - players can modify decks, change the heroes. This helps in adjusting the decks to the next quests. However, after the quest, after which heroes pass to next quest and not to Lorien, Rivendell or Minas Tirith players must continue the journey with the same heroes and decks.

after the defeat in certain quests, heroes instead of dying, they can return to the starting location. for example, the players will go on the hunt for Gollum, and will fail in Conflict At Carrock, they can try again to beat the quest, or return to Lorien - not far from the quest. then they can choose a different path - another quest. but if you take the quest again - in this example, Hunt for Gollum must start from the beginning, no matter how far they got before - in this example, the Conflict At Carrock. heroes lose track of Gollum, and must take a trail again. Of course, not all quests are a possibility.

Feels very RPG-style, with Lorien, Rivendel and Minas Tirith as save spots where you can swap party members (Characters), equipments (attachments) or learn new skills (attachments / event).

I see Lorien as beginner's town that you cannot go back to after doing certain quest (either one of Khazad-Dum related quests) with hidden dungeon for hardcore players (Dol Guldur).

Love the way you fit Out-of-Time Frame expansions as tales.

Once we get more card pool, limit certain cards with certain trats until appropriate locations are unlocked (Warden of Healing cannot be added until Minas Tirith), make some of the 'powerful' card unlockable by completing 'Side Quests' that does not unlock new area (such as Hunt for Gollum), and you've gotten a very board gamey RPG style card game.

Like Glaurung said you can do some kind of tournament. And include more players. for example, there are 6 players. All players are Lorien, one says he wants to escort Arwen to Rivendell and asks who is going with him. Let say, he decided to include only one player. So these two players played quest - The Redhorn Gate. The rest four players want to travel to Rivendell by Khazad-Dum. Of course, in one quest may take a maximum of 4 players. So up to 8 players can take part in this mode - creating two four-person teams, or splitting into smaller groups to form a group with any of the eight players. When we have an extra copy of the adventure packs, we can take some of the quests at the same time. such as The Hunt for Gollum - players can compete then that the first team out to get Gollum - and the one that will make the first complete Return To Mirkwood. After completing each quest, each player individually adds up points victory, counts threat. And say, as Glaurung said when heroes die - die forever. and when all the heroes one player in the single quest die, player be eliminated from the game. If player at least one hero survived quest, even if it lost because of the treat, he may choose the new heroes of the currently available When player fail quest only by treat, just can replay quest again. players play until the Middle will remain the last player .. players count the results of all the quests in which they took part, and the result determines the winner.

This idea is good for a funny tournament.

This seems like a very good idea for a tournament! If someone wants to make a pdf version of a tournament setup like this, I would be very interested. Maybe I can run it at the local gamestore and get some people together that play LOTR LCG, because it seems that most people play it at home in my region.

(BTW, I'm kind of new here, so hello everyone!)

Tournament in this form made some narrative maintains consistency, gives players feel like really traveling around Middle-Earth. It also lets allows you to create a community in the game, thanks to the freedom to create groups in the tournament. players can cooperate, compete, or change any group, if you do not feel good in the present, or feel that chosen by the group path is not for him. However, the currently available cycles and expansion, its more like a race - if one group goes Heirs Of Numenor, the road to Minas Tirth and related scenarios on this city will be disabled for the rest of the players - closing them in Rivendell and Lorien. just as if a group returns to Lorien from Rivendell by Dwarrowdelf cycle - as a group and the rest of the players staying in Lorien stuck to the end of the tournament at this Main Location. But I think that the principle of elimination from the tournament at the time when all player heroes will die in the current scenario, the ability to reduce a little, blocking the rest of the players, and the free exercise scenarios - all the more so, some can be downright deadly for Heroes;)

Of course there is no limit to the number of players that may be involved in this type of tournament. with fewer players can be the first two scenarios begin in smaller three-person, two-person groups or establish that these two startup scenarios, each player has to go solo

Well, I was thinking more of organized play than a tournament probably.

Let's say we have three tables of four people. Then each table could represent a city with a storyline (a number of quests). Then there are up to 12 people who all have 3 heroes and a deck (like 12 small parties residing in one or the other city). Each party starts in a city so that all the tables are filled. Then the first part of the story (first quest) starts and every table tries to beat the first part of the story in their city (the first quest).

After that the next part of the story can be played at each table, but with different arrangements of parties. Basically all the players can try to guess based on previous information what kind of decks will be better for the next quest, that is only given after rearrangements have been made for example (I don't know if that will work well, I'm just improvising for the moment). The story has to be adapted of course for the parties to be able to communicate in between quests and to travel between cities. For example, the second part of the story cannot take place the day after the first while suddenly two parties join the mission that were hundreds of miles away the day before. And of course dead heroes cannot be revived.

Another thing I was thinking of are card pool limitations/bonusses at each table, like Gondor Bonus in Minas Tirith or something but I don't know yet how to do that more concretely.

At the end as many storylines as possible have to be completed and the scores of all the quests can be added to see how well everyone has played. It's not really a tournament as all 12 players basically work together, but it seems like a lot of fun and very thematic.

I look forward to the report of the session;)

I don't think there will be a report soon, as it is only an idea that popped into my head by reading your post. I don't have all the cards of the game yet so the quests that I know are limited. Also I normally play with 2 players so I don't know how difficult quests are with another amount of players. It seems to me that this is very important to balance things out. Probably it's not the best thing to always do the quests with 4 players in 3 cities to make it both challenging and balanced. If anyone has other ideas or remarks, please post them .

Ellareth said:

Yes! I've been trying to think for awhile about how to make this game feel more RPG-like with continuity between quests, and the OP has really hit on a very simple idea that has a lot of potential. It can either be adapted for tournaments, and people have come up with some good ideas, but I'm also thinking even in terms of a fun campaign mode solo or multiplayer. Particularly the idea of unlocking cards would work very well for this.

Decks:

1. Dain, Bifur, Mirlonde.

2. Gimli, Thalin, Legolas.

3. Dwalin, Gloin, Aragorn.

Here are the results of a journey to Lorien:

I. Passage Through Mirkwood (104):

I like the idea that you can only access certain types of card once you reach a certain location... It's like you're meeting each hero where he lives, and after that you can recruit them for your campaign.

Maybe you can do something similar with the allies. For example... You can only start using elven allies once you've recruited an elven hero into your party (which you can only do once you've met one in Lorien or rivendell). Because, let's face it, no elf is going to ally themselves with a party of dwarves -- you need an elf hero in there to gain their trust

I really like this idea. I think I might try something similar.

I skimmed a few of the longer posts, so I apologize if this has already been suggested, but to add to the flavor of the campaign, I think I am going to limit myself to using heroes and allies that havent yet appeared in the encounter decks I havent gotten to yet.

So no using Elrond until I actually get to Rivendell. No Arwen until after the two sets in which she is an Objective Ally. Etc.

It shouldnt put too many limitations on the table, but it should make it a bit more interesting.

This is something I've been wanting to develop since the beggining of the game. Sadly, right now I don't think the card pool is big enough to really support this adecuately, but as more areas are explored in the game, the more areas we will be able to explore like this. Also, I would like to develop a variant like this where you use a map and wander freely across Middle Earth, a la Meccg, complete with "haven" sites where you can modify your deck, recruit new allies or heroes, split your companies, etc.

Another idea I would love for the developers to actually make within quests (I may make a new thread for it) is the idea of "modular" quests, in which, within the quest itself you are given a variety of options, like, for example, choose to follow Gandalf's advice and go to location X and thus go to stage Xa, or follow your own path to location Y and thus to stage Ya, much in the style of Choose your own adventure books. In this manner you can actually choose which stage to go to (according to your deck's style, maybe one option is a battle quest which is best if you're playing tactics, the other a sneaky "questy" stage, best when playing secrecy) instead of randomly choosing a stage like in Passage through Mirkwood.

These are the decks I play:

Deck 1: Legolas, Gimli, Thalin:

Veteran Axehand x3.

Veteran Of Nanduhirion x3

Erebor Battle Master x3

Bofur x2

Landroval x2

Winged Guardian x3

Vassal Of The Windlord x3

Eagles Of The Misty Mountains x3

Gandalf x3

Dwarven Axe x2

Ring Mail x2

Support Of The Eagles x2

Blade Of Gondolin x2

Great Yew Bow x2

Black Arrow

Horn Of Gondor x2 (Yes, I know that this card should be available in Minas Tirith is one of the two exceptions in my decks).

Feint x3

The Eagles Are Coming! x3

Khazad! Khazad! x3

Hands Upon The Bow x3

Deck 2:Mirlonde, Bifur, Dain Ironfoot:

Daughter Of The Nimrodel x3

Erebor Hammersmith x3

Miner Of The Iron Hills x3

Silvan Tracker x3

Mirkwood Runner x3

Erebor Record Keeper x3

Longbeard Elder x3

Gandalf x3

Narvi's Belt x2

Hardy Leadership x2

King Under The Mountain x2

Legacy Of Durin x2

Cram x3

Lure Of Moria x3

We Are Not Idle x3

To Me! O My Kinsfolk! x3

Sneak Attack x3

Durin's Song x3 (Protector Of Lorien x2, Haldir Of Lorien)*

Deck 3: Aragorn, Gloin, Dwalin:

Silverlode Archer x3

Northern Tracker x3

Dunedain Watcher x3

Silvan Refugee x3

Zigil Miner x3

Longbeard Orc Slayer x3 (Lorien Guide x3)*

Celebrian's Stone x2

Sword That Was Broken x3

Ring Of Barahir x3 (The Favor Of The Lady)*

Unexpected Courage x2

Dunedain Mark x3

Dunedain Warning x3

Steward Of Gondor x3 (second and the last card that should be available in Minas Tirith)

Grim Resolve x2 (The Favor Of The Lady)*

Fortune Or Fate x2 (The Favor Of The Lady)*

A Test Of Will x3

Untroubled By Darkness x3

Desperate Alliance x3 (The Galadhrims Greeting x3)*

(...)* - card replaced after reaching the Lorien