I find that all neutral thug event should be better with "cannot be paid with non-gondor or non-thug hero" thus creating something like a fifth sphere. For allies, they are mercenary so no problem, but those event are quite thug-oriented and I don't expect Elrond to pay for those shenanigans...

Do you expect Elrond to pay for services of gondorian harbor scum?

I'll probably give most of the Thugs spheres, add some more thugs to make their count even among the spheres, will give it a big good dam thought to balance them out, add some events and attachments too. And a Spirit Thug hero ofcourse. And then I'll make an OCTGN set with all of this to test it out in actual gameplay.

Here's what I think...

Allies:

Spirit: Silent Watcher, Whisper;

Lore: The Owl, 1 more non-unique thug;

Tactics: 1 unique and 1 non-unqiue thug;

Leadership: Harbor Mercenary, 1 more unique thug;

Neutral: Pelargir Tough, Caleb of Pelargir.

Events:

Spirit: Laying Low;

Lore: will be added;

Tactis: Dirty Trick;

Leadership: Cunning Scheme;

Neutral: Ambush!

...hm, Dirty Trick looks a bit unspectacular compaed to all other spheres. I'll probably move him to Neutral(so thre'll be 2 neutral events) and add something more vague to the tactics there.

I think, one thug-related event is enough for each sphere(except for neutral, as I can see now). Making attachments for each sphere will be hard.

lore event:

Calling them into fight (cost 1)

Action: Exhaust a Thug character you control to lower the cost to play Thug cards by 1 until the end of the next combat phase.

Attachment- choose some sphere for it

Throwing Knife (cost 2)

Weapon. Thug.

Attach to Thug or Warrior character. Restricted.

Attached character gets +1 ATK.

Action: Exhaust attached character and discard Throwing Knife to make an immediate attack against an enemy not engaged with you. If this attack destroys an enemy, return this card to your hand.

Ally:

Shadowy Contractor (unique) (Neutral) Cost: 3

Will: 0

Attack: 1

Defense: 1

HP: 2

Gondor. Thug.

Action : Discard a card from your hand to choose a thug card in your discard pile and add it to your hand. Limit once per round.

This is the card. Uf! It cost to find thug drawings in the web!!! This character is famous in another game, but i won't say his name

Here's one idea I had. Can't find any art for it though. I'll think some more on attachments and heroes. (sorry for the enormous picture)

Here's a hero I whipped up:

(Figured out the size issue) He's a neutral hero, so he can only spend resources on neutral cards. That's why I gave him the "can pay for thugs" ability. Strength in numbers for the second ability. The thugs would get more bold once they have a better chance of winning. The action is just for when you need it. He's kind of an all-arounder type guy. Is he too overpowered? I tried to give him low stats to compensate for that.

Also, here's a non-thug dude that I wished they would have incorporated somehow, to help Boromir's ability out:

another Thug ally:

Pelargir pickpocket (2 cost)

0 will

2 atk

0 def

2 hp

Response: After Pelargir pickpocket participates in attack that destroys an enemy, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If it has a shadow effect, add 1 resource to a hero's resource pool you control.

More like marauder than pickpocket.

yes, that is better

another Thug ally:

Pelargir pickpocket (2 cost)

0 will

2 atk

0 def

2 hp

Response: After Pelargir pickpocket participates in attack that destroys an enemy, discard the top card of the encounter deck. If it has a shadow effect, add 1 resource to a hero's resource pool you control.

Wow, very good idea!

One more thug event:

And one about rohans:

And Nor am I a Stranger would become more useful.

The pipe of Aragorn,

Lore threat reduction, but it needs other sphere help in this moment.

this pipe is one of the few cards that could actually be a real card.. not OP, has precedence, fits lore... nice job. I like this one.

I finished last cards previous night... 4 heroes, 15 allies, 6 attachments and 10 events.

Trying to assemble OCTGN card set and image set for this at the moment. Hopefully will be done after I'll come back home later today.

The pipe of Aragorn,

Lore threat reduction, but it needs other sphere help in this moment.

Very nice ideas...good work at all.

But this card would be much to strong...

You only need Song of Earendil or a Wandering Took and you decrease your threat very easy...therefore the hobbit-pipe is restricted to events.

It is limited 1 per round. You must exhaust it for trigger his hability.

Well, a non-unique cards that can be exhaust each turn for threat reduction is clearly imbalanced...

Like nebur said, there is a reason why the hobbit pipe is limited to event cards only.

Ok then, fanfaq1.1: Dunedain Pipe: add 'event' in 'After you threat is reduce by a card effect'

Fixed

Hosted a separate thread for the things I've done: http://community.fantasyflightgames.com/index.php?/topic/100494-octgn-unofficial-set-thugs-to-the-rescue/

Erkenbrand has always been one of my favorite "side" heroes in the LotR books. I came up with this concept to try and do a couple of things:

1. Give those poor Snowbourne Scouts something useful to do, other than die in combat.
2. Add a little twist to "monosphere" decks using Rohan heroes (e.g., you could technicially "monosphere" with Eowyn, Dunhere, and this version of Erkenbrand, or do Theoden, Hama / Eomer, and Erkenbrand).

Let me know what you think . . . too overpowered? Just right?

That art for erkenbrand is amazing!

Yeah, congratulations, very good idea.

PD: scout is very good with Ride to Ruin