Nightmare The Morgul Vale

Lord Alcaron and Faramir have been captured by forces from Minas Morgul. You pursue their captors eastward into the dreaded vale. The exciting conclusion of the Against the Shadow cycle, The Morgul Vale challenges players to rescue Faramir from the clutches of his kidnappers before he’s whisked away to Sauron’s lair, never to be seen …

Path Less Traveled: Desert Crossing

The next obstacle in my Path Less Traveled is the perilous Desert Crossing, the second quest of the Sands of Harad deluxe expansion. I'll be facing sweltering heat and dangerous desert creatures among the endless dunes of the Harad desert. Can my Heroes survive the trek with only a Core Set and the clothes on …

Spoiler Alert: Lord of the Rings LCG Digital Adaptation

A little over a month ago, lead game designer Caleb Grace announced on the Cardboard of the Rings podcast that he had some "big news" for Lord of the Rings LCG fans, and that we'd be hearing that news soon. Of course, in typical Fantasy Flight Games fashion, the date of the announcement slipped from …

Horn of Gondor: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Errata

For anyone who didn't catch the reference. Last week, I talked in length about the purpose of errata, and I argued that errata is a design tool rather than a construct of competitive play, and therefore a valid mechanism in the construction of an in-development cooperative game. I'm going to be building on that concept in today's article, …

Victory against Attack on Dol Guldur (Standard Mode)

Since I posted it back in August, my spoiler article on Attack on Dol Guldur has become my #1 most read blog post. Also since then, I have been wracking my brain trying to decide what deck(s) I was going to bring to the Fellowship event in the hopes of having a better run at …