As I get older I feel more and more sympathy with the Hobbits... let's just chill out and have some good food and sing a song...

The Hall of Beorn also has full spoilers for Mountain of Fire, for those who prefer their card databases with bees and helper animals...

http://hallofbeorn.com/LotR/Browse/The-Mountain-of-Fire

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Enjoy some sand!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Enjoy some sand!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Enjoy some sand!

To clarify further, ALL doom tokens are removed if the agenda triggers even if there are way more than the amount needed. Why is this important? Well say you are on the first stage of the first agenda in the first scenario, threshold of 3 doom. It currently has 2 doom on it at the beginning of the second mythos phase. Then while drawing, you get an enemy with a doom and a card that adds a doom and doesn't advance the agenda. You then play arcane initiate who has a doom token on it. Now there are 5 on board, at the next mythos a sixth one is added and then we check to see if we have 3 doom, which we do. Now all doom is discarded and the agenda advances, therefore meaning that you got rid of 3 doom without it contributing and the major drawback of having the initiate is now waved essentially.

I waited with the playmats and now they are out of stock... at least the one I wanted... So maybe it wasn't such a bad choice

I'm really stoked for this card game. I'm actually reading the complete works of H.P Lovecraft every night before I go to bed so any game that can give that experience of dread is a plus in my book. The art and flavor text of these cards is also amazing, I could look at these things all day.

I'm in for life.

Yep. Soemtimes, I wish they would announce the end of LOTR LCG... brakes my credit card..,. but ****, I love this game!! 

Don't even try, we've been barking up that tree for a long time. I still don't think it's that big of a deal, get one and then see if you really want a second. I think we (myself included) often fall into a trap of compulsive completion-ism. Rise above brothers!

With LOTR I was fine with just one Core Set for a long time. I eventually did get a new one and it was nice to wait because I got some reprinted errata in the new Core set plus got a fresh supply of tokens which had started to fade a bit at that point. Since it's not a competitive game, I don't feel a need to have a "complete set." Also, the claims that you needed another Core Set, for LOTR anyway, were not true. You could still play 4 player with one core set. Threat trackers were the only thing missing and that's easy to substitute with something else. I'm going to only be getting one copy of AH to start.

For those not on Discord:

For those not on Discord:

Greenwood Archer works with:
 
Captain Wisdom (Captain Wisdom on Celeborn > play Greenwood Archer)
Beravor
Galadriel if she has Nenya
Lore Denethor
Some attachments that make your hero exhaust during planning (like Palantir)
Elrond + Vilya
Heroes that were exhausted with Peace and Thought
Random Sword-Thain'd allies

Don't even try, we've been barking up that tree for a long time. I still don't think it's that big of a deal, get one and then see if you really want a second. I think we (myself included) often fall into a trap of compulsive completion-ism. Rise above brothers!

Only if it says "deal 5 damage to a character you control." If it says "deal 5 damage among characters you control" (as with Archery), you can only assign each character enough damage to defeat them.

You should have used Eowyn with Grappling Hook! Spirit Eowyn: "I quest for 8!". Tactics Eowyn: "I quest for 10!".

There was no Steward of Gondor nor anyone from Rohan in the fellowship.I actually disagree quite strongly on this point.
There are definitely combinations that are thematic but just throwing together some heroes and saying its thematic because all the free peoples had to unite to stand against the darkness to me is really silly.
There was one fellowship.... not multiple ones.. there was ONE group of diverse characters that set out as the fellowship.
Dwarf and Elf relations continued to be pretty absymal in the third age (Gimli and Legolas are the only exception to this).
Denethor doesn't even except that help will come when the beacons are lit. The dunedain act secretly and on their own in the shadows to protect the people of the Shire, Bree and the surrounding areas.
Remember the LAST alliance of Elves and Men, it was exactly that a last alliance where they marched together. We do not see that in the Third Age outside of Legoland and Gimli. Contrary to Peter Jackson's nonsense there were no Elves at Helms Deep.
Yes part of the story is about a group of characters from a diverse range of backgrounds and races coming together to form a fellowship but other than the fellowship itself most of the races and groups of people in middle earth are actually quite wary and/or dismissive of other races. Hell the people of Bree and surrounding areas are mistrustful and scared of the Dunedain Rangers which are the only thing keeping them safe.
So yes a fellowship line-up is thematic, yes a three hunters deck is thematic. Merry pippin and treebeard is thematic. Hell you could even say that Rohan and Treebeard (and Ent allies and whatnot) are thematic when playing the Isengard Saga Box as the Ents and Huorns destroyed the fleeing uruk-hai after Helm's deep and assaulted Orthanc. They don't actually fight alongside each other but do have a common foe and both fought great battles in Rohan at the same time. A Gandalf deck heavy on eagles you could call thematic considering his connection and friendship with them. Also cross trait decks can be thematic too so long as it is people that actually did work together in some way. A Dunedain/Noldor mix is thematic. As is a Silvan/Noldor mix, a Rohan/Gondor mix or even Dwarf/Hobbit can be considered thematic.
Throwing Boromir, Galadriel and Hama in a deck that has Ent and Eagle allies because they all work well together and it is a strong no nonsense deck is all well and fine. But it is not a thematic deck by any stretch of the imagination. None of these characters fought together or were even in the same place very long or at all.
Also just to be clear I'm not saying people SHOULD play thematic decks people can use whatever they want in this game which is part of why its so amazing. A hero line up or decks are not thematic just because a diverse group of characters are included though.
Also if you hunt around on the forums you would realise that it seems to be fairly accepted that the ultimate thematic way to play the game is to play campaign mode using only characters that were actually part of each scenario/quest and changing the line up following this rule as you go. These are decks built around the fellowship so your statement that decks built around the actual fellowship are considered unthematic is literally the opposite of the actual truth. Nothing is more thematic than a fellowship deck.
That is the actual fellowship however.... Your own version of the fellowship with Na'aisayah, Theoden, Erestor, Halbarad and Long dead Bard the Bowman/Dwalin is definitely not thematic just because it is a large group of peoples and traits coming together/fighting together.
Does it matter if your decks are unthematic though? Those who are actual sticklers for this and/or tolkien enthusiasts that want to use thematic decks will do so. Those who do not care so much will not.

The Lord of the Rings LCG will always have a slight edge over comparable games because of the IP. Even if there was a co-op LCG that was slightly better than LotR, I would still play LotR, since I'm a Tolkien nerd. There are many people who play that would not play another game and only play this one because of the IP.
 
Short answer: Middle-Earth > all

DEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATH!!

even if i'll never use these cards, i'm really loving that it's already forcing people into rethinking how they build decks to get 9 traits, or including an Elf and Dwarf, or Ranger and Warrior, or perhaps all of them in the same deck... what decks they currently have that would need to be reworked to include this card, for example, or new decks that could be designed. if i were a developer and came up with this card, that would absolutely be the perfect response after spoiling this card i think. these cards, like a lot of cards that came out in Angmar Awakened, really open the design space for how you can build a deck.
it's a neutral card, but one that really can't fit that well into many existing decks, and every existing deck that meets its requirements did so incidentally. now, people have a specific reason and goal to try to gather as many traits as possible when building their deck.
i know the player card pool isn't as big as other card games because so many released cards are for enemy AI, but this game has been out for what? 5 years now, and it's completely changing how people look at building decks, and that is the hallmark of a great card that comes out this late in a game's cycle imo.

Not healing per se, but the Holy Rosary has a sanity value on it, so you can allocate horror to it rather than your investigator.

I'm excited about the focus on traits! It also pushes me out of my tribe building tendencies.

Considering just today they released Miskatonic Museum, I would say you are right.