The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Nightmare Deck: Escape From Mount Gram
The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Nightmare Deck: Escape From Mount Gram Rulebook
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Escape From Mount Gram
You are playing Nightmare mode.
Forced: After choosing a starting hero and randomly setting another hero aside facedown, instead of the standard captured deck setup, shuffle any remaining heroes into your captured deck, then place the facedown set aside hero on the bottom of your captured deck.
The players cannot win the game while a hero is captured (underneath an encounter card, or in their captured deck).
"Slash them! Beat them! Bite them! Gnash them! Take them away to dark holes full of snakes, and never let them see the light again!"
Setup
Begin with the standard quest deck and encounter deck for the Escape from Mount Gram scenario.
Remove the following cards, in the specified quantities, from the standard encounter deck:
4x Prison Cell 3x Dungeon Guard 1x Jailor Gornákh 2x Interrogation 1x Goblin Tormentor 1x Cruel Torturer
Then, shuffle the encounter cards in this Nightmare Deck into the remainder of the standard Escape from Mount Gram encounter deck.
Note: This Nightmare Deck includes a card for the Angmar Orcs encounter set, Orc of Thaurdir. During setup, this card should be set aside along with the rest of the Angmar Orcs encounter set.
Finally, flip this setup card over and place it next to the quest deck. Its effect remains active throughout the game, which is now ready to begin.
Encounter Cards
The Nightmare Deck contains 19 encounter cards, numbered 2 to 9 in the set. Each entry gives the card's set number and copies, its type, and its printed stats as shown on the Hall of Beorn database (threat, then attack, defense and hit points for enemies).
Jailor Gornákh
#2 (x1) · Enemy · Threat 4 · Attack 5 · Defense 5 · Hit Points 14 · Victory 5 · Traits: Goblin. Orc.
Targets Heroes / Targets Each Player / Forced
Forced: After Jailor Gornákh enters play, each player searches his captured deck for each hero and captures them underneath Jailor Gornákh.
Forced: After a player rescues any number of cards, Jailor Gornákh attacks that player.
Prison Guard
#3 (x3) · Enemy · Threat 2 · Attack 2 · Defense 1 · Hit Points 4 · Traits: Goblin. Orc.
Capture 1.
While you are engaged with Prison Guard, it gains: "Planning Action: Rescue a random card from underneath Prison Guard. Then, raise each player's threat by X, where X is that card's printed cost. (Limit once per round)."
Prison Cell
#4 (x4) · Location · Printed numbers: 2 and (3) · Traits: Underground.
Capture 1.
While Prison Cell is the active location, it gains: "Planning Action: Rescue a random card from underneath Prison Cell. Then, raise each player's threat by X, where X is that card's printed cost. (Limit once per round)."
Torture Chamber
#5 (x2) · Location · Printed numbers: 0 and (X) · Traits: Underground.
Capture 1.
Surge.
X is twice the number of cards captured underneath Torture Chamber.
Forced: At the end of the combat phase, if Torture Chamber is in the staging area, deal 1 damage to each exhausted character.
Cruel Torment
#6 (x3) · Treachery · Surge.
When Revealed: Attach to the current quest. Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Each player cannot have more than 6 cards in his hand. (Each player with more than 6 cards in his hand must immediately discard cards until he has 6 cards in his hand.)"
Goblin Patrol
#7 (x2) · Treachery.
When Revealed: Each player may capture any number of random cards from his hand underneat the current quest. Each player raises his threat by the number of cards in his hand.
Shadow: Capture 3 random cards from your hand underneath attacking enemy.
Raid Golfimbul's Vault
#8 (x1) · Encounter Side Quest · Quest points 9 · Surge · Capture 3 · Victory 10
Forced: After a card is captured by another card effect, capture a random cards from each player's hand underneath Raid Golfimbul's Vault.
Forced: When the captured cards underneath Golfimbul's Vault are rescued, put each rescued Item card into its owner's hand and discard the rest.
Orc of Thaurdir
#9 (x3) · Enemy · Threat 3 · Attack 4 · Defense 3 · Hit Points 5 · Traits: Orc.
Forced: When Orc of Thaurdir attacks you, either discard the top 2 cards of your captured deck, or deal Orc of Thaurdir 2 additional shadow cards.
Shadow: For each damage dealt by this attack, discard the top card of your captured deck.