The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Nightmare Deck: The Dead Marshes Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• The Dead Marshes
• Setup

The Dead Marshes

You are playing Nightmare Mode.

Players cannot reduce their threat.

Setup: Search the encounter deck for The Mere of Dead Faces, and add it to the staging area. Then, shuffle the encounter deck.

Forced: After Gollum is placed in the discard pile, shuffle him into the encounter deck.

Setup

Begin with the standard quest deck and encounter deck for The Dead Marshes scenario.

Remove the following cards, in the specified quantities, from the standard encounter deck:

1x A Wisp of Pale Sheen 1x Through the Mist 2x Giant Marsh Worm 4x Fens and Mires 3x Eastern Crows 2x Pursued by Shadow 2x Treacherous Fog 1x Wolf Rider 2x Hill Troll 2x Goblin Sniper 2x Wargs 2x Despair 2x The Brown Lands 2x The East Bight

Then, shuffle the encounter cards in this Nightmare Deck into the remainder of the standard The Dead Marshes encounter deck.

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.