The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – The Dread Realm
The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – The Dread Realm Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Encounter Deck
Difficulty Level = 7
"The Dread Realm" is played with an encounter deck built with all the cards from the following encounter sets: The Dread Realm, Cursed Dead, and Dark Sorcery. (Cursed Dead and Dark Sorcery can be found in The Lost Realm deluxe expansion to The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game.)
Valour
Valour is a new trigger that appears on some player cards in the Angmar Awakened cycle. Actions and Responses with the Valour trigger, presented as "Valour Action" or "Valour Response," can only be triggered by a player whose threat is 40 or higher.
If an event card has two effects, one with the Valour trigger and one without, you may only choose one of these two effects to trigger when you play the card. You may still only choose the effect with the Valour trigger if your threat is 40 or higher.
Reanimated Dead
Many encounter cards in The Dread Realm scenario instruct players to "reanimate" a card. When a player is instructed to reanimate a card, place that card facedown in front of that player, as if it had just engaged that player from the staging area. Facedown cards that have been reanimated are called "Reanimated Dead" and act as if they are Undead enemy cards with 0 engagement cost, 2 threat, 2 attack, 2 defense, and 2 hit points. As a reminder, each quest card has the text: "Reanimated Dead are Undead enemies with 2 threat, 2 attack, 2 defense and 2 hit points." If a Reanimated Dead is destroyed or leaves play for any other reason, it is placed in its owner's discard pile.