The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – The Old Forest
The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – The Old Forest Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Expansion Symbol
The cards in The Old Forest scenario can be identified by this symbol before each card's collector number. (The symbol is a bare black tree, shown on the printed page.)
Scenario Rules
New Staging Rules
When playing The Old Forest, players reveal encounter cards individually in player order during the Staging step of the Quest phase. If an encounter card has an effect that uses the word 'you' then the encounter card is referring to the player who revealed the card. If the revealed card has the Surge keyword, the player who revealed it reveals an additional card. Encounter cards with the Doomed X keyword still affect each player.
Peril Keyword
When a player reveals an encounter card with the Peril keyword, he must resolve the staging of that card on his own without conferring with the other players. The other players cannot take any actions or trigger any responses during the resolution of that card's staging.
Stage 2 Quest Cards
When stage 2B instructs the players to advance to a different random stage 2A, the first player shuffles each stage 2 (except for the one currently in play) together and chooses one of them at random. Then, he replaces the current stage 2 with the chosen one. The previous stage 2 is placed back in the quest deck with the other unused stage 2 cards. Discard any progress or attachments that were on the previous stage 2.
Immune to Player Card Effects
Cards with the text "Immune to player card effects" ignore the effects of all player cards. Additionally, cards that are immune to player card effects cannot be chosen as targets of player card effects.
Indestructible
An enemy with the indestructible keyword cannot be destroyed by damage, even when it has damage on it equal to its hit points.
Campaign Mode
The Old Forest can be played as part of The Lord of the Rings campaign. It should be played after A Shadow of the Past, found in The Black Riders Saga Expansion. To play The Old Forest in campaign mode, follow the setup instructions found on page 2 of The Black Riders rules insert.
Campaign Mode Components
The Old Forest expansion includes 2 cards that can only be used when playing the scenario in campaign mode: one double-sided campaign card and one boon card. The description for each of these card types can be found on page 4 of The Black Riders rules insert.
The Lord of the Rings: The Black Riders Saga Expansion is required to play The Old Forest in campaign mode.