The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – The Three Trials Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Keyword - Secrecy X
• The Current Trial

Keyword - Secrecy X

Secrecy is a keyword on some player cards. Secrecy lowers the cost to play the card by the specified value, provided the threat of the player who is playing the card is 20 or below. Secrecy only applies when the card is played from hand, and never modifies the printed cost of the card.

For example: David is playing The Three Trials and has just revealed stage 2A: "The Trial of Strength." It reads: "When Revealed: Randomly choose 1 of the remaining set aside Guardian enemies and 1 of the remaining set aside Barrow locations, reveal them, and add them to the staging area. Find the set aside Key objective that shares a Trait with the just revealed Guardian enemy and attach it to that enemy." David randomly chooses Wolf's Guardian and Stone Barrow, revealing them and adding them to the staging area. He then finds the set aside Key objective that shares a Trait with Wolf's Guardian - Key of the Wolf - and attaches it to Wolf's Guardian. Key of the Wolf is the current trial's Key objective. Once David claims Key of the Wolf, he will proceed to the next trial, or advance to stage 3 if he has completed all three trials.

The Current Trial

The three stage 2 quests in this scenario (The Trial of Strength, The Trial of Perseverance, and The Trial of Intuition) represent three different trials that the heroes must complete in order to reach stage 3. The current stage 2 quest is referred to as the "current trial". Each trial has a different Key objective that must be claimed, which is chosen randomly during each stage 2A's "when revealed" effect. The Key objective that is chosen during each stage is referred to as "the current trial's Key objective".

Each stage 2B says "When the players control the current trial's Key objective..." The "current trial's Key objective" is the one that was chosen during the "when revealed" effect of that quest's stage 2A.