The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – The Steward's Fear
The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – The Steward's Fear Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Encounter Sets
"The Steward's Fear" is played with an encounter deck built with all the cards from the following encounter sets: The Steward's Fear, Streets of Gondor, and Brigands. (Streets of Gondor and Brigands can be found in the Heirs of Númenor deluxe expansion to The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game.)
Underworld X Keyword
In this scenario, the heroes are striving to uncover an evil conspiracy at work in Minas Tirith. To represent the hidden dangers involved in rooting out such a threat, some locations in this scenario have the underworld keyword. When a location with the underworld keyword enters play, take cards from the top underworld deck equal to the specified value and stack them facedown underneath that location.
When a location leaves play, any facedown cards stacked underneath that location are revealed one at a time, and added to the staging area. If a card from the underworld deck would be discarded, it is placed in the encounter deck discard pile. If a location with underworld is revealed from the encounter deck and there are no cards left in the underworld deck, then the underworld keyword has no effect.
Example
Houses of the Dead is revealed from the encounter deck with Underworld 2 so the first player adds it to the staging area, takes the top 2 cards of the Underworld deck, and stacks them facedown underneath it.
Setup
When setting up "The Steward's Fear," remove all the enemy cards from the Streets of Gondor and Brigands encounter sets, along with the 3 Clue objective cards found in The Steward's Fear encounter set, and shuffle them into a separate deck. This is the "Underworld" deck and it should be set apart from the encounter deck.
Next, remove the 3 Villain enemy cards and the 3 Plot objective cards from the encounter deck. Shuffle the Villain enemy cards together and randomly choose one of them to set aside facedown. This is the "hidden" enemy card. Remove the other 2 Villain cards from the game (without looking at the cards). Repeat this process with the Plot cards. The set aside Plot is the "hidden" plot card.