The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – The Drowned Ruins
The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – The Drowned Ruins Rulebook
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Scenario Rules
"The Drowned Ruins" is played with an encounter deck built with all the cards from the following encounter sets: The Drowned Ruins, Drowned Dead, and The Stormcaller Elite. (Drowned Dead and The Stormcaller Elite can be found in The Grey Havens deluxe expansion to The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game.)
Difficulty Level = 6
Grotto / Underwater Locations
This scenario includes nine double-sided locations that do not have the Uncharted keyword. Instead, one side has the Grotto trait, while the other side has the Underwater trait. During Setup, the players are instructed to "prepare the Grotto deck". First, the players must remove the double-sided "Shrine to Morgoth" card and set it aside (this card is put into play during stage 2). Then, turn the remainder of the double-sided locations so that their Grotto side is faceup, and shuffle them together into a separate pile. This pile is referred to as "the Grotto deck."
Players may freely look at the Grotto side of the top location of the Grotto deck. However, players cannot look at the facedown Underwater sides of any location until they are instructed to flip that location. Flipping a double-sided location from one side to another removes all progress from it.
During the game, locations will often be placed from the top of the Grotto deck into the staging area. This must be done with the location entering play with its Grotto side faceup, without looking at its Underwater side (unless instructed otherwise). Because these locations are double-sided, they cannot enter the encounter deck or discard pile for any reason. When one of these locations is explored, if it is Grotto side faceup, it is shuffled back into the Grotto deck, Grotto side faceup. If it is Underwater side faceup when it is explored, it has the victory keyword and is therefore placed in the victory display.
Note that Grotto locations do not always have the same Underwater location on its facedown side.
Do Not Read
Do not read the following until the heroes have won this quest.
(The "Do not read" box on the sheet has no printed text beneath its heading.)