The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – The Nîn-in-Eilph Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Difficulty Level
• Encounter Sets
• Keyword – Secrecy X
• Advancing to Parallel Stages

Difficulty Level

Difficulty Level = 4

Encounter Sets

"The Nîn-in-Eilph" is played with an encounter deck built with all the cards from the following encounter sets: The Nîn-in-Eilph, and Weary Travelers. (Weary Travelers can be found in The Voice of Isengard deluxe expansion to The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game.)

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.

Advancing to Parallel Stages

To simulate the experience of getting lost in an endless, shifting swamp, each stage 2B has the text:

"Forced: After the last time counter is removed from this stage, advance to a different stage 2A at random."

When the players are instructed to do this, the first player shuffles each stage 2 (except for the one currently in play) together and chooses one of them at random for the players to advance to, replacing the current stage 2. Then, the previous stage 2 is placed back in the quest deck with the other unused stage 2 cards. Any progress that was on that stage is lost. When the players are instructed to advance to a different random stage 3A, follow the same steps.