The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – The Withered Heath Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Scenario Overview
• The Caves Deck
• Deep Keyword

Scenario Overview

Difficulty Level = 6

"The Withered Heath" is played with an encounter deck built with all the cards from the following encounter sets: The Withered Heath, Lost Caves, Wild Creatures, and Lost in Wilderland. (Lost Caves, Wild Creatures, and Lost in Wilderland can be found in The Wilds of Rhovanion deluxe expansion to The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game.)

The Caves Deck

To create the Caves deck, take each card from the Lost Caves encounter set and shuffle them together. This is the Caves deck.

Deep Keyword

Deep is a keyword that appears on some locations in The Withered Heath. After the players travel to a deep location, they discard it and replace it with the top card of the Caves deck. That location then becomes the active location. If there are no cards remaining in the Caves deck, the deep keyword is ignored.

If a Dragon Sign replaces the active location via the deep keyword, add the Dragon Sign to the staging area and resolve its guarded keyword.