Surprising no one who knows me, I have shown zero chill in rebuilding my Lord of the Rings: the Card Game collection. Despite bailing on the game several times, it maintained a very strong place in my heart and I wanted to go back head first if I was going back at all. The flood of product was this week. Cataloguing boxes and packs as they come in has been a journey down memory lane.
An unexpected party (for my cat, who likes to sit here)
The Hobbit: Over Hill and Under Hill came out during one of those breaks. My wife and I took a roadtrip a few states away and listened to Rob Inglis' incredible reading of The Fellowship of the Ring. We drove through hills and plains and wooded land as Tolkien, via Inglis, described the world of Middle-earth. My first stop on arriving home was my local game store to purchase the first Hobbit expansion and get back to this beautiful game. It's good to have it back.
With so much product back in hand, my mind is spinning with ideas of what I can play through and share on the blog. Here are a few of the types of posts to expect:
Revised Quests Using Revised Content
A lot of people are only going to have their hands on revised content. I want to showcase completing the available quests with just that hero pool Core set & The Dark of Mirkwood have already been posted. The Dream-chaser Cycle is currently in progress and will likely be the focus of upcoming posts. Angmar Awakened really should have been next, but it wasn't on hand when I began getting games in last week.
Continuation of True Solo
Back in 2017, the blog ended with the final quest in The Sands of Harad box. The Mumakil was in draft form and Race Across Harad was being played through. And the saga quests were halfway done. While I enjoy two handed more these days, it would be nice to finish out that project and have every published quest completed solo. Not sure if that will include all print on demand content, mainly because it is such an expensive purchase these days and a low priority for me (except for you, Fog on the Barrow-downs; you shall be mine again!). The Haradrim Cycle is also missing pieces for me as I write this, so I may need to skip ahead cycles until I get my hands back on those packs.
(editors note: Before publication, an offer came in that will leave only one Haradrim pack missing, so I might just pick off where I left off)
Nightmares
Originally I didn't plan on chasing after Nightmare decks and only getting them if a good deal fell in my lap. Well, it did and about half of the Nightmare decks made will be arriving this weekend. Not sure what the rhythm of posting will be for these, but play 'em if you got 'em!
Card Thoughts
Everything I've picked up is currently sorted into pack and box format (encounters and heroes) so I could catalogue the expansion and make sure it was complete. As packs were, I liked to slowly go through the hero cards and think what type of decks I would like to put them in. Nothing technical. And that's the kind of post I would like to do: Thumbing through a pack and thinking up ideas for the cards or remembering how I've use them before.
Play It Again
There might be quests I just get a bug to play again in a way that doesn't fit any of the above categories. A recent collection came with The Old Forest and I remember really enjoying that quest, often using it to test out new decks ideas. In fact, I might just break that one out tonight...
On Post Order
When possible, I will try to keep some cohesion in how write-ups are posted. At the very least, I'll attempt to post a few consecutive encounters before switching tracks to another category for a bit. "Shower Thought" posts like this and card thought posts will be inserted wherever, since they don't take play & write-up time.
Hopefully the variety will give everyone something to enjoy!
Current collection stored with room for everything I'm missing
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