The Most Remarkable Tales
Event * Fellowship
Tale.
Exert a Wizard to choose one: play the fellowship’s next site, remove a burden, or take a card from your discard pile into hand.
If you had heard only a quarter of what I have heard about him, and I have only heard very little of all there is to hear, you would be prepared for any sort of remarkable tale.

Wizard’s Talk
Event * Fellowship
Spot a Wizard to choose one: Add to draw a card, add to heal a Hobbit, or add to remove a burden.
"Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is morning to be good on?"

A Fair Response
Event * Response
Spot a Hobbit to cancel an opponent’s event. If that event was a maneuver or skirmish event, you may heal a companion.
"All of them at once," said Bilbo.

Troublesome Things, Adventures
Event * Skirmish
Discard a card from hand to cancel a skirmish involving a Hobbit.
"I should think so - in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can’t think what anybody sees in them."

A Wizard’s Gaze
Event * Fellowship
Spell.
Spot a Wizard to reveal an opponent’s hand. Then, you may exert that Wizard to discard a revealed card with a twilight cost of 3 or less.
He stood leaning on his stick and gazing at the hobbit without saying anything, till Bilbo got quite uncomfortable and even a little cross.

Things Not Worth Knowing [Lu-Tze]
Event * Maneuver
Spot Lu-Tze and make the move limit for this turn -1 (to a minimum of 1) to return a minion to its owner’s hand.
"Do you know what happens when you try to slice time while on a magically powered object travelling at over 70 miles per hour?" "No." "Neither do I, and I don’t want to find out!

The Most Remarkable Tales
Event * Fellowship
Tale.
Exert Gandalf to choose one: play the fellowship’s next site if it is a forest or dwelling, remove a burden, or take a card from your discard pile into hand.
If you had heard only a quarter of what I have heard about him, and I have only heard very little of all there is to hear, you would be prepared for any sort of remarkable tale.
cut cost to 1-0

Wizard’s Talk
Event * Fellowship
Spot Gandalf to choose one: Add to draw a card, add to heal a Hobbit, or add to remove a burden.
"Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is morning to be good on?"
cool!

A Fair Response
Event * Response
Spot a Hobbit to cancel an opponent’s event. If that event was a maneuver or skirmish event, you may heal a companion.
"All of them at once," said Bilbo.
if an opponent plays an event spot a hobbit...

Troublesome Things, Adventures
Event * Skirmish
Discard a card from hand to cancel a skirmish involving a Hobbit.
"I should think so - in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can’t think what anybody sees in them."
works.

A Wizard’s Gaze
Event * Fellowship
Spell.
Spot Gandalf to reveal an opponent’s hand. Then, you may exert that Wizard to discard a revealed card with a twilight cost of 3 or less.
He stood leaning on his stick and gazing at the hobbit without saying anything, till Bilbo got quite uncomfortable and even a little cross.
cool!

Things Not Worth Knowing [Lu-Tze]
Event * Maneuver
Spot Lu-Tze and make the move limit for this turn -1 (to a minimum of 1) to return a minion to its owner’s hand.
"Do you know what happens when you try to slice time while on a magically powered object travelling at over 70 miles per hour?" "No." "Neither do I, and I don’t want to find out!

A Fair Rebuttal
Event * Response
If an opponent uses a special ability, spot Gandalf to cancel its effects. If that ability was a maneuver or skirmish special ability, you may return a spell from your discard pile to hand.
"What a lot of things you do use Good morning for!" said Gandalf. "Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it won’t be good till I move off."

The Most Spectacular!
Condition * Support Area
Spell.
Response: If you play a spell, discard this condition to copy its effects, ignoring costs.
Not the man that used to make such particularly excellent fireworks! I remember those! Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!"

*Dwalin, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
At the start of your fellowship phase, you may add to heal another Dwarf or Hobbit.
Skirmish: Exert Dwalin to make him damage +1.
"Dwalin at your service!" he said with a low bow.

*Balin, Whitebeard
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 5
Vitality: 4
Resistance: 6
Damage +1.
While the fellowship is at an underground site, Balin is strength +1 and resistance +1.
Response: If another Dwarf is about to take a wound, exert Balin to prevent that wound.
Instead there was a very old-looking dwarf on the step with a white beard and a scarlet hood; and he too hopped inside as soon as the door was open, just as if he had been invited.

*Kili, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 5
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
When you play Kili, you may play Fili from your draw deck or discard pile.
Skirmish: If Kili is not assigned to skirmish, discard him to make another Dwarf strength +3.
"Kili at your service!"

*Fili, At your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 5
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
When you play Fili, you may play Kili from your draw deck or discard pile.
Skirmish: If Fili is not assigned to skirmish, discard him to cancel a skirmish involving a Dwarf.
"And Fili!" added the other; and they both swept off their blue hoods and bowed.

*Dori, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
While at an underground site, Dori is damage +1.
Skirmish: Discard a possession Dori bears to heal him.
He had hardly turned the knob, before they were all inside, bowing and saying "at your service" one after another.

*Nori, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
Each time the fellowship moves and you have not played a possession this turn, add .
At the start of each Fellowship phase, if Nori bears a possession (except a hand weapon), heal him.
Dori, Nori, and Ori brought out flutes from somewhere inside their coats...

*Ori, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
Damage +1.
Each time Ori wins a skirmish, you may heal a Hobbit.
Skirmish: Discard 2 cards from hand to play a tale from your discard pile.
Very soon two purple hoods, a grey hood, a brown hood, and a white hood were hanging on the pegs...

*Oin, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
Each time you play a tale, you may reinforce a token.
The twilight cost of each card with a twilight cost of 4 or more is -1.
...off they marched with their broad hands stuck in their gold and silver belts to join the others.

*Gloin, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
When you play Gloin, you may play a condition from your discard pile and stack a card from hand on it.
Skirmish: Discard a Free Peoples card stacked on a condition to make Gloin strength +2.
Skirmish: Discard a Shadow card stacked on a condition to make Gloin damage +1.
"He looks more like a grocer than a burglar!"

*Bifur, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
While you have initiative, Bifur is strength +1 and damage +1.
Skirmish: If you have initiative, discard 2 cards from hand to make another Dwarf strength +2.
"At your service!" said Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur standing in a row.

*Bofur, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
Each time you lose initiative, you may remove a threat.
Skirmish: If the Shadow has initiative, exert Bofur to draw 2 cards.
Bifur and Bofur went out too, and came back with clarinets that they had left among the walking-sticks.

*Bombur, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 5
Vitality: 4
Resisance: 6
Each time Bombur is assigned to skirmish, add a threat.
Maneuver or Regroup: Exert Bombur to heal another Dwarf.
For one thing, Bombur was immensely fat and heavy.

*Thorin, In His Own Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 7
Vitailty: 3
Resistance: 6
The twilight cost of each other Dwarf in your starting fellowship is -1.
While you have initiative, each other Dwarf and hobbit is strength +1.
Skirmish: Exert Thorin to wound an Orc he is skirmishing.
Thorin indeed was very haughty, and said nothing about service; but poor Mr. Baggins said he was sorry so many times, that at last he grunted "pray don’t mention it," and stopped frowning.

Reviews are greatly appreciated, I need some ideas on how to make these dwarves unique. I think I did an okay job, but...

Holy crap man, i just finished your last two that took me 15 minutes and now the same amount again, in just 1 thread!
Bum theres no smiley thats falling asleep or snoring!

A Fair Rebuttal
Event * Response
If an opponent uses a special ability, spot Gandalf to cancel its effects. If that ability was a maneuver or skirmish special ability, you may return a spell from your discard pile to hand.
"What a lot of things you do use Good morning for!" said Gandalf. "Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it won’t be good till I move off."

Seems really powerful as special abilites, particularly skirmish ones, are constantly used. Change to just maneuver.

The Most Spectacular!
Condition * Support Area
Spell.
Response: If you play a spell, discard this condition to copy its effects, ignoring costs.
Not the man that used to make such particularly excellent fireworks! I remember those! Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!"

Wow powerful id say needs to cost 4, as it just sits in ur SA waiting so no clog like having 2 of the event.



*Dwalin, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
At the start of your fellowship phase, you may add to heal another Dwarf or Hobbit.
Skirmish: Exert Dwalin to make him damage +1.
"Dwalin at your service!" he said with a low bow.

Hmm alright.

*Balin, Whitebeard
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 5
Vitality: 4
Resistance: 6
Damage +1.
While the fellowship is at an underground site, Balin is strength +1 and resistance +1.
Response: If another Dwarf is about to take a wound, exert Balin to prevent that wound.
Instead there was a very old-looking dwarf on the step with a white beard and a scarlet hood; and he too hopped inside as soon as the door was open, just as if he had been invited.

Cool.

*Kili, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 5
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
When you play Kili, you may play Fili from your draw deck or discard pile.
Skirmish: If Kili is not assigned to skirmish, discard him to make another Dwarf strength +3.
"Kili at your service!"

Erm ok. Cant see why he should only cost 1. Look at dwarf guard. This guy is still better. .

*Fili, At your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 5
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
When you play Fili, you may play Kili from your draw deck or discard pile.
Skirmish: If Fili is not assigned to skirmish, discard him to cancel a skirmish involving a Dwarf.
"And Fili!" added the other; and they both swept off their blue hoods and bowed.

See above comment.


*Dori, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
While at an underground site, Dori is damage +1.
Skirmish: Discard a possession Dori bears to heal him.
He had hardly turned the knob, before they were all inside, bowing and saying "at your service" one after another.

Fine.

*Nori, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
Each time the fellowship moves and you have not played a possession this turn, add .
At the start of each Fellowship phase, if Nori bears a possession (except a hand weapon), heal him.
Dori, Nori, and Ori brought out flutes from somewhere inside their coats...

Hmmm intriguing. Seems ok.

*Ori, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
Damage +1.
Each time Ori wins a skirmish, you may heal a Hobbit.
Skirmish: Discard 2 cards from hand to play a tale from your discard pile.
Very soon two purple hoods, a grey hood, a brown hood, and a white hood were hanging on the pegs...

Fine.

*Oin, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
Each time you play a tale, you may reinforce a token.
The twilight cost of each card with a twilight cost of 4 or more is -1.
...off they marched with their broad hands stuck in their gold and silver belts to join the others.

Sound.

*Gloin, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
When you play Gloin, you may play a condition from your discard pile and stack a card from hand on it.
Skirmish: Discard a Free Peoples card stacked on a condition to make Gloin strength +2.
Skirmish: Discard a Shadow card stacked on a condition to make Gloin damage +1.
"He looks more like a grocer than a burglar!"

Too good. Drop the entire bit about shadow cards.

*Bifur, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
While you have initiative, Bifur is strength +1 and damage +1.
Skirmish: If you have initiative, discard 2 cards from hand to make another Dwarf strength +2.
"At your service!" said Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur standing in a row.

Fine.

*Bofur, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
Each time you lose initiative, you may remove a threat.
Skirmish: If the Shadow has initiative, exert Bofur to draw 2 cards.
Bifur and Bofur went out too, and came back with clarinets that they had left among the walking-sticks.

Yeah good synergy, but his gametext is too good, means u can gain initiative back whenever you want which is too manipulative of something that is supposed to be an advantage to the shadow. Needs changing badly.


*Bombur, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 5
Vitality: 4
Resisance: 6
Each time Bombur is assigned to skirmish, add a threat.
Maneuver or Regroup: Exert Bombur to heal another Dwarf.
For one thing, Bombur was immensely fat and heavy.

Fits in with the character but because of that he’s useless and would never be used.

*Thorin, In His Own Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 7
Vitailty: 3
Resistance: 6
The twilight cost of each other Dwarf in your starting fellowship is -1.
While you have initiative, each other Dwarf and hobbit is strength +1.
Skirmish: Exert Thorin to wound an Orc he is skirmishing.
Thorin indeed was very haughty, and said nothing about service; but poor Mr. Baggins said he was sorry so many times, that at last he grunted "pray don’t mention it," and stopped frowning.

Ok.

A Fair Rebuttal
Event * Response
If an opponent uses a special ability, spot Gandalf to cancel its effects. If that ability was a maneuver or skirmish special ability, you may return a spell from your discard pile to hand.
"What a lot of things you do use Good morning for!" said Gandalf. "Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it won’t be good till I move off."
cool!


The Most Spectacular!
Condition * Support Area
Spell.
Response: If you play a spell, discard this condition to copy its effects, ignoring costs.
Not the man that used to make such particularly excellent fireworks! I remember those! Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!"
needs gandalf enforcement. to play spot gandalf would work

*Dwalin, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
At the start of your fellowship phase, you may add to heal another Dwarf or Hobbit.
Skirmish: Exert Dwalin to make him damage +1.
"Dwalin at your service!" he said with a low bow.
cool

*Balin, Whitebeard
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 5
Vitality: 4
Resistance: 6
Damage +1.
While the fellowship is at an underground site, Balin is strength +1 and resistance +1.
Response: If another Dwarf is about to take a wound, exert Balin to prevent that wound.
Instead there was a very old-looking dwarf on the step with a white beard and a scarlet hood; and he too hopped inside as soon as the door was open, just as if he had been invited.
hum...I guess. maybe underground or mountain.

*Kili, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 5
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
When you play Kili, you may play Fili from your draw deck or discard pile.
Skirmish: If Kili is not assigned to skirmish, discard him to make another Dwarf strength +3.
"Kili at your service!"
weird concept...maybe and damage+1 if Thorin

*Fili, At your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 5
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
When you play Fili, you may play Kili from your draw deck or discard pile.
Skirmish: If Fili is not assigned to skirmish, discard him to cancel a skirmish involving a Dwarf.
"And Fili!" added the other; and they both swept off their blue hoods and bowed.
maybe discard him and exert a dwarf.

*Dori, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
While at an underground site, Dori is damage +1.
Skirmish: Discard a possession Dori bears to heal him.
He had hardly turned the knob, before they were all inside, bowing and saying "at your service" one after another.
to heal him or bilbo possibly. again underground or mountain maybe?

*Nori, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
Each time the fellowship moves and you have not played a possession this turn, add .
At the start of each Fellowship phase, if Nori bears a possession (except a hand weapon), heal him.
Dori, Nori, and Ori brought out flutes from somewhere inside their coats...
the first ability could be safely cut methinks.

*Ori, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
Damage +1.
Each time Ori wins a skirmish, you may heal a Hobbit.
Skirmish: Discard 2 cards from hand to play a tale from your discard pile.
Very soon two purple hoods, a grey hood, a brown hood, and a white hood were hanging on the pegs...
nice

*Oin, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
Each time you play a tale, you may reinforce a token.
The twilight cost of each card with a twilight cost of 4 or more is -1.
...off they marched with their broad hands stuck in their gold and silver belts to join the others.
I likey.

*Gloin, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
When you play Gloin, you may play a condition from your discard pile and stack a card from hand on it.
Skirmish: Discard a Free Peoples card stacked on a condition to make Gloin strength +2.
Skirmish: Discard a Shadow card stacked on a condition to make Gloin damage +1.
"He looks more like a grocer than a burglar!"
works

*Bifur, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
While you have initiative, Bifur is strength +1 and damage +1.
Skirmish: If you have initiative, discard 2 cards from hand to make another Dwarf strength +2.
"At your service!" said Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur standing in a row.
nice

*Bofur, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
Each time you lose initiative, you may remove a threat.
Skirmish: If the Shadow has initiative, exert Bofur to draw 2 cards.
Bifur and Bofur went out too, and came back with clarinets that they had left among the walking-sticks.
interesting...

*Bombur, At Your Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 5
Vitality: 4
Resisance: 6
Each time Bombur is assigned to skirmish, add a threat.
Maneuver or Regroup: Exert Bombur to heal another Dwarf.
For one thing, Bombur was immensely fat and heavy.
maybe and remove one if he is unwounded or something

*Thorin, In His Own Service
Companion * Dwarf
Strength: 7
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 6
The twilight cost of each other Dwarf in your starting fellowship is -1.
While you have initiative, each other Dwarf and hobbit is strength +1.
Skirmish: Exert Thorin to wound an Orc he is skirmishing.
Thorin indeed was very haughty, and said nothing about service; but poor Mr. Baggins said he was sorry so many times, that at last he grunted "pray don’t mention it," and stopped frowning.

Bum theres no smiley thats falling asleep or snoring![/b]

Thanks for the encouragement.

Which bit did you find encouraging? I was just saying you did a good job on Bombur cos he’s useless in the book and his gamtext reflects that so u did him well! Or the bit about sleeping? Well there was a LOT of 2/6/3 dwarves!

Now here’s a post that doesn’t contain 15 DC’s. Thank me!

Thank you.

That’s What Bilbo Baggins Hates!
Event * Maneuver
Tale.
Exert a Hobbit to make a Dwarf strength +3 until the regroup phase, or exert a Dwarf to make a Hobbit strength +3 until the regroup phase.
Chip the glasses and crack the plates! / Blunt the knives and bend the forks! / That’s what Bilbo Baggins hates- /Smash the bottles and burn the corks!

Good but balanced.

On Every Door!
Event * Maneuver
Tale.
Spot a Hobbit and exert a Dwarf (or spot 2 Dwarves and exert a Hobbit) to reveal the top three cards of a shadow player’s draw deck. You may make that player choose to discard those cards or two cards from hand.
Cut the cloth and tread on the fat! / Pour the milk on the pantry floor! / Leave the bones on the bedroom mat! / Splash the wine on every door!

Wow strong NPE power. Shouldnt be free even with the exert.

Send Them Down the Hall to Roll!
Condition * Support Area
Tale.
To play, spot a Dwarf.
Regroup: Discard a possession to heal a companion.
Dump the crocks in a boiling bawl; / Pound them up with a thumping pole; / And when you’ve finished, if any are whole, / Send them down the hall to roll!

Id make it of the same culture.

Carefully, Carefully With the Plates!
Event * Fellowship
Tale.
Spot a Dwarf to choose one: Add to remove a threat, add to draw 2 cards, or add to play a possession from your draw deck.
That’s what Bilbo Baggins hates! / So, carefully! Carefully with the plates!

These are a bunch of daft titles but whatever, you are el after all. Think adding 3 for a possession is excessive 1 or 2 for that as well.

Now here’s a post that doesn’t contain 15 DC’s. Thank me!
THANKS!

That’s What Bilbo Baggins Hates!
Event * Maneuver
Tale.
Exert a Hobbit to make a Dwarf strength +3 until the regroup phase, or exert a Dwarf to make a Hobbit strength +3 until the regroup phase.
Chip the glasses and crack the plates! / Blunt the knives and bend the forks! / That’s what Bilbo Baggins hates- /Smash the bottles and burn the corks!
cut cost to 1 maybe except the RB, otherwise you could save 4 of these and have a +12 Rb on site 9, or you could make it if they are in region 1-2

On Every Door!
Event * Maneuver
Tale.
Spot a Hobbit and exert a Dwarf (or spot 2 Dwarves and exert a Hobbit) to reveal the top three cards of a shadow player’s draw deck. You may make that player choose to discard those cards or two cards from hand.
Cut the cloth and tread on the fat! / Pour the milk on the pantry floor! / Leave the bones on the bedroom mat! / Splash the wine on every door!
cool

Send Them Down the Hall to Roll!
Condition * Support Area
Tale.
To play, spot a Dwarf.
Regroup: Discard a possession to heal a companion.
Dump the crocks in a boiling bawl; / Pound them up with a thumping pole; / And when you’ve finished, if any are whole, / Send them down the hall to roll!
works

Carefully, Carefully With the Plates!
Event * Fellowship
Tale.
Spot a Dwarf to choose one: Add to remove a threat, add to draw 2 cards, or add to play a possession from your draw deck.
That’s what Bilbo Baggins hates! / So, carefully! Carefully with the plates!