Fair enough. I don’t like that limitation for flavour reasons, and also it’s perfectly fine for a Free Peoples card, but I can see that gamewise the exception clause needs to be there, unless you have a better way.

• The Ancient Darkness
Condition • Support Area
Each time a character wins a skirmish, you may add a token here.
At the start of each skirmish involving a minion, you may remove a token from here to make that minion gain "Stalwart - exert a companion skirmishing this minion."

Ensnared
Condition
To play, spot a character.
Bearer must be a companion (except the Ring-bearer). This condition’s twilight cost is -1 for each artifact borne by this companion (or -3 if he or she bears a ring).
Bearer’s resistance is reduced to 0 and cannot be increased.

Bent Roads
Event • Regroup
Exert any number of characters with a combined site number of 12 or greater to replace a site on the site path with a site from your adventure deck, and add for each character exerted in this way.
And those that sailed furthest set but a girdle about the Earth and returned weary at last to the place of their beginning; and they said: ’All roads are now bent.’

Couldn’t you just do Stalwart - Terror 1 and save yourself some text?

• The Ancient Darkness
Condition • Support Area
Each time a character wins a skirmish, you may add a token here.
Each time a minion is assigned to a skirmish, you may remove a token from here to make that minion gain "Stalwart - exert a companion assigned to this minion."

Wow this means any strong companions get exerted if someone lost last time. Think it should cost 3 cos its really hard.

Ensnared
Condition
To play, exert a character.
Bearer must be a companion (except the Ring-bearer). This condition’s twilight cost is -1 for each artifact borne by this companion (or -3 if he or she bears a ring).
Bearer’s resistance is reduced to 0 and cannot be increased.

Dont you think this card would make resistance targeting decks insanely powerful? Id have to see how you plan to use resistance, but if its really punishing then i think this card is sick. I already think its OP.

Bent Roads
Event • Regroup
Exert any number of characters with a combined site number of 13 or greater to replace a site on the site path with a site from your adventure deck, and add for each character exerted in this way.
And those that sailed furthest set but a girdle about the Earth and returned weary at last to the place of their beginning; and they said: ’All roads are now bent.’

Better with Dain’s suggestion.


Thranduil

Dont you think this card would make resistance targeting decks insanely powerful? Id have to see how you plan to use resistance, but if its really punishing then i think this card is sick. I already think its OP.

Sorceries
Event • Maneuver
Spell.
Spot a character to choose 2 or events from your discard pile. The Free Peoples player chooses one of those events, places it in your hand and the other beneath your draw deck.

• Banner of Flayed Flesh
Artifact • Hand Weapon
Plays to your support area.
Maneuver: Remove to transfer this artifact to a minion.
Each time bearer wins a skirmish, you may choose a minion to gain one of the following until the regroup phase: fierce, damage +1, terror 1, bloodlust 1, enduring 1.
Regroup: Remove to transfer this artifact from a minion to your support area.

Subtlety
Event • Maneuver
Spot a ring to choose one: make each companion (except the Ring-bearer) resistance -2 until the regroup phase; or add 2 threats.

Now an event to once again parallel some of the cards about to be posted, and also a grizzly banner!
don’t you mean grisly? I thought you were talking about Beorn’s banner

Sorceries
Event • Maneuver
Spell.
Remove a threat and spot a character to choose 2 or events from your discard pile. Make the Free Peoples player choose one of those events for you to take into hand, then place the other beneath your draw deck.
works

Subtlety
Event • Maneuver
Spot a ring to choose one: make each companion (except the Ring-bearer) resistance -2 until the regroup phase; or add 2 threats.
I sense your mirroring

• Banner of Flayed Flesh
Artifact • Hand Weapon
Plays to your support area.
Maneuver: Remove to transfer this artifact to a minion.
Each time bearer wins a skirmish, you may choose another or minion to gain one of the following until the regroup phase: damage +1, terror 1, bloodlust 1, enduring 1.
Regroup: Remove to transfer this artifact from a minion to your support area.

Resistance targetting decks in my experience are not great.

They are now youve made this card. Now theyre OP.

I feel like the fact that it requires the culture only, which should be best at it, and that Sauron literally had ultimate control over his subjects, makes it just about alright. It’s supposed to be powerful though.

Sauron could klll everything and anyone except Isildur if youre talking parallels. But u cant transcribe that inot the game too much.

Sorceries
Event • Maneuver
Spell.
Remove a threat and spot a character to choose 2 or events from your discard pile. Make the Free Peoples player choose one of those events for you to take into hand, then place the other beneath your draw deck.

Either discard the not chosen one or make this cost or exert the character not spot.

Subtlety
Event • Maneuver
Spot a ring to choose one: make each companion (except the Ring-bearer) resistance -2 until the regroup phase; or add 2 threats.

Res -1.

• Banner of Flayed Flesh
Artifact • Hand Weapon
Plays to your support area.
Maneuver: Remove to transfer this artifact to a minion.
Each time bearer wins a skirmish, you may choose another or minion to gain one of the following until the regroup phase: damage +1, terror 1, bloodlust 1, enduring 1.
Regroup: Remove to transfer this artifact from a minion to your support area.

Dains’ right on the potential for abuse. I think its costed right it could maybe even cost 0 but as to who you play it on this needs REAL careful control.

Thranduil