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AnxiousChieftain

Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:01 pm

Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 3947 Location: Maryland

sickofpalantirs wrote:

I said NOOOOOO. that is all. so please explain where i yapped.

yap
1. to bark sharply, shrilly, or snappishly; yelp.
2. Slang. to talk shrilly, noisily, or foolishly.

But that’s enough spam for the topic. If AP wants to give a 4-day extension, that’s his business. Just get off my back SoP, that’s all I ask.

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Anonymous Prodigy

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:57 am

Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 4197 Location: United States

AnxiousChieftain wrote:

But that’s enough spam for the topic.

Who knew?

AnxiousChieftain wrote:

If AP wants to give a 4-day extension, that’s his business.

I’m sure that if your DCing partner was unresponsive (as m64 is to NB) then you would request an extention of the submittal deadline.

By the way, NB, you and menace still have till Thursday to submit your cards. If he doesn’t respond, then go ahead and send me both cards yourself. Thumbs Up

I had to put something here.

DáinIronfoot

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:08 am

Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 4594 Location: Beltsville, MD, USA

*sits on hands to avoid entering discussion*

Two more days....

Best regards, Dáin, Vice Aftokrator of the Chosen Ones

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lem0nhead

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:26 am

Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 2981 Location: Blood Island

Im awaiting menace’s entry on my contest also, you heard from him NB?

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Anonymous Prodigy

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:26 am

Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 4197 Location: United States

The moment has come… the dream cards have been received, and the tension has escalated to a fever pitch.

Team A (EL and WLC)

•Denethor, Disillusioned Ruler Gondor

Companion • Man
Strength: 8
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 5
To play, spot a follower (or 2 Gondor

companions).
When you play Denethor, you may play a follower or a Shire

companion from your discard pile or draw deck.
When your companion is placed in your dead pile, discard all followers from play, then remove all followers in your discard pile from the game.
“And I shall not forget it. Nor fail to reward that which is given. Fealty with love, valor with honor, disloyalty with vengeance.”

•Horn of Boromir, The Cloven Horn Gondor

Possession
Resistance: +1
Bearer must be Boromir or Denethor.
If bearer is Boromir, he is strength +1 for each Gondor

follower attached to a companion.
Skirmish: If bearer is Denether, discard a follower to make him strength +3 and damage +1.
’I have received this,’ said Denethor, and laying down his rod he lifted from his lap the thing that he had been gazing at. In each hand he held up one half of a great horn cloven through the middle: a wild-ox horn bound with silver.

versus Team B (KiE and FM)

•Denethor, Mad with Grief Gondor

Companion • Man
Strength: 8
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 5
Denethor is resistance -1 for each minion you can spot.
At the end of any phase, if Denethor has resistance 0, place him in the dead pile.
If Denethor is placed in the dead pile, you may spot X minions to remove a total of X burdens and/or threats.
Assignment: Exert Denethor to assign a minion to a man.

Designer’s notes: Alright, now before my sanity in designing a card like this, let me explain why I gave this character the abilities he has.

First off, in the book and the movies, Denethor was not only driven mad by the death of Boromir and the apparent death of Faramir, but by the overwhelming numbers of Sauron’s forces. In game terms, sanity would translate into resistance. That’s where Denethor’s first line of game text comes in.

Secondly, when Denethor finally reached the point where he was totally mad (resistance 0), he tried to commit suicide and murder Faramir. This is where the second line of his text comes in.

Next, as Denethor was slowly driven mad by Boromir’s death and by despair at Sauron’s forces, his ability to make good decisions lessened and he started to make some bad ones, like in the movie sending Faramir and his troop against an overwhelming force of orcs. In the game, this results in being able to assign more minions to a gondor man. This is where the third line of his text comes in.

The last line of his text we already discussed. I made it a response action so that you could remove the threats before they would get assigned. I made it for each minion you could spot to tie in with the first part of Denethor’s text in the same way gondor possessions tie in on Denethor, Last Ruling Steward’s text.

•Steward’s Ring Gondor

Artifact • Ring
Strength: +1
Vitality: +1
If any card would lower Denethor’s resistance below 1, it reduces it to 1 instead.
If Faramir is in the dead pile, discard this artifact.
While Boromir is in the dead pile, Denethor is strength +2 and damage +1.

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Team C (SoP and lem0n)

• Boromir’s Horn, Cloven Heirloom Gondor

Artifact • Horn
Bearer must be Denethor.
Each time a Gondor

companion is placed in the dead pile you may discard a minion (and heal a companion twice if that companion was Faramir or Boromir).
"Perhaps you’ve come to explain this. Perhaps you’ve come to tell me why my son is dead"

• Denethor, Bereaved Father Gondor

Companion • Man
Strength: 7
Vitality: 3
Res: 5
While you can spot Boromir, Denethor is twilight cost -1 and strength +1.
Skirmish: If Denethor is skirmishing a minion, exert him and place a Gondor

companion in the dead pile to make him strength +X where X is the number of Gondor

artifacts you can spot (limit +4). If Denethor wins that skirmish, you may remove that companion from the game.
"Lord Denethor is Boromir’s father. To give him news of his beloved son’s death would be most unwise".

versus Team D (CG and AC)

•Denethor, Commanding Steward Gondor

Companion • Man
Strength: 7
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 5
While Denethor has resistance 0, each companion is strength -2.
At the start of each maneuver phase, you may add 2 burdens to play a Gondor

possession or Gondor

artifact from your draw deck or discard pile.
"’Denethor is of another sort, proud and subtle, a man of far greater lineage and power, though he is not called a king.’"

•Stewards’ Ring Gondor

Artifact • Ring
Resistance +2
Bearer must be Denethor.
Each time you play a Gondor

possession or Gondor

artifact, you may exert Denethor to make the first Shadow player exhaust an unwounded minion.
"’...fealty with love, valour with honour, oath-breaking with vengeance.’"

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Team E (LH and AP)

• Denethor, Son of Ecthelion Gondor

Companion • Man
Strength: 8
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 5
To play, spot a Gondor

Man.
Muster. Each time you play a Gondor

artifact, you may exert Denethor to shuffle a Gondor

card from your discard pile into your draw deck.
At the start of the regroup phase, you may remove 2 Gondor

tokens to choose one: draw 2 cards or remove

.
”’…I will not forget it, nor fail to reward that which is given….’”

• Denethor’s Ring Gondor

Artifact • Ring
Resistance +1
Bearer must be Denethor.
When you play this artifact, you may reinforce a Gondor

token (and heal a Gondor

companion if you can spot a threat).
Response: If a Gondor

condition is about to be discarded, discard this artifact to prevent that (and exert a minion if you can spot Boromir).
”’Yea,’ he said; ‘for though the Stones be lost, they say, still the lords of Gondor have keener sight than lesser men….’”

versus Team F (m64 and NB)

•Denethor, Son of Ecthelion Gondor

Companion • Man
Strength: 5
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 4
When you play Denethor (except from your starting fellowship), you may play a Gondor possession or artifact that costs

or less from your draw deck on one of the following: Boromir, Faramir, Denethor.
At the start of the assignment phase, you may discard a Gondor card borne by Denethor to make Boromir or Faramir defender +1 until the regroup phase.
"Hail Denethor, Son of Ecthelion, Lord and Steward of Gondor!"

•White Rod of The Stewards, Broken Heirloom Gondor

Artifact • Staff
Vitality: +1
Resistance: -2
Bearer must be Boromir, Faramir, or Denethor.
When bearer is placed in the dead pile, you may discard a minion for each of the following you spot: Boromir, Faramir, Denethor.
Skirmish: Discard a card borne by bearer to make a Gondor companion damage +1 (or damage +2 if bearer is defender +1).
Then Denethor leaped upon the table, and standing there wreathed in fire and smoke he took up the staff of his stewardship that lay at his feet and broke it on his knee.

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Team G (BoQ and Daín)

•Denethor, Son of Ecthelion Gondor

Companion • Man
Strength: 7
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 5
While you can spot Boromir, Denethor is resistance +2.
Skirmish: Exert Denethor to make Boromir gain hunter 1 until the regroup phase.
Response: If Faramir is about to take a wound, exert Denethor to prevent that wound.
“‘Boromir was loyal to me....’”

•Steward’s Ring Gondor

Artifact • Ring
Bearer must be Denethor.
At the start of each fellowship phase, you may add a threat or discard this artifact to make a Gondor

Man strength +2 (or +3 if that Man is Boromir or Faramir) and resistance -1 until the regroup phase.
“Denethor looked indeed much more like a great wizard than Gandalf did, more kingly, beautiful, and powerful; and older.”

versus Team H (mmd and I55)

•Denethor, Corrupted Steward Men

Minion • Man
Strength: 7
Vitality: 3
Site: 3
Denethor may not be assigned to a skirmish.
Each wounded unbound companion skirmishing a Men

minion is resistance -1.
Each time a companion is killed, heal Denethor.
Shadow: If Denethor is in your hand, remove

to return a companion titled Denethor and all Free Peoples cards borne by him to his owner’s hand.
Skirmish: Exert Denethor to make a companion with resistance 4 or less strength -1.

•Denethor’s Sword, Vile Weapon Men

Possession • Hand Weapon
Strength +2
Bearer must be Denethor.
Skirmish: Exert Denethor to wound a companion with resistance 5 or less.
Regroup: Exert Denethor and add a threat to exhaust a Knight.

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Voting Regulations
Vote for your favorite team in each matchup. You cannot vote in your own matchup. Each vote counts as 1 point. The team in each matchup with the most votes will advance to Round 2. If there is a tie, a tie-breaker round will be held for the teams in question. Voting will end on Tuesday, August 7th.

Last edited by Anonymous Prodigy on Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:14 am; edited 1 time in totalI had to put something here.

lem0nhead

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:43 am

Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 2981 Location: Blood Island

Team A

Team E

Team G

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Lost Heir

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:39 am

Joined: 01 May 2007 Posts: 225 Location: Ohio

Team A
Team D
Team G

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Felipe Musco

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 12:37 pm

Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 2434 Location: Florianópolis, SC, Brasil

Team C (no real reason, just liked the cards a bit more, but tough call)

Team E (team F’s wording is a bit clunky and needs working)

Team H (both teams’ abilities lack flavor A LOT, so I’m going with team H for boldness!)

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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:38 pm

Joined: 01 May 2007 Posts: 225 Location: a place

Team B

Team D

Team E

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Anonymous Prodigy

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 2:32 pm

Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 4197 Location: United States

Team A
Team C
Team G

I had to put something here.