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sickofpalantirs |
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 11:31 am |
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Location: somwhere, over the rainbow way up high. There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby.
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DáinIronfoot wrote: Well, that was much more popular than I expected. I’ll have to do some more stuff with artifacts, I guess!  Thanks, guys.
Here’s The Board Is Set for  ...kinda. Enjoy!
 • Disarming Words
Condition • Support Area
Spell.
Each time another  spell is played and you cannot spot 3 tokens here, add an  token here.
Response: If an event is played, exert Saruman and remove an  token from here to cancel that event and place it on top of its owner’s draw deck.
“‘Have I not earnestly studied this matter? Into Anduin the Great it fell; and long ago, while Sauron slept, it was rolled down the River to the Sea. There let it lie until the End.’”
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Thranduil |
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:02 pm |
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Fantastic! If only The Board is Set was like that!
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DáinIronfoot |
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:37 pm |
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Help.
I think I’ve wandered a bit in this culture, branching off in several directions and leaving a couple strategies too sparse. If anyone is willing, I’d greatly appreciate if you could take a look at the cards I’ve posted thus far and help me focus the last few cards around specific themes and shore them up. I don’t want to be so varied it’s okay at several things, but not really GOOD at anything in particular, know what I mean?
So, if you look through and get any ideas for where to go next, I’d be much oblidged.  |
Best regards, Dáin, Vice Aftokrator of the Chosen Ones
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NBarden |
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:36 pm |
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Make a card that takes a whole bunch of conditions Isengard is decent at and make you somewhat meet all of them to corrupt the RB. Like, Stopping to the Kill, Shapes Slowly Advancing, The Irresistible Shadow, Despair, etc.
Then you’ll be fine. |
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DáinIronfoot |
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:42 pm |
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...huh? I understand corrupt-the-Ring-bearer conditions (Shapes Slowly Advancing is one of my favorite Shadow cards), but I don’t follow exactly what you’re recommending I do for .
I DO like the idea of a corruption condition for them (good call! ), but I judt don’t understand what kind of text you’re recommending it have. |
Best regards, Dáin, Vice Aftokrator of the Chosen Ones
Check out Lasting Alliances, The Road Ahead, and Ages of Middle-earth, three of my five dream card sets that make up Wars of the Ring. Oh, and I have a trade list now!
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NBarden |
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 4:47 pm |
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As you said, none of the strategies are quite tier 1 by themselves. But, if you combine them all together via an auto-corrupt card, then in general becomes united and all the strategies work together.
See Put Forth His Strength. Meet three condition halfway to corrupt the ring-bearer.
With , accomplish a few of the things is "decent" at, and then auto-corrupt. Voila. |
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Thranduil |
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 5:18 pm |
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Looking through your cards, there are a few things that strike me:
1) There are a few cards that use threats (eg. Palantir, Lurtz’s Bow) but no way of adding them.
2) There seem to be lots of subcultures, and very little unity or ’umph’. Some cards using Saruman as an engine to unite the possessiony strategy, the trackers, the orcs etc. would be great maybe by manipulating things they could or do have in common, for example tokens.
3) There are a lot of cards that only take effect against certain races or cultures. How about making cards that, for example, makes a companion a Wizard or that gives a card the culture so you can exploit it better? Otherwise, I would never use any of those cards that I was referencing. You could do similar things to help your multi-culture shadow cards as well.
That’s about it, really. My main point being, it needs focus and substance to make this culture even better than it already is.
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DáinIronfoot |
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:39 pm |
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Okay, FINALLY back for (hopefully) regular updates again. And there was great rejoicing...or at least, great screaming.
Okay, here are two new cards, one of which addresses Thran’s first observation and one of which is made as per NBarden’s comments. Hope they look alright. It’s amazing how hard it is to get back into the swing of things after being out of it for a few days. Anyway, enjoy!
•One Gate, Strongly Guarded
Condition • Support Area
Each time the fellowship moves, spot 3 minions (or Saruman) to add or a threat.
“‘I rode under the arch, and the gate closed silently behind me, and suddenly I was afraid, though I knew no reason for it.’”
Corrupts the Heart
Condition • Support Area
To play, exert 2 minions (or Saruman).
Each time an condition or artifact is played, you may add an token here.
Each time a burden is removed or an condition or artifact is discarded, remove an token from here.
At the start of your Shadow phase, you may spot 10 tokens here to corrupt the Ring-bearer. The Free Peoples player may add 3 burdens to prevent this and discard this condition.
“‘...as long as it is in the world it will be a danger even to the Wise. For nothing is evil in the beginning.’” |
Last edited by DáinIronfoot on Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:05 pm; edited 2 times in totalBest regards, Dáin, Vice Aftokrator of the Chosen Ones
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Anonymous Prodigy |
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 12:46 pm |
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I’d tone down Corrupts the Heart a bit... possibly raise the cost to , or add a spotting requirement.  |
I had to put something here. |
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Thranduil |
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:01 pm |
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DáinIronfoot wrote:  • One Gate, Strongly Guarded
Condition • Support Area
Each time the fellowship moves, spot 3  minions (or Saruman) to add  or a threat.
“‘I rode under the arch, and the gate closed silently behind me, and suddenly I was afraid, though I knew no reason for it.’”
Nice. Can’t think of anything wrong apart from the title which is a little weird.
DáinIronfoot wrote: Corrupts the Heart
Condition • Support Area
Each time an  condition or artifact is played, you may add an  token here.
Each time a burden is removed or an  condition or artifact is discarded, remove an  token from here.
At the start of your Shadow phase, you may spot 10  tokens here to corrupt the Ring-bearer. The Free Peoples player may add 3 burdens to prevent this.
“‘...as long as it is in the world it will be a danger even to the Wise. For nothing is evil in the beginning.’”
I agree with AP. I might make it exert 1 or 2 minions to play with the option of spotting Saruman. Nice card though!
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