Just thought I’d let you know, the link in your sig is linking to your Gollum DCs.

Cleverly As He Could
Event • Skirmish
Stealth.
At any forest site 1-7, add to prevent a Hobbit from taking wounds until the regroup phase. At any other site 1 to 7, add a threat to cancel a skirmish involving a Hobbit.

“Hobbits are clever at quietness, especially in woods....”

•Again Showed His Usefulness
Condition • Support Area
Each time a Shadow card is about to exert a companion, you may exert a Hobbit instead.
Maneuver: Exert a Hobbit (or spot Bilbo) to reveal a card from your draw deck and take it into hand. Discard this condition.

“‘Gandalf spoke true, as usual. A pretty fine burglar you make, it seems, when the time comes.’”

Dáin’s DC Duos #59

Cleverly As He Could
Event • Skirmish
Stealth.
At any forest site 1-7, add to prevent a Hobbit from taking wounds until the regroup phase. At any other site 1 to 7, add a threat to cancel a skirmish involving a Hobbit.
“Hobbits are clever at quietness, especially in woods....”
interesting, you can make it 2-7 since there are no skirmishes on site 1

•Again Showed His Usefulness
Condition • Support Area
Each time a Shadow card is about to exert a companion, you may exert a Hobbit instead.
Maneuver: Exert a Hobbit (or spot Bilbo) to reveal a card from your draw deck and take it into hand. Discard this condition.
“‘Gandalf spoke true, as usual. A pretty fine burglar you make, it seems, when the time comes.’”
how about the top or bottom card?
My question: should I put a stealth keyword on this one?

Dáin’s DC Duos #60

Numero sesenta! Ay, caramba!

You speak spanish?

To understand the following cards, I think we need a refresher in capturing and rescuing.

Capturing is a new concept in my sets, in which captured characters are placed in your support area. Captured characters cannot be used by their owner, and the player who captured them can get some benefits from them via other cards. They can only become "un-captured" when their owner rescues them somehow. Basically rescuing (and capturing) works much the same way as site liberation (and control). That’s probably the easiest way of putting it.

Players who capture an opponent’s characters can do all manner of nasty things. They can spot them to add (or remove, if you’re a FP player with captured minions) twilight, threats, and burdens. They can have characters and other cards with text that triggers off captured characters (like "while you can spot a captured character in your support area, this minion is fierce"). They can exert or wound them, giving them a slow or quick death while you watch, helpless to do anything about it. And of course, while one of your unique characters is captured, you can’t play another version in their place, so it’s the equivalent of them being in the dead pile...without you potentially being able to get to them in the dead pile. Yuck.

The one exception? Because it would obviously break the game, you can’t capture the Ring-bearer, much like you can’t discard the Ring-bearer. Sorry, but it ain’t THAT easy, Shadow players. However, you CAN try and capture the bulk of his fellowship, or at least a couple key characters in it. Likewise, FP players can try and capture some of the nastier minions out there and keep them from causing trouble. Heck, capture the Witch-King or Sauron and laugh at they stew in your support area.

Today’s cards focus on the other side of things...rescuing. To put them in better perspective, I’m going to give a sneak peak of a couple other cultures and their capturing cards. This bonus brought to you by the number sixty. Enjoy!

Fine Eating
Event • Shadow
Play a Spider and remove (X) to wound a captured character in your support area X times.
“‘Kill’em, I say. Kill ’em now and hang ’em dead for a while.’”

Awesome! Now what cards do you have to capture characters?

Since captured characters go in your support area, you can do lots of stuff to them. If you want to just kill them off, though, cards like this are good way to do it.

Spoils
Event • Response
If you capture any number of Free Peoples characters, exert your Orc to take any possessions on those characters into your hand.
“...and there were all the baggages and packages lying broken open, and being rummaged by goblins, and smelt by goblins, and fingered by goblins, and quarreled over by goblins.”

How on earth are you going to keep track of which cards are yours and which are your opponents? Great for gameplay, but how do you keep track of which cards are yours and which aren’t? LotR Online is good for this, but not the real game. Kinda like menace and triumph.

Normally a character keeps everything on him when he’s captured: wounds, conditions, possessions...whatever. Not so with this card.

To Rule Them All
Event • Maneuver
Toil 1.
To play, spot 3 Orcs, 2 minions, or Sauron.
Add or a threat for each site you control, companion or ally you have captured, and exhausted companion you can spot.
“‘One by one, the free lands of Middle-Earth fell to the power of the Ring....’”

Hm...9 threats auomatically...

Those are all pretty powerful, huh? There are several minions in those cultures and others that can pretty easily capture companions and allies, so it’s not going to be all that unlikely to have at least one or two characters in threat of being snatched from you.

Fortunately, you can fight back. Bilbo is one of the best ways.

NOW here comes the Duo.

Barrels Out of Bond
Event • Fellowship
Stealth.
Spot a Hobbit and exert X companions at a river to rescue X captured characters.
“‘For some time Bilbo sat and thought about this water-gate, and wondered if it could be used for the escape of his friends, and at last he had the desperate beginnings of a plan.’”

Okay, the duo. Perfect. This is a very good card.

A Mad Idea
Event • Maneuver
Stealth. To play, spot a Hobbit and a companion of another race.
Make the Ring-bearer put on The One Ring and add a threat to rescue every wounded companion in an opponent’s support area.
“‘We thought you had got some sensible notion, when you managed to get hold of the keys.’”

Kinda powerful. BTW, if you can exert a companion, can you exert a captured companion?

Each of these can outshine the other in the right situation. Barrels Out of Bond can grab as many captured character as the number of exertions you’re willing to dish out, so if your remaining fellowship is pretty healthy, you should be able to get all your captured characters back, or at least close to it. A Mad Idea only rescues companions (not allies this time), and only works if they’re wounded. That may seem like a deterrant, but keep this in mind: most minions only capture characters when they win skirmishes or otherwise wound them--plus cards like Fine Eating mean they may be wounded even AFTER they’re captured--so chances are that won’t be a problem. If you can live with the risk of voluntarily putting on the Ring (a "mad idea" ) and add just one little threat, you can save all the exertions of Barrels Out of Bond and still come out with lots of rescuing.

Whew! That was long. Hopefully you kept up and didn’t get bored.

You speak spanish?

Awesome! Now what cards do you have to capture characters?

How on earth are you going to keep track of which cards are yours and which are your opponents? Great for gameplay, but how do you keep track of which cards are yours and which aren’t? LotR Online is good for this, but not the real game. Kinda like menace and triumph.

Hm...9 threats auomatically...

Kinda powerful. BTW, if you can exert a companion, can you exert a captured companion?

Angry Spider
Minion • Spider
Strength: 4
Vitality: 5
Site: 7
Enduring. Fierce.
To play, spot a wounded Spider.
When you play this minion, you may exert it once for each captured character in your support area.
“‘I’ll soon put an end to that....’”
interesting. I would give it 5 base strength.

Fine Eating
Event • Shadow
Play a Spider and remove (X) to wound a captured character in your support area X times.
“‘Kill’em, I say. Kill ’em now and hang ’em dead for a while.’”
how about to assign X wounds to captured...

Spoils
Event • Response
If you capture any number of Free Peoples characters, exert your Orc to take any possessions on those characters into your hand.
“...and there were all the baggages and packages lying broken open, and being rummaged by goblins, and smelt by goblins, and fingered by goblins, and quarreled over by goblins.”
what? would you return them at the end of the game? personally i don’t like cards dealing with switching stuff

To Rule Them All
Event • Maneuver
Toil 1.
To play, spot 3 Orcs, 2 minions, or Sauron.
Add or a threat for each site you control, companion or ally you have captured, and exhausted companion you can spot.
“‘One by one, the free lands of Middle-Earth fell to the power of the Ring....’”
interesting. works for me

Barrels Out of Bond
Event • Fellowship
Stealth.
Spot a Hobbit and exert X companions at a river to rescue X captured characters.
“‘For some time Bilbo sat and thought about this water-gate, and wondered if it could be used for the escape of his friends, and at last he had the desperate beginnings of a plan.’”
fine by me

A Mad Idea
Event • Maneuver
Stealth. To play, spot a Hobbit and a companion of another race.
Make the Ring-bearer put on The One Ring and add a threat to rescue every wounded companion in an opponent’s support area.
“‘We thought you had got some sensible notion, when you managed to get hold of the keys.’”

Numero sesenta! Ay, caramba!

Angry Spider
Minion • Spider
Strength: 4
Vitality: 5
Site: 7
Enduring. Fierce.
To play, spot a wounded Spider.
When you play this minion, you may exert it once for each captured character in your support area.

“‘I’ll soon put an end to that....’”

Fine Eating
Event • Shadow
Play a Spider and remove (X) to wound a captured character in your support area X times.

“‘Kill’em, I say. Kill ’em now and hang ’em dead for a while.’”

Spoils
Event • Response
If you capture any number of Free Peoples characters, exert your Orc to take any possessions on those characters into your hand.

“...and there were all the baggages and packages lying broken open, and being rummaged by goblins, and smelt by goblins, and fingered by goblins, and quarreled over by goblins.”

To Rule Them All
Event • Maneuver
Toil 1.
To play, spot 3 Orcs, 2 minions, or Sauron.
Add or a threat for each site you control, companion or ally you have captured, and exhausted companion you can spot.

“‘One by one, the free lands of Middle-Earth fell to the power of the Ring....’”

Barrels Out of Bond
Event • Fellowship
Stealth.
Spot a Hobbit and exert X companions at a river to rescue X captured characters.

“‘For some time Bilbo sat and thought about this water-gate, and wondered if it could be used for the escape of his friends, and at last he had the desperate beginnings of a plan.’”

A Mad Idea
Event • Maneuver
Stealth. To play, spot a Hobbit and a companion of another race.
Make the Ring-bearer put on The One Ring and add a threat to rescue every wounded companion in an opponent’s support area.

“‘We thought you had got some sensible notion, when you managed to get hold of the keys.’”

Angry Spider
Minion • Spider
Strength: 4
Vitality: 5
Site: 7
Enduring. Fierce.
To play, spot a wounded Spider.
When you play this minion, you may exert it once for each captured character in your support area.
“‘I’ll soon put an end to that....’”

Fine Eating
Event • Shadow
Play a Spider and remove (X) to wound a captured character in your support area X times.
“‘Kill’em, I say. Kill ’em now and hang ’em dead for a while.’”

Spoils
Event • Response
If you capture any number of Free Peoples characters, exert your Orc to take any possessions on those characters into your hand.
“...and there were all the baggages and packages lying broken open, and being rummaged by goblins, and smelt by goblins, and fingered by goblins, and quarreled over by goblins.”

To Rule Them All
Event • Maneuver
Toil 1.
To play, spot 3 Orcs, 2 minions, or Sauron.
Add or a threat for each site you control, companion or ally you have captured, and exhausted companion you can spot.
“‘One by one, the free lands of Middle-Earth fell to the power of the Ring....’”

Barrels Out of Bond
Event • Fellowship
Stealth.
Spot a Hobbit and exert X companions at a river to rescue X captured characters.
“‘For some time Bilbo sat and thought about this water-gate, and wondered if it could be used for the escape of his friends, and at last he had the desperate beginnings of a plan.’”

A Mad Idea
Event • Maneuver
Stealth. To play, spot a Hobbit and a companion of another race.
Make the Ring-bearer put on The One Ring and add a threat to rescue every wounded companion in an opponent’s support area.
“‘We thought you had got some sensible notion, when you managed to get hold of the keys.’”