The Last Homely House
Middle-Earth => Bag End => Topic started by: ChinaBlade on June 21, 2009, 02:16:12 PM
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Hi Everyone,
I'm new to the site and have been going through the forums trying to get a feel for what's going on. Although there’s a lot I don’t understand, and I’ve never played an online TCG, it’s great to see there’s still an interest in LotR TCG. I always thought the game did great justice to its source material and bought a lot of fun along the way.
I started out with the Star Trek CCG when it first came out. I have complete black bordered and white bordered collections of at least the first 5 sets lying in a box somewhere. It's hard to accept that they aren't worth the money and effort it took to collect them.
I was only ever a casual player of LotR TCG, but collected it as part of a wider interest in the works of Tolkien. I collected everything (except foils) up to and including Mount Doom. After that, I never knew what happened to the game or Decipher.
I play a lot of boardgames and recently pulled out a couple of Fellowship starter decks to introduce my friends to the CCG concept. It was a big hit and now features regularly in our gaming sessions.
It was enough to rekindle a bit of the old spark and I’ve since managed to pick up some booster boxes of Shadows and Riders for around $10 each. I can’t see me going as far as RoS and T&D, but I’ll see how it goes.
I have a box of Foils from the first 9 sets gathering dust, so I guess I could put them up for trade to try and fill gaps in the new sets.
Best wishes to everyone involved with the site from here in the United Kingdom.
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Welcome Chinablade ;D!
I am sure you will get some of the newer cards although The Hunters, The Rise of Saruman and treachery & deceit are the hardest to find.
There are some new mechanics concerning keywords (eg hunter, muster) sitepath (region, replacing sites) values (resistance instead of signets) and followers (instead of allies)...
Good luck and best wishes,
Elrohir
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Welcome to the forums!
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Welcome as well and hope you find the formus helpful!
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Hey ChinaBlade where do you play? Im in the UK.
Welcome!
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welcome from the dutch heart of middle earth
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Many thanks to everyone for the warm welcome.
Since our first post we have started getting hold of some cards:
4 different Shadows starter decks + 3 booster boxes (2 cards shy of a complete (nonfoil) set)
2 different Bloodlines starter decks + 1 booster box
2 different Black Rider starter decks + 1 complete Black Rider set (nonfoil) + 3 booster boxes (4 cards shy of a complete (nonfoil) set)
Ages End box
The Expanded collection
The Wraith collection
2 Hunters starter decks
The Hunters, RoS and T&D sets seem pretty impossible to find.
From day one (many years ago) we decided to not even attempt to collect complete foil sets. We have a shoebox of 100s of foils from various sets, as well as many copies of promos and Countdown Collection cards. Hopefully we will be able to put these to good use in trades to fill the remaining gaps in our collection. When we have time we will take a look at the trading rules (never done that before).
Having been out of the loop for so long, we have a lot of questions. We had better post them in small batches, and to the right forums!
Best Wishes to all from the West Midlands of the United Kingdom - Tolkien Country!
Steve & Leigh :)