Return to the Paths of the Dead - Abandoning All Reason

[Elf_Lvr]

•Eowyn, No Living Man
Companion • Man
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 7
While skirmishing an enduring minion, Eowyn is strength +2 for each wound on that minion.
While skirmishing a twilight or minion, Eowyn gains enduring 1.
"'I am no man!'"

Neat. Maybe a little to specific to be really useful, though. Maybe just use her, but kill her for Eomer if she doesn't get bonuses from anything...

•Windfola, Swift Steed
Possession • Mount
Bearer must be a Man.
At the start of each skirmish involving bearer, each minion skirmishing bearer must exert.
Desperation - If bearer is Eowyn all minions skirmishing Eowyn or Merry lose fierce and cannot gain fierce until the regroup phase.

It's okay - but not fantastic. I might add a cost reduction when played on Eowyn, or even a unique companion.

Oh, and maybe add some s to those card titles, makes 'em look neater.

[lem0nhead]

•Eowyn, No Living Man
Companion • Man
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 7
While skirmishing an enduring minion, Eowyn is strength +2 for each wound on that minion.
While skirmishing a twilight or minion, Eowyn gains enduring 1.
"'I am no man!'"

Nice.

•Windfola, Swift Steed
Possession • Mount
Bearer must be a Man.
At the start of each skirmish involving bearer, each minion skirmishing bearer must exert.
Desperation - If bearer is Eowyn all minions skirmishing Eowyn or Merry lose fierce and cannot gain fierce until the regroup phase.

All minions should read each minion. Its ok but not that good for 2. Might as well cost 1.

[Thranduil]

•Eowyn, No Living Man
Companion • Man
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Resistance: 7
While skirmishing an enduring minion, Eowyn is strength +2 for each wound on that minion.
While skirmishing a twilight or minion, Eowyn gains enduring 1.
"'I am no man!'"

Fun. Perhaps Valiant wouldn't go amiss.

•Windfola, Swift Steed
Possession • Mount
Bearer must be a Man.
At the start of each skirmish involving bearer, each minion skirmishing bearer must exert.
Desperation - If bearer is Eowyn all minions skirmishing Eowyn or Merry lose fierce and cannot gain fierce until the regroup phase.

How about "At the start of each skirmish involving bearer and Merry..."? That might make it more worth its cost.

Thranduil

[DáinIronfoot]

Nothing new to add, really. I agree with the comments of the other three, especially Thran.

[Anvar]

Thanks for all comments, some minor adjustments made. A trio of skirmish events to kick off the new week. The last two are based on the lament that Eowyn sings at Theodred's funeral:

Desperate Strike
Event • Skirmish
Scour three cards to make a companion strength +2 for each card you scour.
"Then tottering, struggling up, with her last strength she drove her sword between crown and mantle, as the great shoulders bowed before her."

An Evil Death
Event • Skirmish
Make a companion strength +2, or +2 for each unique card in your dead pile.
"An evil death has set forth the noble warrior".

Sorrowing Minstrels
Event • Skirmish
Make a companion gain enduring 2.
"That noble cousin who always held me dear / Now is held in darkness, enclosed."

[Thranduil]

Desperate Strike
Event • Skirmish
Scour three cards to make a companion strength +2 for each card you scour.
"Then tottering, struggling up, with her last strength she drove her sword between crown and mantle, as the great shoulders bowed before her."

Risky, but fair enough. Desperate... *cough*

An Evil Death
Event • Skirmish
Make a companion strength +2, or +2 for each card in your dead pile.
"An evil death has set forth the noble warrior".

This one is quite funny. I think it could be though.

Sorrowing Minstrels
Event • Skirmish
Make a companion gain enduring 2.
"That noble cousin who always held me dear / Now is held in darkness, enclosed."

Awesome!

Thranduil

[lem0nhead]

Desperate Strike
Event • Skirmish
Scour three cards to make a companion strength +2 for each card you scour.
"Then tottering, struggling up, with her last strength she drove her sword between crown and mantle, as the great shoulders bowed before her."

Seeing as your discarding 3 cards off your deck that could have been say an event that is better than this one i think it could cost 0. No matter what you engineer desperation like, 3 cards is 3 cards you could have used and therefore not a good thing.

An Evil Death
Event • Skirmish
Make a companion strength +2, or +2 for each card in your dead pile.
"An evil death has set forth the noble warrior".

Change card to companion, no way you should get bonuses from having non charcters in your dead pile.

Sorrowing Minstrels
Event • Skirmish
Make a companion gain enduring 2.
"That noble cousin who always held me dear / Now is held in darkness, enclosed."

Nice.

[DáinIronfoot]

I second lem0n.

[Anvar]

Thanks for all comments. Since I deliberately wanted An Evil Death to work will all types of cards, it now counts unique cards - so it can count cards on Snowmane's Howe but not non-unique Rohan companions.

A pair of events today. The first is based on Eomer's response to finding the body of Eowyn. The second is Rohan's card which is anti-monoculture shadow decks. This is to be the stick that goes with various carrots of playing and other cultures together:

Death Take Us All!
Event • Response
If your Man is about to be placed in the dead pile or stacked on a tomb, exert a companion to make each Man strength +3 until the end of the turn.

Massed Assault
Event • Maneuver
Spot 2 Men and add a threat to discard a possession borne by a minion. You may then discard a possession borne by another minion of the same culture.
"And lo! even as he laughed at despair he looked out again on the black ships, and he lifted up his sword to defy them."

[sickofpalantirs]

cut the second ones cost to 2...rohan has always had a weakness against corsairs it seems...this should help

[DáinIronfoot]

Death Take Us All!
Event • Response
If your man is about to be placed in the dead pile, add a threat to make each man strength +3 until the end of the turn.

Nifty. As always, though, make sure to capitalize "Man".

Massed Assault
Event • Maneuver
Exert a man and add a threat to discard a possession borne by a minion. You may then discard a possession borne by another minion of the same culture.
"And lo! even as he laughed at despair he looked out again on the black ships, and he lifted up his sword to defy them."

Same comment here. Never been too big into minion possession discarding myself, but it sure can be a lifesaver if used at the right time. Considering this exerts AND adds a threat, you can probably bring the cost down to , and maybe even .

[Elf_Lvr]

Death Take Us All!
Event • Response
If your man is about to be placed in the dead pile, add a threat to make each man strength +3 until the end of the turn.

It seems like an odd cost to add a threat, since that threat would then immediately need to be placed as a threat wound once the companion actually dies. Maybe just make it trigger when the companion is already in the dead pile. Or if you intended the wound to be placed, you could just use an exertion as the cost.

Massed Assault
Event • Maneuver
Exert a man and add a threat to discard a possession borne by a minion. You may then discard a possession borne by another minion of the same culture.
"And lo! even as he laughed at despair he looked out again on the black ships, and he lifted up his sword to defy them."

Ditto Dain and SoP.

[lem0nhead]

Death Take Us All!
Event • Response
If your man is about to be placed in the dead pile, add a threat to make each man strength +3 until the end of the turn.

Id add 2 threats and lower cost to 1 seems more balanced, pool is less signifcant to the shadow than threats in the skirmish and this is one helluva bonus.

Massed Assault
Event • Maneuver
Exert a man and add a threat to discard a possession borne by a minion. You may then discard a possession borne by another minion of the same culture.
"And lo! even as he laughed at despair he looked out again on the black ships, and he lifted up his sword to defy them."

Fair enough but could cost to youre already exerting AND getting a threat and rohan are supposed to excel at possession discard.

[Thranduil]

Death Take Us All!
Event • Response
If your man is about to be placed in the dead pile, add a threat to make each man strength +3 until the end of the turn.

My problem with this card (apart from the fact that I'm not sure whether the threat you just added then triggers or not) is that I wouldn't clog my hand with it. Make it a condition which gets discarded, or I don't think anyone would use it.

Massed Assault
Event • Maneuver
Exert a man and add a threat to discard a possession borne by a minion. You may then discard a possession borne by another minion of the same culture.
"And lo! even as he laughed at despair he looked out again on the black ships, and he lifted up his sword to defy them."

Agreed with lem0n - if it already costs , it doesn't need to add a threat. In fact, I'm not sure it needs to cost with just the exertion.

Thranduil

[Anvar]

Death Take Us All now additionally triggers when a Man is about to be stacked on a tomb. Instead of adding a threat (which I agree was a bit confusing) it now exerts a companion.

Massed assault has had the costs toned down a lot, reduced to and a threat instead of an exertion.

Some more cards tonight.