Adventure deck made from all available sites

[Tbiesty]

Since making LOTR TCG virtual set stuff (see the "A fun way to play" topic in this "Bag End" forum for details) for my playing group, I realized that there is still one group of cards we have that sits around collecting dust:  "pre-Shadows sites". (We currently play with Shadows sites only)

Here's an idea I'm pitching to my playing group... I welcome opinions from this forum to help iron out any issues.

"I was looking through the "pre-Shadows" sites and started remembering how nice many of the sites were because they actually worked well with "pre-Shadows" cultures, which is most of what we play with anyway.  Yes, the "Shadows" sites are nice too (being able to pick any site at any time, etc); however, "Men" and "Orc" cultures are pretty much the only Shadow cultures (plus Nazgul) that really get specific benefits from the site text.  So I got to thinking... is there a way to get the best of both worlds?

Here's how it would work:

An adventure deck is made of Shadows sites (just like it currently is), and/or "pre-Shadows" sites (a site 1, a site 2, etc., each from any block).  The way it would work would be when you play a site, you can either play any Shadows site (just like we currently do), or play the appropriate "pre-Shadows" site.  For the "pre-Shadows" sites, since the "region cost" is built-in, the rule would be the "shadow number" cannot become less than 3 for region 2 sites or less than 6 for region 3 sites.

Here's an example of building an adventure deck using this idea:

Site 2 from Towers block
Site 5 from King block
7 Shadows sites

So as always an adventure deck is 9 sites, but you can now choose to "replace" any number of the "Shadows" sites with "pre-Shadows" sites.  As always, you can't have multiples of the same site name, or multiples of the same "site number".  When playing a site on the adventure path you would have to play the appropriate "pre-Shadows" site if you have it in your adventure deck, but otherwise can play any "Shadows" site.

Anyway, I'd thought I throw this idea out there.  There were some really cool sites that were awesome for specific decks. If there are specific sites that would need to be "fixed" (e.g.  Ettenmoors from the Fellowship block, so it doesn't work on Enduring characters is the one that comes to mind), I can quickly add a v-card to the Virtual Set Collection, so we don't have to memorize it)."

Thanks, and I welcome your feedback.

[Abbott465]

My playgroup actually already plays like this we use all of the sites. Out side of the rules you posted the other only limit we place is that if you use shadows sites there is still the max of 3 of one type of twilight rule. Its great fun to use all of the sites id recommend trying it out for sure.

[Tbiesty]

Out side of the rules you posted the other only limit we place is that if you use shadows sites there is still the max of 3 of one type of twilight rule.

Yep, we would want to keep that rule, too.  Awesome!  Thanks for the feedback!

[stimpy]

Interesting idea, Tbiesty. I'm more of a movie block player myself (I should say, I quit buying cards around Reflections but have recently gotten back into it) and I used to miss the useless fellowship sites when Towers came out... especially Hollin. I like it as a way to keep those old cards from collecting dust.

By the way, thanks for sending over your v-set; I especially like what you've done with banned cards to make them a bit more in line and therefore playable again.