New member here, been playing LOTR TCG since the very first week in 2001, played at the Worlds in 2002 (eliminated on the first round though..). Love the game but disliked all the change in "Shadows", especially the new cultures and site path, and drop a bit from the scene then, but that's another story...
I saw the new Hobbit movie three times and I think the LOTR TCG potential is enormous.
I think there's enough talent on this board to build a modest fan-made "virtual set".
Here's what I have in mind:
- Let's have a modest objective: about 64 cards, just enough to play a full game with just the new cards.
- Cultures: Dwarves, Shire, Gandalf (including
Radagast,s stuff), Elves, Gundabad(NEW/Warg-riders), Moria(=Misty mountains goblins, including Trolls), Nazgûls (for wraiths and everything Corruption-related), Gollum, Dragon(NEW, for the next movie, just a couple of "foreshadowing" cards)
- For the game Mechanics, the most important thing would be to establish a new ring-less beginning of the game and possibly totally ring-less games. Rules would be the same, but Corruption could be added without an actual ring-bearer and winning/loosing should be mostly a survival test. Bilbo would key to winning/loosing, even without the ring, so you still have to protect "The Hobbit" to win. This will need some thinking..
- I would return the site path to a 1 to 9 numbering scheme. The THREE regions could still be used for game-text, I'd like a combination of the two.
- We would need something like two new loaded keywords and two new unloaded keywords at minimum. Dwarven are obviously the key target of one of these, maybe Wargs for the other. We could recycle a lot of the old Moria stuff for the Goblins and Trolls.
Warg-riders are pretty much already established, as all other cultures. "Dragon" should be something special, but indirectly affecting the game for now.
- Conditions/Events/Allies would recycle a lot of the old mechanics. Some "Riddle" cards for Gollum are a must.
That's about it to start with.
Obvious cards:
New Ring
Thorin+ the 12 dwarves (Maybe 2 by card in some cases to respect the 9 companions limit..)
Gandalf (rare+common?)
Bilbo (rare+common ?)
Gollum (+new Riddle cards=events/conditions??)
Radagast (+hat, sledge, house, staff, etc.)
Elrond
Random Elves
Random Dwarves
Random Hobbit allies
Eagles
Azog
Random Wargs/Warg riders
Goblin-King
Random Goblins
The Three trolls
Stone Giant (maybe not..)
Dol Guldur's Wraith
Mirkwood Giant Spiders
StingGlamdringPipe-weed/pipes
Fir cones
Contract
Ponies
Mirkwood evil taint
Necromancer (condition ?)
Smaug's sleep (condition)
Sites:
Bilbo's Hole
Trollshaws
Rivendell (site 3 or 6?)
Misty Mountain (outside)
Misty Mountains (inside)
Buckland
Rhudaur plains
Rhudaur forest
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I'll stop here.
Anybody in ?