Aragorn’s Quest

In our last installment, we took a look at the quest structure of the upcoming quest to add to our narrative cycle - The Hunt for Gollum. It's not a quest that is remarkable for its difficulty, but it can have its moments, particularly when you have 3 Clues out and staging flips 2 Hunters …

The Hunt for Gollum – Quest Analysis

While the writeup for Escape from Dol Guldur is still a work-in-progress, I've already done some long thinking about the next quest in the cycle. The Hunt for Gollum represents another narrative gap in the story here - such things will become much, much less common as the designer-provided storylines become tighter and more interwoven, …

Rebirth!

Hello everybody! It's been a while since I've posted. Life has been hectic, and my new job has included a lot of overtime, so even what time I did have available has multiple priorities fighting for attention. And, as it happens, the blog took a back burner to more important matters. But things are calmed …

Agents of the White Council – Interlude

The rising sun shed a rosy light across the slowly rolling river. The sparkling mists should have been breathtaking in the crisp dawn air. But for Eleanor, the birth of a new day held no joy. Legolas' scouts had reported that several bands of Orcs scattered by the storm and the battle were regrouping, and …

Shadows of Mirkwood

The expedition to rescue Lanwyn from the dungeons of the Necromancer proceeds apace. I've had a great deal of success with the test runs, and I'm quite happy with these deck's performance. I think that having Galadriel be the captured hero is the ideal situation - the loss of the card draw and threat reduction …

Agents of the White Council – Journey Along the Anduin

For Eleanor, the wide fields and vales of the Anduin valley seemed almost a paradise after the shadows of the dark forest. The sight of the open sky lifted everyone's spirits, and the bright sun appeared to banish the dark memories that had haunted the party after their narrow escape from the spider-demon. Some of …

Escape from Dol Guldur – Deckbuilding

In our last installment, we took a look at both the questing and the narrative challenges posed by the next quest up on our slate - Escape from Dol Guldur. Today, let's put together a set of narrative decks to take against it. The first order of business is taking a look at the story …