Resource Short-events Archive

ARMED ESCORT (Resource Short-event)
Playable on any faction under your control at the end of the organization phase. Faction may act as an ally (with no skills) for combat purposes only. Faction's prowess equals its MP value +2; its body equals its MP value +5. If a strike succeeds against the faction and the body check is failed, the faction is discarded. This card may not be duplicated on a given faction. Discard this card at the end of the site phase or when the faction leaves your control.
Additionally, if Gates of Morning is in play: All influence attempts against this faction are made at -4, and Siege cards played on the site of this faction's company are discarded at the end of the site phase as long as this faction was not discarded due to combat.
"...the white fury of the North-men burned the hotter, and more skilled was their knighthood with long spears and bitter. Fewer they were but they clove through the Southrons like a fire-bolt in a forest." -LotRV

THENCE BY STRANGE ROADS (Resource Short-event)
Playable at the end of the organization phase on a Wizard moving as a company of one. As long as the Wizard's destination site is not a Shadow-hold or Dark-hold, no creature hazards may be played on him, and no specific effect that prevents action during the site phase (i.e. River, Lost in Free-domains, etc.) can be played. Discard this card at the end of the site phase.
"Counsel I gave and counsel I took. Thence by strange roads I came, and messages I bring to some of you." -LotRIII

DO NOT FEAR THE DEAD(Resource Short-event)
Elves in the company on which this card is played may not be targeted by Undead attacks or by effects, such as corruption checks, brought about by Undead hazards or Undead automatic-attacks. Discard this card at the end of the site phase.
"The company halted, and there was not a heart among them that did not quail, unless it were the heart of Legolas of the Elves, for whom the ghosts of Men have no terror." -LotRIII

DOOMED STRIKE(Resource Short-event)
Only playable on a wounded character, and only if this character's company is facing an attack where the defender chooses the defending characters. This wounded character takes a strike from the attack as if the character was tapping to face the strike. If all the attack's strikes are defeated, the defending player receives the marshalling points for the creature, if any. Eliminate this character and discard this card immediately following the resolution of combat. One item controlled by this character may be transferred to a non-wounded character in the same company after combat has been resolved.
"'This is an evil door,' said Halbarad, 'and my death lies beyond it. I will dare pass it nonetheless...'"-LotRV

I WILL DO THE STINGING(Resource Short-event)
Playable at the end of the organization phase on a character bearing a usable weapon. Declare a creature type (Animal, Man, Undead, Orc, etc.) when this card is played and place this card with the character. For the rest of the turn, the bearer of this card may face any number of strikes from any number of attacks by the declared creature type. This card may be tapped to allow the character to remain untapped against a strike and still gain full prowess. Discard this card at the end of the turn or if the character is wounded. May not be duplicated on a given company.
"Things were looking pretty bad again, when suddenly Bilbo appeared and charged into the astonished spiders unexpectedly from the side. 'Go on! Go on!' he shouted. 'I will do the stinging!' And he did..."-Hob
(Based on an idea by Steve Ward.)

THESE WE WILL TAKE (Resource Short-event)
Playable on an untapped Wizard whose company has just defeated an attack by Mouth of Sauron, Gothmog, or any Nazgul.
Tap the Wizard. You may remove any one minor or major item from your discard pile and place it with your Wizard. Wizard must make a corruption check at -1.
"Before his upraised hand the foul Messenger recoiled, and Gandalf coming seized and took from him the tokens: coat, cloak, and sword." -LotRV

INTO THE MOUNTAINS' HEART (Resource Short-event)
Playable on a Dwarf during the organization phase at a Ruins & Lairs, Shadow-hold, or Dark-hold in the following regions: Angmar, Gundabad, High Pass, Redhorn Gate, Gap of Isen, Southern Mirkwood, Udun, or Gorgoroth.
Tap the Dwarf. The Dwarf's company plays as their new site card any Under-deeps site whose surface site is within the region of the site they now occupy. Movement and hazards are played as if the company was traveling from a surface site to its adjacent Under-deeps site.
"...we should open up new ways, and display far chambers that are still dark, glimpsed only as a void beyond fissures in the rock." -LotRIII

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