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The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Nightmare Deck: The Nîn-in-Eilph

The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Nightmare Deck: The Nîn-in-Eilph

Fantasy Flight Games · 2016Expansion
1–260 min13+ yrs7.5 BGG356Co-opCouples
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How do you play The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Nightmare Deck: The Nîn-in-Eilph?

From the publisher: Middle-earth and The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game are full of adventures, and your road goes ever, ever on. Sometimes, when the mood strikes you—or when your heroes take a wrong turn—you may see that road darken… and then darken again.

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From the publisher:

Middle-earth and The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game are full of adventures, and your road goes ever, ever on. Sometimes, when the mood strikes you—or when your heroes take a wrong turn—you may see that road darken… and then darken again.

Nightmare Decks allow you to revisit your favorite scenarios recast within the darker and deadlier shadows of Nightmare Mode. Each Nightmare Deck introduces new encounter cards that you exchange with specified cards from the adventure's standard encounter deck. The result is a more challenging adventure that comes full of novel and thematic new twists.

The Nîn-in-Eilph emphasizes the difficulties of making swift passage through the marsh with a series of quest stages featuring the Time X keyword that shuffle back into the quest deck if you can't fully complete them in time. Accordingly, it's vital to make swift progress through each Stage 2 and Stage 3, lest you find yourself in danger of threating out as your heroes begin to sink in the mire.

Rather than alter the quest structure in any significant way, The Nîn-in-Eilph Nightmare Deck ratchets up the tension by introducing a number of effects that reinforce its central concept—your repeated cycling of quest stages. In Nightmare Mode, you don't just have to move from quest stage to quest stage, you have to do so while your staging area fills up with Creatures and locations that trigger disruptive Forced effects.

game anatomy
BGG rating7.5 / 10
Vibe
Co-opCouples
Play time
60 min
Players
1–2
Recommended age
13+ yrs
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The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Nightmare Deck: The Nîn-in-Eilph is a expansion for base-game game, for 1–2 players, taking ~60 minutes, featuring cooperative game. Check the Rules tab for setup, gameplay, and scoring, or ask Trișache anything about The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Nightmare Deck: The Nîn-in-Eilph — our AI assistant built by howtoplay.ro and trained specifically on board game rulebooks.
Q4How many players does The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Nightmare Deck: The Nîn-in-Eilph support?
The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Nightmare Deck: The Nîn-in-Eilph is played by 1–2 players.
Q5How long does a game of The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Nightmare Deck: The Nîn-in-Eilph take?
A game of The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Nightmare Deck: The Nîn-in-Eilph takes about 60 minutes. (The first game doesn't count. It never counts.)
Q6What age is The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Nightmare Deck: The Nîn-in-Eilph for?
The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game – Nightmare Deck: The Nîn-in-Eilph is recommended from age 13.
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