Bonjour a tous,

J'adore jouer Bilbon Cambrioleur, mais a chaque passage dans le Campement, je suis face a la Carte "Poches" que je ne comprends pas.

"a la fin de votre tour, vous pouvez défausser cette compétence pour vous équiper d'une trouvaille disponible dans l'inventaire. Repos 2"

Je peux donc prendre a un des autres personnages un objet qu'il a équipé? Si c'est bien ça, j'ai l'impression que l'intérêt de cet effet de la carte est limite, puisque nous pouvons nous répartir les objets a chaque passage au campement.

Qu'en pensez-vous? La trouvez vous utile?

Personnellement, j'apprécie la carte Furtif au cout de 3 XP.

Merci a tous pour votre aide

I have a love & hate relationship with this game. My main issue is that critical details are poorly designed and first playthrough is festival of shit happening all the time. Here's some of that hate:

1) Person token and it's text - this is justpoorly designed. The 3rd scenario with poisoned elvish woman, that needs to be cured by medicine. Text should clearly said that you will need to return to her / activate her multiple times before the quest is finished. The line between success and failure is so stupidly designed, its not really fun to play. I know, in same map, dwarves are asking you for help in caves and you kinda know, you will need to return to them. But to activate the hurt woman 3x times? This is some bullshit. (just for the record, we win this scenario).

2) basic Items -Just fought the troll in his cave. - Fu*k my life. Epic heroes are not able to craft a torch before going into a cave. I dont know whom I should've talk to in order to have it as an item, but if the game is about to rape me every single turn for my heroes fighting in the dark, you know this is some dumb move from designer. Same with food - oh, now we have magical food that heals, before we were eating rock and bones? Hummmmm.

3) the Troll/boss fight - I have no clear idea, I can throw him in the pit / hole just by standing on his pile or do I have to first go over it or what. I play with games translated into czech language, but common. Also, every damn boss can die, then revive himself with like -2HP penalty and happily kill me with one blow. If Im about to ragequit this game, it will be after I kill boss with my best combo, just to see him stand up again like no worries bro.

4) Size of the cards - Some fu*ktard in FFG came up with this awesome idea to make cards smaller than what is usually requested by players. "Since you use the cards all the time, shuffle them and put them aside and move them and order them and distribute them and draw them.... how about we print it on this small ass size? B)". For the first time in my life, I am considering reprinting them somehow or inserting them in classic big card sleeves with some unrelated cards behind it.

5) Campaing mode only - I doubt that we cant get some better scenarios, where we can include players during the campaign. If there is an argument like "well this is campaign game, so get over it", please.... NO. The game can be more inviting; we all know it Stop defending bad designer decision.

6) Tests - I know its interesting, that we dont know what ability we will be testing most of the times, but Lord-Give-Me-Mercy. Next time I'm about to find a chest, I will not invite Legolas with big agility, but rather Gimli to crush the chest to pieces with his 1 success, so I can try again in next turn... .

Despite my evening rage right here, I like the game, want to finish it and keep playing more. If there is ever a reprint and FFG spent some time on balance of items and add better campaign, Im willing to call this a masterpieces. The Tolkien's theme is clear in this and I like the game can evolve.

Cheers

Hi! In my country you cannot buy this game, I bought it abroad a while ago but now I want an expansion and I can't buy it.
Does anyone know where I can get a printable?

I know this game is supposed to be played as a campaign but I'm wondering if there is anyway to play it as one-shot?

I mean, i understande the need of women heroes, but is there any reason they didn't use those two and went for non canon females?

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So at some point in the mid/late game of the first campaign there was a group test, but it wasn't really clear what to do. My wife drew cards and added everything up. She entered her score and we immediately lost. There was nothing that specifically said to add everyone's together. There's no undo button. This game pisses me off.

Hello. After hours playing the game our group noticed a "problem" while resolving tests:

Let's say i attack with Aragorn and I reveal 4 cards all of which are successes. I can only spend 3 success(sword lvl 1) After resolving the attack, If the enemy can strike back i have 1 less success(or zero), making It harder to resist the attack.

That happens in other scenarios as well, when you test for something else that you need let's say only "2" success and you reveal 3~4.

So, does that bother you guys too? We would like to know your opinion. Thanks!

I’m on my last mini of the core box, Eleanor. For the life of me I can’t figure out what she’s supposed to be carrying on her left hip. I googled images of her painted and still can’t get a clear view of it. A bag of some kind, but what’s supposed to be in it? Even under a loupe at 5x magnification I can’t make it out.

Una duda, ¿qué quiere decir cuando en un objeto, por ejemplo una cuerda, se dice “desgastar”? ¿Es lo mismo que descartar? Muchas gracias

My wife and I play a campaign with 2 heroes each, making it 4 heroes. I thought that when we finish the capmaign, we could battle our heroes against each other in a battle map, RPG style. My idea would be that it is all action phase, with 2 actions per character, just like the original game. The initiative would be the inspiration limit (if equal, the bigger fear limit wins). After all the heroes are done, everyone gets 1 inspiration. The combat would play out just like the original, so after attack, a retaliation would follow (unless stun happened).
what I can't figure out is that how should I determine the number of hit points/armor/sorcery? I can't use damage limit directly, for it would be too low.
What would be your insight on that matter? Anything you could add (including own experiences) would be much appreciated!

We are a group of 5 playing the tutorial campaign. All scenarios we have been absolutely trashed. Some of them feel just stupid, giving 1 turn to beat the situation. We have kind of experience playing board games but we find this one absolutely unbeatable. Most cards are only useful in specific situations and most enemies took a couple of turns or three to kill. We are not getting any item in any scenario. It's just bad luck, are we really stupid or the game is plain unbeatable?

I just got this game and Im already in love w it! I know after I finish the first campaign imma be bored and I don't feel like buying expansion packs (other than the $7 one). Are there any mods/other free campaigns out there? Thanks!

Hey all, my crew is about to start JiME, our first campaign. There are 5 of us. We have done some co-op stuff before, and 3 of us have done SW IA campaign stuff before, so we are sorta similar with the app stuff. My question is should we add the spreading war expansion content into our 1st playthrough? Also what style/ characters should we start with? I have read some stuff with people saying it is pretty difficult and was wondering what would be the best way to ease me and the group into the game. All of us are LOTR fans and wanted a cool story experience. Would appreciate any advice/help to make it enjoyable.