Some older scenarios (including those in early printings Easy Mode of the core game) do not have the above mentioned Easy Mode is an alternative mode of play, ideal for new “difficulty” indicator icon on relevant cards in their players and for players who prefer the narrative and encounter decks. The following is a list of which cards cooperative aspects of the game with less challenge. should be removed from each encounter set when To play a scenario in Easy Mode, simply take the playing Easy Mode. following steps during setup of any scenario: For example: William is playing the "Conflict at the During step 2 of Setup, "Place Heroes and Set Initial Carrock" scenario in Easy Mode. The "Conflict at the Threat Levels", add one resource to each hero’s Carrock" encounter deck consists of the Journey Down resource pool. the Anduin, Wilderlands, and Conflict at the Carrock When building the encounter deck, remove any card with encounter sets. First, William adds 1 resource to each the “difficulty” indicator around its encounter set icon (a of his heroes' resource pools. Then, William removes gold border) from the current scenario’s encounter deck. the following cards from the encounter deck: 1 copy of Massing at Night, 2 copies of Gladden Fields, 1 copy of Hill Troll, 1 copy of Marsh Adder, 2 copies of Despair, 2 copies of Muck Adder, 2 copies of River Langflood, 2 copies of A Frightened Beast, 1 copy of 4/11 Sacked! and 2 copies of Roasted Slowly. Then, William follows the setup instructions on Stage 1A of Conflict at the Carrock, and begins playing! Illus. Tiziano Baracchi ©2013 Middle-earth Enterprises ©2013 FFG 69 1 Lord of the Rings A Journey to Rhosgobel Into the Pit 3x Exhaustion 1x Patrol Leader Core Set 3x Swarming Insects 3x Signs of Conflict 1x Festering Wounds Dol Guldur Orcs The Seventh Level 1x Chieftain Ufthak The Hills of Emyn Muil 1x Cave-troll 1x Dol Guldur Beastmaster 2x The East Wall of Rohan 1x Orc Horn Blower 1x Necromancer's Pass 2x Impassable Chasm 2x The Necromancer's Reach 2x Rockslide Flight from Moria 1x Orc Horse Thieves 2x Shadow of Fear Sauron's Reach 3x A Foe Beyond 2x Eastern Crows The Dead Marshes 1x Evil Storm 2x A Wisp of Pale Sheen 2x The Lights of the Dead Dwarrowdelf Spiders of Mirkwood 2x Giant Marsh Worm 2x Caught in a Web 2x Impassable Bog The Redhorn Gate 1x Eyes of the Forest 2x The Heart of the Marshes 1x Hummerhorns 2x Rocky Crags Return to Mirkwood 2x Freezing Cold Wilderlands 2x The Spider's Ring 1x Avalanche 2x Mountain Troll 1x Hill Troll 1x Gollum's Anguish 1x Marsh Adder 1x Gollum's Bite Road to Rivendell 2x Despair 1x Wasted Provisions 2x Mirkwood Bats 2x Sleeping Sentry Passage Through 3x Attercop, Attercop 2x Followed by Night Mirkwood 2x Orc Ambush None The Watcher Khazad-d m in the Water Journey Down the Anduin Deeps of Moria 2x Stagnant Creek 2x Great Cave-troll 1x Ill Purpose 1x Massing at Night 2x Wrapped! 2x Gladden Fields 1x Orc Drummer 2x Massing in the Deep 1x Grasping Tentacle Escape from Dol Guldur 1x Thrashing Tentacle Hazards of the Pit 1x Striking Tentacle 2x Dungeon Jailor 2x Crumbling Ruin The Long Dark 1x Dark and Dreadful 1x Sudden Pitfall 3x Foul Air Shadows of 1x Dreadful Gap 1x Gathering Ground Mirkwood 1x Vast and Intricate Misty Mountains 1x Goblin Warlord The Hunt for Gollum 1x Mountain Warg Foundations of Stone 1x Turbulent Waters 2x The Old Ford 2x Lost and Alone 1x Goblintown Scavengers Goblins of the Deep 2x Nameless Thing 3x Hunters From Mordor 2x Elder Nameless Thing 2x Old Wives' Tales 3x Watchful Eyes Shadow and Flame Conflict at the Carrock Plundering Goblins 2x Fires in the Deep 1x Chieftain of the Pit 2x Muck Adder 2x Counter-Spell 2x Undisturbed Bones 2x River Langflood 2x Leaping Flame 2x A Frightened Beast Twists and Turns 1x Sacked 2x Roasted Slowly 2x Branching Paths 2x Zigil Mineshaft 1x Lightless Passage 2 Heirs of N menor Against the The Great Goblin Shadow 1x Front Porch Streets of Gondor 2x Chaos in the Cavern 1x Lost in the City The Steward's Fear We Must Away, Ere 1x Local Trouble 1x Houses of the Dead Break of Day Brigands 2x Knife in the Back 2x Troll Camp 2x Lots or None at All 1x Umbar Assassin The Dr adan Forest 3x Hungry Troll Brooding Forest 2x Glade of Cleansing 1x Roast 'Em or Boil 'Em? 2x Drúadan Drummer 2x Overgrown Trail 2x Drúadan Hunter Over the Misty 2x Lost Companion 1x Ancestral Clearing Mountains Grim Creatures of the Forest 2x Stone-giant Encounter at Amon D n 3x Galloping Boulders 2x Watcher in the Wood 2x Craven Eagle 2x Morgul Spider 2x Burnt Homestead Dungeons Deep and Caverns Dim Southrons Assault on Osgiliath 1x Great Gray Wolf 2x Southron Support 2x Uruk Lieutenant 1x Hiding in the Trees 1x Mûmak 2x Southron Commander 1x Come down little bird Ravaging Orcs 1x West Quarter 1x East Quarter 3x Orc Rabble 1x Counter-attack On the Doorstep Mordor Elite The Blood of Gondor Wilderland 2x The Master's Malice 2x Conflict at the Crossroads 2x Orc War Camp 2x Orc Ambusher 2x Fighting Among Friends 2x Orc Vanguard 2x Brutal Uruk 1x Weighed Down Peril in Pelargir The Morgul Vale Flies and Spiders 2x Pelargir Docks 1x The Dead City Looms 1x Giant Web 2x Impenetrable Fog 2x Old Tomnoddy Into Ithilien 1x Fat Spider 2x Blocking Wargs 2x Lazy Lob Over Hill and 1x Crazy Cob The Siege of 2x Poisoned by Spiders Cair Andros Under Hill The Lonely Mountain 1x Siege Raft 1x Battering Ram Western Lands 3x Great Hall 3x Pretending to Sleep 1x Orc Scramblers 2x No Campfire 2x Dragon-Spell 1x Wind-whipped Rain 1x Dreary Hills The Battle of Misty Mountain Five Armies Goblins 1x Vanguard of Bolg 2x Ravenous Warg 2x Goblin Runners 1x Hatred Rekindled 3x Grip, grab! 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