The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game - Definitive Edition News

Hail and well met!
It’s time for some big news! We’ve got two major pieces of content rolling out to the game; Campaign 3: The Witch-king’s Grasp, and the all-new Mirror of Galadriel mode. You'll get both an entirely new narrative experience and a robust new random mode. Plus, they’re all entirely free to all players on Steam!

We’re sure you have questions about it, and we’re here to give you answers:

When is all this coming out?
You can play Campaign 3 and the Mirror of Galadriel mode on Steam starting today!

Is it really free?
Yes! We wanted to thank you, the players, for your support of the game. Whether you discovered it in the earliest days of Early Access or have dived into it within the past few weeks, your passion and engagement have been critical to helping us make the best game possible in The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game.

Where can I get it?
You can get everything on Steam today! Make sure you run the latest update and then simply click on the game’s Play button on Steam. Campaign 3 and Mirror of Galadriel mode will update automatically.

This release is exclusive to Steam for the time being, and will be released on other platforms in the new year. Until this new release is available on other platforms, you will only be able to cross play with other Steam players (on PC or Mac). Once the release is certified on other platforms, we'll post an update notifying you that full cross play functionality across all platforms will be restored (if you do play on other platforms, those platforms will still be able to cross play with each other during this period).

[h2]What Do I Get?[/h2]
There’s a ton of new stuff available. Let’s start with the new Campaign:


[h2]Campaign 3: The Witch-king's Grasp[/h2]
This all-new Campaign is set in a locale not yet explored within the game—Eriador. It’s our biggest Campaign yet, with 249 individual new Cards and over 20 new Locations (with over 300 cards included within the campaign)… and nary an Orc in sight! Instead, you’ll face a host of new Enemies—including 15 new Villains—across Bree, the Barrow-downs, and beyond. We’ll also introduce new mechanics to the game, including 3 new keywords and new Enemy behavior.

To aid you in your adventures, you’ll have access to 43 new Ally, Attachment, and Event cards. And let’s not forget your 4 new Heroes, available in their own Hero Packs: Boromir, Frodo, Rossiel, and Sam.

Hail and well met!

It’s time for some big news! We’ve got two major pieces of content rolling out to the game; Campaign 3: The Witch-king’s Grasp, and the all-new Mirror of Galadriel mode. You'll get both an entirely new narrative experience and a robust new random mode. Plus, they’re all entirely free to all players on Steam!

We’re sure you have questions about it, and we’re here to give you answers:
[Quote]When is all this coming out?
You can play Campaign 3 and the Mirror of Galadriel mode on Steam starting today!

Is it really free?
Yes! We wanted to thank you, the players, for your support of the game. Whether you discovered it in the earliest days of Early Access or have dived into it within the past few weeks, your passion and engagement have been critical to helping us make the best game possible in The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game.

Where can I get it?
You can get everything on Steam today! Make sure you run the latest update and then simply click on the game’s Play button on Steam. Campaign 3 and Mirror of Galadriel

mode will update automatically.

This release is exclusive to Steam for the time being, and will be released on other platforms in the new year. Until this new release is available on other platforms, you will only be able to cross play with other Steam players (on PC or Mac). Once the release is certified on other platforms, we'll post an update notifying you that full cross play functionality across all platforms will be restored (if you do play on other platforms, those platforms will still be able to cross play with each other during this period).

[h2]What do I get?[/h2]
There’s a ton of new stuff available. Let’s start with the new Campaign:


[h2]The Witch-king’s Grasp[/h2]

This all-new Campaign is set in a locale not yet explored within the game—Eriador. It’s our biggest Campaign yet, with 249 individual new Cards and over 20 new Locations (with over 300 cards included within the campaign)… and nary an Orc in sight! Instead, you’ll face a host of new Enemies—including 15 new Villains—across Bree, the Barrow-downs, and beyond. We’ll also introduce new mechanics to the game, including 3 new keywords and new Enemy behavior.

To aid you in your adventures, you’ll have access to 43 new Ally, Attachment, and Event cards. And let’s not forget your 4 new Heroes, available in their own Hero Packs: Boromir, Frodo, Rossiel, and Sam.



With new content comes new rewards. There are 5 new Quest Reward cards, 10 new avatars, and 4 new Hero Challenge cards for you to earn along the way.

Here’s a preview of the first Quest, Burglary in Bree…

Originally posted by Game

“Mr. Butterbur, sir!” Nob called breathlessly as he ran into the common room of The Prancing Pony. “There’s been another robbery, this time at the stables!”

Barliman ran out of the kitchen at the sound of Nob’s voice, his words rushing out in a torrent. “You don’t say! That’s a bad business, with all these black-hearted men about Bree. I do hope that Bob’s all right. Oh, but I forget he’s off helping his old nan so he wouldn’t be at the stables, would he?”

A gravelly voice spoke up from the end of the room. “A robbery, you say. Anything valuable taken?” This was Bill Ferny, who was hanging about more and more at The Pony these days, talking to all manner of folk at odd hours. Barliman did not like the man.

“It was a comb. Bob bought it from one of those men that’s always lurking about the town selling odds and ends,” Nob answered. “He asked me to check on it.” Bill surprised Barliman by slapping his hand on the table and shouting, “Skullduggery! I’ll post a reward for its return, myself.”

Fraught with grave new perils and surprising challenges, The Witch-king’s Grasp offers dynamic new gameplay opportunities and rich new experiences for you to enjoy.


[h2]The Mirror of Galadriel[/h2]
This is an all-new game mode designed to challenge players in a single randomly-generated Encounter, where you’ll face a random setup of Minions and Villains drawn from across all our releases.

The Mirror of Galadriel is a fast-play mode that you can play alone or with a friend. Players must first defeat a wave of Minions before confronting a final Villain. Each time you play, you'll be confronted with a different challenge, making the mode highly replayable. We can also expand this mode by adding new content with each new release we make.

Inspiration for this mode comes from within the pages of The Lord of the Rings itself…

Originally posted by Rings

Down a long flight of steps the Lady went into the deep green hollow, through which ran murmuring the silver stream that issued from the fountain on the hill. At the bottom, upon a low pedestal carved like a branching tree, stood a basin of silver, wide and shallow, and beside it stood a silver ewer. With water from the stream Galadriel filled the basin to the brim, and breathed on it, and when the water was still again she spoke. "Here is the Mirror of Galadriel," she said. "I have brought you here so that you may look in it, if you will."

Gaze into Galadriel's mirror to see fates that may—or may not—come to pass.


[h2]Campaign 2: The Shadow's Fall is Also Free[/h2]
Finally, we have one last piece of news to finish up 2019. As of today, Campaign 2: The Shadow's Fall is now fully free to all players! This makes the Tutorial Campaign and all three of available campaigns now part of the Core Set release. When you include the three additional Encounters, that's a total of 19 playable Quests plus the Mirror of Galadriel playable to everyone!

Thanks again to all the players, and happy holidays!

—FFI and Asmodee Digital

Now that we've released The Lord of the Rings™: Adventure Card Game on consoles and have made changes and improvements to fix the launch issues we encountered on servers, many of you have asked about our release plans for new content. We're here to answer some of those questions.

First, let's review the release schedule since early access launch on August 28th, 2018, and where we've come since then. As you know, we've been active with the game since that early launch, taking your feedback into account to help improve the game and bring it to where it is now. Here's what we've released since then:

August 2018
• Early Access Game Release with The Shadow's Reach Campaign
• The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game Soundtrack Release

November 2018
• The King of Carrion Encounter Release

December 2018
• Vault (New Cards) Release

January 2019
• Cooperative Multiplayer Added

February 2019
• Vault (New Cards) Release

March 2019
• The Shadow's Fall Campaign (including 5 all-new Quests, 4 new Heroes and new cards) Release; re-balance of The Shadow's Reach

April 2019
• Emotes System and Ping Feature Added
• Save Games for Single and Multiplayer Added
• A Feast for Trolls Encounter Release

May 2019
• Fully Revamped First Time User Experience Release
• All-new Tutorial Campaign Release with 1 new full Quest
• Card Rewards for Quests and Hero Challenges Added
• New Avatar Rewards and Hero Alt Art Added
• All-new Balancing System for Different Play Modes Added
• Second Multiplayer Play Style (Narrative) Added

July 2019
• Gundabad Awoken Encounter Release

August 2019
• Full Release on Steam (end of Early Access)

November 2019
• Release on Xbox One, PlayStation4 and Switch platforms
• Overhaul of Server System to improve stability


We had hoped to be able to talk about new content prior to this date, but our focus has been on releasing the console versions first, then gathering feedback from that launch to determine our future path.

So, while we're not yet ready to talk about release dates, we did want to give you some insight into what's on our immediate horizon.



First up is Campaign 3: The Witch-king's Grasp, an all-new Campaign set in a location not yet explored within the game—Eriador. This is our biggest Campaign yet, with new Minions, Villains, Objectives, Hazards, and Locations. With the new Campaign, you'll also receive 4 new Heroes with which to build decks. Each new Hero comes with 4 brand new cards that we've talked about in past updates. In this Campaign,

The Witch-king's Grasp features 27 brand new Locations for your fellowship to visit. You'll see famous locales from The Lord of the Rings as well as new locations as you uncover a dark plot that stirs the dark hearts of evil men who dwell in the Shadows of Eriador.

We will also introduce new mechanics to the game that will force players to rethink some of their deck setups to overcome the difficulties they face. There are 5 new Quest Reward cards, 10 new avatars, and 4 new Hero Challenge cards for you to earn along the way.

The best part is that we're giving this Campaign to everyone for free! We'll discuss details when we make the release date announcement.



Plus, we're ready to unleash an all-new game mode: The Mirror of Galadriel mode. Gaze into Galadriel's Mirror to see fates that may or may not come to pass. This new mode challenges players to a single randomly-generated Encounter where you can play alone or with a friend against a random setup of Minions and Villains drawn from across all our releases.

This is a fast-play mode consisting of a single Location, where players must first defeat a wave of Minions before confronting a final Villain. Each time you play, you'll be confronted with a different challenge, making the mode highly replayable. We can also expand this mode by adding new content with each new release we make. We hope you enjoy this brand new way to play—as you never know quite what you'll face in the mirror’s reflection.

The Mirror of Galadriel mode will also be free to all players and will be available as part of the Campaign 3 release. So, you'll not only get an entirely new narrative experience, at the same time you'll also get a robust new random mode.


One final note. We've mentioned this previously, but it bears repeating: while we will update news less frequently than previously, we are still working away feverishly on the game behind the scenes! Now that we have 5 platforms to support, we intend to slow our update pace in general on Steam. Of course, we will make new announcements when we have something we want to share.

Additionally, we'll still monitor and participate in forums and will still be part of the Discord channel where we'll answer questions and discuss the game.



Thank you all for your support of the game thus far and for our development efforts to bring Middle-earth to life. We hope you'll enjoy the new content we have planned and that the rest of 2019 is a very Merry one for you all.

Until the stars shine over our next meeting…

—FFI and Asmodee Digital

Hello fellow Freefolk!

From dark, cold, goblin-infested towers to enchanting sun-bathed riverbanks, The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game takes you to many places in Middle-Earth.
Here are some of the places we have visited so far:

The treacherous thin ice of the Sirros covers a massive tributary to the legendary river Anduin, up north:



The beautiful but perilous Misty Mountains, inhabited by many creatures including the Stone Giants who regurarly battle against one another, creating thunderous noises earthquakes:



The gigantic gate of Gundabad, which was formerly a dwarven stronghold, now claimed by the Orcs...



... And the mines inside, crafted to perfection by the Dwarves who once lived there:



But also the dark forest of Mirkwood and its voracious spiders:



And, probably the darkest, most dangerous of them all, the mines of Nibin-dûm, filled with Goblins and Orcs!



What is your favourite place in Middle-earth?
We would personally love to pay a visit to Lothlórien Elves or to have a pint of lager at the Prancing Pony!

We have a small update coming next week that will fix some save issues. This update is scheduled for November 4; as a result, old save games will be invalidated and no longer function.

For this reason, if you have a saved game that you've been meaning to finish, don't delay!