I always like seeing people do tier lists of heroes. Personally I would love it if TheChad (I think that's the guy that did the thematic progression series?) did a big tier list video on the COTRPodcast Youtube Channel.

I felt like getting a discussion going on the communities thoughts on modern hero rankings. Apologies if I shouldn't be posting this, but I didn't see anything against it in the rules/guidelines.

S Tier is the best heroes in the game. They're common components of "One Decks" (Decks that beat every quest), they're almost always good. They make too many other heroes obsolete. Top players actively avoid using them because of how overused and broken they are.

A Tier are key heroes of S tier decks. They also can show up in One Decks or they do their role so well that whenever you need role X you are always coming back to taking these heroes.

B Tier are key heroes in A tier decks. Decks that are still good, could beat many hard quests, but aren't meant to be super powerful decks. They're very good but in more niche roles.

C Tier are heroes that have a key purpose but that purpose is very rarely needed, or more commonly overshadowed. They might have been key heroes in progression at one point (That's the only reason Lore-findel is on that list) but the game has past them by. They might still be reached for in thematic decks and they can at least do "Something" valuable.

D Tier are the meme deck heroes. Yes they technically do "Something" but it's so finicky of gimmicky that you're really stretching to put this hero in a deck. There's almost no point in using these heroes of other better heroes except to say that you "Can".

F tier is the "Why do you even exists......" tier.

Looking forward to seeing the things people disagree with the most in this list.

Edit: I should say that this is for 1/2 player count. I forgot how different an experience 4 player games are and when you have to use so many heroes without overlap even the most corner case heroes can be useful. Since 90% of games are played 1/2 player I mainly considered my experience in that regard.

Edit: Title: Looks like the revised content will continue to be released in Korea!

Originally, we never had an official Korean version of The Lord of the Rings LCG here, so Korean players basically had to buy the English version if they wanted to play.

Then last year, a Korean board game publisher announced that they had signed a deal with FFG to release a Korean edition of the game, and a lot of Korean board gamers and LOTR fans were really excited about it.

They already ran crowdfunding campaigns for the revised Core Set, The Dark of Mirkwood, and the Ered Mithrin cycle. Production is apparently underway right now, with delivery planned for this fall.

But after all the recent news about the game being discontinued, people here started getting pretty worried. Korean players were just starting to get into the game thanks to the localization, so if everything ended after only the Core Set and Ered Mithrin, that would've been pretty devastating...

Apparently the publisher got a ton of questions about this, so they contacted FFG directly. According to them, FFG replied that there are currently no plans to discontinue the revised content, and that the remaining expansions can still be released in Korean as well.

(Though they also said the old/non-revised content is apparently off the table)

Source:

https://tumblbug.com/hitgames24/community/creator/bde147d5-b101-4fa2-9bf9-68445c2e6b6d

Do you think FFG allowed this because the Korean version was a newly signed licensing deal?

And for existing versions like the English or German editions, would FFG oppose it even if the publishers wanted to make additional licensing or reprint agreements?

Hi, I created a Chrome extension that uses the RingsDB API to track the cards in your decks and collection.
When you create a new deck, you can set the active packs and active decks that you use, and it will show an exclamation mark (!) next to cards that are using more copies than you own.

This is the first version, so I might add more features later (like adding custom proxy cards as part of the inventory). Please try and tell me what you think :-)

Downlod link

Github

Finally finished my custom storage boxes! I used the templates made by GeckoTH on BoardGameGeek and made the boxes by hand. They aren’t perfect but they are saving me tons of space and look decent.

Shoutout to u/SvennEthir for the helpful (old) posts detailing their process of making their boxes by hand. It was definitely a lot of trial and error.

Now finally time to start playing again..

All cards are NM and unplayed. The core sets have been meticulously sleeves as with some of the additional sets. Everything else is sealed. I've taken great care in storing this over the years. Hopefully someone can enjoy the collection. As pictured, all the literature is included. I live in San Diego but will ship as well. $800

https://imgur.com/a/CzTaff9

Particularly looking for Pom Pom Aragorn. I’ve tried searching the forums to no avail. Any help would be appreciated!!

I know literally what the card is saying but if an Osgiliath location is discarded as a shadow card, do I have to wait for the encounter deck to reshuffle in order to have a chance to have it in play again? So do I essentially only beat the quest once all the Osgiliath locations have been explored? (meaning having them discarded as shadow cards is bad?)

edit: I'm having trouble understanding how the quest works. If I have one Osgiliath location in play at the beginning of the game and have it explored by the end of turn 2, do I win?

A somewhat beginner but long time player at the same time, I have the core set not the revised version. And I picked a few revised expansions... I thought I'd start with "The Dark of Mirkwood" expansion since it was the smallest, i read on the manual you can treat it as a mini 2 scenario campaign. I just finished the first scenario but cant see how I can add the boon cards to my deck or how to obtain them.