A New Middle-earth Card Game

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Cirdan

Oh I didn't mind their expanding of the world at all, I just felt that Tolkien's stuff should have been adapted first in the basic set, and done correctly too. Lorien should be a region, Caras Galadhon a haven site. The White Towers should not be a ruins and lair of wolves (where orcs and undead are keyable), it should be a freehold since it never fell into ruin and was protected and maintained by my Elves at Mithlond!

That's why I prefer it as Wizardhaven... erm, never mind But the point about e.g. Caras Galadhon, yes, sure. Likewise I didn't like limiting Shire technically to Bag End (even though they have made some of these promo-cards, it still didn't correct the fact that Pippin as much as Merry had Bag End as their home site, and not Great Smials or Bucklebury).

But a note to defend a bit the original map: at least the point of Umbar not being there was simply because it is actually quite far south, and it would force you to resize the map a lot, so that you will have a large part of it covered by sea and desert, and the northern regions very small on the contrary. Also, Umbar or the area around it as a region would probably be accessible only from Harondor or some "Southern Sea" (certainly not just "Mouths of Anduin"), which is not very traveler-friendly. But yes, of course I agree that many other things could have been done better.

Once ICE folded, apparently some fans just kept it going anyway and created their own expansions with 1,800 new cards. These are playable online at GCCG.net. Cards like Annuminas are available there, and on a huge map adapted from MERP.

I have seen that one, and actually, about a year ago I have tried it. But it is not just the same, it does not feel the same for me: I need to have the actual cards in my hand, it needs to be so that I can touch them and tap them and all So in fact, yes (to get back to the original topic of the thread ), that would be the one likely reason for me to try the new game.