Der Herr der Ringe Der Ringträger

Frodo and his companions on their way from the Shires to Mordor to destroy the ring while resisting Sauron’s Power and striving to escape the Black Riders. A stack of movement cards is prepared, first landscape tiles are laid out and you get four movement cards, one open-faced towards you, the 4^th one towards the other players. In your turn, you put down all Sauron Power cards visible to you in front of the ring bearer and move the Black Riders accordingly - whenever five such cards are in front of the ring bearer he falls under Sauron’s spell. Then you lay down all visible helper cards which are available to all and all can confer on their use. After that, you have two actions – prepare travel or discover landscape – and may use helper cards and can than Travel, by using movement cards on display – either as a color card for travels of the companions or  as an action card – as well as helper cards. Finally, you can replenish your hand to maximum four cards Whoever falls under Sauron’s spell uses the Dark deck as Sauron’s Minion against the companions. The companions win if hey reach the Mountain of Doom; they lose if the Dark Riders meet them; if in that case, a person is under Sauron’s spell, this person wins.

Game based on book and films for 3-4 players, ages 10+