Category Archives: Guest Author

Alternate Art: Seastan’s Nine LEGO Walkers

Posted on September 5, 2023 by Cardboardoftherings Cotr

Editor’s Note: Matt, from Cardboard of the Rings, is our guest author for this article. We hope that you enjoy this most excellent alternate art deck. A few years ago, my son and I had been playing the LEGO Lord … Continue reading →

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Guest Author: Nightmare Escape from Umbar

Posted on April 4, 2020 by Beorn

Editors Note: This is a Custom Nightmare version of Escape from Umbar, designed and created by KaiserWilly. He is a friend of the Hall who started playing in 2017. He was the runner-up in the competitve tournament at Con of … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Custom Cards, Game Variant, Guest Author, Homebrew Cards, Nightmare, Series | Tagged Community, Escape from Umbar, Fantasy Flight Games, Haradrim Cycle, Homebrew Cards, KaiserWilly, Living Card Games, Nightmare, Playtesting, The Lord of the Rings LCG, Tolkien | 2 Comments

Guest Author: Making Every Card Count

Posted on December 21, 2018 by Beorn

Editor’s Note: This article is brought to you by a guest writer named Ulrik. I’d like to thank him for contributing this article about suggested changes to balance the early card pool. Imagine this: when deck building for your upcoming … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Game Variant, Guest Author, Homebrew Cards, Metagame, New Players | Tagged Early Card Pool, Fantasy Flight Games, Feint, Living Card Games, Metagame, Northern Tracker, Over-powered Cards, Rebalancing, Steward of Gondor, The Lord of the Rings LCG, Under-powered Cards, Unexpected Courage | 2 Comments

Alternate Art: Cards by Potawo

Posted on November 12, 2017 by Beorn

With the overwhelmingly positive feedback I’ve received on my alternate art cards, it’s exciting to see that I’m not the only one who enjoys different artistic interpretations. Which makes it all the more pleasant to discover that a reader has … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternate-Art, Art, Community, Guest Author | Tagged Alternate-Art, Art, Community, Fantasy Flight Games, Photoshop, Potawo, The Lord of the Rings | 13 Comments

Guest Author: Reworking the Early Card Pool

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Beorn

A reader of this blog, and well-known community member from the FFG forums, has been working tirelessly on an ambitious task. John Constantine has revamped many of the player cards from the Core Set and first cycle of the game, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Community, Custom Cards, Game Variant, Guest Author, Homebrew Cards, Metagame | Tagged Dead Cards, Errata, Fantasy Flight Games, Game Balance, Game Design, Guest Author, Homebrew Cards, John Constantine, Living Card Games, Redesign, The Lord of the Rings LCG | 17 Comments

Guest Author: Big as a House

Posted on December 12, 2016 by gandalfDK

Here I am! As you all probably know by now: I arrive precisely when I mean to. Some of you already now me as GandalfDK from the Deck Spotlights on COTR.com or from the COTR Discord server. After several journeys … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Community, Guest Author, History, Legendarium, Theme | Tagged Adventure, Books, GandalfDK, Guest Author, Harad, Legendarium, Mumak, Oliphaunt, Rhun, Sands of Harad, Taming a Mumak, The Lord of the Rings, Theme, Tolkien | Leave a comment

Guest Author: The Story So Far – Part 1: Shadows of Mirkwood

Posted on November 11, 2016 by Gelatinous Cube

Hi all! Psychorocka here! Beorn recently invited me to write a guest article on the Hall of Beorn and I immediately accepted. Beorn has been an immeasurable asset to our community with all the various resources and insights into the … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Guest Author, Legendarium | 11 Comments

Deck Spotlight: The Dúnedain Trappers

Posted on December 10, 2015 by Beorn

Seastan here. Beorn has graciously invited me to write a guest article for his excellent blog. With, I might add, almost no proof of my blog-writing ability. I hope he is ready for the writing quality on his blog to … Continue reading →

Posted in Aggro, Control, Deck Spotlight, Guest Author | Tagged Amarthiul, Aragorn, Damrod, Deck Building, Dunedain, Fantasy Flight Games, Guest Author, Lord of the Rings LCG, Rangers, Seastan, Strategy, Tolkien, Traps | 19 Comments

Guest Author: Gothmog’s Dark Corridor 2 – The Dunland Trap

Posted on September 13, 2015 by gothmogthebalrog

On behalf of his highness Morgoth, supreme Valar, I welcome you back to my Corridor. By request of puny mortals, I have decided that my Corridor will now focus upon one of two things: difficult encounters and community-requested encounters. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Guest Author | Tagged Fantasy Flight Games, Gothmog, Gothmog's Corridor, Guest Author, Living Card Games, Lord of the Rings LCG, Scenario Strategy, Strategy, The Dunland Trap, The Ring-maker Cycle, Tolkien | 7 Comments

Guest Author: Gothmog’s Corridor 1 – The Hunt for Gollum

Posted on September 8, 2015 by gothmogthebalrog

Welcome, readers. I invite you to a read the first of many articles by a new guest author: Gothmog, Lord of the Balrogs. While he isn’t busy making war upon the Eldar, Gothmog enjoys writing strategy articles about The Lord … Continue reading →