Then comes a brilliant design decision: players can decide to stay at stage two for more treasures, facing mounting threat and increased likelihood that Smaug will awake, or can advance to stage three in an attempt to complete the quest and secure whatever treasure they’ve gotten so far. If it’s successful, the first player gets one of the five Erebor treasures, but two threat get added to the staging area. If the burgle attempt is unsuccessful, Smaug the Golden attacks the first player. Whenever the players quest successfully at stage two, Smaug starts to wake up (by getting a progress token), and the first player tries to burgle a treasure by discarding cards that match the type, cost, and/or sphere of a random card from his deck. After a round of preparation (stage one), Smaug the Golden is the mostly sleeping dragon guarding the treasures. Smaug is almost the only enemy in this quest, though two versions of him present different challenges.
Smaug and the treasures he guards are what define this quest. Since Gandalf confidently told Bilbo that there was more to him than anyone expects, his other abilities represent extraordinary moments of Bilbo’s resourcefulness (card draw), stealthiness (threat reduction), determination (willpower), and luck (defense). Glamdring is not added, since Gandalf is not there, and I will not use Gandalf to deal damage or to attack during this quest. Orcrist is not added, since it was confiscated by the Elvenking while Thorin was his prisoner.
#I AM KING UNDER THE MOUNTAIN PLUS#
The quest is played with a 53-card deck: the original deck (using the Burglar version of Bilbo), plus Sting and Bilbo’s Magic Ring. After recovering from their waterlogged journey and being resupplied, Thorin and Company set off for the final stage of their quest, determined to recover the treasure stolen by Smaug.Īfter a relatively mild battle with the spiders, I think this session report is the most thrilling of the quests in my journey through the Hobbit so far. In Lake-town Thorin revealed himself as the rightful King under the Mountain, and was welcomed with songs and feasting. Bilbo bobbed up and down on a barrel, wearing his ring, as the unsuspecting elves made a raft from the barrels and steered south-east. With the help of some luck and his invisibility-granting magic ring, Bilbo was able to rescue the dwarves from the Elvenking’s cells, and packed them into empty barrels ready to be sent down the Forest River to the men of Lake-town. After Bilbo rescued his companions from giant spiders, the Wood-elves of Mirkwood captured the dwarves for trespassing. With apologies for another hiatus, the journey continues.
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