{"id":33116,"date":"2009-08-12T15:20:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T20:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=33116"},"modified":"2009-08-12T15:23:26","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T20:23:26","slug":"middle-earth-quest-boardgame-from-ffg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/08\/12\/33116-middle-earth-quest-boardgame-from-ffg\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle-earth Quest Boardgame from FFG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/store.fantasyflightgames.com\/productdetails.cfm?SKU=LTR11\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/LTR11-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Middle-Earth Quest\" title=\"Middle-Earth Quest\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-33117 no-lazyload\" \/><\/a>Fantasy Flight Games&#8217; new boardgame, &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasyflightgames.com\/edge_minisite_sec.asp?eidm=82&#038;esem=2\" target=\"_blank\">Middle-earth Quest<\/a>&#8216; is now shipping.  The FFG web site has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasyflightgames.com\/ffg_content\/middle-earth_quest\/middle-earth-quest-rules\/MEQ_Rules_Web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF<\/a> of the rulebook and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasyflightgames.com\/edge_news.asp?eidn=728\">QuickTime trailer movie.<\/a> This looks to be an interesting offering, not as heavy as the FFG &#8216;War of the Ring&#8217; game, but certainly more complex than the Knizia &#8216;Lord of the Rings&#8217; co-operative boardgame. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasyflightgames.com\/edge_news.asp?eidn=728\" target=\"_blank\">Trailer<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasyflightgames.com\/ffg_content\/middle-earth_quest\/middle-earth-quest-rules\/MEQ_Rules_Web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The time period is sometime before the main events of LotR, with Sauron extending his power from Mordor; one player portrays Sauron, with up to three opponents portraying heroes who try to hinder his plans.  The heroes win or lose against Sauron as a group.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, when I have actually played the game, I will report on it more informatively. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasyflightgames.com\/edge_minisite_sec.asp?eidm=82&#038;esem=2\" target=\"_blank\">Middle-earth Quest<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fantasy Flight Games&#8217; new boardgame, &#8216;Middle-earth Quest&#8216; is now shipping. The FFG web site has a PDF of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[107,35,18,149,86],"tags":[851,349,849,850,847,848,852],"class_list":["post-33116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-lotr-books","category-merchandise","category-lotr","category-merchandise-toys","tag-board-games","tag-fantasy-flight-games","tag-ffg","tag-games","tag-middle-earth-quest","tag-quest","tag-sauron"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-8C8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}