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The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game, online

The road goes
ever on.

The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game, played together in your browser. Choose three heroes, gather your fellowship on a call, and quest against the encounter deck with the real cards on the table.

Fan-made and free. Tables are by invitation while we test; the cards and the deckbuilder are open to all.

The Nine Walkers quest art: the Fellowship sets out across a ridge at dawn.
The player card back: the One Ring on a field of stars.Gandalf, the Core Set ally.Aragorn, the Core Set Leadership hero.

A cooperative card gamefor one to four players

  1. Choose your road
  2. Choose your heroes
  3. Gather the fellowship

01 /

Choose your road.

18 quests from five boxes, from Passage Through Mirkwood in the Core Set to the halls beneath Carn Dûm. Each is dealt from its own encounter sets and played to its printed stages.

02 /

Choose your heroes.

Take a printed Starter Deck or one of the Fellowship rulebook lists, bring a list across from RingsDB, or build your own from 43 heroes and 242 player cards.

03 /

Gather the fellowship.

Read the table’s four-letter code out on the call and your friends join with it, one to four players against the encounter deck. New to the game? The tutorial walks you through a practice quest first.

On the table

What’s here,
and what isn’t yet.

Ready

  • Every card the table deals, 498 of them from the Core Set, the Fellowship saga boxes, the Angmar Awakened cycle and the four Starter Decks, each with its own page and nearly all shown as their printed scans
  • 18 quests, from Passage Through Mirkwood to The Dread Realm
  • Live tables for one to four players, with the rules engine running every phase, response and shadow card
  • A deckbuilder with the printed decks, RingsDB import, and decks saved to your account
  • Host tools to pause a table and set it right by hand

Not yet

  • Open sign-up. Accounts are by invitation while the table is tested
  • Chat, matchmaking and spectators. Play happens on your own voice call
  • Every expansion. A RingsDB list brings across the cards this table deals and names the ones it could not

Questions

Playing the card game,
online.

Can I play The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game online?
Yes, in your browser, with nothing to install. Choose a quest and a deck from Play, share the table’s code with your fellowship, and the table deals, stages, attacks and resolves everything the rules ask for.
Can I play solo?
Yes. A table seats one to four players, and a table of one is the solo game, against the same encounter deck.
Do I need an account?
Only to sit at a table. The card database, the deckbuilder and the tutorial are open to everyone. Accounts are by invitation for now.
Which cards and quests are in?
The Core Set, The Black Riders and The Road Darkens, The Lost Realm and the Angmar Awakened adventure packs, and the four 2022 Starter Decks: 498 cards in all, and 18 quests. The card database has a page for each one.
Can I bring my RingsDB decks?
Yes. Paste a decklist link into the deckbuilder and the list arrives as a draft, with any card this table does not deal yet named so you can replace it.
Is it free?
Yes. Play Rings Online is a free fan project, and there is nothing to buy.
Is Play Rings Online official?
No. It is an independent, unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Fantasy Flight Games or Middle-earth Enterprises. If you enjoy it, buy the game.
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