Lord of the Rings: Living Card Game

This plugin is for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game (LCG) by Fantasy Flight Games (2011). This cooperative Living Card Game should not be confused with the competitive Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game (TCG) by Decipher (2001-2007).

This plugin reads decklists, fellowships, and scenarios, automatically fetches the card images from RingsDB and Hall of Beorn, and puts the card images into the proper game/ directories.

This plugin supports the ringsdb_url, ringsdb_fellowship_url, ringsdb_scenario_url, and hallofbeorn_url formats. To learn more, see here.

Basic Instructions

Navigate to the root directory as plugins are not meant to be run in the plugin directory.

If you’re on macOS or Linux, open Terminal. If you’re on Windows, open PowerShell.

Create and start your virtual Python environment and install Python dependencies if you have not done so already. See here for more information.

Important: Lord of the Rings: Living Card Game uses two different card backs:

Player cards use the standard player card back
Encounter/scenario cards use the encounter card back

You must manually place the appropriate back image in game/back before creating your PDF. The plugin fetches only the front images.

Put your deck reference into a text file in game/decklist. In this example, the filename is deck.txt and the decklist format is RingsDB (ringsdb_url).

Run the script.

python plugins/lotr_lcg/fetch.py game/decklist/deck.txt ringsdb_url

Now you can create the PDF using create_pdf.py.

For scenarios, double-sided quest cards are placed into game/double_sided/ automatically.

CLI Options

Usage: fetch.py [OPTIONS] DECK_PATH {ringsdb_url|ringsdb_fellowship_url|ringsdb_scenario_url|hallofbeorn_url}

Options:
  --scenario_mode [normal|easy|nightmare]
                                  Encounter card counts to use when fetching
                                  scenarios.  [default: normal]
  --help                          Show this message and exit.

Formats

`ringsdb_url`

RingsDB format accepts published player decklists. The plugin fetches all cards listed in the decklist, including heroes and player cards.

You can provide the decklist in three ways:

Published RingsDB decklist URL:

python plugins/lotr_lcg/fetch.py 'https://ringsdb.com/decklist/view/337/two-player-core-set-1-2-1.0' ringsdb_url

RingsDB public API URL:

python plugins/lotr_lcg/fetch.py 'https://ringsdb.com/api/public/decklist/337.json' ringsdb_url

Bare decklist ID:

python plugins/lotr_lcg/fetch.py 337 ringsdb_url

You can also put the URL or ID in a text file and pass the file path instead.

`ringsdb_fellowship_url`

RingsDB fellowship format accepts published fellowships, which are collections of multiple player decks designed to work together. The plugin fetches cards from all decks in the fellowship.

You can provide the fellowship in two ways:

Published RingsDB fellowship URL:

python plugins/lotr_lcg/fetch.py 'https://ringsdb.com/fellowship/view/7100/beginnermono-spherefellowship' ringsdb_fellowship_url

Bare fellowship ID:

python plugins/lotr_lcg/fetch.py 7100 ringsdb_fellowship_url

You can also put the URL or ID in a text file and pass the file path instead.

`ringsdb_scenario_url`

RingsDB scenario format accepts published scenarios/quests from RingsDB. The plugin fetches all encounter cards and quest cards needed to play the scenario. Quest cards with two sides are automatically placed in game/double_sided/.

You can provide the scenario in two ways:

RingsDB scenario API URL:

python plugins/lotr_lcg/fetch.py 'https://ringsdb.com/api/public/scenario/1.json' ringsdb_scenario_url

Bare RingsDB scenario ID:

python plugins/lotr_lcg/fetch.py 1 ringsdb_scenario_url

You can also put the URL or ID in a text file and pass the file path instead.

You can specify the difficulty mode (encounter card quantities vary by mode):

python plugins/lotr_lcg/fetch.py 1 ringsdb_scenario_url --scenario_mode easy
python plugins/lotr_lcg/fetch.py 1 ringsdb_scenario_url --scenario_mode nightmare

`hallofbeorn_url`

Hall of Beorn scenario format accepts published scenarios/quests from Hall of Beorn. The plugin fetches all encounter cards and quest cards needed to play the scenario. Quest cards with two sides are automatically placed in game/double_sided/.

Hall of Beorn scenario URL:

python plugins/lotr_lcg/fetch.py 'https://hallofbeorn.com/LotR/Scenarios/passage-through-mirkwood' hallofbeorn_url

You can also put the URL in a text file and pass the file path instead.

You can specify the difficulty mode (encounter card quantities vary by mode):

python plugins/lotr_lcg/fetch.py 'https://hallofbeorn.com/LotR/Scenarios/passage-through-mirkwood' hallofbeorn_url --scenario_mode easy
python plugins/lotr_lcg/fetch.py 'https://hallofbeorn.com/LotR/Scenarios/passage-through-mirkwood' hallofbeorn_url --scenario_mode nightmare

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