The Lord of the Rings Adventure to Mount Doom Review

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We review Lord of the Rings Adventure to Mount Doom, a cooperative dice rolling board game published by Kosmos. In Lord of the Rings Adventure to Mount Doom, you are trying to help the fellowship destroy the ring by using dice results each round.

The Lord of the Rings Adventure to Mount Doom is a light roll-and-move game that has some card acquisition and some light strategy. You get to take control of the fellowship of the ring as they journey through the major areas of Middle Earth on a quest to destroy the one ring.

Lord of the Rings Adventure to Mount Doom can accommodate anywhere from 1-4 players and takes about an hour to play.

Adventure to Mount Doom starts with your fellowship in Rivendell that consists of five tokens. On the bottom of the board are the event cards that correspond to the current position of the Frodo and Sam token.

The core mechanic of the game consists of rolling and choosing dice. Each turn, players choose and roll three colored dice corresponding to the fellowship characters, and two black event dice. On the first roll, the active player chooses one color die that matches the character they want to move, and one black die. They then roll a second time. The second roll consists of two color dice of their choice and the last remaining black die. The active player then chooses the result they want from the color dice and the last black die must be taken.

The active player then moves their fellowship tokens the number of spaces equal to the die roll and resolves the event cards in the event slots equal to the black die numbers rolled.

The event cards consist of helpful character modifiers that mostly have a once-per-game use, or enemy battles and events that will hurt the fellowship. The event