By David Cook
These card ideas, based on Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail, were sent to the Middle-earth mailing list by David Cook.
You're Fooling Yourself, We're Living in a Dictatorship
Resource Short Event
Playable by a character of 8 or more mind or a Wizard. Cancel Thought We Were An
Autonomous Collective, or gives +6 direct influence until the end of the turn.
No One Lives There
Hazard Permanent-event
Playable on a site. No allies, factions or characters may be brought into play at this
site. Discard when the site is returend to the location deck.
"Who lives in that castle over there?" "No one lives there." "Then who is your lord?" "We don't have a lord." "What!?"
Strange Women Lying in Ponds Distributing Swords is No Basis for a System of Government
Hazard Permanent-event
Any card with the word King or Crown in its title cannot be played. Any influence attempt
made by someone bearing a weapon is modified by -4.
"Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farsical aquatic ceremony. I mean if I went around saying I was an Emperor just because some moisome bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away."