The Lord of the Rings as Convergent Game Play - Game Play: Paratextuality in Contemporary Board Games - page 36

Figure 2.1 he Lord of the Rings board with the corruption track. Photo by the author.
In one of our games, for example, my board game group gave the characters
on the corruption board personalities perhaps unintended by Knizia, but no less
a part of the game mechanics. We would speak in the voices of our characters,
identifying when they were nervous, or excited, or brave; Sauron was single-
minded and intent on destroying us. he conlict board allowed for more
Figure 2.2 he Lord of the Rings Mordor board with conlict tracks. Photo by the author.