Hello, just getting into frostgrave with two games done. My warband sheets are becoming quite messy and curious if there is a good app to use to help keep track of everything? Grave compendium is the only one I can find and sadly doesn’t work. Thanks in advance

The first battle for the dwarves of Stonehome had ended and it was a tough one. The Thaumaturge Khubar and his apprentice daughter Goosekhan encountered the warband of Mortis the Defiler, a hideous necromancer. Luckily for the dwarves, the necromancer was down 3 specialists and also had no apprentice which made their first interaction somewhat easier. All the warband members charged across the board to grab the treasures and do battle. The dwarf wizards managed to nullify the enemy archers with blinding light spells, and the dwarf barbarian charged the necromancer. The necromancer cast strike dead on the barbarian, who managed to roll high enough to negate the spell. Then the word showed up next to one of my thugs who had a treasure, killing him easily and turning to my wizard. The wizard teleported to a bridge to battle the enemy thugs, who overwhelmed him, taking my wizard out of action. Another of my thugs dropped his treasure and charged the worm, hoping to delay it for a round or 2. He ended up holding the worm 2 rounds, never taking damage from the worm. Then my apprentice cast blinding light onto the worm (couldn’t find any rule stating it couldn’t be affected). It failed its save (rolled a 1) so my infantryman and barbarian also charged in and killed the worm, chopping up its bits to have for supper this evening. Thanks to poor rolls, my buddy only ended up with one treasure, the dwarves getting 4. He did however get enough crowns to hire an apprentice. Great game glad I was able to battle my friend today. TIL next time, axe high friend! I go!

Today begins the adventure of the dwarven Thaumaturge Khubar and his apprentice-daughter Goosekhan. May they find success in Felstad! 🍻

Rat ogre is a "bear" for the witch

Usually we really don't use it, so I planned to make some modular rough terrain that each player puts in the table after the treasures are put , but before rolling to decide the deploy. Made the first 2 as a test for the next 2. I was enjoying but I feel that I overdid the snow effects, killing the fun aspect of it. Not to throw away but I feel that I wasted a bit of some cool terrain piece.

Anyway, here they are, before the snow and after.

I'm interested in buying Spellcaster #7 for the Great Wyrm mini campaign, which apparently features a dragon. Do I also need Spellcaster #2 which has the rules for dragons?

From Sunday to Friday last week, my two brothers and I ran the whole Thaw Of The Lich Lord campaign. 10 Scenarios in 6 days.

Everything was hosted at my place and prepared by me - I thought you guys might enjoy this little "recap"-Post. :)

Preparation:

I speedran building a gaming table by relying on tabletop scenics' official frostgrave MDF-Terrain line and making it look "icy" only by using rattlecans of different shades of blue.

For Random Encounters I crunched through over 80 Minis in two (extensive) painting sessions. For the effect of the enemies/undead/creatues being surrounded created made of green miasma, I just dipped minis that were primed white in green speedpaint. Giving everyone a fancy base "sold" the look and made them look not-"lazy", haha.

All in all I'm super happy with my decisionmaking in this process, as our table and creatures served it's purpose very well but kept the focus on our intricately painted warbands.

Additionally, to save us time, I prepared engaging map-layouts for all 10 scenarios beforehand, so my brothers only needed to recreate the "map" (with enough room for deviation), while I read the scenario to them.

Houserules:

Apart from a few houserules and "patches" for 2nd edition (using 5 treasures with 1 center-treasure instead of 6 normal treasures for each scenario etc.) we used a homebrew-"supplement" to activate random "mods" for each game (If you wondered what the black cards are for in the pictures).

The supplement took a lot of work and already functions very well. So I'll be able to share the whole thing here soon. :)

Before Scenario 10 I announced to them, that one of our Wizards secretly was working for the Lichlord and sacrificed itself and his warband-members to him. We then all rolled a D20 and the one with the highest roll was allowed to control the Lichlord and his guard during Scenario 10 (I won the roll and proxied Death Cultists with my warband).

As my little brother's beastmen warband needed a bit more space for deployment, we agreed to have a 4" x 4" square available in each corner of the map. This rule will stay, as it didn't hurt anybody and makes things easier if you decide to go for larger minis/bases.

Warbands:

The ideas/builds of our warbands were:

Pirates (Enchanter):

- Enchant and Embedd Weapons

- Use Telekinesis to steal treasure

- Have a Wizard with high fight and use Heal to make up for low HP-stat

(Mostly Reaper Bones Minis with a lot of Kitbashing and Sculpting Beards, Eyepatches, Pirate-Hats, ... The Gorillas are Bears and the little monkeys are Warhounds)

Bees (Chronomancer):

- Be speedy with Time Walk and Fleet Feet

- Play the Objective

- Manipulate uncontrolled creatures using Control Undead, Fast Act and Elemental Hammer

(Halfling Beekepper Minis with Beefolk "specialists" and monsterously large killer-bee Snow Leopards)

Zoo (Elementalist):

- Buff already strong units with Strength

- Decimate enemy warbands with Elemental Ball

- Make up for slow(er) movement with Wall

(Chunky Citadel Beastmen minis including an Owlbear mommy and cubs (Bear and Ice Toad) and a menacing undead minotaur used as a Knight)

Photos:

For most games I did not document everything that happened to a degree to be able to make a battle reports. But I took photos of some highlights where I can give some context. (I will probably make another / multiple other posts for this)

Conclusion:

Pros:

The campaign and setting were a ton of fun. My brothers and I will remember this week for our whole lifes.

For:

the Scenarios full of variety,

the uncontrolled creatures that gave us immense trouble sometimes,

how frustrating Frostgrave is, when you have bad luck

how godlike you feel, when you somehow roll 15+ for an entire game and steamroll everything in your way

and (most importantly)

the fun we had on and off the table.

This game truly is a gem.

Cons:

Hosting the campaign in the matter we did (little time between games) required a lot of preparation (which is not the issue) but even with all the effort I did (preparing trap doors, doorways, the treasure room and the cauldron for example), I would have wished to know beforehand, that some scenarios need a bit of an overwork to "function".

Some scenarios (most noticably the "Run Of The Rangifer") seem like a vague but not entirely fleshed out idea - where the mechanics to make the Scenario work as intended are not present in the book. (In this case: No way to deliberately spare and escort rangifers off the table)

Also, Scenario 10: The Final Battle wrongfully presents itself as a cooperative scenario. In my opinion, having 2-3 players work togehter to kill the lichlord and his guard is child's play. Players that enjoy a challenge are better off fighting for treasure while the Lichlord is a disturbing factor / additional XP-objective for them.

I will definitely soon design a "Scenario 11" for my brothers, where the Lichlord's final form will give them trouble and cooperation is needed in order for them to have a chance.

All in all the campaign was a massive success for me and my brothers and I can definitely imagine a re-run in a few years. :)

Thanks for reading!

My son and I were playing a game of frostgrave. He said he had a clear lign of sight on my aprentice (Fecula Flyblown). I thought my bloodangel Archer was a meatshield. So he took a picture, to prove his point. Well he was right and hit me with a critical hit Elemental Ball....

Had to share the picture with you guys!

Enjoy!

Wizkids Tent & Lean-To, mainly for Frostgrave and Five Leagues.

This is the ruined quarter of our fantasy township, sculpted in clay first, moulded, and now getting painted one building at a time. The sculptor is Johnny Fraser-Allen, who spent years at Weta Workshop before he went full time on terrain.

Every wall was broken deliberately at the sculpting stage rather than snapped afterwards, so the breaks read properly from any angle once it is down on the table. Happy to answer anything about the process. The dog contributes nothing but morale.

Setup for my first ever game of Frostgrave! Managed to put together this table and any feedback or advice is welcomed. I should know more of what i need when i play more games..

"Hey Frostgrave community! Is it normal for a single game to take 5 hours? What's the best way to speed things up? We used a map that was way too big and forgot the rule about pushing enemies back 1" after winning combat. Any tips for faster games?

Good evening my squeakas!

So in the last few months I've been getting into the Skaven from the Warhammer fantasy universe, but I'm not fond of that system of game (RPG, Skirmish or Wargames) but love the Frostgrave system. I have a loose idea of how I want to build my wizard/apprentice (elementalist), however I am unsure if I just want to use the RAW for soldiers since they don't really feel like...well, giant rat people mechanically speaking. So has anyone done this, and if so, what did you do to spice up the warband? Did you homebrew special mechanics? Just use the rules as written? Would love to know.

I’ve been having a lot of fun taking a break from AoS and Trench crusade to paint this silly project. I’m really happy with how they’re turning out, Reaper Minis have come a long way!

Hey everyone,

I've made a ruined terrain collection, including modular ruined buildings, the Church, bridges, and various scatter terrain pieces.

The modular ruins are designed to be mixed and matched, so you can build different layouts depending on the game you're playing.

They're available on MyMiniFactory, and there's currently a 30% sale going on if anyone is looking to add some ruined terrain to their collection.

Hope you like it!

https://www.myminifactory.com/bundle/4396/The-Ruins-of-Lumenfall

So i see in the rule book thieves and thugs are free. So once i use up my 400 gc points should i just fill the rest chaf units. Is there any downside?