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Hi everyone! New player here. Thanks for the love on my last post. It feels really good to be a part of this community as a solo player. 🙏 I am back for some guidance.

I just attempted scenario 3 of Perilous Dark, “The Dog Days”. I got absolutely massacred. To the point where I am just not seeing how it is achievable.

Although I beat the first two scenarios by the skin of my teeth, this is the first I have come across that I feel is just really not possible for my warband. The fact that the chronohounds always have line of sight and can move up to 12” using both their actions is just crazy. Then they respawn whenever they are killed. I thought maybe each crystal I killed would prevent the hounds assigned to it from respawning but according to the RAW it doesn’t work that way - they just keep coming till the last crystal pops.

I thought this encounter was going to be fine until slowly my warband members got picked off, then the hounds kept respawning and by the time I was down to two crystals left it was just my Wizard, a knight, and I think a thug and a Marksman and my prospects looked grim because everyone was separated and kept getting combat locked. On top of that, 16 armor on the crystals led to a few frustrating less-than-effective whacks. At least the crystals didn’t KO me (the hounds saw to that…) 🤣

This experience has left me feeling really frustrated and discouraged. The first two were intensely difficult but could be sort of manipulated due to LOS abuse. This one, we are just getting head hunted by x-ray vision time-bounding grey hound racing dogs with no respite!

I am starting to think this encounter isn’t meant for a low level wizard (I went into the third encounter at level 6).

For next time I am considering completely rerolling a new wizard and starting at the same level (6), or maybe getting rid of one dog and potentially making the crystals at least not do combat damage if I roll poorly. (That was an absolutely brutal design choice Mr. McCullough! 🤣).

Does anyone else have experience with some encounters seeming too difficult in Perilous Dark? What did you do to adapt and overcome?

Much love.

Hi everyone! Finished my first game ever today. Started with the Perilous Dark first scenario solo. (Honestly it took 3 attempts before I could coherently run the game). Barely made it through this one! Got a thug and my two casters through mostly thanks to the leap spell, although my character is an elementalist. In retrospect, I think I should have taken the wall spell. And probably the AOE lightning spell. I didn’t realize how much enemies could bunch up during later turns when they’re making a break for the door.

On the right you can see the Ruined Monastery set I bought (also my first terrain purchase lol). Thought it would be enough but had to improvise. Already ordered more terrain - so stay tuned! ;)

I pulled the trigger in this game because I started painting minis for my DND sessions a couple months ago and that sparked a spiral of looking into Warhammer, etc. but seems so prohibitively expensive to get into. I settled on Frostgrave mostly because of the sweet atmosphere. After reading about it I was hooked.

Any advice for a new player starting solo? This is actually my first skirmish game. (Is that what this game is classified as?). Looking forward to scenario 2! (I have a bunch of Gnoll Skinny Minis >:)

Nice to meet everyone here.

We found enough mechanical looking things in all our terrain boxes to make it look a bit like a factory destroyed. Second picture shows the Golem attacking Mike's wizard group. He took a beating and lost his apprentice from other wandering monsters and other War bands. But he managed to control the Golem and bring it off board in the end.

Leading up until game day, I was planning my penguin wizard as an elementalist. That was until a friend helped me make a new idea. An angler summoner who conjures the twisted, foul beings of the murky depths.

Last night we finished our first scenario in the Thaw of the Lich Lord campaign. Here's an excerpt from my wizard, Ruhi the Pengulion Summoner.

The signs began before dawn.

The air carried a peculiar stillness. Birds refused the sky. Even the wind seemed hesitant to disturb the ice. The heavens themselves whispered of change. I could not decipher their message, but I knew with absolute certainty that something within Felstad had begun to stir.

Barely an hour beyond the settlement, our path crossed three rival expeditions.

The first marched beneath a crude banner stitched from scavenged cloth. A swarm of ratfolk surrounded a sharp-eyed Enchanter whose smile never quite reached his eyes. Every order he gave carried the confidence of someone already counting treasures not yet found.

The second surprised me. Little folk. Their own Enchanter carried himself more like a master dwarven craftsman than a wizard, constantly directing companions to reinforce sleds and inspect equipment while advancing.

The final company appeared almost peaceful by comparison. Humans. Weathered and practical. At their head stood a Thaumaturge whose expression never shifted, even as every other warband silently measured one another's strength. There was something profoundly calm about her. A dangerous sort of calm.

Conflict had become inevitable the moment our paths converged.

Reason abandoned me. Or perhaps curiosity simply outweighed caution once again. I ordered the warband to spread through the ruins and recover everything of value.

An error. A necessary error, but an error nonetheless.

Felstad is vast. Our numbers are not. I discovered far too quickly that ambition can stretch a company thinner than any battlefield.

Kahi paid the price first. A halfling thief emerged from nowhere, striking with startling speed. By the time our soldiers reached him, Kahi lay bleeding heavily across broken timber.

For one terrible moment I believed I had lost him.

My apprentice Maaka tells me he will live. The scar will likely remain. A reminder that even the smallest opponent deserves respect.

Elsewhere, Arona nearly met a similar fate. A stone from a ratman's sling struck her squarely upon the head with frightening force. Had fortune shifted only slightly, I would now be writing of her funeral rather than her recovery.

The ratfolk may be vermin, but they're not to be underestimated.

Amid the confusion, one discovery eclipsed every other prize. Our thief uncovered an amulet buried beneath collapsed stone within a narrow alley choked by centuries of debris. The moment I laid eyes upon it, I felt the pull. Not from the artifact itself. From whatever had guided me here.

The amulet mattered. I cannot yet explain why. Unfortunately, I was not alone in reaching that conclusion.

The Thaumaturge advanced from the opposite end of the alley. The dwarven Enchanter's followers closed from the side. For several desperate moments the relic sat at the center of three converging warbands. Then the sky disappeared.

Darkness rolled across the sun with impossible speed until daylight itself became twilight. A total eclipse.

Every instinct I possess screamed that this was no coincidence. The very air became saturated with power.

Magic answered thought before any incantation had fully left my beak. Every spell flowed with astonishing ease, as though the world itself wished to lend strength to those reckless enough to wield it.

I glanced toward the other wizards. They felt it too.

Whatever force had awakened beneath Felstad had reached upward, touching every practitioner of the arcane. But only for a moment.

The power began fading almost as quickly as it had arrived. Like a wave receding from shore. The others recognized it as I did. None of us wished to discover what followed the tide.

The treasure was secured. The wounded still breathed. No answer is worth dying over on the very first expedition.

Reluctantly, each warband withdrew into the growing shadows, carrying their spoils back toward the safety of the settlement.

Tonight the amulet rests beside this journal. I have examined it for hours. It bears no maker's mark. No obvious enchantment. Yet whenever I hold it, I hear the sea.

Impossible. We are miles from the ocean. And yet, if I close my eyes, I can almost hear something breathing beneath the ice.

The Steppe-themed undead army I am working is coming together now with the release of the💀Undead Skeleton Warriors! I'm trying out a new look from your traditional medieval armor.

If you want to check it out, you can grab your free STL on the Kickstarter page. They come with options for different helmets, weapons, and poses.

Thank you for looking!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aquatictotal/undead-horrors-of-the-steppe-28mm-stl-wargaming-miniatures?ref=b1rctl

I hope you like them? I'm also making lots of other minis that can be recruited later.

Perilous Dark Solo Campaign scenario 2: Isher's Weapon Shop

Really happy with how this board came together!

Makes me want to invest in a better camera (or maybe some phone camera lenses) for mini photography.

Had a battle today with my kiddo. Her witch Nia vs my elementalist Marco the Flame. And wow what a game. She made off with the central treasure and one other, I got the remaining 3. The no magic of the towers hindered her a lot because she got both her casters in early and my crossbowman was sniping them. In the end tho we both only lost a woman at arms, funny enough who took each other out atop the central tower. She hired another, with me hiring an apothecary to help with the niggling injuries my apprentice suffered from her man at arms. These weekly games with an excited adversary is really fun!

Just going to use as a basic thug/thief. But could be used for my apprentice if he dies.

Reaper Miniatures (Bones USA), Cart. I'm kind of working on filling in my roster of scatter terrain for Frostgrave and Five Leagues.

I've got the rulebook and have slowly been accruing enough terrain to fill my mat. I spent a little while on this though so I'm going to have to work out a quicker painting method to get through a whole tables worth!

Thanks for looking 🙏

Made four discs for the scenario "The Keep". It is going to be the first time playing Frostgrave for two people. I hope it will be fun as an introductory scenario.

All of the Frostgrave material currently available to my Patreon supporters. Not bad for $5!

Games from the Grave | The Mad Ramblings of an Author and Game Designer | Patreon

Advanced Spellcraft for Vampires - Gives Casting Roll Criticals and Flourishes to the Vampire Spells from Blood Legacy.

The Grinder - A competitive scenario set in an Felstadian garbage disposal.

Brycho's Celestium - One of the strangest competitive scenarios I have written for the game.

The Swarm Campaign - A campaign I wrote for Frostcon! It uses the rules found in Grave Mutations.

The Sunless River - a solo scenario using boats!

The Maddening Doors of Meynor - a solo scenario to drive you crazy.

The Dark Huntsmen - a competitive scenario with a deadly new enemy!

Shadowgrave - A supplement bringing the Cthulhu Mythos into Frostgrave, Ghost Archipelago, Stargrave, and Rangers of Shadow Deep. Includes two exclusive scenarios for each game.

Creature Feature: Cockatrice - rules and stats for the cockatrice.

Planar Storm - Scenario for use with Forgotten Pacts.

Krampus Hunts - A Christmas scenario!

Undead (most of them) chilling guys who usually make the game on the table.

From the left: ranger, man-at-arms, apprentice, mage, man-at-arms, barbarian, hound

Some lore: The Mage and his Apprentice were minding their own business when Felstad fell. Buried under snow and ice for centuries, they were all turned into skeletons, along with their two guardians. One day, a Spirit of Winter (Wendigo) woke them up, but instead of following it, they captured it. The Mage is trying to create the perfect lifeform and has built an Ice Golem construct. A walrus also wanders with them because they pay him in gold, which he spends on his family's needs.

3 more demons and I cleaned up the horns of the other 2