Hi all! I'm mostly a long time lurker, but I figured I finally had a reason to start a thread due to my recent first time purchase of some frostgrave sets.
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Still some fine work left to do on this guy, but he's coming along!
Back Story!
Usually I spend most of my hobby time working with converting war hammer plastics for use in Hyborean style skirmish games (long live the warcry sets!), but for a long time I've been attracted to the simplicity and somewhat 'retro' feel of the frostgrave sets - and recently found the perfect 'excuse' to get some - my students.
I'm lucky enough to have a very small class of four 11 year olds in an ESL class, and so we've been experimenting with doing RPG's as a way to strengthen their English.
Eventually, both because I like miniatures and that it's just helpful to have visual aides I decided to look into some cheap mini options for the students to use on a grid when we're in a combat, along with using some kind of printed paper counter for the various enemies. While I first looked into the cheap DnD minis I remembered the frostgrave sets, and finding an ebay seller who sold single sprues for a reasonable price got a couple.
I'm happy to say that it's big a big success introducing the students to looking through a sprue full of bits to find the pieces needed to make *their* characters come to life, even if the occasional game of rock-paper-scissors needed to be had to settle a debate on who got what piece.
I was also left with enough afterwards to start tinkering with the left overs myself, and this is how I arrived at this!
Thank you guy for the support!
@Ranthony:
I think one of the 4 might have the bug in him already, as he was asking a lot of questions about where to get the sprues from. He did get a little discouraged by the painting aspect which we tried out yesterday, but I assured him and every one else that everyone's first miniature paint job is usually something of a mess.
I think the thing that is most rewarding is that here in Taiwan creativity is not always fostered well in the mind of children, and that model kits (and RPG's) offer a nice way to let the kids slide into a 'creative zone' that is more comfortable then being handed a blank sheet of paper and then told to 'Go!'. They don't need to fear 'messing up' as all the individual pieces already look nice - but they get to express their own creativity in the posing and composition of them.
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I'm hoping to add to this thread as my hobby time, budget allow and shipping times allow (No local frostgrave in Taiwan, from what I've seen) - I've been on a moratorium from GW for nearly a year which one would think would have me sitting on a pile of hobby cash, but I've been saving it up for some rather different projects.
I don't know if I'll ever end up playing Frostgrave proper just because my preferred 'Point of View' character is melee type, it'll be a fun project to build up a team of adventurers none the less.
That said, while there will be a wait for the next update in miniature form as I wait for another small bundle of sprues I convinced myself to get... I do have something to share- the setting these brave explorers will be :
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Sadly, the details show up smudgy in this picture, and while i could take a better one, this will do for now ;). It is a work in progress that could probably use a thread all of it's own. It's a setting I cooked up from scratch using the 'game' Mappa Imperium - a cooperative game where it's easy for a single person or a small group of people to make a whole fantasy setting.
https://nookrium.itch.io/mappa-imperium (https://nookrium.itch.io/mappa-imperium)
I strongly suggest it as an activity for anyone with kids/grandkids or students who might be interested in this sort of thing. (However, as a word of advice I recommend running through it by yourself first, from beginning to end. It will be a big benefit to you if you already know what you're doing if anyone asks questions.)
One day I might do a write up on the lore of the land, particularly after more of the map gets filled out.