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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Frostgrave => Topic started by: Philhelm on July 28, 2015, 04:19:18 AM
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I was wondering how many of you will model your miniatures and terrain with snow. Will you simply use existing figures and terrain, or will you perhaps theme it as something else entirely?
I used to just do standard bases and terrain, but Frostgrave made me more heavily consider other types of themes. In particular, I was thinking of an Autumn theme. I did a search and found some awesome autumn terrain with orange, red, and yellow trees and foliage, and fallen leaves.
Of course, the possibilities are endless. There's room for swamp themes, spring themes, desert themes, etc.
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I figure Frostgrave is
A) bigger on the inside than on the outside
and
B) weirder on the inside:)
open a door to a tower and a whole new land appears beyond the door…dry and hot Desert.
Set camp next to some ruins and wake up next to a lake…
etc, etc
so having the terrain you are talking about would be fine I think...heck if could be the "Elven Quarter" and look like Rivendell ;)
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I figure Frostgrave is
A) bigger on the inside than on the outside
and
B) weirder on the inside:)
There are rumours of an artefact known as the Box of Tom'Bakr that has exactly this effect...
open a door to a tower and a whole new land appears beyond the door…dry and hot Desert.
Perfectly plausible. I might be inclined to add in some rather mean rules to represent models not coming equipped for hot weather.
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I'm going for a slightly more thawed out Frostgrave...no snow. I want to be able to use my figs and buildings for other games, too.
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Somewhere else someone reminded, when I was contemplating wether to go for frost- or warmgrave with my collection, me that Frostgrave is a WIZARD city, first and foremost, and that it would actually be quite likely for the city to have different biomes inside due to weird wizard sheenanigans.
I think I'll go for mostly snow terrain, though I am not entirely decided yet, but try and make a zone or two of different climatic terrain, where I can use my existing collection. Perhaps theres a dense 20 metres of jungle circled by strange-looking obelisks, or a swamp next to the frozen aqueducts.
Really gets the mind going with ideas, I think.
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I'm going for a slightly more thawed out Frostgrave...no snow. I want to be able to use my figs and buildings for other games, too.
This. I'll be basing mine with cracked, stained flagstone.
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There are rumours of an artefact known as the Box of Tom'Bakr that has exactly this effect
Haha. Someome got it :)
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Mine is going to be Sandgrave, because I have lots of Aegyptian terrain from playing Wargods. I figure that the winter theme is fluffy rather than integral to the game, so it really doesn't matter how the city got buried or how it was found again.
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LushGrave for me.
Or something similar. I'm not rebasing all my exant ruins with flowers and moss and ivy on them.
(http://www.madponies.net/images/scene/Mord1.1.jpg)
(http://www.madponies.net/images/scene/Osg3.1.jpg)
(http://www.madponies.net/images/scene/fountain1.jpg)
The wizards and warbands will just have to adapt to the existing climate. :)
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I'm making my terrain Frostgrave specific, with lots of snow settled on the terrain, however my miniature bases will be plain flagstone, so I can multi-purpose them across a few games.
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I will probably go with the cold snowy theme. Our D&D campaign seems to be spending more and more time in the northern mountains, so snowy terrain can do double duty for us.
Some of the new terrain GW is releasing for Age of Sigmar should work very well for Frostgrave, by the way - they are going for a very arcane look, but with far fewer skulls than before (more snakes and dragons, though).
-Michael
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I haven't got the storage space for specific snow covered terrain, so my games are very much Forestgrave (with the odd WW2 ruined building alongside my Warhammer ruined buildings) or dungeon crawls.
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I don't have the rule book yet but I thought I read somewhere that Frostgrave's winter is now behind it. My terrain will be a combo of some snow but mostly standing water puddles, mud and maybe just the first sign of spring.
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I use Heroic Maps from DrivethroughRPG. I am hoping they come out with some winter terrain mats for this - I'm a little surprised they missed this whole winter thing.
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....open a door to a tower and a whole new land appears beyond the door…dry and hot Desert.
Set camp next to some ruins and wake up next to a lake…
etc, etc
I do like this idea, especially for a campaign. In one game howeve it does have the drawback of effectively requiring two separate set-ups. But it would make a great game to be playing in different, linked, dimensions. I am reminded of C.S. Lewis's "Magicians Nephew". As I recall the heroes pass into a kind of gateway dimension with many pools. Through the pools many different dimensions could be accessed. This was a prequel to "The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe". It's got me thinking, so thanks for that!
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There are rumours of an artefact known as the Box of Tom'Bakr that has exactly this effect...
Funny, I was toying with the idea of a mysterious wooden log cabin appearing in the ruins, someting inbetween Baba Yaga and a Tardis...
(http://www.alwaysmodel.com/picture/pegasus/peg7702/peg7702_c2.jpg)
As for scenery, I'm reconsidering everything and will probably paint most buildings white stone, while using a grey-green felt mat I have as a generic (maybe melting-) permafrost sludge.
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I am building Junglegrave :-)
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Cavegrave would also work...
I am going to use this game as an excuse to work on winterized terrain. But these other ideas sound really interesting too, and I am looking forward to see what people are going to do.
-Michael
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Cavegrave would also work...
I am going to use this game as an excuse to work on winterized terrain. But these other ideas sound really interesting too, and I am looking forward to see what people are going to do.
-Michael
Cave grave sounds a bit like it might be the Monty Python version.