Sonny´s Frostgrave projects.

[Imitation of Life]

Hello fellow Lead Adventurers! Sonny here, long time lurker and all that. It seems Frostgrave has been the project that would engage me to the point of finally setting up a profile on these boards so I can share my thoughts and projects with you wonderful people.

My hobbytime these past two weeks have been spend gathering up miniatures for Frostgrave. I am planning to run it as a participation game later in the year at the Horisont convention in Denmark, and also to host a longer campaign of it at my wargames club Rogue Trader Copenhagen

I plan to make 2-4 warbands and present them for a mini campaign with three scenarios in a format where guests can play all the scenarios in a row , or jump into the campaign and try a simple scenario. So for my part the Frostgrave project consists of the following elements:

• 2-4 warbands.
• Full creature encounter table as presented in the book + NPC characters, villains and monsters for narrative play.
• One 3x3 board crammed with frozen wizardtowers.

Beyond that, I need to write a mapbased campaign system that can carry a semi-openformat, three-month long club campaign. I 'll probably scrap the campaign system as written in the book entirely, as this was clearly written for GM campaigns between 3 and 10 games lenght. Which is fine for a day's events or weekend campaigns. I need a system that can extend over maybe 30-40 games pr. wizard without capping the power level halfway in the campaign. So there will be thoughts and writings on that subject

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I have been fairly productive so far, taking into the account the time it takes to just assemble and base up 50+ miniatures... So far I have mainly painted some of the NPC creatures, and am starting to find the tone and palette for the project. Here are some pictures of where I am at so far:

Necromancer and Chronomancer warbands:


Various creatures with paint on:


A selection of some terrainpieces I made yesterday. These are mainly proof of concept tests. When I come around to doing the full table, the main terrain features will be multistoried wizards towers with lots of bridges and walkways and the like ( Something a bit like this.)

[darthgus]

Very nice start Sonny,

I have been looking though my shiny mountain of lead to find minis suitable for retasking to this project. I'll pictures taken once I have something to show. But for now I've been busy with the green stuff. Hope to get a couple of people at my club interested.

[Awesomeshotdude]

Fantastic looking mini's and terrain!

[joe5mc]

Wow! That's some great looking stuff, especially the terrain pieces.

As for your campaign. Maybe keep it simple just say that everyone goes up one level after each game?

[Calmdown]

This all looks awesome, but I especially love the glows in your skeleton eyes and how evil they look. I always think Skeletons look a bit.... nonthreatening. But I wouldn't want to meet yours down a darkened alley, and especially not in a frozen ancient city...

[Harry]

Great looking stuff so far.
This is going to be one to watch.

Really interested to see what you come up with for campaign rules.

[tancrede]

Excellent start !
Nice to see some old GW wood elves, and the first minis painted look really good...

[Philhelm]

That's some great stuff you've got going so far.  I do wonder though; regarding the statue of Morr, was the broken sword intentional or accidental?  The Garden of Morr is an awesome kit, but so breakable.

[Imitation of Life]

Ehm.. I would call it a pre-emptive accident. My experience is that club terrain breaks anyway, so I might as well do it myself under controlled conditions

[Paboook]

Amazing painting!

May I ask you what kind of snow effect you use?

[Imitation of Life]

Of course you may

Its Vallejo water effects with white paint adder, and scattered with Woodland Scenics snow flock.