Welcome to Frostgrave!

Hello, new player here. I am wondering how you approach rules sets when using the supplements. Do you play with only the extra rules from one book at a time ? Or do you combine several books?

I can see myself potentially getting bogged down flipping through several rules sets. For example, I play a campaign and get some special item from that book’s treasure table. Now as my warband moves to the next book of scenarios, I may need to refer back to the first book the review carry over effects such as spells and items that I acquired. And then as I move to the third book, I have two books to reference etc.

What is the best way to approach a new campaign? Keep it self contained ? Build a fresh warband? Reference several books?

Finally had time to write up a battle report for my first game of Frostgrave. Hope it is of interest.

https://www.realityshift.org.uk/miniature-battles/2024/12/01/all-alone-in-felstad-pt3-frostgrave-battle-report-1st-solo-scenario/

Hi,

I might have a stupid question or we, as a group, misunderstood the rules. When you finish a round, you can level up (asuming you got the XP). And you can get up to 300XP per round. If I asume that I got 300 XP and i want to level a skill stat and a spell but i dont want to (or cant) learn a new spell from a book, then I could either save the 100 XP fot the next level phase or i could level up once more, but I couldnt choose any benefits for that level. Am I rigth with that? My question is now: When this happens mulitple times and I amass (lets just say for the sake of the argument) 1000 spare experience, is it ever worth it to use them without any benefits? Or are we too stupid to understand the leveling mechanics? Why would I have experience that doesnt give me any advantages?

For reference: We play in a group of three and some of us (after 5 rounds) have spare experience they dont need, witch kinda feels wrong for a game about progressing characters.

Pls help :D Thanks!

Since its that time of the year for Black Friday again, DriveThruRPG is having a sale and the prices for the Frostgrave books (well, for most stuff) is pretty good. While I do tend to prefer physical books, the PDFs would only be around 1/3 of the price plus no shipping.

I already have the core book in physical format. One thing is is that we don't have any tablets to use with PDFs, so would have to use laptops which might be annoying. Since they are expansions, I guess we wouldn't need to look up stuff from them constantly anyway?

I also assume we can print out some of the more useful pages (tables) from the book that are downloaded from DriveThruRPG and they aren't "locked" somehow?

TLDR; do any of you guys and gals prefer to use a PDF over the physical books when playing, at least for the expansions?

It's up for preorder on both the Osprey site and Amazon.

Is not all dice games the same? The same no matter what dice you use.

Can someone pleas help me understand this.

For me a 4+ on a d6 is the same as a 11+ on a d20. Its 50% chanse.

I read so many frostgrave reviewers saying this game is so swingy because of the d20.

I can agree on the the swingy part but it has nothing to do withe what type of dice it is.

Edit: i will stick to terrain building and painting in the future and make no more coments on rule changing ideas.