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Frostgrave: Second Edition

Fantasy Wargames in the Frozen City
By Joseph A. McCullough
Series: Frostgrave
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Frostgrave: Second Edition by Joseph A. McCullough invites players into the frozen, ruined city of Felstad, where aspiring wizards lead their warbands in search of ancient magic and lost treasures. The game blends strategy and fantasy as players manoeuvre through battles, facing rival wizards and deadly creatures, all while casting spells and uncovering the secrets of the icebound city. With expanded rules and new scenarios, this edition offers a rich, immersive experience for tabletop gaming enthusiasts.
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Frostgrave: Second Edition

A revised and expanded edition of the multi-award-winning fantasy wargame, featuring new spells, soldier types, and scenarios for adventurers in the Frozen City.

A revised and expanded edition of the multi-award-winning fantasy wargame, featuring new spells and scenarios to challenge adventurers in the Frozen City.

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This new edition of the multi-award-winning fantasy skirmish wargame offers improved rules based on years of player feedback, a revised spell list, and a host of brand-new scenarios. It remains fully compatible with all previously published Frostgrave supplements, allowing players to revisit past adventures as well as face new challenges.

Choose a wizard from one of ten schools of magic, and select from a list of eighty spells. Hire a warband filled with soldiers, from lowly thugs and thieves to mighty knights and barbarians, then lead your men into the frozen ruins of the magic city of Frostgrave on the hunt for ancient treasures and the secrets of lost magic. Be warned – it is a deadly place, filled with rival wizards, wandering monsters, animated constructs, and demonic entities. Do you dare enter the Frozen City one more time?

Series: Frostgrave

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    Enhance your Frostgrave campaigns with recurring villains that grow more powerful over time and give your wizards somewhere to hide with expanded rules for bases. On the violent and deadly streets of the Frozen City, feuds and vendettas are commonplace. Wizards may start out focused on discovery and exploration, fighting when necessary for survival or to win possession of some...
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  • Frostgrave: Forgotten Pacts
    In this supplement for Frostgrave, players lead their warbands into the northern reaches of the city, exploring the ruined temples of the Frozen City to search for the lost secrets of evocation – the art of summoning demons. While the lure of such knowledge is great, few wizards have ventured into this region as it is overrun by barbaric northern...
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  • Frostgrave: The Frostgrave Folio
    The Frostgrave Folio is the complete collection of all previously released Frostgrave mini-ebook supplements in one printed volume. This includes Hunt for the Golem, a three-scenario campaign in which the warbands hunt down a rogue golem. Sellsword introduces rules for experience-gaining captains to help lead warbands. Dark Alchemy expands the rules for potions and potion brewing, and Arcane Locations provides...
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  • Frostgrave: Blood Legacy
    In the days of ancient Felstad, vampires kept to the shadows, their small numbers no match for the power of the city’s wizards. But when the cataclysm struck, the wizards were destroyed, while the deathless vampires went into a frozen hibernation. Now, as the city thaws, so too do its undead inhabitants. The masters of the night are rising again:...
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  • Frostgrave: Perilous Dark
    There are many tales of the Frozen City, and not all of them tell of battles between rival wizards. Often, the greatest adventures are those that pit a wizard and his trusty warband against the myriad perils found amidst the ruins of Felstad. This new supplement for Frostgrave presents rules for playing solo and cooperative games in which the focus...
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  • Frostgrave: Second Edition
    This new edition of the multi-award-winning fantasy skirmish wargame offers improved rules based on years of player feedback, a revised spell list, and a host of brand-new scenarios. It remains fully compatible with all previously published Frostgrave supplements, allowing players to revisit past adventures as well as face new challenges. Choose a wizard from one of ten schools of magic,...
    By Joseph A. McCullough
    Hardback
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  • Frostgrave: The Wizards’ Conclave
    Wizards tend to be secretive and solitary, rarely sharing their knowledge, and associating with only a select few apprentices, followers, and henchmen. It is rare that they spend time in the company of other spellcasters, and rarer still that they work together. Now, however, something is about to take place that has not occurred since the great days of Felstad...
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  • Frostgrave: Wizard Eye: The Art of Frostgrave
    Even before the original Frostgrave rulebook landed in players' hands, its artwork, previewed in the run-up to release, attracted widespread attention and acclaim. Today, some eight volumes, two novels, and multiple boxed sets of plastic miniatures later, Dmitry and Kate Burmak have produced more than 85 illustrations, guided by the concepts developed by Frostgrave creator Joseph A. McCullough. Together, these...
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Product Details

INFORMATION

Barcode: 9781472834683

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 20 August 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Osprey Games

Edition: 2nd edition

Illustration: 40 col

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by RU-MOR aRU-MOR
  • Foreword by Shane Hensley

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Length: 20.0mm

Width: 196.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 840g

Pages: 224

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Bloomsbury Publishing Board Games Board Games Fantasy General Fiction Joseph A. McCullough Sci-Fi & Fantasy Series: Frostgrave Strategy Board Games Thematic Board Games

About the Author

Joseph A. McCullough is the author of several non-fiction books including A Pocket History of Ireland, Zombies: A Hunter’s Guide, and Dragonslayers: From Beowulf to St. George. In addition, his fantasy short stories have appeared in various books and magazines such as Black Gate, Lords of Swords, and Adventure Mystery Tales. He is also the creator of Frostgrave and Frostgrave: Ghost Archipelago, and co-wrote The Grey Mountains, a supplement for the Middle-Earth Role-Playing Game. His continued ramblings can be read at: therenaissancetroll.blogspot.co.uk

aRU-MOR was born in Tarragona, Spain, and studied Fine Arts at the University of Seville, specializing and working on artwork restoration. She began her professional career in 2000, sculpting historical, fantasy, and science-fiction miniatures. These days she combines her work as a sculptor with her work as a freelance illustrator, and has provided illustrations for various Spanish RPGs, books, and card games.

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