A letter from an inn near the frozen city

Dear Uncle Bert
Just back at the Inn.What a day.Erik the wizard decided to check out this creepy mausoleum today. After a grumble or ten we tagged along. Rolfe and me were hurt but are ok. Fog everywhere couldn't see a thing.Few of our shots were successful. Poor Arold was in the wars again but lived to tell another tale. Tarragon our ranger,who has just joined us fought well and has some scars to add to his collection I'll say. What with skeletons swarming everywhere and a nasty demon in a bottle thrown at us we were lucky to make it back with two piles of treasure.Erik added another magic book to his growing collection. Poor Cassie our hound was badly hurt and will need to rest at the Inn the next time we visit the frozen city. Must close now as my crow in a basket is getting cold.
Your humble nephew
Sven

Another enjoyable game,thanks Richard.

A further Frostgrave dispatch

Dear Mother,
Finally back at the inn,it was a long day.

Arold got more than he bargained for with that lamp- out popped a genie and it nearly did for him!

Old Albert's marksmanship nearly killed the genie but it was finished  off by our rivals (nice if flashy folk) in the end. After carrying it away Arold has the genie's lamp as a souvenir and will bring it home to decorate the kitchen. We got ever so much treasure including  a fate stone ( don't ask) to go with that tatty ,useless grimoire of mud. Erik the enchanter is very pleased with us all and there will be rat scratchings on our gruel as a reward. We are to be joined by a ranger and a hound ( cute but deadly they say) for our next expedition. I must close now and send my love and a couple of gold coins I have sealed in this letter.

Simon

p.s hope you like the painting of the genie it was done by an out of work artist here called Rogier

This was my second game of Frostgrave,played a week ago with Richard.It was most enjoyable and I urge you to give it a go if you have not already done so.

A carrier pigeon note from Felstad

Dear Mother,
I trust this finds you well. We had a fine journey from the Inn in spite of the gales and ice underfoot.
We have found some treasure and Arold has found a lovely lamp which he is cleaning as I write.
I will be home soon.All well.
Simon

The Guild of St Sebastian - some Frostgrave fellows

Erik (Enchanter) looking pensive as ever as he contemplates the forthcoming trip from Tradgardstadt to Felstad.Behind him stands the ever deferential Olaf (Apprentice) with his head buried in a book.He dreams of grimoires,maps and lost books  to add to his newly started collection.

  Brothers Sven and Rolfe (Crossbowmen) first and second in this year's Annual Guild Shooting Contest (held upon the Feast of St Sebastian) are ready for whatever awaits amongst the frozen wastes.

Arnie and Arold (Thieves) are pot scourers,spit turners and rat catchers from the Guild kitchens. They are glad of a change of scene ( robbing opportunities) from the daily drudgery that is their lot.

Ulf and Simon (Men at Arms) by night bouncers at the "Slann's Head Inn" and by day self styled warriors. They have equipped themselves with cheap and nasty armour from Old Ma Sigrid's Armoury to the Stars. Tooled up and ready to go they can hardly contain themselves...

Now the new boys - Old Albert (winner of the Annual Guild Shooting Contest ten years in a row many,many seasons ago) has come out of retirement to wield the Magic Crossbow found on the last expedition. He,it goes without saying,is a Marksman.

Finally young Simon ( Archer) a fresh faced apprentice and enthusiastic bowman remains quietly confident about his first Felstad visit.

St Sebastian remember them...

First Frostgrave

Yesterday I had my first game of Frostgrave and it was most enjoyable.All figures and terrain ( apart from the fog) are Richard's excellent work.

My Enchanter and his two Men at Arms skulk amidst the ruins.

The Apprentice and two crossbowman hide behind the fog.

Beware of the fearsome Ice Toad!

Thanks go to Richard for initiating me into the game and helping me stat up a warband.

I found the game really engrossing and became involved in the action in a way that reminded me of the D&D  I played thirty or more years ago . I am off to try and get some figures together myself. Give the game a try you wont regret it!