Frosthaven

Having completed the tutorial scenario and let a month pass before schedules matched up again, we finally started Frosthaven for reals.

After a few years on the shelf, we’re finally playing Frosthaven. It’s pretty different from Gloomhaven; could be a real challenge.

This was my first Origins. It was a little overwhelming, but I’ll do better, next time.

What if Gloomhaven, but tiny? Cephalofair has managed to cram 10kg of board game into a box no bigger than four decks of cards stacked together.

This teleporting puzzle box separated the heroes across a deadly dungeon. How many would survive to escape?

Spoiler alert: They’re in China. Last week, game developer Todd Walsh and publisher Mike Gnade held a live preview of their new game expansion, “Set a Watch: Swords of the Coin”. During the Q&A session afterward, they expanded on how difficult it is to print games with lower print runs or custom components in the US or the EU. So, everyone goes to China. But with world shipping in upheaval, getting the games from China… that’s an issue. Rock Manor Games had to do a Go Fund Me (it was some other fundraising site, but same diff) to raise money to get the games out of China. ...