You won’t know what potion you’ll be mixing until you spend the herbs and punch out the piece from the board. Rather, Frosthaven will come with a sealed folder with punch-outs, each one featuring a different potential mixture of herbs. However, it isn’t as simple as referring to a chart to figure out which potions you’d like to create. Here, you’ll be able to bring any herbs you’ve collected and turn them into potions for your character. You’ll also gain access to the Alchemist in Frosthaven. In Gloomhaven, you needed to go to the market and spend gold in order to gain new gear for your character, but in Frosthaven, you’ll be able to find resources like wood, metal and hide, and then spend these resources at the craftsman to create all kinds of new items for yourself. For instance, you will be able to access a craftsman that will create gear for you, like shields, spears and armor, to name a few. They will also house useful vendors and tradespeople that you can utilize to equip yourself before you head off to scenarios. The buildings that you construct in Frosthaven are not just for show. Now, not only will you be unlocking new classes and scenarios, you’ll also be unlocking features of your town, which gives you even more hidden aspects of the game to look forward to exploring.Īlso, it’s worth mentioning that the new map is simply gorgeous as well. Frosthaven places a larger emphasis on what you do outside of scenarios, and building up Frosthaven is at the core of this. During the course of the game, you’ll be unlocking and constructing new buildings and defenses, and placing stickers onto this settlement as you do so. Here, there is a very large and detailed map of the settlement of Frosthaven itself. However, it’s the bottom half that has us most excited. You’ll be unlocking scenarios, sticking them onto this half of the map and then venturing forth to new and exciting locales. The top half represents the cold, northern region of the world where Frosthaven takes place and will be familiar to Gloomhaven fans. At roughly twice the size of the original Gloomhaven map, this new map is split in half. While we all expected to be given a new map to venture around in with Frosthaven, it’s been an unexpected and pleasant surprise to see just how detailed and rich with opportunities this new map is. Today, we look at the five most exciting changes coming to Frosthaven, so bundle up and get ready to venture out into this new, cold landscape with us! There are a lot of big changes coming to Frosthaven that look to shake things up, as well as all-new developments that aim to enhance areas of the game completely. So naturally, a huge standalone follow-up has us more excited than a Vermling Scout surrounded by coins! It’s Frosthaven-eve! At All You Can Board, we’re avid Gloomhaven fans and have had a consistent group of four that has met over the course of two years.

Gloomhaven kickstarter