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    Frostgrave: Blood Legacy
    Frostgrave: Blood Legacy
    Frostgrave: Blood Legacy
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    Frostgrave: Blood Legacy

    By Joseph A. McCullough and RU-MOR aRU-MOR

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    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: reoccupying their hidden strongholds, reforming their old cabals, and finding new victims to serve as their thralls. The destruction of the old city has brought one other boon to the vampires – giant's blood. While giants used to live out of reach to the far north, in the intervening millennium, they have descended on the city in large numbers. Their blood is like an elixir to the vampires, filling them with strength and magical power. A new war is forming between these two ancient races, and once again, the wizards of Frostgrave are caught in the middle.

    This supplement for Frostgrave: Fantasy Wargames in the Frozen City presents greatly expanded information about the vampires and the giants that occupy the frozen ruins, including rules for vampiric magic and a breakdown of the different tribes of giants. Also included are rules for a new type of soldier, the giant-blooded. These huge men and women have the blood of giants running through their veins, granting them great strength unseen in normal men. Finally, the book contains a section on playing Frostgrave with high-level wizards and includes two mini-campaigns to challenge these experienced spellcasters.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateDec 9, 2021
    ISBN9781472841605
    Frostgrave: Blood Legacy
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    Joseph A. McCullough

    Joseph A. McCullough's first brush with writing for games was as co-author of The Grey Mountains supplement for the Middle-Earth Role-Playing Game, and he has remained passionate about Fantasy gaming since, going on to become an award-winning game designer. He is the creator of the “Frostgrave Family” of skirmish wargames (the Fantasy titles Frostgrave, Ghost Archipelago, Rangers of Shadow Deep, and the Sci-Fi evolution, Stargrave) and of the Oathmark Fantasy battle game and The Silver Bayonet, a game of Napoleonic Gothic Horror. The latest information on his game design and other writing can be found at: josephamccullough.com.

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      Frostgrave - Joseph A. McCullough

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      CHAPTER ONE

      Vampires and Giants

      Vampires in the Frozen City

      Creating a Vampire

      Becoming a Vampire

      Vampire Spells

      Giants in the Frozen City

      Frost Giants

      Fire Giants

      Creating a Fire Giant Wizard

      Fire Giant Spells

      CHAPTER TWO

      New Soldiers

      Blood Merchant

      Swordmaster

      Vampire Hunter

      Giant-Blooded Soldiers

      Giant-Blooded Modification

      CHAPTER THREE

      High-Level Wizards

      Increased Specialist Soldier Allowance

      Increased Item Slots

      Increased Maximum Health

      Lower Casting Number Minimum

      Alternate Experience Point Expenditure

      CHAPTER FOUR

      Eventide Manor Campaign

      Creating a Vampire and Henchmen

      Playing a Vampire Warband

      Ambush Cards

      Eventide Manor

      Scenario One: The Grand Entrance

      Scenario Two: The Portrait Gallery

      Scenario Three: The Smoke-filled Parlour

      Epilogue

      CHAPTER FIVE

      The Caves of Fin Dalka Campaign

      The Caves of Fin Dalka

      Scenario One: The Cave Mouth

      Scenario Two: Ice Menagerie

      Scenario Three: The Collapsing Caverns

      CHAPTER SIX

      New Treasure

      CHAPTER SEVEN

      Bestiary

      Blood-drinker Bats

      Burning Skeleton

      Fire Giant Ruler

      Fire Giant Hearthguard

      Fire Giant Militia

      Frost Giant

      Frost Wraith

      Kalshek, Vampire Spellcaster

      Leechwolf

      Lord Dantés, Vampire

      Mist-Walker

      Spectre

      Svellen, Fire Giant Wizard

      Troll-Giant

      Zombified Troll

      New Attributes

      Appendix

      Ambush Cards

      Vampire Spell Cards

      Fire Giant Spell Cards

      INTRODUCTION

      Welcome to Blood Legacy, the tenth supplement for Frostgrave! It’s an incredible milestone, and, even as the person who has sat behind his computer day-after-day to create these books, I often find it hard to believe that my little game has expanded so much. On the other hand, one might wonder if I still have anything left to say about the Frozen City!

      Over the years, I have started each expansion by selecting a specific creative constraint that would both give shape to the book and ensure that it was self-contained.

      For example, I have written books based on underground adventures (Into the Breeding Pits), demons and demon summoning (Forgotten Pacts), and solo play (Perilous Dark). I have also written long campaigns that were constrained by a fixed narrative (Thaw of the Lich Lord), location (The Maze of Malcor), and even specific tabletop mechanics (The Red King). By always having the specific constraint in mind as I worked, it helped keep me focused, and greatly aided the creative process. It sounds odd to think of constraints being an aid to creativity, but I have found this to be generally true. Yet, when it came to writing this book, I almost completely eschewed the idea.

      Blood Legacy was written in the closing months of 2020, a year that few will remember with fondness, where ‘virus’, ‘lockdown’, ‘cancelled’, and ‘closed’ became the most common words. It was a year in which most of us were constrained in ways we had never previously imagined. For the hobby, it meant no conventions, the closing of many stores and wargaming clubs, and even restrictions on when, if, and how we could game with our friends. Workwise, I spent most of my year creating the core rules for two new wargames: Stargrave and The Silver Bayonet. While I enjoyed working on both games, writing core rules is a different experience from writing a supplement. Core rules have much greater constraint to content requirement, precision of language, and a tightness of focus. So, as the year reached its end, I felt hemmed in and trapped, both physically and creatively.

      Thus, I gave myself a gift of freedom. When I started work on Blood Legacy, I decided my only constraint would be the title, and I would just follow wherever the creativity took me. The first place it led was vampires. While vampires have always existed in Frostgrave, they have basically been just another monster, just another entry on the Random Encounter Table. Sure, they are powerful, but they had no real personality. So, I started this book by taking a closer look at the vampires of the Frozen City. I created tools for making vampires into true characters. I expanded their special abilities and limitations, and I even gave them their own branch of magic with their own spells. Of course, having done that, I needed to give players an excuse to use them, so I wrote a short campaign where players get to create and lead a vampire warband against their enemies!

      The next place Blood Legacy took me was to the ‘giant-blooded’. For a while I have been thinking about a way for players to include a ‘big guy’ in their warband. This is such a classic idea in skirmish wargaming – that one member of the group is much larger and stronger than the rest. I’m not sure where this idea originates, perhaps in super-hero teams, but the fact is it can bring some nice diversity to warbands and gives players more options for the buying and painting figures. So, the giant-blooded are soldiers who are extra-large and powerful thanks to a bit of giant blood somewhere in their family tree.

      Of course, if I had giant-blooded, it made sense to look at giants, another entry on the Random Encounter Table that could use a personality boost. I gave these guys the same treatment as vampires, giving them their own branch of magic with their own unique spells. I also created another short campaign to give players an excuse to try out some giant magic and get those giant models on the table (come on, if you haven’t got giant models already, you have probably been looking for an excuse to buy some, right?).

      By this point, I realized that I had created some seriously deadly adversaries for the wizards of Frostgrave, some of which should only be tackled by higher-level wizards. I had always meant to explore the idea of higher-level wizards in more depth, and this seemed like a great opportunity. So, I wrote a section of new optional rules for players who have managed to keep their wizards alive through many games and reached the loftier heights of power.

      While working on all of that, I also created some more magic items, more monsters, more soldiers, and even a set of ‘ambush cards’ to add more chaotic fun to scenarios.

      Writing Blood Legacy has been a wild, fun, and refreshing ride. If it is a bit more scattershot than the supplements that have gone before, I hope you will understand why and forgive me. More though, I hope that at least some of the new rules and ideas contained within these pages will appeal and spark your own creativity. This is a book of Frostgrave ‘stuff’ to be used however you like.

      As always, I want to say how grateful I am to everyone who has bought this book and supported the game, and thus, supported me. It has been a hard year, but I have found immense comfort in spending my days working on fantastical worlds. I hope some of this work has brought a little cheer, comfort, and enjoyment to your own year.

      That’s all I’ve got to say for right now. Enjoy the book,

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