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    Frostgrave: Into the Breeding Pits
    Frostgrave: Into the Breeding Pits
    Frostgrave: Into the Breeding Pits
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    Frostgrave: Into the Breeding Pits

    By Joseph A. McCullough and Dmitry Burmak

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    With this new supplement for Frostgrave, players can lead their warbands into the vast network of catacombs, sewers, and dungeons that run underneath the Frozen City. It was in these dark confines that the ancient wizards known as Beastcrafters experimented on living creatures, creating strange hybrids and deadly monsters, many of which still roam the forgotten passageways. Along with a host of new scenarios, treasures, soldiers, and creatures, the book also contains rules for the traps and secret passages that are often found in the dungeons. With wonderful and rare magical treasures to be discovered, will players risk taking their warbands down into the Breeding Pits?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateJul 28, 2016
    ISBN9781472815767
    Frostgrave: Into the Breeding Pits
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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

      UNDERGROUND EXPLORATION

      It is perfectly possible to play games of Frostgrave set underground using only the rules found in the main rulebook. For players who want more variety, complexity, and a greater sense of adventuring in the dark chambers beneath the city, however, this chapter presents several optional rules that help capture this mood. Not all of the rules presented will be needed or desirable in all games, and players should feel free to pick and choose which ones they use, so long as they agree so before the game.

      TABLE SET-UP

      When playing games of Frostgrave set underground there are two main ways to set up the table. Players can either follow the guidelines presented in the main book (Standard Set-Up) or they can use special terrain, mats or card tiles to create a dungeon (Dungeon Set-Up).

      Standard Set-Up

      A Standard Set-Up assumes that the game is taking place in some vast cavern or chamber that is at least as big as the table itself. This chamber probably once held a number of buildings or structures that have now fallen to ruin. Or perhaps the chamber was once one giant ‘building’ itself, divided by many internal walls that are now broken or crumbling away. In either case, the table should still be packed full of ruins, with very few areas of unbroken line of sight. Players should note the rules for Doors and Doorways and Ceilings, and are otherwise free to select any of the other optional underground rules presented below.

      Dungeon Set-Up

      Some players may own special terrain, mats or card tiles that they can use to create a Dungeon Set-Up. This is a series of rooms connected by passageways, all of which are assumed to be fully enclosed by earth and rock. The main difference with a Dungeon Set-Up is the inclusion of dead space – areas of the table that represent solid earth or rock and are only accessible to certain figures (e.g. Immaterial or Burrowing creatures). Dungeon Set-Ups have a few special rules that are discussed in the Ceilings and Secret Passages sections below.

      Furthermore, a Dungeon Set-Up affects certain spells as follows:

      CRUMBLE

      This spell has no effect on an area of dead space.

      LEAP

      Since all Dungeon Set-Ups are assumed to have ceilings, it is not possible to Leap over or through an area of dead space.

      MUD

      Dungeon Set-Ups are assumed to take place on hard stone or packed earth floors and thus the Mud spell is less effective. In Dungeon Set-Ups, Mud causes all ground within 1.5" of a target point to become rough ground for the rest of the game.

      PLANE WALK

      This spell can be used to pass through dead space. However, the spellcaster cannot end his move in dead space – if he did so, he would instantly die. Furthermore, a spellcaster cannot use this spell to walk through dead space to another area of a dungeon unless one of his warband is within line of sight of that area – essentially, the spellcaster has to know there is another area of the dungeon to walk to before setting forth.

      WALL

      In a Dungeon Set-Up, Wall spells are much less stable. All Walls cast in a Dungeon Set-Up vanish on a roll of 15+ instead of 17+. Furthermore, any figure standing next to a magically created wall may spend an action to attack it. The figure should roll a die and add its Fight. If the total is 12 or more, the Wall is immediately destroyed.

      Doors and Doorways

      When using a Standard Set-Up, players must decide whether the table represents one large chamber, or if it is just one section of an even larger underground space. If the latter, then treat all table edges as for a standard game of Frostgrave. If the table represents just one chamber, however, there will be a limited number of entry and exit points.

      In this case, players should mark at least 8 different entry and exit points to the table – ideally two on each table edge. Players can use actual doorways to mark this, but experience has taught that these tend to get in the way while playing and that it is better to just indicate them with a flat marker. Warbands must start with all of their figures within 6" of one of the doorways on their side of the table. Figures can only exit the table through doorways, although they are allowed to exit through a doorway used as an entry point by

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