[Cephalofair Games] Gloomhaven / Frosthaven

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Moi aussi je sais faire des captures

Mais pas gérer tes problèmes d'affichage on dirait ?

Sinon effectivement, les gurines sont pas le point fort du jeu mais elles ne sont qu'un bonus à con. Après même les illus ont leur touche propre, ça prend un peu de temps de s'y coller, mais au bout d'un moment, on se fait à presque tout.

Sinon, tieng, ce ouikande, c'était Pax ! Et un gens de BGG (merci) a fait un résumé du truc :
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2326362...esentation

Kickstarter: March 2020

Planned Delivery: 'Less than a year - Early 2021'

'Frosthaven' is a sequel that features a whole new campaign with as much content and new stuff as the original Gloomhaven had. 'Frosthaven' is a stand-alone product that you can start with but characters are more complicated than its predecessor. Characters from each product are completely compatible with one another.

'Frosthaven' has a whole new set of items but there is a mechanic for bringing items over from 'Gloomhaven'. However, as it is a remote location, these products get imported and are not there as standard. Resources are much more valuable and you have to build items through a crafting system rather than just buy them.

There are six starting characters....

* Bannerspear (noble tank, mainly melee with 'formation attacks' that have hex diagrams that include hex requirements for allies as well as herself but with a non-loss summon that can assist with those attacks).
* Necromancer (now an Aesther. Functions with summoning non-loss 'undead' summons that she loses health to bring forth).
* Deathwalker (a sort of shaman-class that creates 'shadows' through killing monsters. She then has some kind of control over these shadows)
* Drifter (a 'survivalist' with a lot of persistent abilities with charges that give bonuses and that can be 're-charged')
* Geminate - created by Marcel - (two consciousnesses fighting against one another so it operates with two 'forms' - one melee and one more ranged. There are two separate decks to manipulate and a token to flip when changing from form to form. You can only use the deck that matches the current form.
* Blink Blade (can manipulate time - speed it up and slow it down. He has 'time tokens' that can be used in order to do this. The player decides whether to go 'fast' or 'slow' at the start of the round and this choice affects the ability being played)

+ 10 more characters to be unlocked.

Isaac reports they are 'stepping up their miniature game with more 'dynamic poses'.

There are three new races in the game that start off as main 'threats':
- Algox - Distant cousins of Inox - more primitive and larger. They 'like to punch you so you have to watch out for that'. They have an interesting religion where they have separate 'sects' depending on how they interpret how their God speaks to them.
- Lurkers - Different from those in Gloomhaven with a range of new abilities (not a lot of specifics given).
- Robots - Wandering robots that need investigation (again, not a lot of specifics given).

'Frosthaven' is an outpost in the north (NW of Gloomhaven) located through a pass between the Copper Mountains and Imperial Mountains. 'Frosthaven' is completely cut off in the winter. The story begins with a group of mercenaries hired to protect the town and keep it safe.
The town is very small (and damaged) at the start of the game and it needs to be rebuilt. The players will have a chance to use resources to build buildings that unlock new town mechanics (e.g. craftspeople, alchemists etc.). There is variety in how the player wishes to build the town. You can also build up defences of the town to improve its 'defence-rating'.

The game has a 'calendar system' with two separate seasons (Summer and Winter). The calendar progresses by season and there are city/road events specific to each season.

(Writer's note: This sounds awesome!)

The loot-mechanic has changed. Monsters drop 'tokens' rather than 'coins' and these tokens represent different things which could be money, an item or a herb or a resource or something else entirely.

There is a map of the region, much like the first game, with stickers to be applied but the map also contains unexplored regions that only become revealed as the game progresses. There is also a second map that features the town of 'Frosthaven' specifically.

There will be some new monsters as well as some from 'Gloomhaven'. There are now:
'Frozen Corpses' with a new status effect called 'Brittle' where the player gets super-cold and takes 'double-damage' on their next attack sustained.
'Living Dooms' can summon 'Living Spirits' depending on the level of health it has. He has a new status effect called 'Bane'. This is the solution and replacement for the 'Insta-kill mechanic' that was considered over=powered. The 'Bane' condition can be removed by healing but, if it is not removed by the end of the enemy/character's next turn, it does 10 damage.
'Polar Bears' - i.e. worse 'cave bears'

At some point in the game, players gain access to a book (like 'Town Records') that provides a side-story to bring more lore into the game. Progression through the book is by solving puzzles ('like an 'Exit' game). It's a slow progression with clues hidden in the game that will gradually develop over the course of the game and that will unlock things 'in-game'. He has listened to comments about a particular puzzle in 'Gloomhaven' where there was no feedback on how you were getting on with your puzzle so he has tried to rectify that in this game.

Combat mechanics are the same as 'Gloomhaven' and town mechanics are introduced over time so the learning curve in 'Frosthaven', overall, is similar to 'Gloomhaven'.

They are doing the 'sectioned system' introduced in 'Forgotten Circles' but all the information required will be available at the beginning so there are surprises without any lengthy mid-scenario 'set-up'.

Le résumé du résumé avec que les trucs qui me causent le plus parce que je suis flemmard.
Comme les jeux ADD, Gloom et Frost sont compatibles mais stand-alone avec leurs propres spécificités (aka Frost a des rajouts).
Les persos de Frost seront plus complexes (un nécro, un mec qui joue avec le temps, un schyzo close/tir...).
Les monstres ne tombent plus que des sous mais d'autres trucs aussi.
C'est dans le chnord les ressources sont plus rares et donc même les objets importés de Gloom sont plus cher, en conséquence ce sera plus de craft et moins d'achats d'objets.
C'est bien dans le chnord alors il y deux saisons distinctes en termes d'événements, été et hiver. Et un calendrier pour gérer ça.
On est censés sauver un patelin perdu là haut dans la neige alors il a sa propre carte et on a des règles et de l'évolution (progression lente) sur la gestion du village qu'on reconstruit et défend (gestion de ressources et tout).
Ya des mini puzzle in-game.
Ils vont faire un effort sur les pitous.

le squat
pis le frosthaven semble un peu plus classique grâce à la neige qui recentre l'ambiance pour l'instant