Character retirement in Frosthaven/Gloomhaven can be quite fast, maybe a bit too fast. The idea behind this obviously is to have the possibility of playing every characters within the span of the campaign. Aside from trying a new character, a further incentive for the players to get it done is that it also unlocks town buildings. Now, if only we could unlock a merchant shop or something, that’d be great.

Characters

• Grayzill the Snowdancer (David) lvl 2, General Winter is on the field
• T-Gee/Mina the Geminate (Math) lvl 5, two competing hiveminded insect swarms in a single body
• Boson the Blink Blade (Guillaume) lvl 2, master of the 4th dimension

Our new friend, Boson the Blink Blade, convinces us of helping him with his personal quest that got something to do with a group of aesthers, weird ethereal beings, with this particular group even weirder than usual as its members act as a single mind. Stop talking in unison, it’s disturbing! Anyway, they want us to retrieve/save the Elemental Array, whatever that is.

Inside the Aesther Outpost:

Living Bones, Frozen Corpses and Snow Imps. All former members of the Ice Capades I think.

This one has botched his acrobatic figure.

Closing Comments:

• This scenario is the start of Boson’s personal quest and leads to something else in 6 weeks of in-game time.
• The Blink Blade looks like a stronger than average character, with interesting mechanics of fast and slow turns that accomplish a lot of different things in a single turn.
• Rime Heart was a more beefy version of an Icy Wraith but it didn’t picked is more annoying cards fortunately.
• Snow Imps are an absolute priority to kill as the brittle condition they give with their attacks make everything else very lethal.
• Looting the final chest unlocks another side scenario, one with promises of treasure.