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Osprey Games and Joseph A. McCullough want to encourage people to stay in side and beat this virus! To help out, we are currently giving away the Frostgrave Rulebook, as well as supplements containing 6 solo scenarios.

Full details:

https://therenaissancetroll.blogspot.com/2020/03/frostgrave-is-free.html

Nice! I already own all that, but it's a great gesture to the community!

I'll also chime in to recommend purchasing the full Perilous Dark book, it's one of the best resources for solo wargame scenario design I've seen in a long while, if not ever.

Joe's Rangers of Shadow Deep is another great solo product, based off of the same ruleset as Frostgrave, but built from the ground up for solo/co-op narrative play!

Good stuff! Thanks for posting

FYI the code seems to work for the epub versions as well as pdf's, even though the blog post only mentions pdf's

I too already own the rulebook but it's great you and Osprey are doing this Joe!

I actually don't seem to have dark alchemy although I do have most of the others. Just getting ready to start a campaign of Rangers now I know whats next. This is really cool of the two of them to do.

Quick question for anyone who's taken advantage of this offer.

Did you have to go through the checkout and "purchase" them or is there a way to do a straight download from the site?
If the former, has anyone had any issues with the items disappearing from the cart after you apply the coupon and then click to the next stage?

The Osprey site is pretty wonky right now, have been trying to get a password reset for a few days now.

 Snrub wrote:
Quick question for anyone who's taken advantage of this offer.

Did you have to go through the checkout and "purchase" them or is there a way to do a straight download from the site?
If the former, has anyone had any issues with the items disappearing from the cart after you apply the coupon and then click to the next stage?

You add them to the cart as normal, fill in the discount code (reducing the price to 0, if you didn't buy anything else), then continue through checkout. At the payment step, there should be a "no payment required" option or somesuch (again, if purchasing nothing else), after which you can download them from your account.
Had some issues with the Osprey site some days ago, but everything worked fine the day after.

Awesome, thanks guys.

I'd love to get the free PDFs, but the site keeps reseting my location from UK to Rest Of The World, leaving me trapped in a continual loop.

It's very frustrating

it was doing this to a lot of folk yesterday including me when I tried for the 5 free military history books for this week

but it seems to be working fine now as I manage to get my stuff just now

This is great, thanks!

Just got the book. Thank you.

So it finally worked for me, i added the items to my basket, went through the checkout process....but have no idea how to download my PDFs!

Can anyone help me? Feeling a bit foolish about my lack of brainpower here


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Scratch that, just worked it out.

Thanks a lot OP, this will keep me entertained for a while!!

For others:

1) Go to My Osprey;
2) Scroll down and click on My eLibrary;
3) Each item has a Download button under it.

Osprey is looking like it has crashed.

That is a wonderful gesture, it might be a small action, but it is one that I am sure people will be both thankful of and remember well.

Good job Osprey!

 stonehorse wrote:
That is a wonderful gesture, it might be a small action, but it is one that I am sure people will be both thankful of and remember well.

Good job Osprey!

It’s a great tactic to get people Into the game with new edition coming out this summer.

Very generous move by Osprey and Joe.

First game with Frostgrave was played solo, when it had no such rules and even in that state it was a blast. In a nutshell I took a Tau-banshee conversion, which happened to have a snowy base and winter cloak and they had crashed near Felstead. Basically the crash attracts the attention of a pack of wolves and the "visiter" has to leg it to an cave on the other side of the long map before he's overrun by them. I used a pack of Fenris wolves and at the end of each turn you'd roll a D6 and depending on the score you'd deploy one wolf at the north, south or west edge of the table. It was fun incorporating a sci-fi character into a fantasy game as the Eldar are sometimes visually compatable( Warlock with a dual-handed witchblade, for example ).

But yes, give this a look. You'll be glad you did!

Cool, it's a great little game.

What’s Frostgrave about?

 Apple Peel wrote:
What’s Frostgrave about?

Two competing war bands led by wizards exploring an ancient magical city full of wizardly goodies to steal. The city was captured within a magical blizzard for hundreds of years and is now just possible to go in and find artifacts and more. War band earns experience and your wizard gains experience as well. So sort of necromunda with fantasy and wizards.

Very cool of Joe and Osprey to do this. I've got most of the published books anyway but the e-copies are also appreciated, and it only generates goodwill - which will keep me (and no doubt a lot of others) buying them for years to come.

 Apple Peel wrote:
What’s Frostgrave about?

Here's a good review of the game for us wargamers : http://www.critskillpeople.com/2016/04/frostgrave-review.html/

Took a fair bit of work, but all is right with the world of Frostgrave, now.

I also just picked up an old Zombie Dragon from my local shop... The "Old" GW one. Got to take it easy for the weekend, I guess.

Thanks and downloaded!

A great little game - which I bought on release.
Two issues: No fighter characters and quite unbalanced spells (Telekinesis spring to mind as being especially OP when claming treasures).

There are Captains in the Sellsword expansion.

But yes, certain spells are quite unbalanced, sometime you need to make a few houserules to balance them out (like no Leaping if you are carrying Treasure, for example).

Nice work from osprey. I've downloaded both. Didn't have the dark alchemy book.

 Oguhmek wrote:
There are Captains in the Sellsword expansion.

But yes, certain spells are quite unbalanced, sometime you need to make a few houserules to balance them out (like no Leaping if you are carrying Treasure, for example).

Yeah that particular trick is gone come 2nd ed, Joe has confirmed on his blog