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My plans to play The Beacon Tower with my friend Scott today didn’t come about - my wife tweaked her back and needed some help, so I called off the session.  And shortly thereafter, I found that the FLGS that we were going to play at was closed due to weather…. I mean, this is Wisconsin - Five inches of snow is just another day.   Regardless, I decided to make the best of a bad situation, and played a quick Rangers of Frostgrave scenario that I wrote to bridge the gap between Alone in the Crypt and getting to an inn to re-equip.  Previously, my ranger Serrol, his conjurer Carov, and the rest of his team journeyed to Felstad to retrieve a book of lore needed in the fight against the Shadow Deep.  I played my team through Dark Alchemy from the Folio, and The Big Score from Spellcaster 5; Carov fell in The Big Score, and the group had no choice but to abandon him. Not wanting to lose him, I “promoted” him to Ranger, and ran him through Alone in the Crypt.  And now, he has finally

I needed a break from painting miniatures today, so, based on a discussion on the Facebook group for Rangers of Shadow Deep, I decided to run a Frostgrave Wizard through the first Rangers scenario. I chose an Elementalist warband consisting of Wizard, Apprentice, Templar, a Rangers and an Archer (as well as a summoned animal) - so 550gc (went a bit high because I liked the minis, and what the heck). I Played in Challenge Mode, and replaced skill checks with either Fight or Will rolls vs a difficulty of 4 higher than listed to try to stay more true to how FrostGrave works. It wasn't a cakewalk. Apprentice, ranger and archer went down; Wizard, other ranger and templar survived (as did the summoned animal). We just got the last clue in Round 7 (which is when the Apprentice dropped) - many flubbed spells. Had I not gone with the extra 50gc, it might have been a different story. But, we found Aventine, identified his sword, found & figured out the strange tracks. So, while I've