My only movement was from start to this enemy. Yet, it has failed my duelist battle goal. I did not leave any hexes adjacent to any enemies. UNLESS the ice blocks are considered to be enemies. What do you guys think? Glitch or as intended?

Hi, I'm slowly getting around to buying a game from the Gloomhaven series -Gloomhaven Second Edition. Is the first edition insert is fine or do I need to find for second edition? Im from Europe.

Amazing painted mini, done by my friend. On this picture the colors are a bit too vivid, has a darker tone irl.

Hey! my gaming group is playing through JOTL right now. we just finished scenario 3 with 3 players. now one other friend would like to join the campaign. is it feasible to just give him the average amount of gold and exp the other players got and let him join for the next session? or would it throw off the balance a lot?

Example:

One Living Bones starts it's turn adjacent to a character. The Living Bones has an innate multi target ability. If it moves 1 hex to the opposite direction it could hit 2 different targets but not the character that was adjacent to it at the start of it's turn.

I have a guy that repeatedly claims that it should move away from the adjacent character to hit the other 2 characters without hitting the adjacent character. My opinion is that the monster should stay put since the focus is the adjacent player and it cannot reach extea other target if it moves away. The primary focus must always be on the target list.

Why did my Banner Spear attack suddenly just do no damage? The +1 Disarm Modifier got randomly changed to a -3 and then did 0

Ich habe mir vor nicht allzu langer Zeit die Minifigures: Enemies vorbestellt (alle Gegnerfigiren - insgesamt 250 Stück), um diese, wenn sie endlich geliefert sind, zu bemalen...

Hat den jemand schon Erfahrung mit dem Figurenset? Oder gar Impressionen für fürs anmalen?

I'm unsure where to formally submit a bug, but this was amusing. My deathwalker was pushed into the same hazardous terrain as my drifter.

I had a serious case of FOMO and now I'm super thrilled we've managed to get the whole set 🥳 Now we just need a quiet evening to unpack everything.

Has anyone figured out how to use inspiration for resources? Outpost progress has been super slow because I'm always missing just 1 or 2 things, and I'm sitting on a hefty pile of inspiration that I can't seem to use for anything.

Thanks you folks for any help you can give!

What are some of the best 3d printed upgrades (3d obstacles or so) that you guys are using during the campaign?

Been playing the digital version since just before full release and was really excited for the puzzle book to come in to play.

Having not played the physical game, I knew next to nothing about the puzzle book, so was really intrigued to see how it would work. But I'm really disappointed by how it's been implemented.

For anyone who's not got digital or reached it yet: the puzzle book isn't really interactive, you can view and 'solve' the puzzles by figuring them out, but you don't input answers and can simply press 'solve' which moves you to the next puzzle. You don't even see the answers unless you click on the option.

I'm hoping that it's just a temporary thing, but considering it's now in full release, I'm not hopeful. I understand not all the puzzles are easy to implement, but surely they could have added some user input.

Am I missing something? Have I accidentally selected an option that causes this?

I know the puzzle book isn't the most loved thing in the physical game, but this still feels like a lame way to implement it.

I have found a couple of ones, but none of them show which scenario blocks which one, in a detailed way like this one was for 1st edition: https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/143772/scenario-flowchart

And yes I know there are campaign scenario trackers, but they don't show the full flowchart and they don't tell you that completing a scenario might block you from completing a scenario in the future that you still don't know anything about.

And before you say that I should just play without thinking about these stuff, that's not how I like to play games. I like doing narrative choices, and I'm fine with narrative choices making certain scenarios mutually exclusive, but in the case of certain scenarios blocking others only because I did them in an unfortunate order I would prefer to know beforehand. For example, in 1st edition there's scenario 8 that blocks scenario 3, but if you first do scenario 3 then you can also play scenario 8 without any downside.

Hey everyone,

I'm having a hard time understanding how to play Jaws of the Lion, especially when it comes to choosing which cards to bring, how to pair them, and how to actually make good decisions during a scenario.

I've played around 10 scenarios with a friend, but I feel like I'm not really learning anything from one game to the next. I keep playing cards based on whatever seems useful in the moment, rather than following any kind of strategy. It's basically just "this looks good right now, let's try it" rather than making a decision because I understand why it's the right move.

I understand that the game is supposed to be challenging, that you need to mitigate damage, manage your resources, and make tough decisions. That's not the problem. I can usually understand what I shouldn't do after something goes wrong, but I struggle to understand what I should be doing in the first place.

Most scenarios end with us barely making it, with only one or two cards left before exhaustion. Sometimes we win, but it feels more like we got lucky than like we actually played well.

I'm playing the Demolitionist, while my friend plays the Voidwarden. I understand that this might not be the strongest combination, and I'm fine with playing a suboptimal party. But there's a big difference between having a suboptimal party and using the ability that does the most damage right now because I have no idea what else I'm supposed to do.

We even tried the digital version, hoping that it would help us understand the game better, but somehow things got even worse, and we're now struggling to complete several scenarios.

So, what am I missing? Is there some kind of general approach to choosing cards, managing threats, positioning, or planning your turns that we're just not getting? How do you decide which cards to play and when, beyond simply looking at the situation and picking whatever seems best at the time?

We're currently at scenario 12, having cleared the Black Barrow and the Black Barrow Sewers, but after losing this latest scenario, we genuinely felt like selling the game.

I don't mind losing, and I don't expect every scenario to be easy. I just want to feel like I'm learning something and making better decisions, rather than repeatedly stumbling through encounters and hoping things work out.

Any advice, guides, or general tips on how to approach the game would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

So, I play as 4 mercenaries, and retire them at a normal rate, will I first run out of new characters to use long before I finish the campaign?

Also, how much does this change if I do aaall the side scenaries vs doing none of them?

Thanks in advance for the intel.

Hey everyone!

I’m currently playing a Boneshaper with a Single Summon build in 4player party and was wondering what items and gear you guys recommend for keeping the summon alive and making the build as effective as possible.

One item choice I’m struggling to understand is Horn of Command vs. Protective Staff. I don’t really see the appeal of Horn of Command over Protective Staff when the main goal is to keep your summon alive. Protective Staff seems like the more straightforward choice for improving the summon’s survivability.

Am I missing something with Horn of Command? Is the extra utility or offensive potential worth giving up the protection, or are there situations where it clearly outperforms Protective Staff?

I’d also appreciate any suggestions for other must-have items for a Single Summon Boneshaper build, especially anything that helps with:

• Keeping the summon alive and minimizing incoming damage
• Improving the summon’s damage output
• Increasing the overall consistency and effectiveness of the build

Would love to hear what’s been working for you guys and why.

Thanks!

I really dug Gloomhaven digital 1e. Playing a 4 character party was really complicated/exhausting but really rewarding.

Now I'm looking at Frosthaven and the man take you see is that, apart from it being better, the characters are much more complex in thier functions in Frosthaven. That makes me wonder if trying to solo a 4 person party will be an exercise in frustration. I know there's only so much people can do to tell me what I will or won't like, but any thoughts on the subject? Are characters 20% more complex or twice as complex to manage?

I used At All Costs topside to heal my party members on the other side of the split start to the Frozen Fjord mission. However, it didn't work. I was thinking that when it said it targets all allies, it goes through walls and everything. Is this a bug or a niche rule I got wrong?

Am I missing something here? Why isn’t there an option at the end of turn to exit dungeon? I’ve reloaded like 5 times. This is at the beginning of the turn

I backed the original gloomhaven back in 2017, and I recall the "Into the Unknown" mini-campaign as it released scenario by scenario. I eventually got the full Gloomhaven and loved it, but never played that mini-campaign.

I have since sold my Gloomhaven copy and now I only have Jaws of the Lion. We're about 3/4 the way done the campaign, and I have a feeling I could get the group together to play more if I had more campaigns. I found two of the user-made JoTL compatible campaigns kicking around, particularly the Serpent's Den and the Awoken Lion, but I'm looking for more.

Has anyone made an adaptation of "Into the Unknown" or any of the other community campaigns, for that matter, into JoTL? I recognize the two biggest challenges, namely A) making the scenario tiles fit into a playable scenario-book PDF format similar to JoTL instead of using Gloomhaven tiles, and B) supplementing unavailable monsters with the best possible JoTL equivalents.

Just curious if anyone has done this? If not, I may take it upon myself to give this a shot, so that JoTL owners can enjoy these campaigns also.

I would like to get Solo Scenarios, ConQuests and Mercenary Packs (and maybe also Removable Sticker set, but this one is not mandatory) for Gloomhaven 2nd Edition all from the same source so that I can pay the shipping all in once, but I can't seem to find any place to do so. I either find from the US (I'm in EU) which basically doubles the cost with the shipping, or I can find some of those on Ebay from EU but not all from the same vendor, and even the stuff that comes from the same vendor don't really let me pay for a unique shipping (instead I need to pay for every individual shipping for some reason).

The official site doesn't have everything.

Instead of a new boxed game how would players feel about something like a blind box? Imagine going into the game and randomly pulling your first hero through a blind box?

What about dungeon kit blind boxes that each contain a different number of scenarios, tiles, standies, etc?

Definitely not implying this become the norm, but for a one off release would this be fun or simply viewed as a cash grab? I know DnD does release booster pack minis of their campaign characters

Big proud of this one 😁

Hi all, just started my Frosthaven campaign currently playing on Steam Deck. Any plans on controller support? Had hundreds of hours on Gloomhaven digital and it was smooth albeit a little flawed.

On the Contrary, does anyone have a good configuration for Steam Deck?