"Frost..er..Dustgrave" Topic

I Picked up Frostgrave and have been sorting through my lead pile for figures to put together some warbands. However, I plan to actually play "Dustgrave", my own version set in an abandoned, desert city. This will leverage my huge collection of MBA and Crescent Root buildings.

Anyone else plan on playing their games in an alternate setting?

Probably. I've more jungle terrain than I do tundra, and a number of my figures are also tropical types that would freeze solid if they ventured into icy climes. (The topless Amazons most obviously, but even the more sensibly dressed figures are clothed for the Meditterraen or tropics.)

However, I'd also like to play against type. One assumes that Felstad was a northern European city, with late medieval architecture. What if it was that world's equivalent of ancient Egypt before the cataclysm? I like the thought of sphinxes and obelisks dusted with snow. Your wizard might comment on the incongruity of carvings or wall paintings that show men and women wearing only a short linen wrap around their loins, all the while his warband stamp their feet and blow on their hands to keep warm.

I do now.

Anything will work.

Yeah, my setting will be Sandgrave, because I have oodles of 28mm Aegyptian terrain, and I shall be using my Wargods of Aegyptus figures alongside pretty much every other 28mm figure I own. The wintery setting is more fluff than necessity for the game so any setting of a ruined city should work. Of course, the city could exist simultaneously in several different settings, so you could have wintery medieval quarters near sandy Egyptian ruins. It's a magical city after all. In my mind it is very like Cynosure from Grimjack.

Same here, except Grassgrave, set on the savannah.

I don't like snow and ice in real life or on my tabletop.

Frostheim or Mordgrave, which one sounds better?

+1 Frostheim

I had just bought a load of the Grendel (mainly Egyptian) stuff, so my Frostgrave setting will be full of ancient Egyptian bits n' bobs too.

I had actually never thought of it, but playing in a desert/Egyptian/etc environment would be terrific. Ditto the jungle.