Gloomhaven Scenario 13 - 'Temple of the Seer' - 25 April

In pursuit of the Necromancer, the party demanded answers from the Seer in his mountaintop lair. Having defeated the Stone Golem guards, their (entirely reasonable) demands were met by enforced confrontation with a horde of summoned monsters.

Stu's Spellweaver charged alone into the inner sanctum in a brave and successful attempt to loot the treasure chest. James' Brute held the door against a horde of Cave Bears, Spitting Drakes and Living Spirits whilst the Cragheart and Tinkerer healed him up and launched ranged attacks. The party was victorious and remain on the Necromancer's trail.  Great fun.

Gloomhaven - Inox Encampment and City Warehouse (Scenarios 3 and 8), March 2018

Belated write ups of 2 Gloomhaven sessions from March.  Opting to obey the law and generally be good rather than bad, having done the merchant Jekserah's further bidding by razing an Inox encampment to the ground, second thoughts prevailed and the party confronted her in a city warehouse.  Exposed as a necromancer, she fled but not before the party had despatched some of her living corpses and defeated her hulking bodyguards.

Two more excellent Gloomhaven sessions last month, the game play ensuring finely balanced and tense adventures with minimal down time.  This is such a quality game.

Gloomhaven - 'The Barrow Lair' - 8 February

A bout of heavy colds and an overseas trip for other Rivals reduced the party to Adrian's Cragheart and James' Brute, for the second Gloomhaven scenario - The Barrow Lair.  Without the more subtle and ranged abilities of the Tinkerer and Spellweaver, this outing was a more straight up fight in the crypts below the hill, but it was nevertheless a tense and excellent figures game which resulted in the bandit leader and minions defeated, the merchant's papers found, and three more scenarios unlocked.

Gloomhaven Scenario 1 'The Black Barrow' - 31 January

Having seen all the hype, managed to get a total bargain on Gloomhaven the day the second printing was released in January. Gave it a road test with Stu and David. We used the Spellweaver, Cragheart and Tinkerer character classes and played the first adventure in the book. Avoiding spoilers, the game does indeed live up to its hype. Beautifully produced and with tonnes of content and very clever game play. In a really tense and fun scenario we won more or less on the turn of the last card. All were keen to play again soon with James joining the party.