FREE SCENARIO - DON´T OPEN THAT DOOR

A new free scenario for Fear of the Dark skirmish wargame is now available for free to all of you.

The characters are called by a friend, Jeremy Hikes, known to be an experienced "book hunter".

Very used to walk libraries and antique dealers waiting to get a book of dark arts for almost nothing and resell it for a fortune.

Jeremy has bought a really interesting book... 

Interesting enough to call the characters and show it to them, as it contains very important information. 

But there is a problem, someone else wants that book, and it is the kind of person you don´t want to have as an enemy...

This is the starting point for this thrilling new scenario, this is the first one but it´s not going to be the last, as I´m working in a short campaign that will also be available for free.

To get this free scenario, just visit your Wargamevault.com profile, and in the Fear of the Dark folder (created when you bought the game) you´ll see that a new file has been added, you just have to download it for free.

This scenario is the way I have to tell you: 

THANKS A LOT FOR SUPPORTING THIS PROJECT.

SCENARIOS

In this section you will find new scenarios created for Fear of the Dark. 

Here you will find a detailed description of the scenario and the idea is making them available for free to players who have the rulebook. 

How does that work? 

I will make scenarios, and post them in Wargamevault TOGETHER with the rulebook, so that the people who bought the book just have to go to their Wargamevault profile and download again the Fear of the Dark ruleset, and the new scenario will download FOR FREE together with the rulebook.

Of course, if somebody buys the rulebook in a future, the scenarios will be downloaded for free together with the ruleset.

I hope you like the game and the intention is to give players more chances to play.

Four free scenarios and one campaign have been added:

- Don´t open that door.  The characters are called by a friend, Jeremy Hikes, known to be an experienced "book hunter who has bought a very interesting book that contains very important information. But there may be someone else looking for the book...

- Mother´s love. While driving through a mountain road, they see a woman dressed in white with the hands and face covered in blood. She is in a shoulder of the road looking straight at the characters. Suddenly she runs towards them in the middle of the road screaming...

- Til death do us part. This is a story about love... true love... Love can drive you crazy, and you do crazy things for love... It seems that love and madness go always together...

What would you dare to do for love?

- Little Red Riding Hood. The idea of Little Red Riding Hood came while reading a bedtime story to my children and the plot may sound familiar:

"Officer, what we know about the case is that a young girl was going through the woods to her grandmother's house carrying a basket with a piece of cake... Next thing we know is that she was found dead as if a beast had slayed her... 

It sounds familiar, isn't it, officer? 

Well, to make things even more strange as It was raining she was wearing a cape with a hood... 

Do you guess which colour was it? 

Red... Of course...

So, officer... Are we looking for the Big bad wolf?"

- Sons of the New Moon. This is a campaign that will take your investigators to their limits: a writer is missing while he was making a research for a new book, a horror novel about a long time disappeared esoteric cult. everything seems like he has discovered something... something wicked.

Will they dicover the writer´s whereabout?

Will they make it alive?

Will they find what happened with the Sons of the New Moon?

GENERAL ARTICLES

In this section you will find articles related to wargaming. They will cover different aspects of this hobby and are made to help wargamers.

The subjects dealt in the posts are quite different one from the other, but all of them will be helpful or at least I will try to make them a good read.

This section will grow as I add more articles to the blog, I hope you find them useful.

- Low cost wargaming. Wargames have always been seen as an expensive hobby. You have to buy a lot of miniatures, buy paint bottles, buy a lot of terrain, buy a mat... and that gets even worse when we deal with solo wargamers that have to buy everything by themselves. In this post I will try to give some hints on how to make a nice gaming board the cheapest possible way.

- Solo wargaming. This post is about solo players: why do we play solo, what tools do we need to do it, apart from a long list of solo rulebooks available. You may want to start playing solo, or you are just interested in this way of wargaming, anyway I hope you find this post interesting.

- Cars, scales and wargames. This post deals with a problem that every wargamer finds sometime. Vehicles are a part of the terrain or are used in games, but it seems that the vehicles never have the correct size: they may be huge, or tiny, or the only ones that seem to fit your miniatures are really expensive. I will try to give some advice on how to get a nice motor pool. 

- Papercraft buildings and terrain. Papercraft is cheap. Papercraft is nice. Papercraft can be stored taking almost no space at all... So, why is papercraft so underestimated? Let´s try to answer that in this post. Maybe I change your mind and you start collecting papercraft terrain.

- Wargaming INSIDE buildings. To play Fear of the Dark scenarios I always wanted to play inside buildings: Haunted houses, crypts, museums, dark dungeons, old libraries... And I wanted to take those places to Fear of the Dark scenarios.  

- Movies inspired in H.P. Lovecraft Mythos. I want to make a list of the movies I believe that are based on his works or that they deserve to be seen as a Fear of the Dark player or a Call of Cthulhu GM.

BATTLE REPORTS

In this section we will find the battle reports available. You may have a look at them to take an exampleon how to make the scenarios or just to enjoy.

Although spoiling the scenarios will try to be avoided, keep in mind that relevant information on the plot of the scenario may be revealed.

- A cabin in the woods. Our heroes go to a secluded cabin deep in the woods where a man was killed two days ago in strange circunstances. Will they discover what happened? or will they die trying? This battle report was made to explain how some of the rules work (activation, combat, movement...).

- Dont open that door. Our heroes are trapped in a secluded town in the mountains, monsters seem to be behind every corner ready to atack, and the only way to expel those onsters from our world is finding a man who has the key to do it.

- Last train. A weird ww2 Fear of the Dark scenario. As if war wasn't bad enough, monsters are wandering a devastated Europe. Fight Nazis, fight monsters. Stay alive. 

- Night raid. A new weird ww2 Fear of the Dark scenario. We follow our heroes in a stealth night raid to destroy an experimental light tank. With an insight on how the scenario was created and played. 

SUPPORT MATERIAL

In this section you will find free support material created for Fear of the Dark. The material available will grow as the game develops.

I hope you find it useful!

- Weapon Cards. This is a set of cards that detail weapons (range, damage...) so that you know clearly which character is equipped with each weapon and you have all the weapon details at hand. 

- Detailed battle report. This battle report was made to explain how some of the rules work (activation, combat, movement...). It may solve some doubts on the rules.

- Back of the cards, as may people asked for the back of the cards not to be white, I made them with the cover of the rulebook.

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FEAR OF THE DARK AAR BATTLE REPORT 2

Testing (once and again) another new scenario that will be available as soon as I get my PC back (it's being repaired).

As always happens with Fear of the Dark scenarios, I'll try not to spoil the story, so, I'm going to make an AAR but skipping/changing some of the details of the scenario as I would like you to play and enjoy it... 

This is a tense scenario that may seem quite easy but it may become a death trap easily in just a couple of turns. 

Don't give anything for granted and enjoy... 

Our group of characters face a hell of a problem when they find themselves in a small town where everything seems to be wrong. 

Our warband is in that small town looking for a man that is trapped there, scary and dangerous monsters seem to be behind every corner and that man knows how to send those creatures back to hell, but he is unable to do it alone. 

Our characters have to find that person and help him to cast a spell to make all those monsters disappear and send them back to the hell they came from. 

Don't think this is going to be easy... 

This is going to be the gaming table, in which we will place 4 Points of Interest and 1d5+1 monsters. We will place a "main" building (I placed a church) in one corner, and we will deploy our warband right in the opposite corner. 

My hero and his two allies have to check the Points of Interest until they find the man they are looking for.

As they move towards the Points of Interest, some creatures appear suddenly and go straight to them. 

Our characters move forward killing some creatures, they think that this is going to be an easy adventure when everything goes wrong and more monsters keep appearing from some nearby streets. 

And when our warband was thinking that things were turning difficult, they hear some gunfire and they see the man they are looking for fighting a few monsters more.

They fight the creatures that appear from everywhere, and one of the allies is wounded, but she heals herself as she has the First Aid skill. The rest is surrounded by those same monsters that try to kill them. 

Fighting their way through the creatures, they finally get close to the man, leaving a trail of blood and dead monsters. 

There was a moment that I had four characters (the three members of my warband and the man they had to find) fighting nine creatures... That was quite a big activation deck. 

And once beside that man, they can help him to cast a spell to defeat the creatures, making it alive from the small town that almost becomes a death trap.

Wow, that was close... Playing the scenario several times gives me an idea on how to balance the enemy forces because although it is quite random, as an average I'm happy on how it finally works. 

It will be available for free but I have to wait until my computer is repaired. 

I hope you enjoy it.