![]() Set just after the original game, it contains 66 new scenarios and 11 new characters (with miniatures), as well as new items, monsters and conditions. NS: The Crimson Scales is an unofficial expansion for Gloomhaven. The people known as Dysent, Quasilocal and Disciple all contributed character classes, and many, many people have been involved in the hundreds of hours of testing that each character has received. His work will be immediately recognisable, as he did all the art for Gloomhaven. The character art was commissioned from Alexandr Elichev. Everything in The Crimson Scales has crossed his desk at some point. Tim Tesstor used his professional graphic design skills to great effect to create new character cards, item cards and to lay out the rule book in an easily accessible way. This is the first writing of this kind that I’ve done (I sell accounting software for a living!) but it’s something I’d love to do more of. My name is Nick Sims, I’m from the UK and I joined the predominantly US-based team a little later to build a story around Motti’s scenarios. As well as designing several of the characters, he is the main person responsible for producing The Crimson Scales. The main person behind the project is Motti Eisenbach, known in the Gloomhaven community as boardgame613. Nick Sims: We are a group of Gloomhaven fans who met on a Discord server for producing custom content. We chat to the creators about putting together this mammoth fangame, now on its second printing, the generosity of Gloomhaven designer Isaac Childres, and how exactly The Crimson Scales got so out of hand. And when the original is Gloomhaven, you know you’ve really gone overboard. ![]() ![]() There’s a line that gets crossed however when you’ve gone beyond homebrewing some rules and you’re making a whole game that’s two-thirds the size of the original. Most people who feel this passionately might create a few scenarios and share them on Board Game Geek. Whether that’s new characters, scenarios, games and so on – it’s all about saying how much you loved the original. Fan projects are often really about paying tribute to something you love.
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