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“Once you’ve purchased a few potions and your equipment was ready, you faced your group. The Scoundrel finished sharpening her knives, while the Tinkerer tightened the last bolts of its latest wacky invention. Who knows what kind of damage that little thing could do thanks to the enchantress...
On the good advice of the trainer, you are about to go to the neighboring town to inquire about bandits who are demanding a tax from the surrounding farmers.
The merchant gave you a broad smile and wished you well, knowing full well that the sponsor had called in professionals. After a short visit to the temple, to ensure the good will of the gods, you head towards the exit of the capital, ready to start hunting…”


Greetings mercenaries!

Following our last announcement about the upcoming Guildmaster mode, we wanted to share with you more details about it! As you may know, the current Adventure mode will be replaced by the Guildmaster mode on June 25, in which you’ll discover a more immersive and progressive gameplay. It is indeed a new way of looking at the game, while adding as you go along, essential bricks of content for us to build the final campaign.

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This time, we’ll talk about the Guild itself, and which improvements it brings. As the continent faces the arrival of bandits and monsters, the roads are not safe anymore. As a guildmaster, this is an opportunity for you and your mercenaries to make a few gold coins out of this mess.


[h2]UNLOCK YOUR FAVORITE MERCENARIES AND SWITCH ROSTERS[/h2]

The first step will be unlocking your mercenaries scattered across the map. Here, you will have to recruit them yourself through dedicated missions! The game starts with Brute from the tutorial and you will then proceed to unlock the other five starting characters.



Once your team is assembled, the new Guild interface will allow you to change your roster. Between each dungeon and quest, you will be able to customize your company as you see fit and create your own hired blades raiding party. You are free to create parties of two, three or four mercenaries and change rosters between each dungeon! The choice is yours. Note that the enemy levels will still adapt according to the team you have chosen and the levels of the characters in it. Manage your roster and groups of mercenaries, from the most aggressive to the most cunning, by adapting your strategy to each new dungeon! Each character has its strengths and weaknesses, so make sure to balance your team before you embark on your adventure!

Being able to switch your party members between scenarios is one of the several necessary steps for us to take on our way to the campaign from the board game. The long-term goal always remains a complete and faithful release of the original board game campaign. The Guildmaster mode and the board game campaign will be two seperate game modes, allowing you to experience two completely different adventures in Gloomhaven Digital.


[h2]BIND YOUR ITEMS[/h2]

In the all-new Guildmaster mode, you’ll be able to bind items to a specific character.
This prevents you from constantly switching the items between each of your characters, these guys are protective of their gear! Each item will be “bound” when equipped to a mercenary, which is another step towards the campaign mechanics. Please note that to retain flexibility in Guildmaster, you can unbind items for money.


[h2]WELCOME YOUR NEW ADVISERS![/h2]

Rest assured that you will not be alone as a guild master, you can count on your new advisers to support you in all the new tasks you will be responsible for, such as organizing your guild members and assigning them different perks and items.
4 new NPCs have been added in this new mode, allowing you to benefit from their advice throughout your adventure.



The Trainer: You can count on the help of the Trainer during an entirely reworked tutorial. He’ll stay by your side during the game, sharing with you the best strategies and more! Moreover, he brings with him all the back end achievement systems, allowing you to unlock specific new missions and rewards by completing set requirements.

The Merchant: The merchant always has the business acumen! You’re always welcome in his shop. Furthermore, he has traveled a lot and surely knows his way around the region. Now, is he tagging along for money? Probably, yes.

The Enchantress: Inspired by your desire to rid the region of its ills, this mysterious woman will offer you her services by enhancing your abilities.

The Keeper of the Oak: She runs the Temple which allows you to be blessed in the next scenario. It is always good to be in the good grace of the gods…


We are planning other more detailed posts on the new Guildmaster mode and its many improvements; stay tuned for it! We sincerely hope that these changes delight you!
Don't forget: see you on June 25 for the arrival of the Guildmaster mode, the Gloomhaven adventure goes on!

“After fighting the most ferocious monsters and the most cunning bandits, after traveling the plains of the continent, you thought you were at the end of your adventures ...

Pressed on the bar, sipping a well-deserved drink, fatigue could be read on your face. Then a hooded figure appeared next to you. Large horns protruded from his hood. With a quick wave of his hand, he ordered a full mug. Without saying a word, he slid a piece of parchment folded in half towards you on the counter.

Arching an eyebrow at the stranger, you grab the paper to discover its contents while the mysterious messenger finishes his glass suddenly and turns on his heels towards the exit.
Your eyes are returned to the parchment. A complete map of the lands of Gloomhaven, showing precisely the location of new equipment, formidable and powerful mercenaries to recruit and more ...

You thought you were at the end of your adventures ... So now discover the new Guildmaster mode!”





Greeting mercenaries!

As some of you have guessed, we have been working hard lately on a whole new way of adventuring throughout Gloomhaven. Since the release of the early access we have gathered very valuable feedback and requests from your reviews and comments.

We are delighted to present to you, Gloomhaven Guildmaster: a new game mode coming in the Early Access. It is the largest update so far bringing highly requested changes and new content. Its objective is to both deliver the most gripping & enjoyable early access Gloomhaven experience AND to make a huge step in the direction of the board game campaign implementation.

Here are few of many changes planned for the Guildmaster update coming on the 25th June:

1. Manage freely your roster of mercenaries at any point of your adventure.
   
2. Revamped the out-of-dungeon experience with new missions/objectives/stories.
   
3. Reworked the tutorial and introduction to gameplay mechanics.
   
4. Cave biome and its monsters added.
   
5. Co-op multiplayer in beta.

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As a Guildmaster, you will take control of a Guild of Mercenaries who see an opportunity to make a lot of money by reopening trade routes across the lands while everyone else is too afraid to do it.
Thanks to the feedback given by our players, we understood that you wanted to be able to actively change your mercenary roster whenever you unlocked a new slot or when we added a new mercenary.

In the Guildmaster game mode, you will be able to form your own company, modify freely your roster, and try out the best team synergies.

We also understood that from your comments that the game was lacking objectives and goals as you play. In this update, you will take on over 90 challenging new missions to liberate areas of the map, uncover mercenaries’ stories, unlock powerful items, or simply earn extra gold coins as hired blades. New characters will follow the company in their journey and give out missions and rewards.

Finally, we received reviews from new players regarding our learning curve and the gap between our tutorial and the in-game experience.
This is why in the Guildmaster update also brings a reworked tutorial and a well-paced introduction so that newcomers and Gloomhaven experts alike will be able to discover and rediscover the core gameplay mechanics of Gloomhaven, as well as some of the advanced mechanics brought by each mercenary.

A lot of the hidden gameplay mechanics and programming code implemented in this upcoming update brings us closer to the full launch of the board game campaign that includes, but is not limited to:

• Multiplayer co-op mode in beta
  
• Narration in and out of dungeons
  
• Possibility to change rosters
  
• Multiple new dungeon modifiers and objectives
  
• The addition of the Temple
  
• New monsters

These are just a few examples of features and mechanics that are necessary to achieve one objective: deliver the greatest Gloomhaven digital adaptation with all the original board game content and campaign.


Please note that the guildmaster mode will replace the current adventure mode, therefore your progress will be lost. This is due to the way that the two modes work differently and how progress is measured, unfortunately progression cannot be translated between the two.




A brand new environment has been discovered!

Prepare to discover the cave biome and its formidable enemies. If fighting a bear is part of your daily activities, beware of the imposing stone golem! Also try not to disturb the sleep of the drakes or vipers. That said, their scales must be worth their weight in gold…





Also we’re not forgetting the multiplayer co-op mode, which is on the top of our priority list. We know you’re very impatient to try it and so are we!

We’re very pleased to announce that co-op multiplayer will be available in closed beta for a short period on the 25th and will later be released into open beta.

We've taken the decision to launch it first in closed beta in order to make sure it is stable enough before officially creating a beta branch, where everyone will be able to give it a try.
If you wish to join the multiplayer co-op closed-beta on the 25th June, you'll have to join our official Discord, where there will be a channel dedicated to this specific closed-beta.

Click here to join the official Gloomhaven discord!

Please note that these decisions are taken only to provide you with the best experience possible for this very awaited feature!




This is the largest update so far in the early access bringing both new content and community requested changes and improvements. We’re getting closer to the campaign thanks to these reworks and massive changes. As some of you requested, we have updated the roadmap in order to give you an overview of future updates and content to come. The journey is still on! We still plan to launch the multiplayer mode in Q3, alongside The City update. So stay tuned for more details on that in the future!





So what are your thoughts about the upcoming changes? We can't wait for you to try out all of these new exciting features! We will reveal more and explain further the new game mode to you in the days to come. Stay tuned for the upcoming posts!


From Gloom, only greed and death emerge...

Greetings mercenaries!

We’re glad to announce that a new update is now available for Gloomhaven!
It is a minor update which preceded the arrival of some very important content that we will be happy to reveal in the coming months.

Among other things, such as the addition of the new Spellweaver Archivist skin, we’ve added several new cards and features:

NEW CARDS:
• Codename Triangles new card:
  • Vengeance (Elementalist)
• Other new cards:
  • Frozen Mind (Mindthief)
    
  • Phantasmal Killer (Mindthief)
  UPDATES:
• Added - Customs levels can now be uploaded and downloaded as mods from Steam Workshop, make your own or try them out!
  
• Added - New Crystal Archivist Spellweaver Skin!
  
• Added - Perk to ignore negative item effects
  
• Updated - Camera to have a better focus on the action
  
• Updated - Expanded level editor functionalities
  

Don't forget that you can check the complete patch notes, including bug fixes, here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/780290/discussions/0/1643169167151064379/

In addition to this we also wanted to state that Asmodee Digital and Flaming Fowl Studios are being impacted by the current health crisis, just like many others. We want you to know that everyone is safe and currently working from home to stay that way. This however does mean that we are delayed in our ability to both deploy and develop new patches and content. We are doing our best to ensure that we are updating the game as often as possible and do apologise if updates are coming in slower than previously. We are also working on some major changes and updates which we will be talking about in more detail in the coming weeks and months.

We have taken into account your desire to be able to play multiplayer during this difficult period. Although we are still working on it diligently, here is an exclusive sneak-peek of the multiplayer mode! You deserve it!

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What do you think of it?! We are hoping to be able to allow you access to a test version of this new feature in the near future!

Stay safe adventurers!

“Your steps led you to the entrance to the dungeon, at the exact location specified by the peasants crossed in the previous village. The enormous half-sunken stone door, on which even some plants climb, was dotted with glyphs and runes. The atmosphere was heavy with black magic and you could feel the insistent looks of the still but no less scary gargoyles guarding the entrance ...

One thing was certain about this place: it was infested with enemies, formidable ones. No choice, you will have to recruit mercenaries to fight by your side ... Slightly annoyed by having to share the treasure and rewards that dot the dungeon, you can at least feel happy not to finish in pieces or to languish at the bottom of a malfamous dungeon. Fortunately, you know the right place to hire fearless warriors and enchanters...”

[h2]Let's continue our Community Challenges!
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Last time, you defeated over 265K enemies and unlocked the Brute skin “Boneguard”. This time, we offer you a challenge of a completely different type…
You’ll need to attain 10K members on our official Discord! Here is the link to join.

Following the list of results from the previous challenge, the next skin to unlock is Spellweaver - “Crystal Archivist”. As usual, you can have a quick look at the skin…


You can follow your progress as you and your teammates get closer to the challenge’s achievement on Facebook, Twitter and Discord!

Discord is the best place to interact with other mercenaries, talk about the game, initiate newbies to the universe of Gloomhaven, but also to get closer to the developers. Interact with more than 8K mercenaries from across the globe and help us improve the game with feedback, bugs reports and more!

At the moment when we’re publishing this, you are exactly 8 422 mercenaries on our official Discord. Still 1 578 to enroll in order to achieve our second Community Challenge! Now is the perfect time to initiate your friends to the game and make them join the ranks of the proud mercenaries of Gloomhaven on our official Discord.

Let’s start recruiting now!

“A crowd was beginning to gather in front of the billboard of the Sleeping Lion Inn. Mercenaries, bards, and commoners clashed in the hope of distinguishing their written name from the precious piece of parchment placed against the panel.

You could hear some people jostling, on the verge of drawing fists and swords. Others sighed loudly when they discovered that their text had not been retained. Eventually, you manage to get close enough to catch a glimpse of the names of the proud winners whose adventures would be told beyond the plains of Gloomhaven.”



Our writing contest has come to an end! We’d like to thank everyone who tried their luck in this adventure. We loved reading your stories, from the most tragic to the most comical ones. Also, thank you to all the mercenaries who took time to read the entries and give their vote! Now is the time we reveal the winners…

Congratulations to the following entries:

• A Downed Traveler
• A Fateful Encounter
• Bloody Valrath

As a reward and as communicated before, the winners’ shorts stories will be added as Road Events in the digital edition of Gloomhaven!
Your writing skills and the great adventure you have told us will make you an integral part of the tales of Gloomhaven. Your story will be told and sung throughout the lands.

In order to better fit with the world of Gloomhaven and ensure game balance, we reserve the right to slightly modify and adapt certain passages and rewards so that they are in perfect harmony with other road events. Don’t worry! Any potential changes will be minimal, so as not to taint your work!
For a reminder, the contest rules can be found here.

Do not forget that the 10 entries that received the most votes will also be receiving a key for Gloomhaven on Steam. These should have already arrived in your provided email address, so make sure to check if you were one of the top 10!

We really enjoyed spending time reading your writings and running this contest. Thank you all for your involvement and support! Be prepared for more contests and challenges in the future as we continue to improve and enhance the Gloomhaven experience...let’s continue to share more and more adventures in the future!

The Gloomhaven Team