Frosthaven: Getting Started & First Classes

Frosthaven is generous with information and unforgiving with resources. Your first scenarios are about learning the exchange rate between a turn, a card, and a hit — so build habits before you build power.

Your first scenarios, in order

1. Choose your starting class by the hole in your party. Banner Spear, Boneshaper, Drifter, Geminate, Blinkblade and Deathwalker cover very different jobs; pick the one nobody else is doing.
2. Learn the three-card decision. Every turn, ask what you are spending, what you are keeping, and what you can afford to lose — that question is the whole game.
3. Rest early rather than desperately. Waiting until you are almost out of cards removes your options exactly when you need them.
4. Prevent damage with a purpose. Spending cards to survive is fine; spending them without changing the fight is how scenarios are lost.
5. Play a scenario for information before you play it for the reward. Knowing the map, spawns and timings turns a coin flip into a plan.
6. Invest your first outpost upgrades in mechanics. Anything that opens new scenario types or options beats a flat stat bump.
7. In co-op, say your plan out loud. Two characters who each play perfectly but cancel each other out lose to two who planned the turn together.

Difficulty, honestly

The game lets you choose your difficulty, and using it is not cheating — the card system already punishes greed. Pick the level where you finish scenarios with a card or two to spare, and raise it once that stops being true.