Frostfall Hamlet
A snowbound hamlet at dusk: a mead hall, a frozen pond and wolves at the palisade.
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The place
Setting: Dusk in falling snow, smoke from every chimney
A hamlet on a levelled shelf in the pinewoods, snowed in at dusk with the snow still falling on the wind. A log palisade runs along the north, west and east sides with its gate on the north track and a breach in the north-east corner, and the trodden ways between the doors run out along the road to the south past a frozen pond with a hole broken in its ice. In the middle is the green, churned round a campfire, with braziers either side of the mead hall door and a cart left in the snow.
The mead hall is an L of dark timber under slate: lift the roofs in Play and there is a hearth on the gable wall, two tables laid with benches under a hanging lantern, stores along the wall and a sleeping room in the wing. Two stone cottages, each with a stove, a bed and a table, a thatched house and a raised storehouse make up the rest. The party stands round the fire turning toward the breach, where a wolf pack has come through: one already between the hall and a cottage, and one still hidden in the western treeline. The villagers shelter in the hall and their cottage.
What the recipe places
- 2 wall runs
- 47 props, lines and scatters
- 7 lights and effects
- 11 miniatures
Encounters it was built for
- The breach: wolves pour through the gap in the palisade, and the party has to hold the green until the villagers are inside.
- Pack tactics in the snow: the wolves circle, and the hidden one comes from the treeline behind.
- Siege of the mead hall: one door, a hearth, and the villagers counting on the party.
- On the ice: the frozen pond is a short cut with a hole in it.
- The trail into the pines: follow the pack back to its den through the snow at nightfall.
Tips
- In Play, press U to lift the roofs and see into the mead hall and the cottages.
- Mark the wolf in the treeline Hidden from players and show it when the pack circles.
- The snow is a scene setting: turn the weather off for a still winter morning, or up to a blizzard.
- Wolves move 40 feet in 5e; drag one and the ruler shows how far that reaches across the green.
- Brush fog over the woods outside the palisade and reveal them when the party goes after the pack.
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Free top-down battle map
A flat, gridded version of Frostfall Hamlet for any other tabletop: straight down, north up, 50 by 45 squares at 70 pixels per 5-foot square, with no miniatures on it. Set your tabletop's grid to 70 px and it lines up.
Free under CC BY 4.0: use it, share it and change it, in paid work too, as long as you credit TerrainTale. Some buildings in it are other artists' CC BY models, credited on the About page.
Questions
Can I change Frostfall Hamlet after loading it?
Yes. A template is a normal scene once built: paint, drag, delete and add to it, then save it as your own project.
How long does it take to load?
A few seconds. The recipe compiles instantly and the models it uses download from the built-in library on first use, then stay cached.
Can I make my own template?
Write a recipe (see Build with AI) and import it with File ▸ Import Scene JSON, or save any scene as a project and reopen it from the welcome screen.
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