When should you retire in Frosthaven?

The completion test

A follow-to-conclusion chain needs the explicit gold Scenario Rewards completion; its owner must participate. Collection goals use their stated requirements and retained resources. If you no longer meet a requirement when checked, you do not retire.

Retirement occurs only during downtime, not in a scenario or between linked scenarios without returning to Frosthaven. You may perform other downtime actions first, but cannot preserve a completed character indefinitely to avoid retirement.

Completion adds two prosperity and unlocks the quest's building envelope, using its alternate if needed. If both envelopes are open, follow the rulebook's random-scenario and blueprint substitutes. Spending 15 inspiration once at retirement can complete one additional quest using the specified draw-two procedure.

• Before retiring, finish desired downtime transactions and record your character. First retirement of each class also reads the section on its character mat.
• After retirement: items return to available supply, resources go to Frosthaven supply, and remaining gold is lost. The quest is removed from the game.
• New characters gain one perk mark per previous character retired by that player; do not use the campaign-wide total. A solo player's character lineages count separately.
• Track the result in campaign notes and consult buildings and crafting before spending.

Related guides

Sources

• Frosthaven rulebook, community HTML transcription — Pages 63–65: mandatory timing, rewards, preparation and player-specific perk lineage. Checked 2026-10-18.
• Official Frosthaven FAQ — Section 2 and 3.2, checked 2026-10-18.