Frosthaven Campaign Tracker: Track Your Whole Campaign in One PDF (No App Required)

Frosthaven is one of the most complex campaigns in tabletop gaming. Between sessions you have to remember the morale track, the prosperity level, four event decks, who's retired, what buildings are built, what items are in supply, and a hundred other small things. Forget one thing and someone is staring at the scenario book trying to reconstruct what happened two months ago.

Most groups end up using the X-Haven Assistant or another companion app for this. And they work — until they don't. Updates break old saves. Someone forgets to sync. The phone is dead. The app gets pulled. If you've played long enough, you've had at least one of those happen mid-campaign.

This post is about the alternative: tracking your entire Frosthaven campaign in a single printable PDF, without an app or a subscription, in a way that survives both your phone dying and the next decade of board game shelves.

What You Actually Have to Track in Frosthaven

If you're coming from Gloomhaven, the persistent state in Frosthaven is a real step up. The base Gloomhaven campaign tracker fits on one page. Frosthaven doesn't. Here's what a complete tracker has to handle:

• Campaign overview — morale (0–20), prosperity (1–9), Frosthaven supply, global stats
• Scenario log — 6+ scenarios at any time, each with a season (Summer/Winter) and a result (won/lost/locked)
• Active characters — up to 4 at once, with 15 perk boxes, masteries, XP, gold, items, and a personal quest each
• Retired characters and Town Guard — full perk history, Town Guard perks, and Global Achievements
• Outpost buildings — 9 buildings to track by name, card number, level, built/wrecked status
• Item supply — 6+ items at a time, with item number, name, cost, source building, and quantity
• Session log — date, players, season, and any notes worth keeping
• Calendar and event decks — Summer Outpost (1–65), Summer Road (1–52), Winter Outpost (1–81), Winter Road (1–49), with available and destroyed rows

That's a lot. A blank notebook will not hold this together. Even a spreadsheet starts to feel fragile after twenty sessions. The whole point of a proper Frosthaven campaign sheet is that it puts every persistent thing in a predictable place so you can pick up where you left off without re-reading the scenario book.

The Problem with the Frosthaven Companion App

The X-Haven Assistant is genuinely good at what it does. It runs enemy AI, manages modifier decks, tracks initiative, and hides a lot of fiddly bookkeeping. For in-scenario gameplay it's a real time saver.

But the app is built around scenarios, not campaigns. The persistent state — what buildings you've built, who's retired, where you are in the event decks — sits in your head, on a notes app, or scattered across the back of the scenario book. The first session of a new arc, somebody always asks “wait, did we build the workshop?” and the rest of the table looks at each other.

A dedicated Frosthaven campaign tracker solves the problem the app doesn't: keeping all the things that don't live inside a scenario in a single place that's easy to look at and easy to update.

A No-App, No-Subscription Way to Track Your Campaign

The Frosthaven Campaign Tracker is a 9-page fillable PDF designed around exactly the things above. You open it on any device — phone, tablet, laptop — type into the fields, and save. Or print it at 8.5×11 if you'd rather track on paper. No app, no subscription, no account. The file lives on your machine, and it'll still open in any PDF reader a decade from now.

What's Inside the PDF

Each page handles one part of the campaign. You don't have to use every page every session — open the ones you need, fill them in, save, close.

Campaign overview

Morale track from 0 to 20 with check-off boxes, the 1–9 prosperity ladder, Frosthaven supply, and your global stats. This is the page you open at the start of every session to remember where you are.

Campaign notes

Free-write space for events, choices, session highlights — anything that doesn't fit into a structured field but still needs to be remembered. Useful for plot threads and the small choices that come back to bite you fifteen scenarios later.

Scenario log

Six scenario cards. Each one has the scenario number, name, season radio buttons (Summer/Winter), and a result field. When a scenario unlocks something or locks out something else, this is where it goes.

Active and retired characters

Four active character cards with 15 perk boxes each, masteries, XP, gold, and personal quest. When a character retires, their perk history moves to the retired-characters page so the Town Guard perks and Global Achievements stay intact across the whole campaign.

Outpost buildings and item supply

Nine outpost building cards — name, card number, level, built/wrecked status, and notes. Plus six item-supply cards with the item number, name, cost, source building, and quantity. The outpost is half the reason Frosthaven feels like a real settlement, and it's the part most groups under-track.

Session log and calendar

Four session cards for the date, players, season, and notes. Then the calendar pages — every event card in the four decks, with rows for Available and Destroyed: Winter Outpost cards 1–81, Winter Road 1–49, Summer Outpost 1–65, Summer Road 1–52. When an event is removed from the deck, you check the box and it stays out for the rest of the campaign.

Frosthaven Campaign Sheet vs. Campaign Tracker

Search around long enough and you'll see two phrases used interchangeably: Frosthaven campaign tracker and Frosthaven campaign sheet. They're close cousins but not quite the same thing. A campaign tracker is the running log — what you update at the end of every session. A Frosthaven campaign sheet is the snapshot of party state at any given moment: who's active, who's retired, current prosperity level, unlocked items, outpost buildings, where you are in the event decks. One is the diary, the other is the report card.

In practice the two overlap heavily, and most groups end up using one document for both jobs. A good Frosthaven campaign sheet has to hold:

• Party state — active characters, retired characters, Town Guard perks, Global Achievements
• Prosperity level — the 1–9 ladder with the perks each step unlocks
• Unlocked items — which items are available in the supply, including item number, source building, and cost
• Scenario progress — completed, locked-out, and current scenarios
• Outpost state — which buildings are built, their level, and which are wrecked

All of those live in the same 9-page Minva PDF. There's no separate “Frosthaven campaign sheet” download — the tracker file is the sheet. The campaign overview page handles party-wide state, the character cards cover active and retired characters, and the outpost and item pages cover everything unlocked. If you've seen the free single-page campaign sheets floating around BoardGameGeek or Reddit, they're a fine starting point, but most of them miss either the outpost or the event decks, which is exactly the persistent state that matters most past scenario 20.

How Minva's tracker compares to free Etsy and community campaign sheets

None of the free options are bad. They're great for a short Gloomhaven-style run or for groups who only need a quick summary. The Minva PDF exists for the groups who want one file that handles every persistent piece of a 100-scenario Frosthaven campaign — tracker, sheet, journal, and reference — without bouncing between three documents.

Solo Frosthaven? It Still Works

Solo and duo Frosthaven runs are popular and getting more so. The campaign tracking problem is the same — sometimes worse, because there's no second player to remember the things you forget. The PDF works fine for solo: fill in whichever of the four character cards you're actually using, leave the rest blank, and treat the rest of the tracker exactly the same way.

If you're running a solo campaign and you want to keep notes that go beyond Frosthaven — character development, story decisions, that kind of thing — pair this PDF with a lightweight session journal. Our session notes template guide is written for TTRPGs but the structure works for narrative-heavy board games like this one too.

Coming From Gloomhaven?

If you tracked Gloomhaven on the back of the scenario book or in a one-page spreadsheet and felt like that was enough, Frosthaven will surprise you. There's more state, more choices that compound, and the campaign is roughly twice as long. The Gloomhaven Helper app handles in-scenario play; it doesn't solve the persistent campaign tracking that Frosthaven actually needs.

The short version: a Gloomhaven-style scratchpad will not survive a Frosthaven campaign. Build the tracking habit early — first or second session — and your future self will thank you somewhere around scenario 30 when an event references a building you don't remember constructing.

Should You Print It or Use It Digitally?

Both work. The PDF is fillable, so on a tablet or laptop you type directly into the fields and save. Most groups end up doing this for the calendar pages (checking boxes is faster digitally) and printing the character pages so they can scribble during a session. There's no wrong answer — pick whichever one your group will actually keep up with.

The best Frosthaven campaign tracker is the one your group actually opens between sessions. Anything else is just paperwork.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best way to track a Frosthaven campaign?
Whichever tracker your group will actually use. Apps work for groups that play often and stay synced. A printable PDF tracker works for groups that want everything in one place without depending on a server, account, or app update.

Do I need the Frosthaven companion app to play?
No. Frosthaven is fully analog out of the box. Companion apps automate enemy AI and modifier decks, but they're optional. Many groups play table-only and track campaign state on paper or PDF.

Can you play Frosthaven without an app?
Yes. The base game has every component you need. A campaign tracker — paper, PDF, or spreadsheet — handles the persistent state between sessions: scenarios, prosperity, morale, buildings, perks, items.

Is Frosthaven better than Gloomhaven for campaign tracking?
Frosthaven has more campaign state to track — outpost buildings, the four event decks, morale, prosperity, Town Guard perks. The trade-off is that a structured tracker is more or less mandatory. A Gloomhaven-style scratchpad won't hold up across a 100-scenario Frosthaven run.

What's included in the Frosthaven Campaign Tracker PDF?
9 pages: campaign overview (morale 0–20, prosperity 1–9, supply, global stats), free-write campaign notes, a 6-card scenario log, 4 active character cards, retired characters and Town Guard, 9 outpost building cards, 6 item supply cards, 4 session cards, and full Summer/Winter calendar tracking for all four event decks.

What's the difference between a Frosthaven campaign tracker and a campaign sheet?
A campaign tracker is the running log you update every session; a campaign sheet is the snapshot of party state at any given moment — retired characters, prosperity, unlocked items, buildings, and where you are in the event decks. The two overlap heavily and most groups use one document for both. The Minva 9-page PDF is built to do both jobs in one file.

Where can I download a Frosthaven campaign sheet?
Grab the Minva Frosthaven Campaign Tracker PDF — it doubles as a campaign sheet and covers party state, retired characters, prosperity, outpost buildings, items, and the event decks. Free community campaign sheets on BoardGameGeek and Reddit are a fine starting point, but most are single-page snapshots that skip the outpost or the event decks.