Notes from Dr. Borkosky

It does make me wonder how the adventure will handle rangers though. Set amongst the Ten-Towns of Icewind Dale — a region of the Forgotten Realms best known as the abode of a hero of a series of books by R.A Salvatore, Bruenor Battlehammer — this adventure for levels 1 through 12 is heavy on atmosphere. Yes, more awakened beasts! Over the next several months the druids began to have shared dreams of a … When he’s killed, the body shatters like ice and reforms on Auril’s island where he was first possessed. Is it there is a separate start with easy-to-run monsters, or more linear, or that the whole module is laid out in an easy to follow way? It’s on 5e.tools but not in pdf form. Setting: Icewind Dale Its quest gives your party a true taste of the wilderness with mountain travel, hazards, crag cats, and a yeti! There is a pretty decent chance that after escaping Barovia, said DM is gonna appropriate him as a miniboss. At night, Sephek is written to either stalk victims or drink and carouse then fall asleep, but the latter activities aren’t very “living vessel of the Frostmaiden” to me. In the most simple way of saying it, I thank you. That being said, I agree 100% on making the murder mystery an actual mystery! The problem is this line: “This quest is no murder mystery. By the end of the campaign, it can track pretty well all the accomplishments and strange things they discovered i’ll definitely take your advice on Sephek. If they do attack, have the chwingas use their natural shelter trait to disappear into the snow, cast pass without a trace, and sneak away, except the one with a fox friend who can be chased back through town! She’s a god—and a cold-hearted one at that. It’s nice to have what we know all aggregated in one place and well organized. If you wanted to start reading it while you wait for thetrove to upload it. Simply, once they are spotted, if the first character to act does anything other than immediately attack or try to grab the chwinga, have it become fixated with them for ten days before bestowing a charm before departing. Press J to jump to the feed. If you decide to start with this quest, it can immediately follow the cold open to reveal some important details about the murders, namely, their locations and the M.O. Centaurs have been printed in GGtR and MOoT. She tells your party that all three victims come from towns that sacrifice people to the Frostmaiden, and that they were probably trying to escape the lottery. Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden is the new D&D 5e campaign book, and I’ve compiled all the important info from D&D Live 2020 previews and multiple D&D Beyond interviews to share in this one post! Of course there is so much cool stuff around that you can easily change this up and make certain towns the focus! Here's hoping the next adventure is set in Cania.

And rather than myself choosing which quest to launch our campaign with, I left it up to my players! And it has the third lowest population (150) in Ten Towns, its eldery dwarf leader is short a few marbles, there are no real guards here, and by sacrificing warmth to Auril, no one in Bremen lights fires between dusk and dawn on a new moon. Page count: 320. Good Mead, Lonelywood, and Termalaine are all between a lake and a patch of forest, but Good Mead stands out for its recently murdered town speaker, its incredible beekeeping success during the Everlasting Rime, and its postponed mead trade which the characters must restart by retrieving casks of ale from a love-sick giant. Caer Dineval and Caer Konig have been cut off since Easthaven cancelled its lake ferry a few months ago. Before our first session I gave each of my players a quest hook based on their character’s secrets or motivations! Termalaine had something to offer each one of my player characters, so that’s where WE chose to start our campaign after I shared the mostly spoiler-free details of each town!

Yeah! Lonelywood is the primary logging town of Icewind Dale; it's a very simple town with a scrimshaw shop, a tavern, and a closed inn kindly offered to the characters by the halfling town speaker for slaying a murderous white moose and potentially the evil frost druid who’s awakening all these animals! That is until the Everlasting Rime began in Icewind Dale. But this town is PLOT HEAVY between the execution of one of the Arcane Brotherhood wizards, a handful of duergar, and the chance to obtain an important magic item from an evil hag! Stuff sometimes gets put where it shouldn't, Was sick of not having a pdf, so I made one myself. The strider-esque Hlin Trollbane is described as a retired dwarven bounty hunter investigating the murders out of boredom and a sense of moral decency because not even the council of speakers can be bothered to do so, and she’s willing to tell the party all she knows about her prime suspect, Sephek Kaltro. :), More posts from the rimeofthefrostmaiden community, Continue browsing in r/rimeofthefrostmaiden. Bob only does videos about books with ICE in the name. Facing The Chwingas: Whoever the quest giver is, they also give your party a lantern of tracking elementals which burns bright green within 300 feet of chwingas or any elementals, making for a great ‘sting glowing near goblins’ moment if your party takes advantage of it!

I could continue, but my point has been made, a pattern has been established, and it's becoming clear for 5.5e and/or 6e that more races will have to be added to the PHB to reduce the redunacies of having to continuously reprinted races. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-1A3nOcWdE51zWRYWC5syupBlrDB2MyO/view?usp=sharing. Considering Saltmarsh is one of my favourite 5e products and they're basically doing that turned up to 11 set in Icewind Dale, one of the most compelling areas in Faerun they only occasionally remember exists because it's not part of the Sword Coast -- I'm pretty stoked actually.

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Enjoy the rest of your conquest! A place for Dungeon Masters to discuss the D&D 5th Edition book: Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden. The third form should have double hit points, stronger attacks and spells, and a higher AC from icy crystalline armor! Icewind Dale: Secrets of the Frostmaiden - What’s a few secrets between friends?

Caer Dineval is not a nice place. Level range: 1-12.

You are a gentleman and a scholar! >> Need assistance with your MCDM store order or your Kickstarter pledge/preorder? This book is made for parties of 4-6 and I am worried about the difficulty as I have heard its very hard on lower levels, do you have any advice on how I can adjust to make it more balanced? Goblins have gotten printed in VGTM, E: RftLW, EGtW, GGtR, with more coming. Excellent job, Bob. Bremen is apparently a friendly place for having an awakened plesiosaurus terrorizing the town! If you're looking for something to use alongside this, or want to make an interactive home base for your PC's, I recommend Do Not Let Us Die In The Dark Night Of This Cold Winter. So I suggest beginning this quest at two murders with the only connection being the icy daggers to the heart. Ahh, I vaguely recall seeing a video about that from Questing Beast. If so it means that Goliaths have been in EEPG, VGTM, EGtW, and now IWD: RotFM, four 5e books 3 of which were for the Forgotten Realms. Sorry for the long reply and thank you so much for your quality videos, I look forward to your next Wednesday! Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden pdf

Caer Konig is more comfortable, slightly larger, and has a drunk dragonborn for a town speaker who’s struggling to find the invisible duergar thieves that connect us to part of the main story!

Having things laid out to make quick adjustments while feeling organic and balanced based on author recommendations is a God send. YES!! I assume this means that playable Goliaths are being reprinted in this book? The main adjustment is using sidekicks to help heal the PC or do damage from a distance (or up close depending on the PCs specialty). Humblewood did it too and it's so easy to run. I’ll check it out! Then play out the Thieves in the Wind section as written, where Elva stomps out of her snow-covered cottage on the outskirts of town, warning them about the so-called trickster spirits. And she tells the party that Sephek seems strangely immune to the cold, “Kiss of the Frostmaiden, indeed.” This is ALL information that your party should learn through their own investigation! Specifically Crawford mentioned fishing for ‘knucklehead trout’ and that the environment itself is a villain of the adventure. This was probably my least favorite part of DiA. You are the hero reddit doesnt deserve I will spread your name far and wide from the highest peaks of the Spine of the World, to the lowest caverns of the Caves of Hunger; from the lonely town of Dugan's Hole to the grand walled off town of Bryn Shander tales will be told of you and your great deeds. It has the second lowest population (100) a reportedly ill and rarely seen town speaker who is actually being held hostage in the castle (aka, the Caer) by devil-worshipping cultists, but fortunately these two towns only sacrifice food to Auril. Wizards of the Coast And the best way to make Sephek your villain for arc 1 of your campaign: give this lieutenant of Auril three forms, just like his master, to signal the greater dangers to be faced by your party!

The youngish town speaker actually leads the council of town speakers, and Bryn Shander has a sheriff, a smithy, a shrine, a rowdy inn and tavern, and human sacrifices to the Frostmaiden! I think rangers in the PHB have abilities that make it so they can't get lost and can find food for their entire party as just a thing they can do without a roll. The Quest Giver: Most importantly, the quest giver Dannika Graysteel is described as a young spellcaster trying to find a way to alter the climate in Icewind Dale by studying chwingas, but Dannika should totally be replaced with one of the Arcane Brotherhood wizards to introduce them early on in the campaign. Tortles have are in the Tortle Package and EGtW. It’s a hunt.” It sets the expectation that your party simply needs to find and kill the suspected murderer. Aasimar are printed in DMG (prototype), VGtM, and EGtW, and was mentioned in the SCAG and WGtE. Please email us at: hello@mcdmproductions.com, Press J to jump to the feed. I went and linked it from the community Rime Miro board I had setup that outlined the overall flow. The second form can function like the book’s stat block but be more obviously undead, with no hair or clothes and frosty blue skin. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. Finally, she offers 100 gp if they “deal with him, preferably without involving the authorities.” Which is super shady, but the weirdest part is that you’re supposed to randomly determine the location of Torg’s traveling company, and roll again if it is in the starting town. There are also a few spells that came out of need (need because of the adventure). After following the tiny chwinga tracks, or fox footprints, describe the “playing house” scene from the book, but I wouldn’t require a character to play along with the chwinga’s games. Glad you like the ideas from this video :). Chris mentioned it in one of the dndbeyond interview videos.

Hand out stickers, keep them on your VTT landing page, or whatever you want. But she could be a friend or family member of one of the victims, or a private investigator hired by a town speaker who doesn’t want the other council members to know they’re investigating it, she could be a would-be victim who narrowly escaped Sephek, or simply an old enemy of the trading company Sephek works for. Thanks Mark/Gonzo! And his next target should be one of the low-ranking town officials who are apparently being paid off by these lottery-dodging victims!

From now on I'll be doing RotF videos ~every other week :).

Icewind Dale is the frostbitten end of the world. Termalaine is described as the most picturesque town in Icewind Dale; its population is closest to the mean for Ten Towns, there’s some political drama around the speaker’s right to rule, there’s an inn, a tavern, and a recently-abandoned mine with a few kobolds and their ghost-possessed leader-- plus one of those ridiculous grells which has floated up from the underdark!

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