Join a Classic Adventure! Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

About the adventure

📖 This is an excellently written, diverse module that changes substantially as you advance the story. Beyond simply increasing danger, the setting, the major players, and the realm of possibility all change radically as the characters progress through the campaign. ❄️ Icewind Dale is a fantastic setting. I may be biased as I have fond childhood memories of the old R.A. Salvatore books and the Bioware video games, but there is just so much classic Forgotten Realms lore here. You'll parley with vengeful Goliaths, hunt down a serial killer, slay (or be slain by) a particularly unique dragon, unearth a lost city, and battle a literal god. Ø This is a zero to hero adventure. You'll begin as weaklings that a goblin could one-shot, and you'll eventually topple a demigod. ⚔️ This campaign will be combat heavy. Almost every session will have combat, often two and occasionally even three. 🎲 Rolling dice is fun, right? I try to make sure every skill, no matter how obscure, has a useful application in the game. Want to make use of that flute proficiency? We'll work something out. Want to craft some poisons? Let's design a system. Did you take expertise in Medicine? Yeah, there will be opportunities for medicine checks. The world will be deeply interactive. 🏰 Being a hero in an epic fantasy story should be exciting. Tracking arrows and counting rations is boring. I eschew simulationist mechanics. I can see how some people could be into that, but you won't find it here. 🏆 Skill challenges! I recycled this old 4th edition mechanic to help add excitement and tension to non-combat encounters. It's a great tool for making 'action sequences' that aren't fights come to life and feel high-stakes. 🎭 The tone of the story will be grim and dramatic. Obviously, a good session involves tossing around jokes and everyone cracking up now and then, but the characters and story itself are serious. If you want to make a moonwalking vampire spawn version of Michael Jackson or have a blue halfling themed like a Smurf who throws cupcakes in combat, this is not the campaign for that. 💀 No PvP. Most players don't like that, so if that's what you're looking for, hunt down a specific campaign geared towards that niche. 📖 This campaign is ideal for intermediate players. I've run Learn to Play campaigns before, and that can be fun, but this one is aimed at people who understand the basic rules and know their way around a character sheet. On the other hand, if you are a DnD expert who knows exactly what Jeremy Crawford said about the wording of every 4e power in a 2010 Reddit AMA, you may be frustrated that your knowledge exceeds that of the DM. 💕 No romance or sex. There's no Sharess's Caress in Bryn Shander ;-) . 📷 You'll need to use your webcam in this campaign. I've run many sessions with cams both on and off, and things just flow better and the party gels faster when cameras are on.