D&D: BREAKING – Rime Of The Frostmaiden Is The Next Big Storyline
D&D Live, Roll with Advantage is underway, and a whole big bunch of announcements are out. Check out the next big adventure: Rime of the Frostmaiden.
Well it turns out those leaks were real, the next big D&D Adventure has been revealed, and it is indeed Rime of the Frostmaiden, a new adventure set in Icewind Dale and parts beyond, where players will confront the Frostmaiden, Auril, an evil goddess of winter and snow and steel. Let’s take a look at what we know so far.
Rime of the Frostmaiden is a horror adventure set in Icewind Dale, which is an interesting step for them. As WotC designers Chris Perkins and Jeremy Crawford explained during their announcement, this adventure is going to play up themes of Isolation and Winter and Secrecy as they explore the adventure. This is a campaign that’s set to embrace the setting and the environment, so players can expect to see a lot more wilderness interaction. One of the other big things Perkins mentions is that players will have their own secrets, and they can either lean into the paranoia that having a character secret causes, or choose to share it, and either style of play can foster an environment suitable for horror.
We’ve seen new guidelines for exploration and adventuring in past Unearthed Arcana, so perhaps we will see more of those rules in play here.
Like the Essentials Kit, Rime of the Frostmaiden is designed to be either run all at once or broken up into its component pieces–each of the “chapters” can be run as a standalone adventure, though they all fit together in one cohesive thing as well. That was a direction that I really liked in the new “starter set” and I’m curious to see how it plays out.
Weighing in at 320 pages, this new adventure book is hefty, and features the biggest batch of stat blocks WotC has included in one of their adventures yet, with a total of 50 new stat blocks–and more, players can expect to encounter minigames that lean into the theme, including mention of a “Goliath Sport” players can take part in.
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Feel the cold touch of death in this adventure for the world’s greatest roleplaying game.
In Icewind Dale, adventure is a dish best served cold.
Beneath the unyielding night sky, you stand before a towering glacier and recite an ancient rhyme, causing a crack to form in the great wall of ice. Beyond this yawning fissure, the Caves of Hunger await. And past this icy dungeon is a secret so old and terrifying that few dare speak of it. The mad wizards of the Arcane Brotherhood long to possess that which the god of winter’s wrath has so coldly preserved—as do you! What fantastic secrets and treasures are entombed in the sunless heart of the glacier, and what will their discovery mean for the denizens of Icewind Dale? Can you save Ten-Towns from the Frostmaiden’s everlasting night?
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden is a tale of dark terror that revisits the forlorn, flickering candlelights of civilization known as Ten-Towns and sheds light on the many bone-chilling locations that surround these frontier settlements.
Happy Adventuring!
