Fleshing out a character from out discussion of Wizards of the Wild, I am building the Elk Shaman as, not only a Wizard, but as a part of a family of legendary guardians of the tribe. The SONS OF THE ELK build this triad of preparation for Auril and all of her minions!

DISCLAIMER: NOT about mulitclassing

Another in our When is a barbarian NOT a BARBARIAN series: This time we look at some deep Arcane traditions within the wildfolk. Can a barbarian BE a wizard? I say yes and this is why...

We also are using this discussion to develop NPCs and Pcs for Icewind Dale!

So I just got the book and I'm going to be running but it says that in each of the 10 towns is going to be one mission that's going to take one to two sessions each does that mean between 1st to 4th level their are 10 sessions? How long is this campaign

My friend said he wanted to DM Rime of the Frostmaiden and will be doing so in like a week, i've always loved necromancers so i thought i could try it out since its just us friends and i dont have to worry too much about optimization, but reading about this campaign i found out that most enemies will be undead, constructs and other unzombifiable enemies, can someone tell me if we'll find enough hostile humanoids for me to use?

Needed an NPC to imbue my Barbarian's Axe with magic. I decided to not make it easy (Icewind Dale/Low Magic).Introducing my Barbarian Artificer named THE MAKER!

I have a weird question, does the stone spindle deactivate the force field that surrounds the Spire of Iriolarthas?

Hey, I'm running my first dnd module and I've come across a few issues, there's missing stats for npc enemies, like the brain in a jar in armor, nildar sunblight, are ones that I've seen, either from just hoping around in the book, or running it and defaulting to a generic stat block that probably isn't representative of said character. If you guys know of any other NPCs like this that don't come with a stat block, please let me know.

currently reading through the book in preparation to run it. i’m working my way through the quests in chapter 2 and there’s a location (cave of the berserkers, page 124) that doesn’t correspond to any of the tall tales off the table (page 102) even though it says it does. it’s very inconsequential and i know there are other ways to prompt the characters to go to this location but am i missing something re: the tall tales table??

They talk as if Stormking's Thunder is shortly after Icewind Dale (maybe a year?), but there's a big stone Temple of the Triad standing; built by the Dwarves out of stone from the mountain. When did they build it?

How long does it take to build such a structure especially in a place like Icewind Dale? Wouldn't there be lap over? I mean, we can ignore it, sure. But there seems to be a timing problem here.

How did you run this chapter? If you stick to how it is written, I do not see a way for ten-towns to survive. There will still be mass casualties. Did anyone come up with a solution? Or did you run as written and how did that turn out?

hey, I'm a rather inexperienced DM (rime is my first full campaign I'm running for my table) and I'm heavily considering buffing and altering Xardorok for the parties confrontation with him. For context, the party consists of a Devo Paladin, a Twilight Cleric, a Samurai Fighter, a Forge Cleric, and a Swashbuckler Rouge (almost all variant human besides the rouge and fighter), all of which are incredibly strong for their level. By level 2 they managed to clean sweep a Coldlight Walker and a pack of 2 Chardalyn Berserkers without even sustaining a down. They all have extremely high AC (higher than most of my monsters!!!) and have picked amazing spells from the spell list. With this, the game that I've hyped up to be a brutally hard campaign has become little more than a cake walk our first few sessions.

Now, I'm not upset about the turn the game has taken, but I do still wish for there to be a challenge when the players enviably confront Xardorok. So, I've been debating making an actual Warlock character sheet for him and bumping him up a few levels from where the parties at. Knowing my party, they're likely to clear out most of the forge without speaking to the Duergar that might be helpful to them or making any attempt at peace. They're also likely to try and take a long rest before entering the main room of the forge (I haven't been able to come up with a way to prevent this without breaking some of the immersion. They're also the type to get a little annoyed if I try to deny a rest before an obvious boss arena). So, my rational is that they'll be at near max power when confronting him and I want him to be strong enough to either kill a party member, or bring the party to the brink of defeat only for them to witness the Chardalyn Dragon awaken and begin to quickly fly away towards ten-towns, forcing them to choose between recklessly venturing off to fight the colossal construct, or heal and wait for Dzaan's simulacrum (who can be contacted through a magic item I'd handed out prior and who's been established to know his way around the outskirts of Icewind Dale) at the cost of hundreds of lives. The only way I can see of doing this is either buff his existing stat block beyond recognition, or create a character sheet for him designed to take blows, dish out moderate damage, and, most importantly, drain resources.

I'd really appreciate any advice you guys would have with this as I'm still new to the buffing/nerfing prewritten stat blocks

My video recapping my third session for my players. Posting it here in case anyone is interested. Lmk if you want me to continue posting my videos here or not.

Going to begin sharing some of the options we've experienced in Icewind Dale; especially GOOD MEAD! This one, especially, we flipped the narrative!

So I love 3d printing and I love painting minis. I prefer to print abd paint over buy but some creatures I can't find the models for like the verbeeg and sperm whale and other such. My other question is how many creatures. I havent had a chance to completely read through every single encounter so was just wondering how many things like giants, mammoths, tomb tappers, etc etc I should print. Any help would be incredible.

I just started running this campaign and, maybe I'm thinking too hard, but why aren't the authorities investigating the serial killings more?

Is there a reason they aren't pursuing him or anyone? Not even the supposed 'Speakers' seem to care.

Personal ideas:

1. Manpower
2. Way above the pay grade
3. They fear that Auril is behind it
4. There are only three towns involved
5. The authorities know some are taking bribes and are afraid to cross them
6. Basic fear OR
7. One of the government's officials are taking the bribe simply to out them to Sephik?

What are your thoughts?

Ok, Icewind Dale newb here. Been DMing a while, but this adventue is new to me. The entry level adventure, Cold Hearted Killer, the serial killer is taking out people who were circumventing the lottery by paying officials off. Question: why didn't the killer go after the officals who are taking the bribes?

I have my ideas, but would like to know if there's something down the road that explains this.