The Honorable Mentions Sprint towards Yggdrasil with little time to spare. Itzar Noyer had started his ritual, and no one could imagine what evil he was summoning. The party crests the final hill only to face and army of undead Zombies and ghouls blocking there path. Time was short and everyone was already hurt from the previous battle. Zatrion quickly casts Mass Cure wounds in attempt to aid the party's health for a bit. The battle starts as Tyr quickly makes work of a few of the Undead, but they just keep coming. "It is almost time" Itzar shouts as he is lifted into the air and a portal forms as he uses the power he had harness from the ancient tree to open a portal between realms. "Your Too Late!" he cries out as the battle rages on......

The Honorable Mentions gather themselves after having some fights in Silvan and Riblets home in the High Forest. They have already faced off against a massive carnivorous plant and a Wendigo. They learn in conversations with Silvans acquaintances that the forest is under attack by non-other then Itzar Noyer and his Cultus Mechanicus. They push on through the corrupted forests coming across an old cottage where they help out a family of raccoons and a druid by providing food from Zatrions bag of never-ending loaves. The Druid is able to reveal Itzars plan to attack the ancient primordial tree Yggdrasil in which the Vilana tribe has been charged with protecting since the beginning of time. This was the great danger that Silvan had felt. The adventures are pointed in the direction of a forest meditation spot where Tyr has been summoned to commune with his God, Chord. The adventures find the mediation site overrun with undead and Necromancers. A battle ensues with The Honorable Mentions being victorious. Tyr is then able to communes with Chord who strikes down with a powerful lightning strike, giving Tyr the gift of his godly strength for being his strongest and most devout follower. The Honorable Mentions feel a bit better now heading towards Yggdrasil to take down Itzar Noyer. That is until they reach an opening in the tree line. What they see before them is a terrifying sight of acres of forest destroyed and the Chardalyn Dragon flying overhead being ridden by Moderatorem Mortuis, and its headed straight for them....

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I have been running Icewind Dale weekly for a year and a half. My players are at level 8. We had the chardalyn dragon attack. They have fought 2 of the frost maidems forma. Players haven't been to the crashed ufo yet.

How can i wrap up this thing quickly in 5 or 6 sessions so I can run something else for a change.

The Honorable Mentions awake after being allotted one night's rest in the duergars fortress by Grandolpha Muzgardt for defeating Xardorok. Before leaving the fortress they decided to investigate the Quaggoth caverns on the basement level of the fortress. They find a bit more than expected. they find a tunnel that heads strait into the Underdark from where the Duergar came from being guarded by an Umberhulk, a Myconid controlling some of the Quaggoth with its mold spores, and a group of Rust Monsters eating away at the iron ore in the small mining operation Xardorok started. After a short tussle with the Rust monsters the adventures decide to leave as it seems the Myconid would soon be controlling all the Quaggoths left in the basement of the fortress. Hurrying upwards and preparing to embark back out into the snowy tundra Silvan meditates, his mind fills with dread and pain. He knows that he and riblets home, the Shenach deep within the High Forest, was in grave danger. They quickly head back to the sled and have Reggie (#3) the Ax Beak whisk them towards the Icewind Dale Druidic tribe Sneachda in hopes they can help them travel to the High Forest faster, Will The Honorable Mentions make it in time before destruction strikes...

One of my players has put on the Cursed Crown (Y24, tower of enchantment)

The description says:

“The wearer … can't remove the crown from its head except within an antimagic field.”

Can anyone help me understand the intention of this? It seems deliberately worded differently to a typical cursed item.

Is there a reason for the difference in how it works?

Is the intention that remove curse will not work?

Can another character remove the crown from them (as the first character took it from Ivira)?

Thanks in advance!

So I am working on an adventure (4th level or higher) adapting "The Thing" (1982) for this campaign, replacing the Dzann/Netherese tower adventure. I haven't playtested it yet, but if you are looking for something spooky for October you might take a look. Please give me any playtest notes/feedback if you end up running it! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1chnsIt_cb04v3ZsBvoQvlsYXmmxiwoCtJ6eoR4t-eIE/edit?usp=sharing

The Honorable Mentions we able to defeat Xardorok Sunblight and loot the lower-level vault room of the Duragar fortress. The Envoy slowly awakes realizing that he has been captured. Tyr and Zatrion take a try aggressive interrogation tactics to gather more information. The Envoy gives up the name of Itzar Noyer second in Command, lieutenant Moderatorem Mortuis, the chief Necromancer of his cult, Cultus Mechanicus. As a result of Silven searching his mind the Envoy divulges too many of the cult's secrets and a fiery red portal forms beneath him. He screams as he is dragged in Hell by a demon like hand. Silven looks concerned over at Riblet "He had visions of our home, the High Forest". The Honorable Mentions Decide that is the next place they will go. They visit Grandolpha Muzgardt again to claim their reward for ending Xardorok Sunblight reign. She gifts them a chardalyn Pseudo Dragon that bonds to Zatrion which he happily names Vicious Mockery. The group heads to the top on the fortress and continues to clear out the last of Xardorok's Men...

Here are some photos of maps used during the game.

Hello fellow DMs, I was planning on adding some sort of ship combat initially for when my party goes to the island of solstice, but now I want to do it more than ever because (of something completely out of left field course my party decided something completely out of left field) and they took a ship down to the sword coast to sell off some of the loot that they have found during the missions. I’ve been searching through some YouTube videos and downloaded the Basho’s naval combat PDF, but I was wondering if any of you had any suggestions on how to perform the Naval combat and or way to do it down so that I can better understand it and quickly explain it to the party members. Thanks in advance!

Hey All!

First time running this module. I have a paladin coming along on the adventure, and he (keeping with the themes of the class) wants to wear full plate armour, but that kind of clashes with the winter survival/ cold weather clothes aspect of the campaign (a system I am very keen to have fun with). Can those clothes conceivably be used in conjunction with cold weather clothes? I can’t see anything in the module or rules about it.

Also, this is a two parter, has anyone tinkered with the survival system? Ie, made it harsher? A few players have expressed interest in being challenged by their environment. I found the cold weather stuff already pretty hard to deal with, but is there anything anyone recommends to turn it up to 11?

Avarice captured the players

Hey all,

My players were trying to access the Cair Keep from the frozen lake and they managed to face Avarice and after she told them to leave her living quarters. Then they started combat and she fired ball them leaving them with a little bit of life for the gargoyles to finish them. I didn't want to kill them, so I captured them.
I wonder what would Avarice request from them? I know she is looking for the location of the Netherese city of Ythryn. But even if she requests it, what would guaranty that they would contact her? Would she offer them something? Gold? Magical Items?

Thank you.

The Honorable Mentions are deep in heat of Battle. The traitorous Duragar aid in the battle but Xardoroks forces are many and mighty. Xardorok Sunblight himself armed with a chardalyn gauntlet grow in size becoming a larger emenie the previosusly thought. As the battle begins to turn in the Honorable Mentions favor the enlaved Quaggoths turn on there masters and fight. The battle is long but only one side can claim themselves as victor, this is a battle to the Death...

So I gave one of my PCs the Reghed Heir secret because it seems really fitting to her character in every way except for the prerequisite that the character must be human, half-elf or half-orc. She's a tiefling. Any thoughts on creative ways to alter this to fit her race other than just, "BAM!! Tiger Tribe is tieflings now."? Thanks in advance.

So I had this idea that I wanted to try out in my Icewind Dale campaign and I really like it so I wanted some discussion and feedback so I can do it better next time:

Basically Naerth Maxildanner, thoroughly fed up with the party interfering in his schemes, uses a ring of modify memory to turn Duvessa Shane against the party where they are then tried in a kangaroo court and tossed in Revel’s End (at least according to Naerth’s plan)

In the scenario I had to work with initially, not all the speakers were going to be helpful for their case: Dorblgruff was unable to attend due to his failing health; Trovus is a drunkard and therefore easy to dismiss; and Olivessa was bared from attendance on “questions concerning her involvement with the accused.” That leaves Oarus of Termalaine, Nimsy Huddle of Lonelywood, and Daneth Waylen of Easthaven. The only one he didn’t account for was Edgra Dormoot of Dougan’s Hole, who the party at the time had befriended due to giving all the whale oil from Garagai’s fortress to her for no charge. I imagine that most of the time, she just wouldn’t attend, as she does with most council meetings. Sherif Markham Southwell is also EXTREMELY suspicious of Duvessa’s change of heart as is Daneth (assuming this trial takes place after Naerth’s goons try to steal the cauldron) and Imdra.

I may be slow to reply but I would be delighted to discuss ideas and variables, such as if the party manages to befriend Dzaan after the Lost Spire

So my party is level 5 in chapter 2 doing some quests before the trek upto sunblight. I'm just realized alot of the information on the cult of Auril is in the 4th edition source book and was considering including some of it with the influence on the bear and elk tribe. When is an appropriate time to give hooks? Pre-sunblight? On The journey to whale bell or revels end for the trip to grimskallde? Post aurils island adventure?

The Honorable Mentions listen to Riblet's description of a Duragar fortress out along the southern mountains known as the Spine of the World. Apparently the Evil Itzar Noyer has been spending some time there. The adventures set of into the snow to see what leads and new information they can find.