The thing I'm looking forward to most is.. Rime of the Frostmaiden will be my first time DMing a campaign! I've been playing D&D since way back in 3.5 but I've never DMed a campaign (just the occasional one shot here and there). I guess because I'm the younger brother so I was usually the youngest at the table of my brother and his friends. Thanks so much for your videos. Your review/page through was able to help me prep my group through character creation and we'll be starting as soon as my digital copy arrives. It would be SO COOL (pun intended) to have the physical copy to not only help me as I'm DMing but to commemorate this occasion of stepping behind the DM screen. :)
I'm quite pumped for the plethura of new monsters and mechanics being introduced in Icewind Dale. They bring with them some pretty interesting possibilities to add some variety to my team's campaigns that we haven't ever tried before. I feel that my team get's most creative when they're faced with their biggest limitations, so it'll be fun to see what happens as they respond to Icewind's extreme climate.
For me, the greatest aspect of Icewind Dale to run will be the wilderness survival. Messing with resources and running this as low magic could really bring in that Revenant style (ala Leo DeCaprio) winter surival aspects. Easily making this setting an environmental horror setting could be incredible. I dont necessarily think I'd run its story immediately, but instead start with an Until Dawn or Cabin in the Woods story to acquaint them with the harsh realities of Icewind Dale. Its the setting itself that excites me, especially as a 5e DM of 5 years.
I am DMing this for my brother and cousins over roll20. We read the icewind dale trilogy when we were kids and this will be my family’s first big campaign( I have been playing for a while but the first for them) my cousins kids look forward to Dnd night each week. With COVID going on this has been a great way for us to still get together. I’m honored to run this for my family and nostalgia of our youth
I'm really looking forward to the fact that this adventure is supposed to have the most unique monsters of any so far. Hoping for some new stuff rather than the same old frost giants and ice dragons.
I'm looking forward to all the additional lore and details of a part of Forgotten Realms that hasn't seen a lot of attention (in 5th edition). Love adding things like this to potential story lines/plots. Thanks for the review, enjoyed it!
I’m looking forward to the character I have in mind for this: specifically a Tiefling Eldritch Knight using the SCAG variant stats. A descendent of Levistus who’s had nightmares his entire life dueling with Levistus while he’s being groomed as a vessel for possession. When he gets wise, he flees to Icewind Dale.
I’m honestly looking forward to running this for my group! My wife and I recently got into D&D about 2 years ago, and have been loving it ever since. I am super excited for this!!
I've been looking forward to the gritty realism rules, never had a chance to try them before, so I'm really excited. I also really like the mortal question the party has to choose from: the dragon or the dwarves, something I haven't done before and sounds really interesting.
I'm looking forward to leaning heavily into the themes of isolation. I think it will be interesting to see how my PCs process this given the reality of this past years quarantine.
I'm most looking forward to implement this into a recent campaign I began and just finished a story arc for. The gang just caused the resurrection of the ancient dragon Ashardalon, and decided they will start to hunt for him. I'm absolutely going to have Ashardalon work with Duergar - who were present in the last campaign arc - to take over ten towns in his new Chardlyn body (I can make a good pun with these names). The book will be dope for continuing the campaign as the party wished to pass by Neverwinter anyway due to a PC having family there.
I'm looking forward to Icewind Dale the region. I'm not a huge of the Forgotten Realms setting, but I did love the Halfling's Gem trilogy of novels, so I'm excited to see what adventures can be add in that locale.
Icewind Dale has always been my favorite setting. I remember playing tge pc game as a teen, and bading alot of game sessions around or scenarios around it or crafting my own ideas off of icewind Dale.
So what is the main focus of the book? Desert frozen wasteland travel? Stopping a dwarf invasion? End the "everlasting" winter in the artic region? And people trash Tyranny of Dragons XD
I can't wait to run this campaign. I want to run a serious and deadly campaign filled with difficult terrain in a plans far to the north. I'm from Florida so the ice sounds terrifying
What I'm most looking forward to is that I have a group of family to play with that have been in my quarantine bubble, so I get to DM in person! Second Is Arveiaturace, who I got to DM a little bit of in Storm King's Thunder, and I'm eager to reprise that character (also she's getting a massive 'mini')
Im most certainly looking forward to running the Caves of Hunger!! Im in love with the idea of a secret area not previously accessible holding ancient secrets and lost cities and artifacts, and im also very curious to see where the scroll of tarrasque summoning comes up!
I live in New Zealand. This will be behind the American release by about a week and much more expensive. I would gladly pay for shipping. As for the supplement itself. I ran a blizzard in my game and I never liked how it turned out. I want to see that encounter work better. I would also like to run a horror DnD that isn't Strahd.
I'm looking forward to exploring all the different locations! The book has so many places for the party to visit and so many people to meet that I can't wait to start!
I’m definitely most looking forward to the harsher landscape. It will be interesting to see how my players adapt to the conditions and navigate it all. It’s going to be very punishing, and I’m excited to DM it!
I am most looking forward to probably just being able to further utilize enviornment. When pitching this adventure its going to be 'do you guys wanna do survival horror' and for that pillar of dnd which is so often ignored having more focus and not only that now dms have a reason to homebrew thi gs about enviornment. I think it will make survival and the managment that entails finally shine through. Also on the 4 hours of sunlight thing, that could be really fun and allow more people to play drow if they want, and with duregar as the main enemy for a section one of their huge disadvantages is nullified. You mentioned the players can get their hands on the battle plans, imagine that decision of we can face them at the first town at disadvantage or we have a 4 hour window of a strong advantage at town 3 but we have to sacrafice x npcs. I think that could be a highlight roleplay moment.
I'm looking forward to taking the book down to a skeleton and rebuilding it in my own style. I'll ask my players what kinds of characters they are in the mood to play and what they might hope for those characters to work towards. Then I'll wrap the campaign around that. Plus, I ran SKT and my players enjoyed exploring Icewind Dale. As a bonus thought, I'm personally excited about the obelisk!
I'm really looking forward to the triple form aspect of Auril. I'm looking to even alter or add more to her. And then the snow theme on top is something that I've been waiting for for a while, the closest I've done is Dragon Heist in the winter season.
This setting has so much potential. Love the isolation and the horror. I am thinking about making short rests an 8 hour rest and long rests 3 days rest. It would really make it tough on players. Wilderness combat would be deadly. Making them hole up for days on end while they get spells and HP/hitdice back. Then the survival aspect would take a prominent place: food, water, shelter, and navigation would be as important as their combat maneuvers. Hmm 🤔🤔🤔
I’ve been prepping with my group since this book was announced. It’s my first time DMing and I am thrilled that the adventure has a lot of leeway so that we can weave the story we have all come up with together. I’m a sucker for horror and I am planning to run this adventure as creepy as possible!
I've only run one-shots before. I'm looking forward to using this as the 1st campaign I've run. I like the isolation of the environment and the unique weather elements which will enhance immersion in the setting.
Looking forward to running this with my brother and nephews in NJ as we social distance and wish Jimmy was home from basic training and slaying owl bears with us
I'm looking forward to running my first major book as a DM for my group. I've been a player a long time, and looking to give my usual DM some PC time. The isolation and winter themes should be nice and spooky for a winter campaign.
I am looking forward to playing against the environment. I hope it is done right :D The travel times you talked about do seem very bizarre. I am thinking a Gloom Stalker ranger, War Magic wizard, or a Circle of Spores druid. BTW, I don't mind the shipping :)
Hey Jeff, I will pay the shipping cost if I win. I think this will be a great campaign to run with my students as we are finishing the starter set & essentials set combined and then journeying up to 10 towns for a change of scenery would be great fun for the kids I think. Plus the unique environment could be fun to play with. I will pick it up either way but if I win it that would save me the trouble of searching for a retailer that will ship to my location which can always be a bit of a headache since D&D is not actually available at all here. Anyways I will hope for the best. 😊👍
Hey Jeff I am looking forward to exploring the town's and monstors in icewind dale I do live in europe ( Denmark to be specific.) And I happy pay for shipping
My four kids are the players and I’m looking forward to making mugs of hot chocolate, turning on the fireplace, and playing in the evening with snow outside the window. Good seasonal timing on this book. My oldest boy loves gnomes and my next oldest has made an arch enemy of a mind flayer in a previous campaign and I can’t wait for the sparks to fly when they meet that mini flayer!!
I am looking forward to find a joyrney with my game group. We live already in a land where winte can be tough and we have viking blood running through our veins, so winter theme and DnD is a nice compination. I, as a DM, will give it touch of our own culture and thematics, and I really feel, we going to have a fantastic moments with this campaing. (And gladly pay the postage :) )
I'm looking forward to running the trials of the frostmaiden part of Grimskalle. Love your reviews, thanks for the content! Good luck to all in the running. US resident =]
I'm looking forward to DMing a more survival and isolation based horror adventure set in the arctic! I think my favorite area I know of so far is the Caves of Hunger, I love the aesthetic and horror worked into that chapter.
So, excited for the setting in general. 10 towns was one of my groups fav parts of SKT as many have said, but the piece that really caught me off guard in a fun way is gnome mind flayers. Just too dang cute and horrifying at the same time.
I'm running this game and I'm looking forward to hopefully provide my players with a nice dark setting full of new creatures they may not have ever seen!
I'm looking forward to having a horror themed D&D run. I feel like you can still add some levity to it but I kind of want a little bit more seriousness to some of the adventure. I definitely want to get my players to feel like they earned every win that they get
I cant believe it I made a character from Icewind Dale and now there is a whole series of adventures to go on. I've been telling my party about his home and now I can take them there. Very good timing for me :D Had to stop watching due to fear of spoilers sorry. :)
I’ll be running a professional D&D session when it comes out. I’m looking forward to the creepy, psychological aspect of the adventures. I live in Alabama.
You say a 7 of 10 but from the critiques it sounds or feels like more of a 5/10. I was hoping for a better reception. I'm planning on running it in the spring, after spending the winter making notes and fleshing out some of the material. Plus it gives me time to paint mini's, make props and handouts. Personally, I'm looking forward to some of the negatives you mentioned such as availabke light and environmental conditions. But in other spots it looks like some simple tweaking may be in order to fit individual playstyle. Instead of disagreeing with certain fictional elements because they are unlikely, I'd rather think about what set of fantasy circumstances could actually propagate such an extraordinary or peculiar situation. I think that can give life and reason to the fiction, hopefully to the point the players never even contemplate that it had to be done so.
I find the lack of a hook also bad. Using local heroes doesn't make that much sense as you'll loose the exotic part then. It would be great if it made sense for the heroes to be there to make sense.
Love the setting despite people from subreddit actually not being very interested due to it being another Sword Coast adventure. Id love to pay for postage if ever.
Also a bit of a bummer that this book feels rushed. I remember thinking Descent Into Avernus felt incomplete. It's a bit frustrating that it feels like WotC has been a little lazy in the last few years with their modules.
The only full campaign book that feels "not rushed" to me is curse of strahd. It's almost like they really just don't care to make modules easy for DMs to run. - Innkeeper Vase Odin
Me: Currently writing up a homebrew setting set in some remote subarctic towns. WOTC: Exactly that, but as a module Me: Don't mind me, I just gonna steal a few things and leave, excuse me please
Very excited about potential connections with Icespire Peak, Storm King's Thunder, and other official material. And this book couldn't have come at a better time! I'm running a homebrew campaign in a floating city above a post-apocalyptic arctic landscape, and I will definitely be grabbing some of this story to flesh it out!
I’ve been looking for a good reason to play the “Gritty Realism Rules” from the DMG. We’re gonna play this one hard mode. Also blizzards don’t actually require it to be snowing, it’s mostly wind (though it is often snowing). Drive I-80 through Wyoming during January.
I just finished a two year Icewind Dale campaign up earlier this year, and I honestly would be willing to dive right back in with this one. It's probably my favorite D&D setting, so I'm most excited to see new Icewind Dale material and ultimately see if there's any info from the old D&D Next/Sundering adventure "Legacy of the Crystal Shard" that turns up here!
I WANT TO PLAY A POLARBEAR ROGUE!! I’m so excited for this book. I’m looking forward to the brand new environment and challenges and new monsters that come with the snow. My brother usually DMs for our group and we’re finishing up Tomb of Annihilation after about 2 years of running it every week. We love the hard core dangerous environment of the jungle and I just KNOW this adventure will be 10 times better with the spooky harshness of Icewind Dale. It would be so cool to give him this book and start playing ASAP!
As a new DM, I’m intrigued with the dark frozen environment and love the idea of horror based campaigns. I loved Curse of Strahd and Chris Perkins mentioned how this is another horror campaign but more in a mental sense which sounds awesome!
Well I'm looking forward to DMing for the first time ( fell in love with dnd a couple of months ago ) for my group one we finish CoS(was a PC ) and I love both horror and winter themed games/stories. This is my second campaign overall and I just bought the PHB,DMG and MM, so now I'll probable invest in a couple of modules or maybe supplements. (Also the idea of a big ancient city under the ice was something I was considering if I tried homebrew soo this book looks amazing to me. What books do you recommend to me to buy next?
Would love to play the new module. Always loved the winter themed fantasy, and the new monsters look amazing. Also probably gonna blend it with Storm King's Thunder or my first own Homebrew campaign for leves10-20. Right now I only own CoS and need a new adventure soon. (We're still an inexperienced party so maybe we will run a couple more of games before homebrewing our own epic campaign).
As someone interested in Forgotten Realms/D&D lore, I'm most interested in 5e's take on Icewind Dale, but to be honest, I'm really stoked for new information about the mythallars and other ancient secrets of Netherese arcanists.
I'm looking forward to running this as my first dnd dm campaign and making my players feel isolated and vulnerable throughout with the incredible potential of the snow theme (im happily willing to pay for postage ^_^)
As a DM, i am most looking forward to role-playing three kobolds on top of each other in a trench coat and interacting with the players. (With a Texas address :))
I’m looking forward to throwing my players in the snow! I love the full setting being so different environmentally. I love the winter in real life. I’m ok with the downsides and paying for shipping! Lol
I'm always interested in running adventures in unique locales. There's an old 3.5 book called Frostburn that I've always wanted to get. I suppose now I have an excuse to finally get a copy.
Sadly, ok of the 4 environment books, the others are more interesting (desert, city, sea). There's just nothing that pops out as really inspiring. Rise of the Frostmaiden looks interesting
I'm looking forward to the extreme weather and new, icy monsters from this module. Maybe even some stat block elements from the BBEG type creatures in the adventure to make a custom icy BBEG of my own. I've been planning an arc of my own campaign where an otherworldly god subjects my homebrew setting in a supernatural winter, so this module will really flesh out that adventure for me and my table! (And for contest purposes, yes I live in the U.S.)
As a DM, i'm looking most forward to the flavor of this adventure. The horror, the ice, the remoteness of Icewind Dale. The mysteries to be found, the crazy creatures. Plus i look forward to the way this book is outlined. Feels very similar to Saltmarsh, which felt both sandboxy but with enough heft to allow for a full story-line (with some homebrewing). I'm excited!
I personally look forward to using this module as one of my first DMing modules. Haven't gotten the chance to use one yet and I'm usually more of a homebrewing dm. This seems like it could be a good blend for more homebrewy kind of dms like me.
As a DM, I’m most excited for the locations. In a way this reminds me a lot of tomb of annihilation; sandbox beginning w linear story, side plot with a bad guy species, it’s all very interesting. I’m ready for the coldest, hardest winter yet ❄️
I'm looking forward to presenting my group a variety of rumours with sidequests and the choice between fighting the dwarf or the dragon. I do live outside the US, but i'd be more than willing to pay for shipping :)
I'm most looking forward to seeing my party dynamic with their secrets going through the campaign, one's a doppelganger, ones blessed by Auril & is a cleric, its going to be super interesting. :D
There is something I find so enticing about this dark cold world that this book is really doubling down on. My players currently have been spending a lot of time in the warmer areas and haven't really put too much thought into the troubles that the environment can bring. Right now for them they focus on the outward threats, the encounters and such, but not for long. I want to move them into a place of discomfort where they're suddenly thinking about whole new aspects of the game that they haven't before. We all just started playing dnd maybe half a year ago, and have been playing at least once a week since. I'd love to win that book with the beautiful alternate art, and thank you very much for doing this giveaway.
