Review of Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden - Dungeons & Dragons
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2020
- Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden is the lasted adventure module released for Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition. However, all the excitement dies away, and dungeon masters actually get their hands on Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, what exactly are they getting? A fun adventure? An easy-to-use module? A product that ready to go with little extra work required on the part of the dungeon master? Or does Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden require some heavy tweaking and rework prior to using at the DM's game table? In this video, I review Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaden, and give you my thoughts on the adventure module, its strengths and its weaknesses. Warning: there might be some ranting. (Sorry.)
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Why does everyone keep assuming that auril is defeated in chapter 5, and then the rest is extra? I keep hearing this complaint. How is a party of 5 level 7 players gonna take on a cr 11 and a cr 9? Even if they beat the cr9, it just becomes a cr10. And then a cr11. How could this NOT be a tpk. Winning condition is getting the scroll to crack the ice and getting out alive. Then you NEED the mythallar to save icewind dale.
I think the game designers made encounters so deadly because the module is marketed as a "survival horror" module. Sooo it's probably designed to create "OH SHIT, RUN" moments.
"Take your party to level 10 and beyond" is on par with "... and I've been a Dungeon Master since highschool" as far as slogans are concerned. :)
Lol, UA-cam tags this as Icewind Dale, the 2000 pc game ..
Unpopular opinion. If you run cold blooded killer as RAW, the caravan starts in a DIFFERENT town then the PCs. The act of even getting to the other location should be enough to level to party to level 2, and if you do another quest along the way your party should be almost level 3 themselves. The opening quests are meant to spur exploration of Ten Towns. Just like how the chawinga are also in a different town.
Auriel's form has an owl's head and her name actually sounds "Oh-real" - at this point it becomes too much of an old "O rly?" meme. :D
I think this adventure is designed to be an open sandbox for players to loathe and fear for their lives while they desperately try to do worthwhile things to survive stumbling across the quests and wilderness encounters until they are powerful enough to face the challenges that wait for them in story mode.
Luke I think you have missed a text that says that chapter 2 is a kind of open-world chapter that is not supposed to be run as itself and is connected to either some rumors that the players got earlier or will get later (Its basically filler adventures, which are cool and someone can run them all or jus the ones that looks the best to DM). The quest that you have described is not for lvl 1 characters, as it is supposed to take the party through few cities untill they find "the guy", I would run it at level 2 with 5-6 player and level 3 for 4 man party, which should be fine for a hard but rewarding fight. I haven't read later chapters but overall it seems like one of the better adventures from Wizards yet, especially that it does not (!) have branching paths which are a total waste of printing paper (as most people run module for one group so they only go through one path).
With quite a bit of story tweaking, connecting Xardox to Auril, Auril’s power source being connected to the Netherese City this module becomes bit more coherent and fun.
I've had it, I've watched your videos for awhile and I can no longer stand it. WHY are your Hobbit and Lord of the Rings paperbacks stacked in reverse order on top of the ASOIAF books that are stacked correctly?
Wait! That Wizard is only Level 1, where'd he get fireball?!
Maybe the climax is a race between the party and Auril to claim the Mythalar, with Auril wanting to use it restore her faltering spell
Never got confirmation that fat cat died. now that he is unshackled from the party he can begin his rise to become the legendary king he was meant to be. once he slays old man commoner and steals his immortality.
"giving a player a free feat at level one is gamebreaking early game"
The starter quests are short because its intended that they explore each of the towns along the way and potentially take quests while they are there. Eventually solving the initial quest after maybe gaining a level.
Thanks to the Kobald Vampire spawn Gary is now an intern for a vampire
That’s exciting for us! They made more content for us to fix and make content on! “How to fix unbalanced encounters” Commin up!!
This does makes me feel better that, as an extremely new player first time DM, I come away from my prep sessions like "why is this just a chapter filled with 100 quests that my players will do like.... 5 of."
Simple fix for people who take issue with Auril not being the climax. Have the city's Mythalar be needed to hault her spell, and then either finish her off in heir lair or in the city so the Mythalar can go from holding the spell at bay to repairing the weather fully