Wizards of the Coast has announced the next adventure book for 5th Edition: Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden.
Chris Perkins (lead story designer for the D&D team) is playing things close to the vest on the plot here, but here's what we know:
It's set in Icewind Dale, a far-northern region of Faerun along the Sword Coast that is isolated from the rest of the continent by the Spine of the World mountain range. It's a frozen, cold region where people go to get away from their old lives.
The genre and tone of the adventure will be horror, though less the Curse of Strahd-style gothic horror, and more modern horror (Perkins made reference to John Carpenter's The Thing as one of his inspirations). The adventure will feature many monster variants, taking familiar monsters from the Monster Manual and altering them such that even veteran players won't really know what they're dealing with (apparently the adventure's monster chapter is longer than any other published adventure this edition.)
Frozen wastelands, dark evils hidden beneath the ice, howling storms, and an air of paranoia and distrust are all things that seem to characterize this new adventure.
Sounds freaking cool.
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