History TabletopGame / IcewindDaleRimeOfTheFrostmaiden

->[[TheStinger DISCLAIMER:]] The windswept tundra of Icewind Dale is the true test of one's mettle. Here, it's survival of the fittest! Don't be fooled by the reindeer with glow-in-the-dark antlers and the tasty knucklehead trout (including the friendlier, more northerly [[CanadaEh Canucklehead]] variety). [[GrimUpNorth Icewind Dale is the frostbitten end of the world.]] [[YouPutTheXInXY You can't spell dice without ice]], my friend, and [[AnIcePerson the Frostmaiden]] is not some [[TabletopGame/OutOfTheAbyss demon prince]], [[TabletopGame/CurseOfStrahd vampire]], [[TabletopGame/TombOfAnnihilation lich]], [[TabletopGame/WaterdeepDragonHeist beholder crime lord]], or [[TabletopGame/BaldursGateDescentIntoAvernus archdevil]]. She's [[GodIsEvil a god--and a cold-hearted one at that.]]

* {{Railroading}}: A few scenarios have intended and explicit ways for them to be resolved, some of which may not be at all apparent (or possible!) for the player characters, and some of them are designed to not allow any ''other'' solutions. One of the most blatant is bypassing one door requires going through a set of trials (infamously disliked) and the adventure states: "The door is otherwise unopenable, indestructible, and impassable. Any spell cast with the intent of bypassing the door fails and is wasted."

->[[TheStinger DISCLAIMER:]] The windswept tundra of Icewind Dale is the true test of one's mettle. Here, it's survival of the fittest! Don't be fooled by the reindeer with glow-in-the-dark antlers and the tasty knucklehead trout (including the friendlier, more northerly [[CanadaEh Canucklehead]] variety). [[GrimUpNorth Icewind Dale is the frostbitten end of the world.]] [[YouPutTheXInXY You can't spell dice without ice]], my friend, and [[AnIcePerson the Frostmaiden]] is not some [[TabletopGame/OutOfTheAbyss demon prince]], [[TabletopGame/CurseOfStrahd vampire]], [[TabletopGame/TombOfHorrors lich]], [[TabletopGame/WaterdeepDragonHeist beholder crime lord]], or [[TabletopGame/BaldursGateDescentIntoAvernus archdevil]]. She's [[GodIsEvil a god—and a cold-hearted one at that.]]

* HoistByHerOwnPetard: One of the character secrets available for this adventure is the "Midwinter Child", [[spoiler:in which Auril blessed the character with cold resistance because they were born on the Midwinter holiday. As it turns out, this blessing proves to be very useful in surviving Auril's Everlasting Rime, as well as being the deciding factor in the party's battle against the goddess. In the event Auril would be killed, however, the adventurer with the secret would also lose their cold resistance until Auril is resurrected in the next winter solstice.]]

* WorfHadTheFlu: Maintaining the Everlasting Rime takes a lot of Auril's power, [[spoiler:weakening her enough for the adventurers to be able to defeat her.]]

* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Auril has three different forms that she can assume: an [[AnimalisticAbomination anthropomorphic owlbear]] known as the Cold Crone, a [[GiantWoman 10-foot-tall woman of ice and frost]] known as Lady Icekiss, and an [[GemHeart icy diamond containing her divine spark]] known as Winter's Womb. For the adventurers to kill her and end the Everlasting Rime, they will have to reduce each of her forms to 0 hit points one after another.]]

* TheDragon: Iskra, Auril's pet Roc, is her most powerful minion and vital to performing the Everlasting Rime. [[spoiler:Killing Iskra is a viable way of ending it without having to fight Auril directly.]]