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The Zueran Spellcaster can Kill It with Ice once every turn.


Card Games

  • Magic: The Gathering: In general, Blue mana is often associated with ice and cold. Heidar, Rimewind Master, the villain of the Coldsnap set, is a powerful cryomancer seeking to return the world to a second Ice Age. His followers likewise specialized in using ice magic.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh!: Even though Ghostrick Yuki-onna has the Dark Attribute, she has the effect of freezing her opponent if she gets destroyed.

Tabletop Role-Playing Games

  • Arduin: The Compleat Arduin Book 2: Resources includes a few variants on this theme:
    • The Greater Demon Apharoe the Star Witch is immune to cold. The intense cold she radiates can cause weapons that hit her to break and if the weapon survives the being wielding it will suffer frostbite damage. She can fire beams of freezing energy from her fingertips that do 11-20 Hit Points of frost damage. She can turn any creature she touches to ice once every three melee rounds. In 1-10 melee rounds she can summon 100-300 Freeze Bees to do her bidding.
    • Ice Demons are immune to cold and their claws and wings cause 1-10 and 1-6 Hit Points of cold damage, respectively, when they hit. They have a Breath Weapon of intense cold in a 30 foot by 10 foot cone that inflicts 17-36 Hit Points of damage. They can reduce the air temperature in a 15 foot radius area around them by 20 °F per melee round, to a minimum of -180 °F. For each 20 °F below zero all other creatures in the area take 1-2 Hit Points of cold damage per melee round. While in this or a similar cold zone the demon has improved saves and its Strength and Hit Points are doubled. It can create ice in any shape desired, up to 1 foot by 6 inches by 2 inches per second.
    • The Greater Demon Boreas the Winter Demon. His claws inflict 17-36 Hit Points of intense cold damage on a hit and create snowfall in a 10 foot radius that causes 5-10 Hit Points of cold damage per melee round. He can also create a snow storm that lasts 5 minutes three times per day or for 10 minutes once per day. He like to cast ice magik spells and has all of the powers of a regular Ice Demon.
  • Champions has clones of many popular superheroes and supervillains, including a Captain Ersatz of Iceman named Icestar. He lacks the former's frigid body-armor, but shares the wisecracking personality. (An old rules example for Presence Attacks has Icestar blasting a villain-carried crate and quipping, "Heads up, boys, the Good Humor man is here!")
  • Changeling: The Lost: The Winter Court gets powers like this under the Contracts of Eternal Winter. They range from freezing any liquid solid instantly, to creating an aura of crippling cold, to causing a person to be hit by a hailstone the size of their head, to summoning a blizzard. Yes, even in hot climates.
  • Dungeons & Dragons has numerous variations and examples.
    • In most editions, ice is considered to be a "paralement" — that is, a secondary element created from the fusion of two pure elements. In this case, ice is created by the meeting of water and air, with an associated plane between the elemental plans of its parent substances, alongside an associated menagerie of ice paraelementals, ice mephits, and the like.
    • There are a number of options for wielding this sort of power as a player. These include worshipping a deity associated with winter, ice or coldness; the Frost Mage prestige class; the Winterhaunt of Iborighu prestige class, which eventually leads to transforming into an unholy abomination of ice and snow; the psionic Cryokineticist prestige class, and more.
    • Frostwind viragos are the fey incarnations of the fickle and cruel nature of winter.
    • Both white and silver dragons have freezing breath instead of fire.
    • First edition has an evil humanoid race called frost men who can shoot a "cone of cold" as an eye beam.
    • Rimefire eidolons have fairly extensive powers insofar as ice magic goes. Besides being able to thrown their Cold Flames as projectiles, they can shape and manipulate ice at will and further have access to a number of icy spell-like abilities, such as ice storm, wall of ice, cone of cold and polar ray.
    • In Elder Evils, Father Llymic can buffet foes with blizzards and beams of supernatural cold and storms of ice and shape and control masses of ice, often simply at will.
    • An artifact in the Forgotten Realms setting, the Ring of Winter, gives the wielder several ice-related powers.
    • Ravenloft:
      • Jerza Wagner, a ghost, drains the living warmth from her victims and leaves them frozen solid. No, they don't wake up if you chip the ice away.
      • The Darklord Meredoth is technically a necromancer, but he uses lots of ice-based spells and has a frozen lair.
  • In Nomine: The Songs of Ice create literal and metaphorical ice. The Corporeal Song of Ice causes an object's temperature to plunge below zero. The Ethereal Song of Ice numbs minds. The Celestial Song of Ice conjures solid ice out of thin air to cover solid surfaces.
  • Pathfinder has several monsters, including frost giants, white dragons, trolls, and some fey, which are heavily associated with cold and ice, or use ice Breath Weapons or magic to attack, mostly found in the area around the far-north country of Irrisen, which is locked in an eternal winter and ruled by a witch who primarily uses ice magic. Player Characters can get in on this too with the abundance of magic spells that conjure ice or deal cold damage, especially so with things like the Winter Witch archetype (for the Witch class) and the Boreal or Rime-Blooded sorcerer bloodlines, both of which give the PC several ice-related powers, up to and including the ability to summon a blizzard for the latter.
  • Rifts has an optional Psychic Character Class called the Freezer, with various cryogenic powers.
  • Sentinels of the Multiverse: Absolute Zero, being basically an Expy of Mr. Freeze as a superhero. Following a chemical accident, thermodynamics gets weird around him, and he can't survive at room temperatures. He operates as a superhero to pay off the expensive cooling suit that allows him to not spend his entire life in a refrigerated cell bored out of his skull. In the Iron Legacy timeline, his Elemental Wrath version goes past simply venting coolant and gains the ability to actually create ice, represented by his base power changing from "dealing damage to himself" (which combos with his specialist equipment) to "dealing damage to other people".
  • Trinity: Psychokinetic psions can specialize in Cryokinesis, allowing them to freeze enemies.

Tabletop Wargames

  • Heroscape: The Greater Ice Elemental, the Ice Troll Berserker, the Frost Giant of Morh, Nilfheim, the White Wyrmling, the Dzu-Teh, Nerak the Glacian Swog Rider, and Evar Scarcarver.
  • Warhammer: The ice witches of Kislev can tap into the spirit of their icy homeland to power a unique magical tradition focused on manipulating snow and ice. Tzarina Katarin, the Ice Queen of Kislev, is the most powerful ice witch alive — she created an entire new wing of her castle out of ice in a matter of hours and and can conjure up blizzards so fierce as to stymie even the most bloodthirsty Orc WAAAGH!


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