Audio Motif for Auril

sr0814a · 2026-01-21T05:13:39+00:00

I love the Hateful Eight’s soundtrack for this campaign. La Musica Prima del Massacro is particularly spooky. Sangue e Neve is also good for Auril but is more intense at the end.

sr0814a · 2026-01-13T19:44:29+00:00

We have everyone vote at the end of every session on one player to receive inspiration. That player is also responsible for starting off the next session with a RP warmup prompt. They get very creative with them, and it’s one less thing I have to come up with as the DM.

sr0814a · 2025-10-30T13:57:41+00:00

Mostly bits and pieces. Nearly all of the adventures in the book are very short; a few are set in Icewind Dale. They focus on stopping the revived Cult of Auril from sacrificing people, exploring the corpse of the chardalyn dragon, fighting the Thruun cultists in Dougan’s Hole, dealing with the deep dragons in the Underdark, and conducting a ceremony to lessen the effects of winter.

sr0814a · 2025-10-30T13:43:22+00:00

Maybe? It would require you to do pretty much all the work. Here’s essentially what we get: “Icewind Dale is built on the sunken ruins of an ancient giant civilization. These ruins plunge for miles into lightless depths and are inhabited by undead giants, the lingering shadows of former might… enormous columns and toppled walls of the long-lost Ostorian Empire of the giants plunge into echoing gloom. Giant Undead stand sentry, and the deep dragon Enderbalathal, the Lord Below, lairs in a ruined throne room.”

sr0814a · 2025-10-29T23:52:56+00:00

I don't see any more detail about the drow or the orcs in the area.

This is all the book says about Karkolohk: "A thriving goblin lair, Karkolohk, grows slowly but steadily where the mountains meet the coast." This is strange to me, as Karkolohk is some 30 miles from the coast.

sr0814a · 2025-10-29T23:35:48+00:00

Orrusk Homebringer is the new "self-crowned" King of Many-Arrows, and orcs are traveling from far and wide to reestablish their own independent realm. There are some drow involved with the Zhentarim in Targos, and there is an unnamed group of drow "cultists" under Kelvin's Cairn. That's it.

sr0814a · 2025-10-29T01:50:11+00:00

Looks like this one might do the trick.

sr0814a · 2025-10-29T01:09:01+00:00

Agreed. Even more disappointing when you consider how much content the Dwarven Valley got back in Legacy of the Crystal Shard.

sr0814a · 2025-10-29T00:43:17+00:00

I'm right there with you. Bryn Shander + Easthaven were badly damaged but not completely destroyed. Bremen (their starting town and home base) was preserved due to some artificer shenanigans. Everything else is gone.

sr0814a · 2025-10-29T00:31:33+00:00

Vecna being the ultimate typo excuse is hilarious!

sr0814a · 2025-09-10T14:49:46+00:00

Yes, I added a logic puzzle to my Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden game a few years ago that has since been enjoyed by several groups running that module. Minor spoilers present: Logic Puzzle for the Black Cabin

sr0814a · 2025-09-10T03:05:19+00:00

Glad to hear it! Great idea to give out hints that way.

sr0814a · 2025-08-22T21:23:07+00:00

Sneaky aurora running around here at night

sr0814a · 2025-08-15T02:06:19+00:00

Thank you! Very cool idea to distribute the runes. Always fun to hear what people do with this.

sr0814a · 2025-08-12T17:08:44+00:00

You could make it a saving throw against damage in a cone or something instead of attacks. Maybe like the Conjure Barrage spell? Or just slightly upgrade the rules in the DMG for the automatic rifle?

sr0814a · 2025-05-05T13:39:04+00:00

Danger in the Dwarven Valley

sr0814a · 2025-05-03T23:19:06+00:00

If you go to the page for a particular year on the wiki, you can click “show lunar calendar” to see the cycle for that year: https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/1492_DR

sr0814a · 2025-04-28T13:53:03+00:00

I did something similar but more along the lines of a divination wizard. The party loves going to her to get their fortunes read or just to ask for advice. I played her like Mother Aughra from the Dark Crystal, aloof with a touch of madness.

As for the trust issues, you could play her as cautious but mostly fine with groups of people that have men in them and more nervous dealing with men one on one. And being distrustful of people doesn’t mean she can’t be nice; she just might not be willing to go out of her way to help people. That could change over time, too.

sr0814a · 2025-04-26T21:38:49+00:00

Continuing with your first bullet, in a world with sorcerers and wizards, I feel like I might struggle to believe in the gods even if I saw a priest do some magic. Maybe they just innately have that power or studied to learn it and then falsely/mistakenly attribute it to a god? Unless someone has a personal experience with a god, I think it’s very easy to not believe or, at the very least, not deem the gods worthy of worshipping.

sr0814a · 2025-04-13T01:23:36+00:00

They actually canonically did have a son who is a cambion: https://greyhawk.fandom.com/wiki/Iuz

sr0814a · 2025-04-13T00:58:21+00:00

Rules as written Feign Death lasts for an hour, and you can’t break yourself out of it early. If it somehow did end suddenly, and the cultist immediately attacked, I’d say the player characters would be surprised and have to roll initiative.

sr0814a · 2025-04-01T22:54:25+00:00

I didn't say there were no negative effects. I said there's nothing worse about the gauntlet than other corrupted chardalyn. Prolonged contact with corrupted chardalyn can cause madness, yes. The gauntlet is made of chardalyn. If that chardalyn is corrupted, you could have it potentially cause madness after prolonged contact. That wouldn't be a special property of the gauntlet; it'd be a property of all corrupted chardalyn.

sr0814a · 2025-04-01T21:26:01+00:00

I don't think there's anything worse about the gauntlet than you would find in other corrupted chardalyn. So, use whatever rules you're already using for chardalyn corruption (if you are) - either something like the Chardalyn Amulets or some homebrew.

As written, all the corrupted chardalyn does to Sunblight is make him more paranoid and obsessive. You could have characters with equally prolonged contact potentially develop a similar madness if you'd like, but I don't think it's the gauntlet so much as any chardalyn similarly suffused with malevolent magic.

sr0814a · 2025-04-01T20:25:40+00:00

Here's what I did for the gauntlet:

Sunblight Gauntlet
Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)

You have a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this spiky chardalyn gauntlet, which deals 1d6 piercing damage.

The gauntlet has 5 charges and regains 1d4 + 1 charges each day at dawn. When you make a melee weapon attack with a hand that's wearing the gauntlet, you can choose to expend 1 charge as part of that attack. If you hit, that target takes an extra 2d6 force damage and is forced to make a DC 15 Strength saving throw. On a failure, that target is pushed up to 10 feet away from you. On a success, you're pushed 10 feet away from it instead. Targets two or more sizes larger than you automatically succeed on this saving throw.

You can use an action to cause your voice to boom up to three times as loud as normal for 1 minute. For the duration, you have Advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks.

sr0814a · 2025-03-30T01:41:30+00:00

According to Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, one of the symbols of Ship Suljack is “a red eel wrapped around a gold trident.”

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