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<blockquote data-quote="Burnside" data-source="post: 8521408" data-attributes="member: 6910340"><p>The overall number one problem with the book is that the apocalyptic conditions described in the introduction are not reflected at all in the subsequent adventures, locations, and NPCs. After two years of no sunlight and 40 below, the Ten Towns should be a deserted wasteland. About 95% of plant and animal life in Icewind Dale should be dead. The dwarves you're supposed to meet in Bryn Shander who want to overpay you to recover their stolen ingots from some goblins? Those dwarves are either dead, have long since left the region, or have degenerated into cannibalism (kinda like The Road, but way worse). The goblins who stole the ingots? Dead. The elk herds hunted by the Reghed nomads? Dead. The Reghed nomads? All dead. </p><p></p><p>One of the first things you kinda have to do is as a DM with IWD: ROTF is decide that either the Everlasting Rime can't possibly be as intense as the book describes, or can't possibly have been going on for TWO YEARS. 2-3 months of those conditions would be an emergency that needs to be fixed immediately; after 2 years of that it would be way too late; everyone would be dead.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Burnside, post: 8521408, member: 6910340"] The overall number one problem with the book is that the apocalyptic conditions described in the introduction are not reflected at all in the subsequent adventures, locations, and NPCs. After two years of no sunlight and 40 below, the Ten Towns should be a deserted wasteland. About 95% of plant and animal life in Icewind Dale should be dead. The dwarves you're supposed to meet in Bryn Shander who want to overpay you to recover their stolen ingots from some goblins? Those dwarves are either dead, have long since left the region, or have degenerated into cannibalism (kinda like The Road, but way worse). The goblins who stole the ingots? Dead. The elk herds hunted by the Reghed nomads? Dead. The Reghed nomads? All dead. One of the first things you kinda have to do is as a DM with IWD: ROTF is decide that either the Everlasting Rime can't possibly be as intense as the book describes, or can't possibly have been going on for TWO YEARS. 2-3 months of those conditions would be an emergency that needs to be fixed immediately; after 2 years of that it would be way too late; everyone would be dead. [/QUOTE]
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