D&D 5E Is Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden the New D&D Adventure?

It looks likely that the upcoming D&D adventure is indeed an Icewind Dale based storyline called Rime of the Frostmaiden! I can't vouch for the veracity of this, but I was cc'd into a Tweet by Navy DM on Twitter who says they found it on Reddit.

Feel the cold touch of death in this adventure for the world's greatest role playing game.

UPDATE -- the awesome Geek Native ran the small cover screenshot through an image enhancing application, to create the larger image below.

There's a post here on Reddit which says "The DnD Beyond YouTube channel posted a trailer for a new book, Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, then immediately deleted it." The post has been removed since. I found the above image posted by somebody called smightmight, who looks like they screen grabbed it from the video before it was removed.

The Frostmaiden is one of the names of Auril, an evil goddess in the Forgotten Realms. You can read more about her on the Forgotten Realms wiki.

Rime is ice which forms from water droplets on surfaces.

An Icewind Dale setting was the current favourite guess for the location of the new D&D adventure based on various hints from WotC, including this snowy owlbear t-shirt!

(thanks to Pixellance for pointing me at this!)

 

[Urriak Uruk]

I have a source but not going to reveal. However, the source doesn't know if this book IS a 1-10+ type campaign book or a loose conglomerate of adventures.

No offense mate, but unless you can provide information other than "I know this name/cover is true" (which D&D's instagram has essentially confirmed already) then your source isn't exactly helpful.

 

[Zardnaar]

No offense mate, but unless you can provide information other than "I know this name/cover is true" (which D&D's instagram has essentially confirmed already) then your source isn't exactly helpful.

Used if it's posted earlier.

Lots of spoilers for lots of things turn up on Reddit.

Who posting it, when and how accurate matters.

 

[jayoungr]

Thanks for the tip though. I will take a look at those adventures.

Glad I may have persuaded you! I'm sure others can advise you about which other adventures from other seasons form similar "arcs." In fact, I just started a new thread to ask about it:

DDAL - AL Adventures That Form Mid-size Story Arcs

This an offshoot of a conversation I was having with @Hurin88 on another thread. Hurin (and several others) were wishing for the days of published adventures that were meant to cover three or four levels--something in between a one-shot and a full campaign. I mentioned that several of the AL...

www.enworld.org

(I assume you've also checked Ghosts of Saltmarsh? It also has adventures that can be strung together in a similar way.)

If you look up the specific adventures I mentioned, be warned that "The Executioner" is considered one of the worst adventures in AL; although it has been revised and is now better than its original version, it still pretty much assumes that the PCs are going to behave in a certain way and doesn't prepare the GM for alternate possibilities. But both "The Beast" 'and "The Marionette" are, IMHO, standouts, so dealing with "The Executioner" is a necessary evil. I've got a thread talking about my experiences with this AL season here:

DDAL - Running DDAL04 (Ravenloft) Adventures as a Campaign

I've begun running season 4 of the DDAL adventures ("Misty Fortunes and Absent Hearts," the ones corresponding to Curse of Strahd) as a short campaign for a home table (i.e., not worrying about being AL compatible). There are 14 adventures in the season, and while they basically fit together...

www.enworld.org

 

[Plamodu978]

Damn, I want supplements. when do they publish supplements.....

 

[Shroomy]

Damn, I want supplements. when do they publish supplements.....

Generally, in Q1 or Q4. Q3 is usually the storyline adventure for that year.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

With the massive amounts of UA stuff they've done over the past six months, it definitely seems like a player-facing supplement is planned for later this year, @Plamodu978.

 

[Parmandur]

Damn, I want supplements. when do they publish supplements.....

Theros is coming out next month, and Wildemount came out a couple months ago.

 

[Joseph Nardo]

If we can figure out how to make a vampiric owlbear with ram features, we can figure out the plot

 

[vpuigdoller]

If we can figure out how to make a vampiric owlbear with ram features, we can figure out the plot

Well maybe is stylish take on the winterclaw owlbear from 4e essentials. I don’t know if they ever released art for it. It also had huge size so it fits with the giant in the pic. Lol

 

[Reynard]

Theros is coming out next month, and Wildemount came out a couple months ago.

Most people probably separate settings from "supplements" which are commonly more generically rulesy.