D&D 5E Previews of Rime of the Frostmaiden

IGN has posted a preview of Rime of the Frostmaiden, including some preview pages (I've put one below). They will also be posting more previews tomorrow!

Exclusive: Get An Early Look Inside D&D's Rime of the Frostmaiden - IGN

We've got an exclusive early look at pages from D&D's newest adventure, Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden.

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[Reynard]

That sounds like it could go in a few directions - anywhere between Groundhog Day and the Time War from Doctor Who.

Unless it is absolutely integral to the module plot I am probably going to ignore any time travel elements. It's weird, I can take any other kind of weird fiction and sci-fi in my D&D, but I do not like time travel in fantasy in general. I guess my brain places it solidly in a specific kind of sci-fi story.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Knowing my players, if they find any hint of time-travel in a game, they'll jump right in, giving absolutely no heed to warnings.

 

[Azzy]

My immediate thought was, "So, this could be used to retcon the Spellplague and reverse time back a hundred years". I wonder if they're going to do that and just reset the entire setting.

 

[Weiley31]

Well anybody has an excuse now to go back to 3.0/3.5 era modules and have the mechanics be 5E still.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

My immediate thought was, "So, this could be used to retcon the Spellplague and reverse time back a hundred years". I wonder if they're going to do that and just reset the entire setting.

I don't know if they'd do that, but I wouldn't be surprised if these are mentioned again in the future (possibly in the transition of 5e to 6e).

 

[pukunui]

My immediate thought was, "So, this could be used to retcon the Spellplague and reverse time back a hundred years". I wonder if they're going to do that and just reset the entire setting.

Not sure how easy it is to read in the page-through video, but if you look closely enough,you’ll see it says that if you trigger the obelisk in this adventure, it sends everyone thousands of years back in time to before Netheril fell. So I don’t know that you can choose how far back you go necessarily.

Maybe they’ll do an Age of Netheril book at some point. Or maybe the Netherese, who pretty much got wiped out again during the Sundering, will make another comeback, this time trying to trigger the obelisks dotting Faerûn in order to send the whole world back to before Netheril fell.



*It’s on the same page as the “Secrets of the Obelisk” sidebar, which is at about 19:58 in the video.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

My immediate thought was, "So, this could be used to retcon the Spellplague and reverse time back a hundred years". I wonder if they're going to do that and just reset the entire setting.

Maybe that has already happened and 5e takes place in the Kelvin timeline?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Well anybody has an excuse now to go back to 3.0/3.5 era modules and have the mechanics be 5E still.

Is an excuse needed? You can always set an adventure at a "historical" date in the timeline.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I don't know if they'd do that, but I wouldn't be surprised if these are mentioned again in the future (possibly in the transition of 5e to 6e).

Actually this is why I think the obelisks work the way the do: Canon endings for adventures.

e.g. It has been mentioned that Baldur's Gate 3 has a canon ending for Decent to Avernus.

The obelisks allow adventures to have canon endings without completely invalidating the different endings players might achieve.

 

[pukunui]

Actually this is why I think the obelisks work the way the do: Canon endings for adventures.

e.g. It has been mentioned that Baldur's Gate 3 has a canon ending for Decent to Avernus.

The obelisks allow adventures to have canon endings without completely invalidating the different endings players might achieve.

The Sundering adventures had canon endings, which were determined by people reporting how their playthroughs ended. WotC went with the most common endings and made those canon: like Ulder Ravengard becoming Grand Duke of Baldur's Gate and Vaelish Gant getting captured in Ten-Towns with Duvessa Shane keeping her position as speaker of Bryn Shander. Minor things but they've shown up as canon in the official 5e books published since.