D&D General MtG Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Spoiler Thread

[Cadence]

Does the Frost Tyrant in D&D have a connection with a magic ice sword?

For MtG, R & W would be the two biggest colors for equipment, and red would definitely not fit a cold sword.

 

[Charlaquin]

Gotta say, the Mimic being a treasure you can animate is brilliant.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

It's interesting, the origins of this Set as a "Dungeons & Dragons themed Core Set" become more clear as I see more cards. Orb of Drsgonkind, from Dragonlance, Vecna, from Greyhawk. Lots of generic pulls from the PHB, New characters who are as much generic D&D as Forgotten Realms specifically....

Yeah, as much as this is marketed as a Forgotten Realms card set, it really is more "D&D 5E Card Set," essentially having a lot of 5E material but also pulling in popular stuff that features highly in the core rules.

 

[Parmandur]

Does the Frost Tyrant in D&D have a connection with a magic ice sword?

For MtG, R & W would be the two biggest colors for equipment, and red would definitely not fit a cold sword.

Drizz't killed Icingdeath and made a sword from some body part or another, I believe. So this is for a Drizz't deck, specifically.

 

[Charlaquin]

Does the Frost Tyrant in D&D have a connection with a magic ice sword?

For MtG, R & W would be the two biggest colors for equipment, and red would definitely not fit a cold sword.

You mean Icingdeath? Yeah, it was a dragon in a Drizt novel. He killed it and took a frost brand from its hoard, and named the frost brand Icingdeath after the dragon. It’s one of his two iconic scimitars.

 

[Charlaquin]

Drizz't killed Icingdeath and made a sword from some body part or another, I believe.

Nah, he just found it in Icingdeath’s hoard after killing him.

 

[Maxperson]

It's interesting, the origins of this Set as a "Dungeons & Dragons themed Core Set" become more clear as I see more cards. Orb of Drsgonkind, from Dragonlance, Vecna, from Greyhawk. Lots of generic pulls from the PHB, New characters who are as much generic D&D as Forgotten Realms specifically....

The Orbs of Dragonkind predate Dragonlance. In fact, the Dragon Orbs from Dragonlance were explicitly a different artifact. I remember reading that somewhere. The Hand and Eye of Vecna pretty universally showed up in pretty much everyone's settings, so I can see them following that trend and bringing them to the Realms.

 

[Parmandur]

Nah, he just found it in Icingdeath’s hoard after killing him.

Gotcha, haven't read the books (though my wife enjoyed them).

 

[Cadence]

You mean Icingdeath? Yeah, it was a dragon in a Drizt novel. He killed it and took a frost brand from its horde, and named the frost brand Icingdeath after the dragon. It’s one of his two iconic scimitars.

The creating equipment makes white make a lot more sense then to me. Do you know if it was identified as a Frost Tongue or Frost Brand in the story?

 

[Parmandur]

The Orbs of Dragonkind predate Dragonlance. In fact, the Dragon Orbs from Dragonlance were explicitly a different artifact. I remember reading that somewhere. The Hand and Eye of Vecna pretty universally showed up in pretty much everyone's settings, so I can see them following that trend and bringing them to the Realms.

Sounds probable, though the 5E DMG writeup links thenitem specifically to Krynn and the Moon Wizards.

The Hand of Vecna shows up in Descent into Avernus, being wielded by a Dragonborn Paladin NPV in Avernus, so Vecna is definitely on the menu for 5E Forgotten Realms stuff, and apparenbased on that appearance the events of Critical Role in regards to Vecna are formal D&D canon now. So mixing and matching is totally up for grabs. But in my 3E lizard brain, Vecna is a god in the PHB for the default pantheon.