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!)

 

[Reynard]

Dammit, now I want to fire up Icewind Dale Enhanced Edition.

 

[Joseph Nardo]

Oh my!!!!. I think I'm in love!!

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Just thinking about it, maybe the Ring of Winter will make an appearance?

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Just thinking about it, maybe the Ring of Winter will make an appearance?

It has already shown up or been mentioned in both Storm King's Thunder and Tomb of Annihilation. But I do not know if Cimber could be met and defeated and the ring taken from him or not. So it may still be out there or it may be in the hands of adventurer's already by canon.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

It has already shown up or been mentioned in both Storm King's Thunder and Tomb of Annihilation. But I do not know if Cimber could be met and defeated and the ring taken from him or not. So it may still be out there or it may be in the hands of adventurer's already by canon.

Or, Artus Cimber could show up with it, and part of the adventure is having it stolen, or retrieving it, or something like that. Maybe with summoning Cryonax or something as part of it. It was mentioned in Storm King's Thunder, but never made an appearance. Tomb of Annihilation had it, but canon is unclear as to what happened with the ring.

 

[darjr]

RedNose game days events might have more info and you get to play with professional DMs.

 

[dave2008]

Maybe the adventure is related to a cult of Auril or something?

Good bet she is involved since she is called the "Frostmaiden"

 

[Zardnaar]

Good bet she is involved since she is called the "Frostmaiden"

It's also nice they're using the evil gods that aren't Bane/Bhaal/Cyric/Shar. Breath of fresh (frozen) air.

 

[Weiley31]

It's also nice they're using the evil gods that aren't Bane/Bhaal/Cyric/Shar. Breath of fresh (frozen) air.

Talos could say hi. Isn't Auir, IIRC, a servant of Talos as well?

 

[Zardnaar]

Talos could say hi. Isn't Auir, IIRC, a servant of Talos as well?

Was idk about now. They're gods of fury along with Umberlee and I forget.