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!)

 

[Pixelllance]

Here goes another 50$!

The only thing that displeases me with this is: yet another cultist shenanigans.

So, we will probably see the reprint of the awesome gazetteer of IWD as printed in Legacy of the Crystal Shard.

I'm hoping for expanded travel rules if its to be a sandboxy adventure, something like the cold version of ToA.

Legacy was a pretty good sandbox. wonder if they tie in in it. however this new storyline is another examplevof WotC lazy reuse-teabag-strategy :-/

 

[jgsugden]

There is LITERALLY A CLICHE SAYING about not judging a book by its cover. We have no idea what such an adventure would include.

 

[Stefano Rinaldelli]

Legacy was a pretty good sandbox. wonder if they tie in in it. however this new storyline is another examplevof WotC lazy reuse-teabag-strategy :-/

There is this risk, really. But we need to see the book before judge it.

 

[Xenonnonex]

There is LITERALLY A CLICHE SAYING about not judging a book by its cover. We have no idea what such an adventure would include.

Yet the book cover looks bad frigging ass.

 

[Nebulous]

And the nostalgia tug for Icewind Dale is nigh irresistible

 

[Paul Farquhar]

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

however this new storyline is another examplevof WotC lazy reuse-teabag-strategy :-/

You know that how? We've only seen the cover!

Its lazy because it ties with a previous adventure?

To me continuity is a big plus. Now, if they re-use the same adventure, it be bad. But following the events of the dark ice and the new Chosen of Auril with another AP is pretty cool, no?

 

[Sketchpad]

How does one get one of those shirts?

 

[Oofta]

How does one get one of those shirts?

Go here.

 

[Nebulous]

yep, we have two entire video game soundtracks to use as background music