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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[Flamestrike]

Wow, so about a while third of the book will be regional Gazeeter and 12 modules Level 4 and lower. That's a lot of Tier 1 content. It also looks a fair bit like the Essentials Kit in terms of organization, so that's cool.

Thanks to how 5E works, it would be dead simple to turn those quests into T2 or T3 quests on the fly (add more monsters, change em up etc).

 

[Parmandur]

I will have to look into that. Generally I dislike milestone leveling because it feels too arbitrary, but I have been using it for Avernus because that adventure is more linear.

I'd like a system that rewards player initiative and success without being focused on CR.

It's really a brilliant XP system: it maintains the objectivity and trackability of XP points, but incentevise engaged play over specific behavior (murder hoboing or massive theft in earlier editions).

 

[NaturalZero]

The groups I've been in have given up XP since early in the 4e days. As a DM or a player, it's much easier to let go of the micromanagement and decide what level of power the party is going to be at instead of asymmetrical accounting.

 

[Ancalagon]

It's really a brilliant XP system: it maintains the objectivity and trackability of XP points, but incentevise engaged play over specific behavior (murder hoboing or massive theft in earlier editions).

I'm not familiar with it, can you give a brief outline of how it works?

I do "pacing XP". Basically, how fast do I want the group to level up? Say it's once ever 5 session. Divide the amount of XP by 5, and voila! Faffing about, not much done session? Give less. Big session where major goal was accomplished? give more. I can't be bothered to do anything more complicated than that, I have better things to do with my time as a GM.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I want to know more about this evil moose.

 

[Matrix Sorcica]

Personally, I'm contemplating adopting the Dungeon Crawl Classics scene based XP system to 5E, since that wouldn't change anything, but gets the best parts of both milestone and traditional XP.

How does this work again?

 

[John R Davis]

Guess its to late to fix the grammar error under character advancement!

 

[Flamestrike]

I want to know more about this evil moose.

Here is a picture of him practising the dark arts:

I always had my suspicions.

 

[TheSword]

I guess it all depends just how horrific they want to make it... the dreaded Wendigo could be described as a white moose!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I guess it all depends just how horrific they want to make it... the dreaded Wendigo could be described as a white moose!

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Nah, Bullwinkle J. Moose disguised with a sheet seems far more likely...