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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5582561" data-attributes="member: 4937">I like to customize monsters.I'd be taking alot of normal monsters and ad hoc templating them as cold, templating hags as 'Rime Hags' for example.  I also like creating monsters on the fly, so there would probably be frost sprites, tundra spirits, cold spirits and the like.  I can also imagine both the Seelie and Unseelie court having palaces in the tundra, each one being ascendent during its appropriate season while the other hibernates.But things I'd definately have in my frigid zones:Frost Giants (This is the dominate civilization in the artic regions of my campaign world.  Everything else short of a white dragon great wyrm is there at their sufferance.)Goblins (Goblins have filled the eskimo/inuit niche in my campaign world, outcompeting humans and even dwarves in this environment)Ice MephitsMammothsWooly RhinosIce ElementalsFrost WurmTrolls (Trolls in my game are fey creatures, but with otherwise similar stats to the normal D&D ones.)Grey OozesMarzannaWhite PuddingsSnowflake OozeRemorhazWendigoBhutWerebearsWinterwolfWolverineSabertooth TigerI'd also do some research on Alaska and look for the most outlandish terrain I could find and then fantasy theme it: arctic dune seas, areas of hot springs and volcanism, glaciers, etc.  Other monsters that stike my fancy as preplanned (not necessarily wandering encounters)DesiccatorImmothDrownedQorrashSome monsters that seem ripe for transformingDust Wight -> Snow WightDune Stalker -> Tundra StalkerWater Wierd -> Ice WierdSea Hag -> Rime HagAir Elemental -> Rime Elemental (by adding a cold subtype to it)Drowned -> FrozenDune Hag -> Snow HagManual of the Planes has a Cold Element Creature Template that might be used for some of the above (though probably with some tweaks).I'd also probably apply it to:Monstrous SpiderViperShadow</blockquote>

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