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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 5582905" data-attributes="member: 92511">Just reiterating the notes to make the weather and the terrain adversaries all their own...encounters across the arctic region should be relatively rare, but the danger/threat/lethality of simple exposure is omnipresent.For encounters:Snow swept areas/arctic foothills/etc...1.Remorhaz is an absolute must in my book.2. Frost giant(s). Maybe a lone hunter riding a mammoth. Maybe a whole band going off to war with some local dwarves (or coming back from one... with slaves in tow?). Maybe find yourselves in the heart of a large community.3. Winter Wolves and/or Hoar Foxes4. Yeti(s)5. White Dragon(s)...maybe fully grown and thoroughly annoyed at the vastly superior crystal dragon it knows to be far to the north.6. White Pudding.For actual "tundra" terrain.1. Herd animals -elk, caribou, reindeer, musk ox/yak, if you use pre-historic creatures then sure, throw in the wooly rhinos, mammoths, mastadons, dire elk (I forget the name for those extinct huuuuge antlered elk)2. Predators- wolves (normal, dire, winter, a pack of all three?), foxes (normal, dire, or hoar), giant/dire snow owls, LYNX! (a personal favorite <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> normal or giant)...how 'bout gryphons whose front half are white-speckled falcons instead of eagles?3. "Barbarian" hunters: 3d6 human barbarian hunters (or 'berserkers" if you like) from some local tribe.4. "Snow Gnomes": a community of gnomes (give them an Inuit flavor if you like) who ride giant snowshoe hares and live/work with the hares and large community of some lemming/marmot/can't think of the name of the tundra version right now. But those large-numbering burrowing prairie dog type things. Them.  5. I'm just thinking in a region that has large herds of edible treats, the biiig scale predatory monsters would most likely move in during the seasons of high population. So things like the Bulette (LOVE the "snow bulette" idea in the post above), again the Remorhaz, maybe some daring ankhegs (who only come into the perimeter regions of the tundra during the summer months when the ground is softer), a "tundra" umber hulk?6. Ice Trolls (and/or Frost Giants), again, coming out of the hills to take advantage of the abundant spring/summer hunting. Keep in for tundra/arctic animals (and fantastic creatures for that matter, if you like), if you are doing this in "spring/summer" months fur and feathers will be in their (primarily) brownish summer coat versus late summer/fall when everyone's coats start to go mostly or totally white.I am also reminded of a japanese legend about a spirit "snow woman" who preyed on travelers in the winter/snowy places. Basically, led them back to her house, gave them a fire and warm beds and then killed them in their sleep. You could make this an actual "evil spirit" or perhaps a vampire or go less undead and make her an 'arctic fox'woman complete with magic charm ability and such...but I can't recall her actual name...or if there was ever a D&D equivalent creature...ANYwho, have fun and happy tundra-combats <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />--Steel Dragons</blockquote>

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