TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 3 INTRODUCTION Tips for the DM 3 Scientific Secrets of Icewind Dale is a supplement containing 33 monsters designed for Dungeons & About the Creators 4 Dragons 5th Edition. These monsters use rules, Scientific Secrets of spells, and concepts from the Wizards of the Coast’s D&D 5th Edition and are intended to supplement the Icewind Dale 7 Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign. Caprilrime Cat 7 These creatures are rooted in the lore of Icewind Dale, Chilling Breath 8 Auril the Frostmaiden, the Ten Towns, and Netherese Diamond Veil 9 ruins in order to make them easy to include in the Frigid Doom 10 adventures within that campaign. Alternatively, you can simply use them to replace other creatures which Frilled Snow Crawler 11 appear in Icewind Dale. Spells referenced in this Frost Mustela 12 supplement can be found in the Player’s Handbook Hallowed Aurora 13 and Xanathar’s Guide to Everything. When a creature’s Harebou 15 name appears in bold type, that’s a visual cue pointing Ice Salp 16 you to the Monster Manual. Ice Trawler 17 And remember, stay vigilant while traveling in Icejaw Orchid 18 Frozenfar… You never know what lies over the next Kimat 20 snowbank. Lupine Kimat 21 Antlered Kimat 22 Abominable Kimat 22 TIPS FOR THE DM Lewkon 23 As with any supplement, Scientific Secrets of Icewind Lindwurm 24 Dale should be adapted to work for your group. If you Woolly Ironwing 25 don’t like the way a monster works, please feel free Mist Angel 27 to change it. Adjust the hit points, damage, abilities, Permafrost Undead 28 spells, and lore of these creatures to suit your games Permafrost Undead Template 28 and your players. For example, if you want to use a Permafrost Mammoth 29 monster, but think that its ability to impose certain conditions on the characters won’t be fun for your Polar Aukbear 30 group, instead have it deal extra damage or give it a Polar Bulette 31 new trait! Prism Fox 32 To deliver an optimum experience for your players, Pykrete Golem 33 it is best to read the stat blocks of the monsters you Remmite 34 intend to use in full before attempting to run them. Remmite 34 There are spells, attacks, and abilities that you need Remmite Hatchling 35 to understand in advance to run a fun and effective Swarm of Remmite Hatchlings 35 encounter. Have fun using these monsters! Rimemare 36 Rimereef Ooze 37 Slivershard 38 Stirge Hive Mother 39 Unappheron 41 Wasteling 42 Appendix A: MonstersSample by CR 43 file Scientific Secrets of Icewind Dale 3 ABOUT THE CREATORS Zeke Gonzalez Andrew Kornblatt Zeke Gonzalez is a queer graduate student who loves to For the last nine years Andrew Kornblatt has been infuse science and horror into his fantasy TTRPGs. He working in communications, outreach and marketing for is the head designer of the Scientific Secrets series and NGOs, clean tech companies, and conservation and ocean writes adventures & bestiaries for the DMs Guild. Find science. He has been playing D&D since he was 12 and Zeke geeking out over #ScienceDnD and indie horror in loves world building in the campaigns he runs and playing equal parts at @FantasyEcology on Twitter. He recently with homebrew elements that flips traditions on their released the Pretty Little Liches [PLL] trilogy, a level 17- head. He runs and produces the podcast Ocean Science 20 campaign that pits the heroes against a team of unique Radio and plays Marmo, the halfling lawyer (bard) in the and powerful liches featuring new monsters, traps, magic Dungeons & Dragons & marine science podcast Dugongs items, and more! & Seadragons. You can find him on twitter as @akornblatt. Anja Svare Anja Svare is a graphic designer who has played D&D for E.C.M. (Chris) Parsons longer than most of you whippersnappers have been alive, Dr. Chris Parsons has been involved in whale and dolphin so get off my lawn. After 25 years working in the biotech research for over two decades and has been involved industry, they finally found enough free time on their in projects on every continent. However, he’s been hands in retirement to jump into the RPG scene with both playing Dungeons & Dragons for nearly 40 years. He’s feet. Creating new D&D content, designing layout for cool currently a consultant for a number of environmental supplements, and generally having a blast working with groups in Washington DC, consulting on marine wildlife, the awesome people in the DMsGuild community conservation and science communication and policy (when they’re not building and DMing the homebrew issues. He’s also the Scientific Content & Creative Chronicles of Arkata campaign for their incredible players Director for the leading independent nature podcasting out in the wilderness of NEPA). You can follow them company Speak Up for Blue media. He hosts and @anjaproductions, or Anja Svare Productions, and see all produces a number of science podcasts including: the the cool projects they have either created or collaborated Marine Mammal Science podcast, the Environmental on at DMsGuild and her entire portfolio of projects here. Studies & Sciences podcast and the Marine Conservation New projects and collaborations are always welcome, Happy Hour. He also produces and edits the Dungeons subject to how awesome the project is, how awesome you & Dragons & marine science podcast Dugongs & are, and how awesome they feel, which is always. Seadragons. Website: https://ecm-parsons.weebly.com/. Erin Anderson Frederic Walker Erin is an artist, illustrator, and compulsive tea Frederic Walker, also known as Kor-Artificer, is a disabled drinker. After studying marine biology and scientific freelance game designer from London, who has been communication in college, Erin blended her science designing RPG content since his first campaign in 2014, know-how with her artistic skills to better her monster and has been publishing RPG rules professionally since creation. She has illustrated several monster manuals 2018. He comes from a background working in museums including Secrets of Avernus, Scientific Secrets of the and archives, and his past published work explores the Saltmarsh, as well as a contributor to Descent into Ravnica setting, and introduces designs inspired by his Midnight. When she isn’t working on commissions, background working with history. He is also the head writing, or running her own webcomic Erin also plays designer of the Odyssey Anthology. You can find him on Dungeons & Dragons on the marine science podcast twitter as @KorArtificer. Dugongs & Seadragons. You can see her work on her twitter at @ErintheZ or at Jacky Leung ErinZAndersonIllustration.com. Jacky Leung, also known as Death by Mage, is a freelance RPG designer and editor that sometimes appears on actual play RPG streams. He’s also a lich and a huge foodie. He has written and worked on various collaborative projects on the DMsGuild, plus worked for a few RPG publishers as well. He is one of the creative directors for the Unbreakable Anthology, an anthology Sampleof tabletop Asian stories by Asianfile creators in their own voices. You can follow him Twitter at @deathbymage and find his portfolio of works at bit.ly/DBMPort. 4 Scientific Secrets of Icewind Dale Joe Raso Mellanie Black Joe Raso is a is a dad, a husband, and a long suffering DM Mellanie Black is a copywriter by day, and narrative who’s had the pleasure of gaming with the same group designer by night. She’s also a Tiefling Light Cleric and since his university days. Some of his recent publications Half-Elf Fiendlock on alternating Mondays. When she on the Dungeon Master’s Guild include Terror Beneath isn’t preoccupied with the above, she spends her time the Frozen Gate and The Great Dale Campaign Guide, devising a special place in The Nine Hells for TTRPG and he’s the editor of the Khyber Khronicle as of issue 8. gatekeepers, eradicating bioessentialism from every You can follow him on twitter @_joe_raso and on his blog possible aspect of her gaming, and finding ways to delete https://theschemingdm.wordpress.com. bisexual erasure from the code of the universe. Find her @MissBox on Twitter for news and updates about her Jonathan Kennedy-Ellis upcoming projects. Jonathan is a Medicinal Chemistry Phd candidate who found himself organising most of the Adventurer’s Nemo B. League events that occurred in Buffalo NY. Primarily an Nemo Bueno, also known as Awkward Bard, is a adventure writer, Jonathan has several credits to his name freelance writer and student of Psychology. Writer of on the DM’s Guild including Midwinter Maleficence, Illion, the Archipelago of Eternal Night, they have also Trouble in Neverwinter, and Hillsfar’s Rancid Webs. contributed to other TTRPG projects such as Uncaged Follow him @longbowjon on twitter to stay up to date Anthology vol. I and IV; Friends, Foes and Other Fine with his forays into the world of adventure. Folk; and Book of Seasons: Solstices, all available on DMs Guild. You can follow them on Twitter Kai Linder (@AwkwardBard). Kai Linder is a writer and editor with a chaotic body of DMsGuild work including Goblin Heist and Musical Robert Cain Subclasses. He comes from an international background The day Rob figured out his first initial and surname with a Master’s in Psychological Research, and is a huge made up ‘Arcane’ he took it as a sign and ran with it. A fan of classic pulp action and horror. He’s also terrible at relatively fresh face in the TTRPG Publishing community writing bios and can be found on Twitter as @Paradoliak. and he is looking to get more involved in as much as he can.