Game sessions will be every Wednesday night at 7PM Eastern. We’ll be using Ventrilo along with a Game Table.
Rules of the Game :
* All characters will start with 100 gold coins before they buy their initial gear.
* Character sheets need to be sent to me by PM before this Friday.
* April 7th will be the first game session.
* All alignments are allowed but remember there will be consequences to your actions!
* The campaign will initially start in a town called Dougan’s Hole in Icewind Dale.
Campaign Synopsis & Area Details
Icewind Dale is located in the north-western part of Faerûn. The dale is a small area between the Reghed Glacier (a gigantic polar ice mass) and the Sea of Moving Ice (a large sea of floating icebergs) due north of the Spine of the World (the world’s tallest mountain range).
This area is probably the most hostile area of the realms with the dreadful northern winds, wild and unpredictable weather and lots of really nasty creatures such as white dragons, frost giants and crag cats. Not to even mention the barbarian tribes who don’t even like the settled folk of this area and have been known to raid the most northern settlements. This region is frequently affected by severe blizzard-like weather, usually lashed by howling storms that can flatten buildings. To many, there is no sane reason for civilized folk to come here.
Visitors will find life harsh here, with the total of 10,000 or so folk of Icewind Dale suspicious of all outsiders. Most can still remember the bloody battle against the barbarians and against the tyrant of Icewind Dale, Akar Kessell. Locals automatically think of visitors as trouble as many are fugitives of justice from the warmer lands. During winter, troublemakers are usually slugged on the head, tossed outside and drenched with the contents of the nearest chamber pot. They’ll be dead of the cold before they regain their senses. Indeed, greed has brought the roughest rogues to this frozen land and with the temperate climate, nasty creatures and shifty attitude; it is simply not a safe place for the idle traveler.
The most central feature of the area is a 1000 foot high mountain called Kelvin's Cairn, northeast of which most settlements can be found. According to barbarian legends, the mountain is named for the frost giant hero Kelvin Duarol, who was slain here by the god Tempus. Tempus pulled rocks from the plain in a long ditch and piled them atop his fallen foe to mark his victory and to warn others of the fate of those who court the war god’s wrath.
The area has three lakes, which is truly the only reason why anyone would ever want to even try to build any towns here. The lakes are Maer Dualdon to the west, Lac Dinneshere to the east and Redwaters to the south. They are somewhat frozen for most of the year except for a few weeks in the summer but even at that, the lakes are known to be deceptively dangerous and have claimed many a life. Even in summer, the lake waters are icy enough to kill anyone in the space of a few breaths. These lakes provide knucklehead trout, a rare kind of fish that is not found anywhere else that provides fine ivory-like bone and is the area’s main source of export and good material for carvers. Scrimshanders, the skilled carvers of knucklehead scrimshaw, are important and respected craftsmen here but everyone else is tolerated only as long they give no trouble and do honest business.
There are ten towns around the area that are clustered around these lakes. The biggest is Bryn Shander, a famous trade town, which unlike other towns, is not on the shore of any of the lakes. Along with the town of Targos, they are the only ones to have walls. On the shore of Maer Dualdon lie Bremen, Targos, Termalaine (the most beautiful of all settlements) and Lonelywood (behind a forest sharing the same name). By Lac Dinneshere lays Caer-Konig, Caer-Dineval and one of the newest, Easthaven. By Redwaters lie Good Mead and Dougan's Hole. These two cities don't cooperate much, only get together to discuss of pressing matters, and are usually only cooperating under great threat. As always, there are treaties regarding “who gets to fish where” but the fishermen can never quite agree.
Most important of the Ten Towns is the central, walled, trading town of Bryn Shander. It is here that most travelers will end up, unless they really want to join the fishing trade. From Bryn Shander, a gravel trail known as the Eastway leads east to Lac Dinneshere, and to the community of Easthaven at its end. Another caravan route head’s south towards the Spine of the World and the dwarven town of Hundelstone.
The speaker (the title of the nominal leader of the town) for Bryn Shander dwells in the largest building of the Ten Towns. Despite its pillared porch, it’s no larger than a small inn of the rest of the North. Every town has a speaker, usually coming from a family that commands great respect amongst their peers. Most towns have some militia and fortifications with varying strengths and numbers.
For adventurers, there are always opportunities to find ice, more ice and then some H2O in solid form. Rumors persist of white dragon lairs in the glaciers nearby that are crowded with treasure. Some, the whispers go, even feature abandoned heaps of frozen gems as tall as a house. The treasure descriptions grow even wilder when people speak of the dwarven delves under Kelvin’s Cairn and the Spine of the World. It is true that some adventurers come back from Icewind Dale rich beyond their wildest dreams but most of them have never come back.
Players and Characters
Campaign Storyline (will be updated as the storyline goes on)
Rules of the Game :
* All characters will start with 100 gold coins before they buy their initial gear.
* Character sheets need to be sent to me by PM before this Friday.
* April 7th will be the first game session.
* All alignments are allowed but remember there will be consequences to your actions!
* The campaign will initially start in a town called Dougan’s Hole in Icewind Dale.
Campaign Synopsis & Area Details
Icewind Dale is located in the north-western part of Faerûn. The dale is a small area between the Reghed Glacier (a gigantic polar ice mass) and the Sea of Moving Ice (a large sea of floating icebergs) due north of the Spine of the World (the world’s tallest mountain range).
This area is probably the most hostile area of the realms with the dreadful northern winds, wild and unpredictable weather and lots of really nasty creatures such as white dragons, frost giants and crag cats. Not to even mention the barbarian tribes who don’t even like the settled folk of this area and have been known to raid the most northern settlements. This region is frequently affected by severe blizzard-like weather, usually lashed by howling storms that can flatten buildings. To many, there is no sane reason for civilized folk to come here.
Visitors will find life harsh here, with the total of 10,000 or so folk of Icewind Dale suspicious of all outsiders. Most can still remember the bloody battle against the barbarians and against the tyrant of Icewind Dale, Akar Kessell. Locals automatically think of visitors as trouble as many are fugitives of justice from the warmer lands. During winter, troublemakers are usually slugged on the head, tossed outside and drenched with the contents of the nearest chamber pot. They’ll be dead of the cold before they regain their senses. Indeed, greed has brought the roughest rogues to this frozen land and with the temperate climate, nasty creatures and shifty attitude; it is simply not a safe place for the idle traveler.
The most central feature of the area is a 1000 foot high mountain called Kelvin's Cairn, northeast of which most settlements can be found. According to barbarian legends, the mountain is named for the frost giant hero Kelvin Duarol, who was slain here by the god Tempus. Tempus pulled rocks from the plain in a long ditch and piled them atop his fallen foe to mark his victory and to warn others of the fate of those who court the war god’s wrath.
The area has three lakes, which is truly the only reason why anyone would ever want to even try to build any towns here. The lakes are Maer Dualdon to the west, Lac Dinneshere to the east and Redwaters to the south. They are somewhat frozen for most of the year except for a few weeks in the summer but even at that, the lakes are known to be deceptively dangerous and have claimed many a life. Even in summer, the lake waters are icy enough to kill anyone in the space of a few breaths. These lakes provide knucklehead trout, a rare kind of fish that is not found anywhere else that provides fine ivory-like bone and is the area’s main source of export and good material for carvers. Scrimshanders, the skilled carvers of knucklehead scrimshaw, are important and respected craftsmen here but everyone else is tolerated only as long they give no trouble and do honest business.
There are ten towns around the area that are clustered around these lakes. The biggest is Bryn Shander, a famous trade town, which unlike other towns, is not on the shore of any of the lakes. Along with the town of Targos, they are the only ones to have walls. On the shore of Maer Dualdon lie Bremen, Targos, Termalaine (the most beautiful of all settlements) and Lonelywood (behind a forest sharing the same name). By Lac Dinneshere lays Caer-Konig, Caer-Dineval and one of the newest, Easthaven. By Redwaters lie Good Mead and Dougan's Hole. These two cities don't cooperate much, only get together to discuss of pressing matters, and are usually only cooperating under great threat. As always, there are treaties regarding “who gets to fish where” but the fishermen can never quite agree.
Most important of the Ten Towns is the central, walled, trading town of Bryn Shander. It is here that most travelers will end up, unless they really want to join the fishing trade. From Bryn Shander, a gravel trail known as the Eastway leads east to Lac Dinneshere, and to the community of Easthaven at its end. Another caravan route head’s south towards the Spine of the World and the dwarven town of Hundelstone.
The speaker (the title of the nominal leader of the town) for Bryn Shander dwells in the largest building of the Ten Towns. Despite its pillared porch, it’s no larger than a small inn of the rest of the North. Every town has a speaker, usually coming from a family that commands great respect amongst their peers. Most towns have some militia and fortifications with varying strengths and numbers.
For adventurers, there are always opportunities to find ice, more ice and then some H2O in solid form. Rumors persist of white dragon lairs in the glaciers nearby that are crowded with treasure. Some, the whispers go, even feature abandoned heaps of frozen gems as tall as a house. The treasure descriptions grow even wilder when people speak of the dwarven delves under Kelvin’s Cairn and the Spine of the World. It is true that some adventurers come back from Icewind Dale rich beyond their wildest dreams but most of them have never come back.
Players and Characters
Campaign Storyline (will be updated as the storyline goes on)
. Welcome to the board, even if just to Jay's game's extent.