6/22/2023 0 Comments Tiny player guide![]() You grew up in the town of Bremen and have returned home having spent years as a Soldier in the king’s army. You came to Icewind Dale as a Sailor aboard a vessel that is now locked in ice in the harbor. You could be a Guild Artisan whose shop is no longer profitable and now you must use your other skills to keep food on the table and a fire in the hearth. Here are some ideas for characters you can create: There are hooks provided in Rime of the Frostmaiden for the different backgrounds that are provided in the Player’s Handbook and, if you are interested, we can discuss these during session zero. You are a group of adventures with ties to Icewind Dale, whether you grew up here or have been trapped here in Auril’s unending winter. The campaign will start in one of the Ten-Towns of Icewind Dale. Here is a map of the region to get the lay of the land. If you are from Icewind Dale, you could be from the tiny Dougan’s Hole which only has a population of 50 people, to the relatively bustling Bryn Shander which boasts a population of 1200 people, or any of the other eight towns in between. If you are new to Ten-Towns, have you visited often or is this your first outing into the north? Review exhaustion in the Player’s Handbook (on page 291) to be familiar with the effects it can have on your character.Īre you trapped in the north having arrived just before the endless winter started? Or were you born and raised in one of the towns in Icewind Dale? The extreme cold can cause exhaustion that will require characters to make DC 10 Constitution checks every hour they are exposed to it. The snow and cold will create issues like avalanches and blizzards. The cold weather is not just a backdrop to this campaign but a force that will need to be dealt with. It has become desperate with many turning to sacrifices to try and appease the goddess Auril the Frostmaiden, who has imposed this unending winter. The cold harsh winds of the north have not let up in all that time. ![]() It has been two long cold years since Ten-Towns has seen a summer. Together we will come up with the backstories to tie the characters together. Come with a couple of character concepts (race, class, and background combinations) that you want to play. However, when he finally seeks out Dao-Ming, whose money he has been winning with, he finds out some life-changing news.We will get together and create the characters for the campaign as a group. ![]() He wins so much the management of his hotel forbids him from betting there because they are afraid of the ghost one of their executives saw over his shoulder in surveillance footage. This time, however, he cannot lose at baccarat. He begins to idolize her, but never calls her with the number she left him. She leaves him alone in her house one day, and he takes all of her money and leaves to gamble again. They spend a couple days and nights together. She pays his bill and takes him home with her. Just as he reaches his lowest and will possibly be dishwashing or deported soon, he is rescued by Dao-Ming. He leaves ultimately distraught, but maintains his calm, gentlemanly facade.Īfter attempting to collect on a number of bets, he is charging breakfast to a tab at an expensive hotel when he realizes he literally does not have the money to pay the establishment and can either run out scared or try to fake it and charge it to a room. Although Lord Doyle wins a hand or two against Grandma, she cleans him out when he does not walk away from the tables while he is ahead. During their games, he notices Dao-Ming on the arm of another well-to-do gentleman. She rarely ever loses and even her own husband warns Doyle not to play her later in the novel. His gambling remains hit and go until he has one very unlucky encounter with another English native, nicknamed Grandma. Her name is Dao-Ming, although he is doubtful even that is truthful. One night he takes home an escort he feels a connection with, however he keeps imagining her connecting with other gentlemen as well so he never calls her. Often he is greeted with complimentary champagne or a female escort. Lord Doyle is not really a lord, however all of the gambling establishments assume he is because what else would an Englishman be doing gambling in the East. After being saved one too many times, he finally learns what really matters to him in life. A former English lawyer who left the country to escape arrest for laundering money from an elderly client, he has his highs and lows like any other gambler, but cannot seem to quit while he is ahead. In this suspenseful, somewhat dreamy novel by Lawrence Osborne, our protagonist, named only Lord Doyle, is living the runaway life of a baccarat gambler in Macau.
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