Are you making a character for your upcoming Icewind Dale campaign? Here are some great character options that you can use to thrive in the horrific cold!
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Buy Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden to start playing a chilling horror adventure. Beneath the unyielding night sky, you stand before a towering glacier and recite an ancient rhyme, causing a crack to form in the great wall of ice. Beyond this yawning fissure, the Caves of Hunger await. What fantastic secrets and treasures are entombed in the sunless heart of the glacier, and what will their discovery mean for the denizens of Icewind Dale?
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What’s cold on the outside and hot on the inside? The gigantic frost insect known as a remorhaz! If you ever feel the ground trembling beneath your feet while exploring a snowfield—run!
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Want new monsters? Come and get ‘em! Ride across the frozen fields of Icewind Dale upon a mammoth-of-war, face war parties on dragonback, and create your own war monsters using a brand-new monster template!
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Let’s take it from the top! Become a master of every subclass in D&D with Class 101. This week’s entry is the Eldritch Knight, a fighter who can hurl fire just as easily as they can swing a sword.
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Spell Spotlight puts D&D’s most turbulent spells under a microscope. This time, we take a look at a spell that’s as iconic and wizardly as they come, the king of creative exploration and the czar of crowd control: polymorph!
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Encounter of the Week provides you with a full, free adventure that you can play as the days grow short and the weather grows cold! If you don’t have time to play a full Icewind Dale campaign, you can still enjoy the horrors await you in the ice…
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Let’s take it from the top! Become a master of every subclass in D&D with Class 101. This week’s entry is a new subclass from Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica: a flourishing creator of decay, the fungal Circle of Spores druid!
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Expand your D&D game with new unofficial house rules. Try this method for speeding up gameplay: characters with certain skill or tool proficiencies automatically succeed on certain ability checks.
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Let’s take it from the top! Become a master of every subclass in D&D with Class 101. This week’s entry is a radiant warrior of the gods, the brilliant Light Domain cleric!
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Three new gargantuan dragons have swooped upon us from their dangerous lairs to add some style to your encounters. Check out the impossibly rare Sapphire Dragon, the fearsome and bestial White Dragon, and a deadly villain from the next D&D adventure: the Chardalyn Dragon!
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Prepare for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden with the ninth and final part of this mini-series. The characters have trekked to the vast, frigid Reghed Glacier to meet your final parcel’s recipient: the repentant cult leader Vanifer!
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Let’s take it from the top! Become a master of every subclass in D&D with Class 101. This week’s entry is a brand-new subclass from Mythic Odysseys of Theros: a silver-tongued orator from the bardic College of Eloquence!
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Eberron is an incredible setting filled with everyday magic, simmering war, alien monsters, and creatures from the Plane of Dreams itself. Go on a grand, pulp-adventure journey 'round the world, or engage in fantasy-noir investigations on the grimy lower streets of Sharn, City of Towers. Eberron's creator, Keith Baker, is here to show you the way!
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Prepare for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden with part eight of this ongoing mini-series. The characters have just explored the caverns within Kelvin’s Cairn—but upon returning to town, they hear a rumor that might send them right back up to the mountain’s peak!
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Let’s take it from the top! Become a master of every subclass in D&D with Class 101. This week’s entry is a lesser-known warrior; the spikiest, angriest, dwarfiest warrior around: the Battlerager!
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D&D Beyond subscribers rejoice! It's a brand-new, free set of digital dice for you to celebrate our third anniversary! Not a subscriber? Don't worry, if you subscribe this month, you'll get these dice too!
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Want new monsters? Come and get ‘em! Let Theros and Icewind Dale combine with the frigid cryohydra—plus two other many-headed monsters: the magma-born pyrohydra and the verdant, spore-spawning floralhydra!
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Prepare for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden with part seven of this ongoing mini-series. The characters have journeyed through ice and snow from Ten-Towns to a frigid peak, all to deliver one important package to an immortal man: Artus Cimber.
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Class 101 returns with a vengeance with this TRIPLE-SIZED guide to the Artificer class and all of its subclasses from Eberron: Rising from the Last War. Let this be your one-stop guide to playing and creating a fun, low-level artificer character.
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Prepare for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden with part six of this ongoing mini-series. The characters now travel on foot through ice and snow to reach the largest settlement in Icewind Dale, the town of Bryn Shander in Ten-Towns. Wanna meet a talking dragon skull? Now's your chance!
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New Player's Guide is taking a break. In the meantime, we want to hear from you. What questions should we answer next on New Player's Guide when it returns?
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Prepare for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden with part five of this ongoing mini-series. The characters land in the port of Fireshear and make a pit stop at an inland town on their journey to Ten-Towns and the lands of Icewind Dale.
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Learn how to modify spells to tailor your D&D experience to the needs of your group. Want an iceball spell instead of a fireball? What if cure wounds were a wizard spell? Learn the basics of homebrew in this installment of New Player's Guide!
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What spells are common in your world? How many high-level magic-users are there? Ask yourself these questions to reveal surprising information about your homebrew campaign setting!
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Prepare for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden with part four of this ongoing mini-series. While returning to the port town of Fireshear, a giant skeletal shark bursts forth from the icy sea and tries to take down their ship!
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So, you’re a player or a DM who wants to go beyond the rulebooks and create your own subclasses, races, feats, magic items, monsters, and spells? It will take some creativity, but D&D Beyond is here to help you do it with ease. Here’s how.