Lazy D&D Prep: Rime of the Frostmaiden Session 3 - The Mead Must Flow

[@melissaharris3389]

"Have you heard the word of Thruun? Have a pamphlet." Links into the lovecraftian horror frozen in the Reghed glacier described in one of latter chapters.

[@SlyFlourish]

Yeah, I need to read At the Mountains of Madness again.

[@nickr1818]

Ulatharid. An Ulatharid is the ultimate mind flayer, who has two extra superlong mouth tentacles and carries an extractor staff. When a colony needs a new elder brain, the Ulatharid cracks open its skull and the rest of the colony ceremoniously places the brain into the brine pools. After a time, the brain awakens into an elder brain.

[@SlyFlourish]

Man, I wish I had noticed this.

[@joeld2925]

For secrets and clues, I'd include "some hunters from Lonelywood killed a woman a few months ago, and the body disappeared" (could have been an accident. Maybe Ravisin's sister was wildshaped into a rabbit and got stuck in a hunter's trap). Maybe the hunter is the same one that sends meat to the restaurant in Termalaine for feasts. Also need to tell the players about the "banished elf" (banshee) before that same quest. I will have one of the PCs see a pink comet crash at the start or Termalaine or Good Mead quest. That way, at the end of either of those quests, a development occurs (psi crystal, or verbeeg with metal bits).

[@SlyFlourish]

Good idea.

[@chrishawkins313]

Question about the string of murders - if there have been so many murders over the span of about 15 days, does Sephek have a plan to obfuscate the connection between the murders and the travelling merchants? With rumors travelling about with regards to so many murders, I would think someone would put 2 and 2 together. Perhaps a red herring murder could be thrown in that throws off the timeline - maybe someone takes the presence of a serial killer as an opportunity to handle some of their own business with a convenient scapegoat.

[@SlyFlourish]

I think he's not particularly careful about it thinking the veil of Auril protects him.

[@joeld2925]

Did you end up developing a point crawl for this game?

[@SlyFlourish]

Not really because its all sort of in the book.