Icewind Dale

A D&D 5e home campaign run at Pandemonium Games. It started in Adventurers League and has been a home game since Session 20.

House Rules: magic items, leveling, gold, and the camp.

Icewind Dale does not care whether you survive. The cold is not malicious — it is simply indifferent, and indifferent things are harder to reason with than hostile ones. The blizzards come without warning and last without mercy. The snow hides rivers, the ice hides drops, and the things that live out here have adapted to conditions that kill travelers in hours.

The party came to the Dale as outsiders and found the Coldpeak, an orc tribe who carved out a life in these mountains by being harder than what the mountains throw at them. Twenty sessions later, the party is responsible for them. Durok’s oasis feeds the camp. Something from the northwest keeps sending elementals against it, and the compass rose on their cores is the Arcane Brotherhood’s. A giant bird called Rime Talon takes people and doesn’t bring them back.

There is also the mountain over there, which has a name now, Arveth, and a guardian, Father Joseph. Twice the world has been rewoven around a deal with her. Joseph remembers what changed and nobody else does. River sometimes meets the versions of himself that were left behind.

Now the party is bringing the Elk home to Coldpeak under a new name, the Tribe of the Weaver, and the mountain is closer than it used to be.

Sessions

• Session 23 (October 16, 2026) — The Start of Something Bigger: A tea that tastes like the inside of a boot, a perch on a cliff built for something far too big, a knotted cord left in the snow, and at the bottom of a warm stone stair, a door with everyone they came for on the other side.

• Session 22 (October 9, 2026) — One Fabric: Sixty strangers at the gate, a story about a bird the size of a mountain, a scholar who can’t remember her own journal, and somewhere under the Great Hall, a small, indistinguishable pebble that is no longer just a rock.

• Session 21 (October 2, 2026) — Tribe of the Weaver: A eulogy for a man you barely knew, a name the Elk give themselves, a mountain that is suddenly closer than it ever was, and six words from a voice in the dark: coming north, shelter please.

Player Characters

Alina Shandorath Dominic Berg Wurdnowwah Josh Father Joseph Erilyn Raydin Nadir Roaring River Eric

The Camp

The Camp Picks pending

Rules for building and running the camp are on House Rules.

Notable NPCs

Achicahua Aldric Arcane Brotherhood Arveth Atezca Brekk Coldpeak tribe Broken Tusk Coldpeak tribe Clod Creepy Dak Coldpeak tribe Dan the Bugbear Durok Deepseeker Coldpeak tribe Eyvend Elk tribe (Reghedsmen) Grath Coldpeak tribe Gunter Hauk Coldpeak tribe Kaarsk Coldpeak tribe Pasha Elk tribe (Reghedsmen) Ragnhild Tribe of the Weaver (formerly the Elk tribe) Rime Talon Unknown Rimetalon Durok Sarevyn Cole Arcane Brotherhood Savin Coldpeak tribe and Elk tribe Tarn Coldpeak tribe Tarsk Coldpeak tribe The Nameless Spellcaster Thessaly Vorn Arcane Brotherhood Ulfe, Bjarne, Klaud & Snurre Elk tribe (Reghedsmen) Vroth & Orrak Coldpeak tribe

Locations

Coldpeak Camp Coldpeak tribe Durok's Sacred Spring Durok Renier's Shelter That Mountain Over There The City that Never Was Netherese Empire The Great Hall Coldpeak tribe The Netherese Ruins Netherese Empire The Shaping House Netherese Empire The Standing Stones Netherese Empire

Items of Note

Durok's Tea Durok Deepseeker Renier's Journal The Propaganda Doll Netherese Empire

Lore

Everyone Hunts Coldpeak tradition Gunting Coldpeak tradition Halvesh Coldpeak tradition Pembelon Flora The Arcane Brotherhood Faction