An Into the Wintery Gale Mini-Dungeon adventure for four to six PCs of levels 8-9.
This mini-dungeon is intended for use with the Into the Wintery Gale: Wrath of the Jötunn adventure path, but may also be run as a standalone quest.
In this adventure the party is approached by a gravely wounded Vikmordere Warrior wandering through the wilderness. He stumbles towards them, collapsing to the ground and reveals that he and his three brothers were hunting when they were attacked by a glacial bear. His kin are badly wounded in the lair of the beast and he implores the adventurers to help save them!
Mini-Dungeons are single page, double sided adventures for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game which are setting agnostic and are easily inserted anywhere in your campaign.
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1 review for Mini-Dungeon IWG01: Den of the Glacial Bear
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Thilo Graf
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Rated 3 out of 5
An Endzeitgeist.com review
This pdf clocks in at 2 pages and is a mini-dungeon. This means we get 2 pages content, including a solid map (alas, sans player-friendly version) and all item/monster-stats hyperlinked to d20pfsrd.com’s shop and thus, absent from the pdf, with only deviations from the statblocks being noted for the GM.
Since this product line’s goal is providing short diversions, side-quest dungeons etc., I will not expect mind-shattering revelations, massive plots or particularly smart or detailed depictions, instead tackling the line for what it is. Additionally, it should be noted that this is intended for use in conjunction with the upcoming “Into the Wintry Gale”-saga.
This being an adventure-review, the following contains SPOILERS. Potential players may wish to jump to the conclusion.
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Still here?
All right!
The PCs stumble across a heavily injured vikmordere-raider, who has been badly mauled by a glacial bear (stats can be found in the associated ItWG-books; if you don’t have access to them, template a bear with a winter/frost-themed template) and asks the PCs, if they save him, to save his brothers. The cave itself shows the brutal struggle between man and nature. Exploring the well-described, but otherwise pretty bland cave, the PCs can find survivors and finally face off with the glacial bear – who was defending her cubs from the vikmordere – but the angry beast isn’t playing nice…
Having defeated the creature, it’s up to the players how to treat the surviving cubs – leaving them to their fate is a sure death-sentence…
Conclusion:
Editing and formatting are very good, I noticed no significant glitches. Layout adheres to a beautiful 2-column full-color standard and the pdf comes sans bookmarks, but needs none at this length. Cartography is full color and surprisingly good for such an inexpensive pdf, but there is no key-less version of the map to print out and hand to your players. The pdf does sport one nice piece of original full-color art – kudos!
Justin Andrew Mason’s first Into the Wintry Gale-expansion sports nice read-aloud text and a brief sidetrek – but that’s about it. Personally, I got nothing out of this one – the fluff is nice, but there isn’t that much to do – explore the caves, witness the build-up, fight boss, done. It’s an okay mini-dungeon, but lacks the evocative setting the better ones have in spite of their brevity. Basically, this is a creature-showcase for the creature in the associated book. I will settle on a final verdict of 3.5 stars, rounded down to 3 for the purpose of this platform.
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An Endzeitgeist.com review
This pdf clocks in at 2 pages and is a mini-dungeon. This means we get 2 pages content, including a solid map (alas, sans player-friendly version) and all item/monster-stats hyperlinked to d20pfsrd.com’s shop and thus, absent from the pdf, with only deviations from the statblocks being noted for the GM.
Since this product line’s goal is providing short diversions, side-quest dungeons etc., I will not expect mind-shattering revelations, massive plots or particularly smart or detailed depictions, instead tackling the line for what it is. Additionally, it should be noted that this is intended for use in conjunction with the upcoming “Into the Wintry Gale”-saga.
This being an adventure-review, the following contains SPOILERS. Potential players may wish to jump to the conclusion.
…
..
.
Still here?
All right!
The PCs stumble across a heavily injured vikmordere-raider, who has been badly mauled by a glacial bear (stats can be found in the associated ItWG-books; if you don’t have access to them, template a bear with a winter/frost-themed template) and asks the PCs, if they save him, to save his brothers. The cave itself shows the brutal struggle between man and nature. Exploring the well-described, but otherwise pretty bland cave, the PCs can find survivors and finally face off with the glacial bear – who was defending her cubs from the vikmordere – but the angry beast isn’t playing nice…
Having defeated the creature, it’s up to the players how to treat the surviving cubs – leaving them to their fate is a sure death-sentence…
Conclusion:
Editing and formatting are very good, I noticed no significant glitches. Layout adheres to a beautiful 2-column full-color standard and the pdf comes sans bookmarks, but needs none at this length. Cartography is full color and surprisingly good for such an inexpensive pdf, but there is no key-less version of the map to print out and hand to your players. The pdf does sport one nice piece of original full-color art – kudos!
Justin Andrew Mason’s first Into the Wintry Gale-expansion sports nice read-aloud text and a brief sidetrek – but that’s about it. Personally, I got nothing out of this one – the fluff is nice, but there isn’t that much to do – explore the caves, witness the build-up, fight boss, done. It’s an okay mini-dungeon, but lacks the evocative setting the better ones have in spite of their brevity. Basically, this is a creature-showcase for the creature in the associated book. I will settle on a final verdict of 3.5 stars, rounded down to 3 for the purpose of this platform.
Endzeitgeist out.