Arctics of the Realms includes an obligatory stop in Icewind Dale, but I was mostly excited to see 5E updates for Vaasa, Damara, and the Great Glacier. Certainly the Realms has no shortage of very cold places in which to find adventure! As always, this series delivers the goods, with excellent new options for druids and rangers, and a ton of interesting flora and fauna. A fantastic series!

Amarune's Almanacs Volume 4: Artics of the Realms from Steve Fiddler et al (@VorpalDicePress)

This project continues to take my breath away and give me goosebumps, although that could also be the frigid northern air...

Amarune is back with her spellbinding tales of travel that put Volo to shame, this time in the frozen north of the realms, visiting the famous Icewind Dale and Great Glacier among other frost-bound locales. The anecdotes continue to be as entertaining as they are informative. There is a whole frozen playground of new flora to discover and an icy menagerie of new fauna, including the terrible Corrupted Dire Wolf (with the Corrupted template), Emperor Penguins, Narwhal, Snow Fox and Walrus among others, as well as a treasure trove of hyperboreal items and gelid goodies.

Circle of the Frozen North: A Druid to fulfil your Frozen fantasy with beautiful, deadly flurries, the ability to become more powerful arctic beasts and the power to sap the very heat from the core of their quarries, leaving them at the mercy of the cold and an exhausting, yet quick death.

Northguard: A Ranger Conclave of cold-hearted ice ninjas as invisible as a whiteout, as fast and freezing as the winds of winter, and can flash freeze their enemies with a snap of their frosty fingers.

Ingenious new rules for Druids and Rangers, granting them greater versatility and boons from their current and favoured terrains.

12 new spells ranging from thoughtful ritual ceremonies and the creation of beautiful, guiding Northern Lights through new takes on cold, calming spell countering, a greater armour of ice and speed of movement with a frozen slip-and-slide, to absolutely battering, bludgeoning and burying enemies with cascades of ice and stone.

I still can't believe how rich, engaging, entertaining, high quality and genuinely practically useful these supplements are! Truly enriching for DMs and players alike, whether purely as a pleasant read and for its gorgeousness or for practical use, world building and the quality player options, creatures and items.

Credits

Designer & Producer: Steve Fidler Editor: Ryan Langr Writing and Design: Ashley May, BorntoDoStuff, Bryan Holmes, Ed Greenwood, Israel Moreira, Jean-Luc Caron, Sean vas Terra, Steve Fidler, Trevor Armstrong Layout: Nathanaël Roux Forgotten Realms Sage: Bryan Holmes and Ed Greenwood Graphic Designer: Nathanaël Roux Cover Art: Mia Stendal, composed by Steve Fidler Cartography: Map of Faerûn by Dusty Haynes @ TableTopAdvantage.com, modified by Steve Fidler & Nathanaël Roux Introduction Art: Amarune Writing by Dante Ezio Cifaldi Interior Sketch Art: Shiah “Cinder” Irgangladen and Nathanaël Roux Other Interior Art: Some artwork © Grim Press, used with permission. All rights reserved. Birmingham Museums Trust, ink splatter brushes (Brusheezy.com), Eberhard Grossgasteiger, Eva Blue, Jaanus Jagomagi, James Donovan, Patrick Langwallner, Strauss Western, Tim Oun, Some artwork © 2015 Dean Spencer, used with permission. All rights reserved. and Warmtail.