The Great Glacier (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons/Forgotten Realms Module FR14) [Paperback]

Rick Swan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1992 | Series: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 2nd Edition

The Great Glacier is the first supplement for the Forgotten Realms campaign setting to detail an Inuit-based culture. In this booklet is fact-based information on building a snowhouse, surviving in sub-zero temperatures for extended periods of time, and more ideas for fantasy campaigning in an arctic setting. For those who are tired of the normal, temperate 'you meet in the tavern and proceed to go adventuring' games, here's something completely different. Make sure your characters dress warmly--it gets nippy at night on the Great Glacier.

Product Details

• Paperback: 210 pages
• Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (September 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560763248
• ISBN-13: 978-1560763246
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,136,631 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everything you need, May 17, 2001

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Kurt A. Johnson (North-Central Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Great Glacier (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons/Forgotten Realms Module FR14) (Paperback)

This AD&D (2nd edition) book is an in-depth examination of the Great Glacier, the frozen far north of the Forgotten Realms. It contains rules for surviving in the frozen north, a complete set of information on the Ulutiuns (an Inuit-like people), flora and fauna (including four new monsters), and unique people and places. Part Seven is a loosely outlined introductory adventure, which is very nice. The crowning glory of this accessory is a full-color, 31'x21' map of the Great Glacier.

This accessory is surprisingly complete. It has everything you would need for running a far north or Ice Age campaign on any world. Though it may not be "historically" accurate for the Inuit of Earth, it isn't intended to be. Instead, it is an excellent set of rules for either the Great Glacier, or any other cold climate you might have. I recommend this work highly!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Deadly adventures in a world of endless frost, May 1, 2000

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Kent David Kelly "Author & Anthologist" (Denver, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Great Glacier (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons/Forgotten Realms Module FR14) (Paperback)

The most mysterious, dangerous, and forbidding land in the Realms comes to vivid life in this menacing sourcebook - here you'll find rules for blizzards, snowblindness, frost mirages, seas of ice, a huge poster map of the arctic wastelands, an amazing overview of a lost Esquimeaux culture, and several years' worth of fell secrets, white dragons, remorhaz, and worse... this is one of my all-time favorite settings for play, although I can't imagine sending characters of lower than 10th level there. Recommended!