Added Secrets for Rime of the
Frostmaiden
T
his is something to use to add more options for
your players back storys. Watch the tension
bubble up as the horrors of the North settle in
alongside the cold. Made by No Fun Allowed,
but some secrets taken from the awesome
community as well!
Secrets for the DM's Eyes
Understudy of Avarice
Before setting off on your own, you apprenticed under
Avarice the albino wizard. She used you for experiments and
her malice nearly got the best of you. You left before she
could kill you, but the pain she inflicted on your body and
mind still remain. Before you left, you discovered she had a
fascination with devils.
Dragon's Play Thing
An evil Adult Green Dragon cast a Geas spell on you, and at
the dragons whim, you must obey its commands or die. The
dragon occasionally scrys on you and orders something
outragous or near suicidal.
A Toads Magical Life
Your life has had a very odd change of pace. You started as a
simple toad, when one day a benevolent druid cast Awaken
on you. After a time of intelligent toadness, another druid
offered to True Polymorph you into the person you are today.
Occasionally your toad tendencies slip out.
Twice Bitten, Once Shy
You are a half vampire. A vampire began the ritual to turn
you, but the sun ran afoul of the plan, cutting the ceremony
short. You have sunlight sensitivity, and darkvision out to 60
ft. You feel uneasy entering a residence.
Old as Time
You are a clone of a Netherese citizen. You were in
hybernation for hundreds of years, eventually climbing out
into an unfamiliar world. You can speak and read Netherese,
but information of the ancient city's is hazy.
In Service of a Fiend
An arcanaloth helped you while you were down, and you now
find yourself in an eternal contract. Your only job right now is
to search for any of the Books of Keeping. Agents of other
arcanaloths are after the same thing.
All Eyes on Me
A deadly encounter with a Beholder nearly cost you your life,
but thankfully you caught the monster on a good day. The
beholder had a swarm of Gazer's following it around, and
wanted to give some away. You are now in possesion of a pet
gazer, which must be fed and protected from the elements
and from public view.
No Longer Side by Side
Just recently, you discovered you have no shadow. In dark
areas where no sunlight can touch you, you might see the
darkness warp for a brief moment. Your shadow is stalking
you, and will attack when the time is right.
I Dream of Djinni
A djinni aproached you, exclaiming that if you fulfill ten
requests for them, you will be granted one wish. You have
three more task left to fulfill, and the djinn is not going to
make it easy.
What were we doing again?
You were struck by a spell from a vindictive wizard. You now
can only remember events that happened in the past twenty-
four hours. You no longer need to sleep, but every moment
awake means another moment lost from your mind
Escaped from Monkey Isle
You had aspirations to become a mighty pirate at one point in
your life. After a series of swashbuckling and name calling
incidents, you made a dangerous foe. The ghost of a pirate
captain now haunts you, waiting to exact his revenge. You can
hold your breath for ten whole minutes.
Revels End Escape Artist
You committed a serious crime against a member of the
Lords' Alliance, resulting in being incarcerated within Revel's
End. Somehow, you managed to escape. Now the Lords'
Alliance is looking for you. If the player wants to randomly
determine the reason for the character's imprisonment, roll
from the Prisoners table on page 158.
Dancing Wild in the Moonlight
What started as a friendly chat with a stranger turned into the
struggle of a lifetime. The stranger lunged at you and bit you.
You are now infected with a mild lycanthropy of werebear.
You have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing
damage. On nights with a full moon, you revert to a polar
bear form, and you go feral.
Would Rather have been an Orphan
As a child, you were abducted from your village by a trio of
hags and kept in a cage. After bearing witness to many
gruesome acts, you were granted freedom, but on the basis
that one of your eyes is removed and replaced with a hag eye.
You can remove your eye as an action and see though it as
though it were attached to you. The eye has AC10, 1 HP and
has Darkvision out to 30 ft. The hags vowed that if the eye is
destroyed, they will haunt your dreams and make them
nightmares
Didn't Check the Fine Print
While on the brink of death, you signed your soul over to a pit
fiend. The pit fiend saved you, but now you must submit to
their desires. The pit fiend demands Auril's forces be put
down, and you will give your life if need be to accomplish this,
as well as obey any commands given during your adventure.
You have resistance to fire damage.
Greed is Good
At some point in your life, you touched a coin that was cursed.
This curse meant you greedily sought out more gold, which
turned into your twisted blessing. Mammon's will influences
you to not only obtain wealth, but to share in these greedy
tendencies and deny wealth for others. You gain the trait:
Grasping Hands (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). As a
bonus action, this creature makes a Dexterity (Sleight of
Hand) check contested by the Wisdom (Insight) check of a
creature it can see within 15 feet of it. If this creature
succeeds, one handheld item of its choice that it can see on
the target magically teleports to its open hand. The item can't
be one that the target is holding, and it must weigh no more
than 10 pounds.
Is It Worth It?
A faithful friend handed you a treasure map leading to untold
riches in the frozen tundra of Icewind Dale. The moment the
map left their hand, they dropped dead instantly. This map
could lead to Jarlmoot, The Lost Spire of Netheril, Karkolohk,
or any number of places.
An Unnatural Magnetism
You were the subject of a ritual that would replace your blood
with an alien substance, the experimenters of this being
aliens you have never seen yourself. After a hazy period of
time, you find yourself free, but you feel heavier, and more
connected to the earth. You have advantage on rolls to being
disarmed, but ranged attacked with metal weapons have
advantage against you. Small metal materials might crawl
across the ground closer you you after standing for too long.
Your a Wizard, Wary
Since birth, you were raised in a room the size of a cupoard.
The malicious "caretakers" gave you the minimum to survive,
while the other child in their care was praised given
everything they wanted. While in long phases of isolation, you
discovered you had a magical power within you. You have one
cantrip from the Wizard spell list, using Int as your
spellcasting score. You have an immense fear and hatrid of
dark and small spaces.
Totally not Three Kobolds in a
Trenchcoat
You are totally three kobolds in a trenchoat.
Boots too Big to Fill
Your familys bloodline has produced spectacular sorcerers,
ferocious fighters, and byword bards. You grew up with storys
of all the amazing things everyone in your family has done,
and unfortunatly, you are expected to forge your own story
that will go down in history. This is made worse by the fact
that most of your family doesn't believe in you, and you know
you cant measure up to the best of them, but you can
certainly try. You may multi-class into any class, even when
you dont meet the stat requirements.
And you thought the Cold was Bad
That little mark is nothing right? It looks normal to me. I'm
sure its nothing. It looks fine, it's just a little bigger. It doesnt
even hurt. Bah, I can't even feel it. Hmm maybe it is
something, but I'll worry about it later. Was it that color a
week ago? How big is it now? A small dark dot appeared on
your skin, and it is slowly growing bigger. How long until this
disease eats at your skin and inside your body?
A Party of Two
While on a dare to check out a supposedly haunted house,
you are remiss to discover that the place actually is haunted.
A ghost popped out and possesed you. The ghost links to the
physcial word are weakend, meaning you have enough will to
control your body.....most of the time. At imperfect times and
at times of weakness, the ghost may take control of your body
for but a few seconds at a time.
A Feast of Flesh
One day when I returned from home, I discovered my parent
in a ghoulish state, devouring my other parent and siblings. In
a moment of fear and weakness, i wrangled the fiend into the
basement. I can't bring myself to kill my own parent, and in
order to keep them alive, I have lured several people into the
basement and locked the door behind them.
Can teach an old dog new tricks
You were old. Old as dirt. Old enough to be put to pasture.
The passage of time had nearly run its course with you, but
after being exposed to an ancient relic, you come to and see
your body was reversed in time, but not your mind. You have
been given a second chance at life, however you begin to
notice something. Your body is aging far faster than normal.
Your body ages ten times faster than normal, but on the up
side, you picked up another language in your retirement.
A natural born Trouper
You were born into an enviroment of constant travel. Once old
enough, you began to realize this wasnt the norm. You are
part of a traveling carnival, filled with mystery, the macabre,
and the grotesque. The carnival never stayed in any one place
for longer than a week, and you began to understand why.
The "Georges," or the common folk never truly respected you
and your people, they simply payed to have a laugh and see a
sight rarely seen. The "Mongrels," or the commoners who
followed the carnival, always seemed to change, either for the
better or the worse. You came to know this as the "Twisting,"
and you youself fell prey to this. You have "The Wooden." If
you are exposed to sunlight, you do not need to eat for the
day, however you count as both humanoid and plant for the
purposes of spells and other magical effects.
Not my kind of Party
While traveling with your family in the mountains, you were
all horribly lost. While trying to navigate, harsh weather and
the elements took its toll on you all. People were injured and
missing, and despair began to kick in. Of all the many people
that started that journey, very few returned. You did what you
had to to survive, but those horrific memories will never leave
you.
Not so Proud Family
You come from Dougan's Hole. You are the product of a
taboo, and once you make your way out into the world, you
know the terrible moral implications of it. You feel shame
over your town, and either wish to avoid it at all costs, or
somehow teach them to stop their terrible ways.
Struck by Sune's Arrow
You are in love. You are really in love. You are so infatuated
with that certain someone that you would be willing to do
whatever they asked, and are at their beck and call. Who is
this person you love, unfortunately, its someone new
everyday. At a random time in the day, the first person you see
after being struck with the love bug immediatly charms you,
and you are under the affect of charm for that person for the
rest of the day. The next day, you forget all about this love
sickness.
It wasn't Me! I Swear!
It was you. You murdered someone in town. It may or may
not have been an accident, but regardless, someone is dead
and it is by your hands. Whichever Ten Town you did this in
has placed a bounty on your head, and you kow if you ever
show your face there, you will be in in trouble with the law
and caught.Your bounty may be high enough that people will
come after you if you are nearby.
You know guys, that rock over
there looks cool, I'll check it out
On your parents death bed, you were told that a family
treasure is buried all across Icewind Dale. What this treasure
is, is a mystery, but there is a catch along with the knowledge
of this treasure. the treasure is split between 5 completely
random location all over, and most importantly, only you are
permitted to know this treasure exists, as there is a terible
curse placed on it.
A Sacrifice for a Soul
The cold has hit you harder than anyone else around. The
Frostmaiden herself has cursed you, and this cold curse
shakes you to your very core. The only way to stave off an
aganizing death is to perform a grisly ritual sacrifice to Auril
once a week. If you do not perform this ritual, you suffer one
level of exhaustion. The sacrifice must be humanoid, and the
ritual takes one hour of torture and death.
The Last of their Kind
You were always seen as bigger than most around you, and
there is a reason for that. You have Giants blood coursing
through your veins, making you the last of the ice giants. Do
you bear the responisiblity of keeping your bloodline alive, or
do you let the old ways die out. Your blood may also be the
key to unlocking lost giants secrets around the frigid North.
In addition, you also speak Giant, and have advantage on
persuasion checks when dealing with Giants.
Spying aint Easy
You are a spy sent from Thay. Your job is to set up magical
devices all around the Ten Towns that allow for scrying upon
its residents. In addition, you are instructed with finding and
aquiring any magical artifact you can for futrure use for Red
Wizards. You also must acquire any political power you can,
through either bribery, blackmail, or direct control.