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Under the Ice

by Mike Wallace

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Third Edition, published by Wizards of the Coast, Inc.

This product utilizes updated material from the v.3.5 revision.

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Dungeon Dive 6:

Under the Ice

by Mike Wallace

A pre-populated adventure location appropriate for adventuring parties of 8th to 16th level.

Additional Credits

Cartography: David Garrett

Interior Art: V Shane, Jason Walton, Kieran Yanner

Special Thanks: Mark Gedak

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Dungeon Dive 6

Using this Product

created to protect it, while others believe it was

meant to cage something in.

Unlike typical "adventures," this product

is designed to be used by a GM who has

already designed a plot, NPCs, and a big,

bad, boss creature. Unlike typical "maps,"

this product is designed to be used with very

little preparation. In addition to the layout of a

dungeon, this product includes traps, hazards,

creatures, and treasure.

In your implementation, the secret buried

beneath the glacier may not even be a city. It

might be a buried temple, a long-lost tomb, an

ancient white dragon's lair, or even a sacred

spring that grants immortality. What lies

beyond the map is left up to you.

Naturally other parties are interested in

discovering what lies below the ice for various

reasons. Intelligent humanoids are already

at work digging through the glacier, and icy

predators lurk in its frigid caverns. Even those

who have perished while seeking the glacier's

secret oppose the efforts of new adventurers.

Each Dungeon Dive product is also adaptable

to a wide range of power levels, and each

encounter area contains a section with

information targeted toward low, medium and

high-level parties. The Target Level for each

option is as follows:

•

Low: 8th

The areas inhabited by intelligent creatures

(half-dragon dwarves and polar medusas) have

been layered with ground sandstone, which

allows for normal movement. The other areas

of the glacier are uneven and slippery, though.

Characters moving on icy terrain move at half

speed, and the DC for Balance and Tumble

checks increases by 5.

•

Medium: 12th

•

High: 16th

As you read through the product, simply refer

to the power level appropriate to your party.

Additionally, DCs for certain skill checks may

have multiple values, for example (Search DC

20/25/30). This should be read as the DCs for

Low/Medium/High level parties.

The interior of the glacier is well below

freezing, and unprotected characters must

make a Fortitude save every 10 minutes (DC

15 + 1 per previous check) or take 1d6 points

of nonlethal damage. A character that has the

Survival skill may receive a bonus on this

saving throw and may be able to apply this

bonus to other characters as well. Characters

wearing winter clothing only need check once

per hour for cold and exposure damage.

The full stat blocks for all monsters are found

at the end of the product. Each power level has

a separate appendix. Statistics for hazards and

traps are included directly in the entry for each

power level, for ease of reference.

Running the Dungeon

A character who takes any nonlethal damage

from cold or exposure is beset by frostbite or

hypothermia, and is treated as fatigued. These

penalties end when the character recovers from

the nonlethal damage she took from cold and

exposure.

This dungeon is located in and below a

massive, ancient glacier, which is rumored to

have swallowed a whole city in a time long

past. Each tale told of the city is different:

some say the city was good, others evil, some

believe the glacier that now buries the city was

Under the Ice

Dungeon Dive 6

The Glacier

dungeon are, on average, 10 to 20 feet below

the surface of the glacier. Some areas are closer

to the surface, and some even have natural

skylights that let in fresh snow and light. The

two main groups of creatures that live in the

glacier (white half-dragon dwarves and polar

medusas) have an uneasy truce that allows

them to coexist.

Unless otherwise speciied, all structures

inside the glacier are carved from pure, solid

ice. The ice is extremely dense, and the walls,

loor, and ceiling have the same statistics as

reinforced masonry (Break DC 45, hardness 8,

HP 180 per 1 foot of thickness). Certain areas

are blocked by strong wooden doors which the

intelligent creatures in the

area have constructed. These

doors are rarely locked, but

have a tendency to freeze to

their hinges and require ice

(3 in. thick, hardness 8, HP

25) to be chipped or melted

away to free them.

1. Glacier Entrance (EL 8/11/16)

The crevice opens up into a wide, hand-

hewn space, which is framed with

heavy wooden buttresses that are

covered in long icicles. Bodies

are laid out on either side of the

room like cordwood, and are

covered with a fresh drift of

snow. Their frozen faces are

locked in expressions of

pain and agony.

Most of the creatures

inhabiting the glacier have

darkvision, and therefore

do not use light sources.

The bodies of adventurers

and explorers that have been

defeated by the inhabitants of

the glacier are piled here, for looting

and consumption later. Several of the

bodies have spontaneously turned

into various forms of frostbite

undead, and rise to attack the party as

soon as they draw near.

Approaching the

Glacier

The blinding snow

parts to reveal a great,

black maw. A tall, narrow

crevice in the side of the

glacier soars thirty feet high,

but opens less than ive feet,

creating an instant sensation of

claustrophobia.

• Low: Frostbite Wight (3)

• Medium: Frostbite Mohrg and

Frostbite Zombie, Bugbear (4)

A Listen check (DC 15) reveals a low

groan - the sound of the glacier creaking

under its own weight. A Search check (DC

20) reveals signs of intelligent activity in and

around the crevice - the marks of ice picks,

a discarded piton, and frayed rope are all

concealed under a thin layer of snow.

•

High: Frostbite Mohrg (8)

The icicles that hang from the wooden beams

may become dislodged by activity below, or

may be deliberately targeted. Those standing

around the perimeter of the room (where the

beams run) have a 1 in 6 chance each round of

being under an icicle when it breaks free.

Inhabited Areas

The explored and inhabited areas of the

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