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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

1. A forum account Your posts go under it.
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2. The Discord server optional Scenes are mirrored both ways, so you can read and reply from either side.
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3. Link your Discord account Discord is asked for your account identity only — not your email, not your servers.
4. Join the campaign A game master adds you once your accounts are linked — ask in this section.
5. Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden You need an account on that service; this forum cannot make one for you.
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6. Make a character A step-by-step builder posts it for a game master to approve.

The map so far The table's rules Characters In character

Welcome to Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden. This is a game played in writing: scenes happen in the in-character section, a post at a time, and nobody has to be online at the same time as anybody else.


Posting in an in-character section

• Everything there is the story. Write as your character, in prose, in their voice. Questions, planning, scheduling and anything addressed to a person rather than a character belong in the out-of-character section.
• Your character only knows what your character knows. You will read things your character was not there for — another party's scene, a game master's aside, something said out of character. Acting on it is the one habit that spoils a game like this fastest, and nobody can tell you did it except you.
• Leave room for the other people. Write your character's actions and words, not anybody else's, and not the outcome of what you attempted.

To join, in this order

1. Have a forum account. If you are reading this you may already be signed in; if not, register here. This is the account your posts will be under.
2. Join the Discord server — invite. Scenes are mirrored both ways, so you can read and reply from either side. This step is optional if you would rather only use the forum.
3. Link the two accounts. Open Your Discord link and earlier forum posts from the companion portal and press Link my Discord account. It asks Discord for your account identity only — not your email, and not a list of your servers. Until this is done, anything you write in Discord arrives here under a placeholder name.
4. Open Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden — here. You will need an account on that service; this forum cannot make one for you.
5. Make a character. The character builder in the Characters section walks you through it — the table's rules, your ability scores rolled in the open, and the finished sheet posted as your own thread for a game master to approve.
6. The character builder — open it.

Where you are
The in-character section has a pinned thread called The map so far. It shows what the party itself has seen: anywhere nobody has been is not in the picture, and it is visible to members of this campaign only.

Where to ask
Here, in this section. Questions about a scene in progress go here too rather than into the scene itself — the in-character section is kept for the story, which is what makes it readable later.