Description: 👉This reprint is an unread perfect bound copy that is made to order. Any foldout maps (if any) that were included in the original print are separated and bound all together as 8.5 x 11 inch pages. 👉🏼These reprints are made to order. Please allow 1-2 weeks for your order to ship. A tracking number will be provided when your order ships. 👉🏽These reprints are fully licensed by Wizards of the Coast and printed on demand from original edition scans or digital files (if available). Please allow 1-2 weeks for your order to ship. A tracking number will be provided when your order ships. 👉🏾All orders are packaged safely in boxes for shipping. 👉🏿All books ship for FREE and thus have FREE combined shipping! 📧Please get in touch if you want a particular title! TSR, WOTC, R. Talsorian and more are available! "A village is only as livable as its surroundings. We are caretakers not only of our homes, but of our world." -Inum Strange sentiments, perhaps, from one who lives in what many perceive as a frozen wasteland, but the philosopher Inum speaks for the Ulutiun people of the Great Glacier. Their tribes share that icy landscape with arctic dwarves who enjoy sunbathing, sled-animals that are hardier than dogs, and fierce monsters that live nowhere else-and thrive in the freezing air. 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 snow-house, 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. This accessory is suitable for use by all levels of play. Product History FR14: "The Great Glacier" (1992), by Rick Swan, is the fourteenth book in the "FR" series of sourcebooks for the Forgotten Realms. It was released in August 1992. Origins. Ed Greenwood's original Forgotten Realms didn't have any real-world analogs, but TSR opted to included everything in their Realms — allowing for pirate adventures, Arabic adventures, Oriental adventures, and more. Thus Rick Swan decided to people the Great Glacier of the Forgotten Realms with an Inuit-based culture — the only one of its sort in fantasy gaming. Continuing the "FR" Sourcebooks. The majority of the "FR" Forgotten Realms sourcebooks were geographic splatbooks, and "The Great Glacier" continued with that trend. Into the Arctic. As noted, "The Great Glacier" details the first-ever Inuit fantasy culture. It also provides some rules for cold-weather survival. Despite these freezing innovations, several other Realms products had already featured cold lands, including "FR1: Waterdeep and the North" (1987), FR5: "The Savage Frontier" (1988), and FR9: "The Bloodstone Lands" (1989). Other D&D settings had also paid attention to cold-weather environments. The first such supplement was Dragonlance's DL6: "Dragons of Ice" (1985), while GAZ7: "The Northern Reaches" (1988) and HR1: Vikings Campaign Sourcebook (1992) did so for other worlds. Expanding the Realms. The Great Glacier was one of the areas from Greenwood's original Realms that was changed the most as it became part of TSR's Realms, which was created by divers hands. To start with, the Glacier got rolled back to provide space for Vaasa and Damara when the Bloodstone Lands were incorporated into the Realms. Then, Greenwood's original ideas of a fantasy, cold realm — full of ruined cities swallowed by glaciers, cold-weather monsters, and societies of giants — was never seen. Instead, Rick Swan defined TSR's official Glacier as the more realistic home of the Ulutiuns. Monsters of Note. "The Great Glacier" introduced the Realms sixth type of dwarves, the arctic dwarf. Future History. Some information on giants in the area appeared a few years later in FOR7: Giantcraft (1995). The Soldiers of Ice (1993) and The Ruin (2006) novels also feature the area. Much more recently, Frostburn (20004) was a more generic sourcebook that detailed arctic adventuring for D&D. About the Creators. Swan was extensively writing for TSR in the late '80s and early '90s. He'd previously written FA2: "Nightmare Keep" (1991) and would later contribute to Elminster's Ecologies (1994), both for the Realms.
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Language: English
Book Title: Forgotten Realms
Book Series: Advanced Dungeons and Dragons
Author: Gary Gygax, Jeff Grubb, Aaron Allston
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Original Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Role Playing Games