# Icewind Dale Expanded Secrets Table |d100 | Secret | |:-----:|:---------------------:| |1-3 | Escaped Prisoner | |4-5 | Compulsive | |6 | Genderbender | |7-8 | Boots too Big to Fill | |9 | Sleeper Agent | |10-14 | Old Flame | |15-16 | Reincarnation | |17-18 | Clone | |19 | A Toads Magical Life | |20-22 | Midwinter Child | |23-25 | Reghed Heir | |26-27 | Alagondar Scion | |28-30 | You're a Wizard, Wary | |31-32 | Wanderlust | |33-34 | Allergic | |35 | Would Rather have been an Orphan| |36-37 | Is It Worth It? | |38-40 | Spy | |41-43 | Blood Drinker | ### Escaped Prisoner I was brought here from another world by spacefaring mind flayers. The ship in which I was imprisoned crashed in the mountains south of Ten-Towns. After surviving the crash, I nearly froze to death crossing the tundra to reach Ten-Towns. If some friendly trappers hadn’t found me, I would have perished. I fear some of my captors also survived the crash and might come looking for me. ### Compulsive I keep seeing a specific number or phrase everywhere. Whenever I encounter I must act quickly or bad things will happen. ### Genderbender When you awake after being intimate with anyone, your body has transformed its physical aspects to the opposite gender. This happens every time you awaken after being physically intimate with another. |d100 | Secret | |:-----:|:---------------------:| |44-46 | Haunted | |47-48 | Slaad Host | |49-50 | Didn't Check the Fine Print| |51-55 | Ring Hunter | |56-58 | Innate Cultist | |59-61 | Owlbear Whisperer | |62-64 | Revels End Escape Artist| |65-66 | All Eyes on Me | |67-69 | It wasn't Me! I Swear!| |70-74 | Runaway Author | |75-79 | Elusive Paramour | |80-82 | Totally not Three Kobolds in a Trenchcoat| |83-84 | No Longer Side By Side| |85-87 | Orc Stone | |88-89 | What were we doing again?| |90-92 | Not my kind of Party | |93-94 | Pirate Cannibal | |95-97 | Littlest Yeti | |98-100 | Royal | ### Boots too Big to Fill Your family's bloodline has produced spectacular sorcerers, ferocious fighters, and byword bards. You grew up with stories of all the amazing things everyone in your family has done, and unfortunately, 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 don't meet the stat requirements. ### Sleeper Agent I am secretly an assassin against my will, when I see a specific individual, I have no choice but to try to kill them. My target may or may not be known to me. ### Old Flame I have a lover in Ten-Towns whom I haven’t seen in years. At any time outside of combat, I can decide who the lover is by choosing an NPC in Ten-Towns that I can see. Once I make this choice, I can’t change it. This old flame is friendly and helpful toward me, even if our past is checkered. \pagebreak ### Reincarnation I died and was brought back to life by a friendly human druid using the reincarnate spell. I have no idea what became of the druid, whose name I don’t know. I retain the memories of my previous life, some or all of which was spent in Icewind Dale. (Roll on the table in the spell’s description to determine your character’s previous race, or choose a race from the table that you like, then flesh out the story of your previous life.) ### Clone I am a clone. The person I was cloned from is somewhere in Icewind Dale. I must find and kill them. ### 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. ### Midwinter Child Auril the Frostmaiden has blessed me, for I was born on the Midwinter holiday. I have resistance to cold damage. ### Reghed Heir *Prerequisite: You must be a human, half-elf, or half-orc to have this secret. If you don’t meet this prerequisite, draw a different card.* I am the offspring of Queen Bjornhild Solvigsdottir, leader of the Tiger Tribe. My mother cast me into the Sea of Moving Ice when I was a young child as a sacrifice to Auril the Frostmaiden. A polar bear pulled me from the water and spared me a freezing death. This bear then transformed into a goliath who bore me safely to Ten-Towns. I remember the goliath’s name—Oyaminartok—but haven’t seen her since. I owe her my life, just as I owe my mother a merciless death. ### Alagondar Scion *Prerequisite: You must be a human, half-elf, or half-orc to have this secret. If you don’t meet this prerequisite, draw a different card.* I’m a scion of the Alagondar bloodline and the only known heir to the crown of Neverwinter. If Dagult Neverember, the city’s lord-regent, learns that I’m alive, he’ll send assassins to kill me. \columnbreak ### You're a Wizard, Wary Since birth, you were raised in a room the size of a cupboard. 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 ability for it. You have an immense fear and hatred of dark and small spaces. ### Wanderlust I have a family including young children back in another town/city. Unfulfilled in life I left in the middle of the night to strike out as an adventurer under a new name. ### Allergic I am deathly allergic to bees and all insects for that matter. I've come to the arctic to avoid them. ### 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 ### 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. ### Spy I’m a spy for the Harpers, a secretive organization that works behind the scenes to thwart tyrants and other evildoers. My mission in Icewind Dale is to safeguard the settlements of Ten-Towns while concealing my Harper affiliation. Credible threats to Ten-Towns include the Arcane Brotherhood, an organization of wizards based in Luskan, and the Zhentarim, an expansive shadow network that wants to control trade throughout the North. Both have threatened Ten-Towns in the past. My only Harper contact in Ten-Towns is a human named Beldora, who poses as a homeless woman and spends her days gathering information in Bryn Shander. \pagebreak ### Blood Drinker During early adulthood, you awoke in an ancient stone circle without knowing how you got there. You discovered that you must drink a small amount of blood each night at midnight. Failing to do so causes you to lose one from your maximum hitpoints that cannot be healed by any means, until you drink again. ### Haunted You have been plagued with strange dreams of death, and hear the distant cries and whispers of unfulfilled lives in the presence of corpses. There is a chance that any humanoid you kill may return as an undead in 0-5 days. The is almost universally seen as a curse and if known, there are few who will allow you within their settlement. ### Slaad Host A red slaad implanted a pellet-sized egg in me shortly before I started my adventuring career. If I can’t get rid of it in the next two months, the egg will gestate inside me, and a slaad tadpole will burst from my chest, killing me. It will then quickly grow into an adult slaad and kill even more people. ### 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. ### Ring Hunter I am looking for the knucklehead trout that bit off my father’s finger, which had a signet ring on it. To preserve my inheritance, I must retrieve the lost ring. ### Innate Cultist I was born into a cult. I escaped but am haunted by memories of it. Unless I am drunk I tend to sleepwalk, talk in my sleep and have terrible nightmares. I fear they may be after me. You learn one 1st level spell from the sorcerer spell list and can cast it once per long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability when cast in this way. ### Owlbear Whisperer Owlbears are predisposed to like me. If I am within 10 feet of an owlbear, I can use an action to make a DC 10 Charisma (Animal Handling) check. On a success, I change the owlbear’s attitude toward me from hostile to indifferent or from indifferent to friendly. \columnbreak ### 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. ### All Eyes on Me A deadly encounter with a Beholder could have 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 possession of a pet gazer, which must be fed and protected from the elements and from public view. ### 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. ### Runaway Author I penned a notorious exposé called “The Hellbent Highborn,” which accused several prominent patriars in Baldur’s Gate and nobles in Waterdeep of being devil worshipers. Although my accusations were well founded, I made a lot of enemies and was forced to seek refuge in Icewind Dale. ### Elusive Paramour A wealthy pasha in Calimshan has placed a bounty on my head for seducing his favorite concubine. Bounty hunters are scouring the Sword Coast in search of me, but I hope they’ll never think to look in Icewind Dale. ### Totally not Three Kobolds in a Trenchcoat You are totally three kobolds in a trenchoat. ### 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. \pagebreak ### Orc Stone I saved the life of an orc, who gave me a stone with the symbol of the Many-Arrows tribe (a humanoid skull pierced by three arrows) carved into it. The stone is an uncommon magic item that requires attunement, and only I can attune to it. As an action, I can use the stone to summon the spirit of an orc warrior, which appears within 30 feet of me. The spirit uses the orc war chief stat block in the Monster Manual and disappears after 10 minutes or when reduced to 0 hit points. The spirit understands any language I speak and obeys my commands. After the stone is used three times, it turns to dust. ### 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 ### 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. ### Pirate Cannibal I served aboard Dark Duchess, a pirate ship from the city of Luskan. After the vessel got stuck in the ice, everyone but the captain abandoned the vessel and fled to Ten-Towns. We got lost in a blizzard along the way. I was the only one who made it, and only by eating my mates. The ship and its treasure are still out there. ### Littlest Yeti I was raised by yeti. Although I relied on my ferocious guardians for food and warmth and never quite adapted to the cold, I speak Yeti and have advantage on Charisma checks made to influence yeti or improve their attitudes. ### Royal I am secretly a prince/princess/noble that ran away from home and have been in hiding ever since, luckily, I managed to bring a trinket worth 250 gp and some pocket-change of 100 gp with you. # Credits These links provide most of the secrets I used for this table, I chose to not include some because I didn't think they'd work well. I also changed a few. Remember, if the player doesn't like the secret they roll, let them roll again, no one likes being forced to keep a secret they don't enjoy. Make sure to heed the warnings discussed in the comments of the linked reddit thread. <https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/pOyD45v3j> <https://www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/ineypg/character_secrets_for_rime_of_the_frostmaiden/>