Summary
Exploring frozen lands inDungeons & Dragonscan bring many challenges for your players.
Become a better dungeon master with these tools to help you run your next campaign.
Such a place should have equally veteran monsters, and the 2025 Monster Manual is filled with them.
Art via Wizards of the Coast
We’ve updated this article to include even more creatures for your artic setting.
The 2025 Monster Manual has given the roc a deadly bonus action: Swoop.
What makes Goliaths so intimidating is just their sheer endurance.
Art via Wizards of the Coast
If you do send your players up against a Goliath, just ensure they’re prepared.
Some normal animals may call it home though, such as the everyday Wolf.
Perhaps they were in search of riches in the mountains.
Art via Wizards of the Coast
Perhaps they were merely trying to establish a colony in the forests?
Perhaps they were local to the area but were simply caught in a bad storm?
There’s a lot of range it’s possible for you to play with here as the DM!
Art by Alejandro Pacheco
Does the Ghost know it’s a Ghost?
How long has it been dead?
Can the players complete their unfinished business, or do they just have to deal with the nuisance?
Art by Domenico Cava
Might it have critical information?
The list goes on.
15Yetis
Abominable?
Yetis can make challenging encounters for low to mid-level players.
With a challenge rating of three, they are relatively tanky.
Icelings are a solid approach to a less intense encounter that brings the Winter Court to your party.
Faldorn, Dreadwolf Herald by Jason Engle
With claws, wings, and darkvision, they are a great ambush predator for the nighttime.
The presence of the living is deeply upsetting to Banshees, so they’re bound to become hostile.
Ravenloft Ghosts via Wizards of the Coast
Ice Mephit via Wizards of the Coast
Yeti via Wizards of the Coast
Icewind Dale Art by Jedd Chevrier
Banshee via Wizards of the Coast
