Games PC ICEWIND DALE-HEART OF WINTER User Manual

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Heart Of Winter ............................................ 2

How To Use This Manual .............................. 2

About Heart Of Winter.................................. 2

Getting Started.............................................. 4

How To Get Help .......................................... 5

Playing Heart Of Winter................................ 6

Heart Of Winter Features .............................. 7

Character Generation..................................... 8

The Interface ................................................. 8

Spells .......................................................... 14

New Wizard Spells....................................... 15

New Priest Spells......................................... 20

Lonelywood ................................................. 33

Tables.......................................................... 36

Credits......................................................... 43

Limited Warranty ........................................ 46

Interplay Website ......................................... 47

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HEART OF WINTER

Heart of Winter is an expansion pack to Icewind Dale, and allows your
characters to continue their adventures in the snow-swept north of the
Forgotten Realms campaign setting. Using Bioware’s Infinity engine and
the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons rules, Black Isle Studios has expanded
the northern reaches of Icewind Dale, providing a whole host of new
challenges for your characters, along with new spells, items, and enemies.

Although Heart of Winter is an expansion pack, be warned: The dangers
you face are greater than the ones in Icewind Dale, and the threat to the
whole of the Forgotten Realms is even greater. So prepare yourselves... the
North is in need of heroes once again.

HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL

This manual is intended to supplement the Icewind Dale manual and
details only the new mechanics, spells, and interface options introduced in
the expansion.

The experience point tables and spell progression charts provided at the end
of this manual, however, are meant to replace the ones in the Icewind Dale
manual. These revised tables reflect the new level limits, spell gains per
level, and other tables affected by the higher experience point cap for the
player characters in Heart of Winter.

ABOUT HEART OF WINTER

Heart of Winter is an expansion for the game Icewind Dale. You
must own Icewind Dale and have it installed on your PC in order to play
Heart of Winter.

Heart of Winter can be played either while playing Icewind Dale or after
you have finished Icewind Dale. If you have not completed the original
game of Icewind Dale, the new adventure areas will become available to you
through Hjollder, a barbarian shaman that will appear in one of the houses
in Kuldahar when the expansion is installed. (The house in Kuldahar where
Hjollder appears was locked in the original game with no way to open it ­it will be automatically unlocked once the expansion is installed.)

Note that your characters must be 9th level in order to travel to the areas
of the expansion pack via Hjollder (in the case of multi-class characters,
the 9th level cap equals the sum of their levels, so a 5th-level fighter/4th­level mage could also travel to the expansion).

If you have already completed the original game (or don’t wish to complete
the original game and simply want to start playing the expansion instead)
there will be an option on the main menu under ‘Create Game’ that will
allow you to start the expansion. Select ‘Create Game,’ then select

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‘Expansion Only.’ When you do, you will be offered the choice of creating
brand new characters or using the characters you played in the original
game (if you completed the original game, the game will have automatically
stored the states of your characters after the final battle, minus all
conditions such as death, poison, and so on).

Whichever option you chose, you will start adventuring in the town of
Lonelywood. From Lonelywood, you can access the other adventure
locations in the Heart of Winter. Once you start the expansion in
‘Expansion Only’ mode, however, you cannot return to the original areas
in Icewind Dale.

Note that the 9th level restriction mentioned above for Hjollder does not
apply to starting an expansion game through the main menu, although it
is strongly recommended that your party members be at least 9th level in
order to have a chance of surviving the dangers found within Heart
of Winter.

Pre-generated characters have been provided that are suitable to start the
expansion with. During Character Creation, they can be imported via the
‘Import’ button. These new characters have been prefixed with a ‘+.’

Hjollder’s House

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GETTING STARTED

To play Heart of Winter, you must have Icewind Dale installed. If you
don’t have Icewind Dale installed, you must re-install your copy of the
game. Refer to the Icewind Dale manual for installation instructions.

With Icewind Dale installed, insert the Heart of Winter CD into your
CD-ROM drive and follow the onscreen instructions. If your Autorun is
not enabled, click on the icon representing your CD-ROM drive under
‘My Computer.’ This will bring up a listing of the files on the Heart of
Winter disc. Find AUTORUN.EXE and double click to start the
launch application.

There are several options available on the Autorun menu:

Install: This option is available if you have not yet installed Heart of
Winter. Click on this to begin the Heart of Winter installation
procedure.

Play: After you have installed the game, click on the 'Play' button to
begin playing. This will take you to the Heart of Winter Main Menu
Screen, where you may create a brand new game or load a previously
saved game.

Configure: The hotkeys and some other settings used while playing
Icewind Dale and Heart of Winter can be modified using this utility.

View Readme: The Readme file contains last minute information and
changes that could not be printed in this manual. Please take the time
to view the Readme file if you are having any problems with
Heart of Winter.

Uninstall: When you’re ready, the Uninstall option will uninstall both
the expansion and original game except your saved games and
game cache.

Exit: This will close the launch window.

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To start playing again later, select the Icewind Dale application from the
Black Isle Studios program group in your Start Menu.

HOW TO GET HELP

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PLAYING HEART OF WINTER

After you have installed Heart of Winter on
your system, the new areas, quests, and items
are merged into the existing world of Icewind
Dale on your PC.

When you select Create Game, you will be
presented with a new screen which allows you
to either start a new Icewind Dale game or
start an expansion game. Players who wish to
play the entire game, including the
expansion, should press the ‘Full Game’
button, and for those who have beaten the
game or wish to start a new game in just the
expansion areas, press the ‘Expansion Only’
button. Press ‘Done’ when you are ready to continue.

There are several different scenarios in which you can start to play the game:

1. You are starting a new game with Heart of Winter installed.

2. You have a save somewhere in the middle of a game of Icewind Dale

that you are playing.

3. You have beaten Icewind Dale and want to start an expansion game.

4. You simply want to start playing the expansion and have not played

Icewind Dale.

Starting a New Game.

If you are starting a new game, there is no difference between a new Heart
of Winter game and a new Icewind Dale game. Simply select ‘Create
Game’ and then ‘Full Game’ from the menu, and you’ll start the game at
the beginning of Icewind Dale. Refer to the sections on character creation,
classes, races, and so on in the Icewind Dale manual. Starting a full game
of Icewind Dale with the expansion installed will give you access to all the
new spells and items present in Heart of Winter, and it will allow you to
access all the new areas in the expansion pack.

Continuing an In-Progress Save.

After you have installed the expansion, load up your save game just as you
did while you were playing Icewind Dale. The new areas of Heart of Winter
are added into the world through Hjollder’s house in Kuldahar (see About
Heart of Winter, p. 2), and all new items and spells from the expansion
will appear in the game world as well.

You Have Beaten Icewind Dale and Wish to Start an
Expansion Game.

If you have beaten the original game, Icewind Dale saves the states of your
characters after the final battle and allows these characters to be imported

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into the expansion. (Any characters that died in the final battle will be
restored to life, so if any of your characters didn’t make it, don’t worry
about having to fight the final battle over again until you get it right.) To
do this, simply select ‘Create Game’ from the main menu, choose
‘Expansion Only,’ then select the option to import characters into the
expansion (you can also begin the expansion with brand new characters, if
you wish). Your party will start in the town of Lonelywood.

Starting From Expansion.

You may wish to start playing the expansion whether you have played the
original game or not. Simply select ‘Create Game’ from the start menu,
then ‘Expansion Only’ and create your characters. If you’re importing
characters, it is suggested that they be at least 9th level in order to survive in
the expansion. Still, you are welcome to play the expansion at a lower level
if you’re feeling especially brave.

HEART OF WINTER FEATURES

The majority of the Icewind Dale interface and game mechanics will not
change when Heart of Winter is installed. However, there have been a few
minor modifications to how things work in the game. A quick summary of
these new features is as follows:

Heart of Winter contains:

• New Portraits

• New Player Character Sound Sets

• New Experience Point Cap for All Character Classes, Allowing
Them to Reach 30th Level

• New “Heart of Fury” Mode that Increases Monster Difficulty and
Experience Awards

• Higher Resolution (800 x 600)

• Drop Away Interface

• Gem Bags, Potion Bags, and Scroll Cases

• New Priest, Druid, and Wizard Spells

• Hot Key That Highlights Normal Doors and Ground Items

• Ability to Buy Multiple Items from Stores

• New Special Abilities for Paladins, Rangers, Thieves, Bards, and Druids

• Many other interface enhancements found in Baldur’s Gate™ II:
Shadows of Amn.

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CHARACTER GENERATION

PORTRAITS, SOUNDS

Heart of Winter includes a number of new character portraits and sounds
for your characters. These can all be chosen by selecting the ‘Customize’
button on the Character Record Screen.

IMPORT

How To Import Characters into the Expansion

Although you can travel to the expansion pack during the course of
Icewind Dale by meeting Hjollder in Kuldahar, you may have already
completed Icewind Dale and wish to continue on with the expansion. To do
this, all you need to do is select ‘Create Game’ from the main menu, select
‘Expansion Only,’ and import your characters from the original game. The game
will have saved versions of your characters after the final battle in Icewind
Dale (restoring those who have died to life) in the Characters folder. These
characters are labeled ‘IWD1-6,’ where the number corresponds to each
party member present in the Icewind Dale final battle.

Note that your characters should be 9th level before going to the expansion
pack (in the case of multi-class characters, the 9th level cap equals the sum
of their levels, so a 5th-level fighter/4th-level mage could also travel to the
expansion).

You may not transfer characters from Baldur’s Gate I, Tales of the Sword
Coast, Planescape: Torment, or Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn into
Icewind Dale or Heart of Winter.

THE INTERFACE

This section describes all the new interface functionality present in Heart
of Winter.

THE MAIN INTERFACE

Greater Screen Resolution

The Heart of Winter supports a greater screen resolution than Icewind
Dale, allowing you to play at 800 x 600 resolution. To change the
resolution, you must modify it in the Config program. The Config
program can be reached either by the shortcut in the Start Menu, or via
the Autorun menu when the expansion has been installed. Note that even
though Heart of Winter officially only supports 800 x 600 resolution, you
may run the game at 1024 x 768, 1280 x 960, 1600 x 1200, or 2048 x
1536 resolution.

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Drop Away Interface

Certain hot keys will allow you to drop away interface panels on the main
screen. By default, pressing the Y key will make the left side panel on the
main screen drop away, the U key will do the same thing to the right panel,
and pressing the H key will make the entire interface drop away. Pressing
any of the keys a second time will bring up the panels again. Note that
pausing the game while the interface is hidden will bring up the interface.
Unpausing the game will hide the interface again if it was hidden before
the pause.

INVENTORY SCREEN

Gem Bags, Potion Bags, and Scroll Cases

The Heart of Winter contains several items that can “store” other items of
a similar type. Gem bags, for example, can hold a number of gems inside
without cluttering up your inventory, while potion bags and scroll cases can
do the same for potions and scrolls, respectively.

To use these bags and cases, simply right-click on the item. Now press the
button ‘Open Container’ to move to the next screen. From this screen you
can move your gems, potions, or scrolls from the right hand column to the
left hand column. This will move these items into your gem bag or scroll
case. You can also drag a gem or scroll to the appropriate container and
release the L-Mouse button over top of it to deposit it in the bag/case.

STORE SCREEN

Buy and Sell Screen

There have been some changes to the buying and selling screen in Heart
of Winter. The screen now shows how many items the proprietor has in
stock of each item (unlimited items have no number beside them), and
functionality has also been added that allows you to buy multiple versions
of each item.

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To buy multiple versions of an item, double-click on the item in the store,
which will bring up a menu that allows you to select how many of that item
you would like to buy. Enter the number, and if you have enough gold,
they’re yours.

OPTIONS SCREEN

Auto-Pause Options

Under the Auto-pause features, there are two new Auto-pause options:
‘When Enemy Sighted’ and ‘When Spell Cast.’ When ‘Enemy Sighted’ is
selected, the game will automatically pause as soon as an enemy enters
visual range of one of your party members. When ‘Spell Cast’ is selected,
the game will automatically pause as soon as an enemy begins to cast a spell.

Center on Party Member

This toggle allows the autopause settings to center on the party member
that caused the autopause trigger. For example, if the game is set to
Autopause When Enemy Sighted, then ‘Center on Party Member’ will
center the game screen on the character that saw the enemy.

EXPERIENCE AND GAINING LEVELS

New Experience Point Cap

Heart of Winter raises the experience point cap for all player characters,
allowing them to reach 30th level (although accumulating enough
experience points for this to happen can take a very long time, and may not
occur if you’re playing the game straight through). For details on the hit
point bonuses, spell level progression, and other information, see the
revised experience and spell progression tables at the end of the manual.
Note that druids have a brand new experience point table that allows them
to reach higher levels.

Heart of Fury Mode

If you are playing Icewind Dale and Heart of Winter straight through, you
are unlikely to accumulate enough experience points to reach 30th level.
Heart of Fury Mode, however, is a special option available in the Config
screen that allows you to greatly enhance the strength of creatures in the
game (and give you more experience points). In Heart of Fury mode, it is
possible for characters to gain enough experience to progress all the way up
to 30th level. This mode can only be turned on via the Config utility,
which can be ran via the ‘Icewind Dale Configuration’ shortcut in your
Start Menu, or via the Autorun program.

SPECIAL ABILITIES

A number of character classes have been improved in Heart of Winter, and
many of them have gained new special abilities. Please note, the following
special abilities were inspired by those found in the new Dungeons &

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Dragons rule system by Wizards of the Coast. These special abilities were
interpreted and modified to fit within the Icewind Dale series of games, and
are not officially documented within the 2nd Edition Advanced Dungeons
& Dragons rules. A summary of these abilities is as follows:

PALADINS

Smite Evil. Paladins now have the ability to call down a column of holy
light once per day. This column of holy light does 1d6 + 1d6 points of
damage for every 3 levels of the paladin. The paladin can select this power
from his special abilities bar (accessed through the star button on the
bottom right of the main screen).

Divine Courage. At 3rd level, paladins gain an immunity to fear.
Earlier Spell Access. Paladins now have access to spells at an earlier

level. See the Paladin Spell Progression Table at the end of this manual.
Immunity to Disease. Paladins are now completely immune to all forms

of disease, magical or mundane.

RANGERS

Earlier Spell Access. Rangers now have access to spells at an earlier
level. See the Ranger Spell Progression Table at the end of this manual.

Tracking. Rangers have a new special ability, tracking, which can be
selected from the special abilities bar (accessed through the star button on
the bottom right of the main screen). When used, the ranger can attempt
to look for tracks and gain information on what type of creatures, if any,
have passed through the area. Potential information that can be gained
from tracking includes the number of creatures, the direction they were
traveling in, and how long ago the tracks were made. This ability works on
any map in Icewind Dale and Heart of Winter, and it can provide
important clues to what creatures lurk in the area. The skill’s success is
based on the ranger’s level (+5% for every three levels) and his wisdom
(+5% per point of wisdom), and it can only be used once per day.

DRUIDS

New Experience Table. Druids have a new experience table that allows
them to advance past 14th level. See the end of this manual for details.

Druidic Shape Change. This power is now available at 5th level, and
the druid now gains a new form they can shape change into every other
level thereafter, to 15th level. In addition, druids will heal some of their
wounds when they shift to their animal form.

Elemental Form. Once druids reach 11th level, they gain the ability to
transform themselves into a fire elemental, with all the advantages,
resistances, and immunities that a fire elemental possesses. The druid gains

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the ability to transform into new elemental forms at higher levels: an earth
elemental at 13th level and a water elemental 15th level.

Immunity to Poison. At 9th level, druids become immune to poison,
both mundane and magical.

Timeless Body. At 15th level, druids no longer accrue fatigue through
magical or mundane means. They need sleep only to refresh their spells;
otherwise, they can stay active for weeks on end with no penalties. Note
this immunity to fatigue also applies to spells that normally cause fatigue
(such as Haste or Righteous Wrath of the Faithful).

THIEVES

Sneak Attack. Sneak Attack is an optional ability that can replace a
thief’s Backstab ability; if you wish your thieves to use Sneak Attack
instead of Backstab while playing the game, the option can be switched in
the Config program. When Sneak Attack is in effect, any time a thief
attacks an opponent from a flank or rear position, he or she can do
additional damage once (and only once) on that opponent. The additional
damage is plus +1d6 every 4 levels of experience (i.e., an 8th level thief
could do +3d6 damage, and a 23rd level thief could do +6d6). A Sneak
Attack does not require the thief to be hidden or moving silently in order
to work (although these skills can help a thief to get into position). Critical
hits do not double Sneak Attack damage.

Evasion. At 7th level, thieves gain the power to evade effects that would
normally hurt other characters. Whenever a thief is hit by a spell that can
be evaded (Fireball, Lightning Bolt, etc.), the thief is allowed a saving
throw vs. breath to completely avoid the effects of the spell. If the saving
throw is failed, then the spell works normally, including a save for half­damage if the spell allows for it. Evasion improves as the thief goes up in
level, giving him bonuses to the saving throw vs. breath (for Evasion
purposes only). Keep in mind that thieves cannot evade their own effects,
so mage/thieves should think twice before throwing a fireball at their feet.

Crippling Strike. At 5th level, thieves gain a feel for how to hamstring
their enemies in unpleasant ways. This allows thieves to cripple an
opponent with a successful Sneak Attack, reducing their chances to hit
and damage. This crippling effect is in addition to the normal Sneak
Attack damage. A Crippling Strike improves with the thief’s level. At 5th
level, a thief’s Crippling Strike causes the victim to suffer a -1 to hit and
damage rolls, at 9th level, -2 to hit and damage, at 13th level, -3 to hit
and damage, and so on, with an additional -1 penalty to hit and damage
for every four levels of the thief. A creature hit with a Crippling Strike will
regain their normal to hit and damage rolls one turn after being crippled.

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BARDS

Bards have a number of new songs in addition to their starting song (The
Ballad of the Three Heroes). Unless otherwise noted, all bard songs have

a radius of 30 feet.
The Ballad of Three Heroes. Bards start the game with the ability to

play this ballad. When the Ballad of Three Heroes is played, all the bard’s
allies gain +1 to hit, +1 damage, and +1 saving throws.

The Tale of Curran Strongheart. Bards gain this song at 3rd level.
When the Tale of Curran Strongheart is being played, any fear effect on
the bard’s allies are removed, and they gain an immunity to fear effects for
as long as the song lasts.

Tymora’s Melody. Bards gain this song at 5th level. When played,
Tymora’s Melody gives the bard’s allies +1 luck, +3 saving throws, and
+10% to their lore skill and thief skills.

The Song of Kaudies. Bards gain this song at 7th level. When the Song
of Kaudies is played, the bard’s allies have a 50% chance to shrug off the
effects of spells such as Silence, Shout, Great Shout, Command, or any
other sound-based attack.

The Siren’s Yearning. Bards gain the Siren’s Yearning at 9th level.
When played, the bard’s enemies must save vs. spell or be enthralled,
unable to take action until 1 turn passes or they take damage.

War Chant of Sith. The War Chant of Sith becomes available to bards
when they reach 11th level. When played, the bard’s allies gain -2 bonus
to AC, +10% Resistance to slashing, piercing, crushing, and missile
attacks, and the ability to regenerate 2 hit points every round.

NEW GAME FEATURES

Store Inventories: The selection in two of the Icewind Dale stores
(Orrick’s Tower and Conlan’s Smithy in Kuldahar) will change once the
expansion is installed, allowing you to purchase new items. The original
items in the stores will not vanish, only new items will be added.

Hot Key for Spotting Doors and Ground Items: Heart of Winter
also provides a hot key (ALT) that illuminates all doors and any items on
the ground. When the ALT key is held down, all doors and ground items
will be highlighted in blue, similar to the way containers are highlighted.
This key will not illuminate secret doors, triggers, or traps.

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SPELLS

The beginning of this section details some of the changes to the spells in
the Icewind Dale game (these updates are in place whether you have
installed Heart of Winter or not), and the second part of this section
details all the new spells in Heart of Winter.

HEART OF WINTER CHANGES TO
ICEWIND DALE SPELLS

Some spells in Icewind Dale will gain change once the Heart of Winter
expansion is installed. Some of the original Icewind Dale spells now have
alignment conditions, and the opposition schools for wizard classes have
also changed (see Table 4, p. 38).

Alignment

A few of the Icewind Dale spells will gain alignment conditions when Heart
of Winter expansion is installed. This means your character must either be
(or not be) a certain alignment in order to cast the spell. For example, a
spell that can only be cast by a “good” character could be cast by a Lawful
Good, Neutral Good or Chaotic Good character, but not by a character of
any other alignment.

The spells that have changed are as follows:

Raise Dead: Only non-evil characters can cast this spell.
Resurrection: Only good characters can cast this spell.
Heal: Only good characters can cast this spell.
Cure Critical Wounds: Only non-evil characters can cast this spell.

For more information on Alignment, refer to Alignments in the Icewind
Dale Manual, p.68.

Opposition Schools

The wizard opposition schools will change once the Heart of Winter is
installed (see Table 4, p. 38). Note that specialist wizards who have already
inscribed spells into their spell book from an opposition school while
playing the original game of Icewind Dale will not lose those spells. The
restriction only applies to spells the specialist wizard attempts to inscribe in
their spell book after the expansion is installed.

NEW SPELLS

Druids, clerics, and wizards have a selection of new spells available to them
in the Heart of Winter. Details of each spell are provided later on. Some
new spells found in Heart of Winter were inspired by those found in the
new Dungeons & Dragons rule system by Wizards of the Coast. These
spells were interpreted and modified to fit within the Icewind Dale series of
games, and are not officially documented within the 2nd Edition Advanced
Dungeons & Dragons rules.