This time revenge is not your motive; rather you are the leader of a team of adventurers looking for excitement. What starts out as mere adventuring turns into a race to stop two warring demigods from destroying the world. Icewind Dale is a classic RPG in the three-quarter or isometric view. Gameplay icons are located on the left, right and bottom of the screen. You may either click on the icons or use hotkeys to bring up desired menus, such as the inventory screen, maps and spell books.
Use the mouse to move your party from point to point. Because of the "fog of war" feature, only part of the play screen is uncovered at a time, so be careful as you dungeon crawl -- you never know what you may uncover.
This is an extremely linear story. There is no random wandering around the wilderness looking for things to do; it is always clear-cut as to what needs to be done next.
The one real advantage Icewind Dale has over other RPGs is the ability to create up to six player characters without having to create a multiplayer game. Since you do not have the luxury of picking up NPCs in Icewind Dale , take advantage of all six slots and create a group to your liking.
This way you get to customize your party to your particular play style. Select a team of heavy fighters or create a more balanced group with mages and clerics, but be sure to have a thief in your midst or the traps will kill you. You are led from chapter to chapter in much the same way that a dungeon master would lead you along. You start in the tutorial town of Easthaven, running from point to point and finding and retrieving various items for the townsfolk. Easthaven allows you to learn game basics quickly, such as moving and buying and selling gear.
From Easthaven you go to Kuldahar, where the real story begins. There the Archdruid Arundel, who becomes your mentor, will direct your first few missions; then you are abruptly left on your own.
Fortunately your path is always very clear. The constant dungeon-crawling will deter all but the most determined gamers, as your party is faced with legions of almost unbeatable foes and it takes a long time to build your party up to a decent level. Additionally, there are no peaceful ways to resolve conflict; almost everything will end in a battle unless your foes decide to run. This is fine, considering it is the only way to acquire better armor and weapons.
The only thing this game really lacks is a momentary pause alerting you to important information. Since combat is mostly done in real time, this information scrolls by quickly if you are not paying attention, so be sure to learn and use the pause feature.
Leveling up will automatically increase a character's hit points, grants spellcasters access to more spell slots including higher levels of magic, sometimes allows additional weapon proficiencies, and allows thieves to improve their thieving abilities.
In the town of Easthaven a party of adventurers resting in its tavern are met by the town's leader, Hrothgar voiced by Jim Cummings , who invites them to join him on an expedition to investigate the town of Kuldahar, after a messenger sent from there reported of strange happenings. On the road to Kuldahar, the expedition is ambushed by frost giants, who cause an avalanche, blocking the path back to Easthaven.
With only the adventurers surviving, they continue to Kuldahar and meet with Arundel Jim Cummings , the village's archdruid, who explains that a mysterious evil force has been kidnapping villagers, and causing abnormal weather patterns and monster behaviour, resulting in the magical warmth provided by the giant tree that the village resides under to begin to recede.
Asking for their help to discover the source of the evil before the tree dies, the adventurers begin by searching the Vale of Shadows, an area containing Kuldahar's crypts, due to rumours of undead creature sightings, but discover from a cursed barbarian spirit named Kresselack Tony Jay that the threat lies elsewhere. Reporting this back to the druid, Arundel instructs the group to retrieve an ancient scrying item called the Heartstone Gem, so he may discover the source of the evil more quickly.
After finding that the gem was stolen from a temple that the druid suspected it to be in, the party travel to the caverns of Dragon's Eye, finding a number of the missing villagers being held there by lizard men, and eventually finding the gem being used by powerful demonic creature named Yxunomei Tara Strong. After killing Yxunomei and retrieving the gem, the party return to find Kuldahar under attack, and that a shapeshifter disguised as Arundel had attacked the archdruid.
After the shapeshifter vanishes, the group find the real Arundel, who advises the party to take the Heartstone to Larrel Michael Bell at the fortress of the Severed Hand, the only one capable of using it now, before dying from his wounds.
Arriving at the fortress, the party discover that Larrel had gone insane, and aid him with a task he mentions, helping him to regain his sanity. Using the gem, Larrel discovers the source of the evil to reside in the former dwarven city of Dorn's Deep.
Fighting their way through the city, the group eventually come across the source of the evil in the form of a priest who came to the region — Brother Poquelin John Kassir. Poquelin reveals himself to be a demon who was exiled from his home realm by his superiors, and that both he and Yxunomei maintained a vendetta against each other that was getting out of control.
Predicting she would follow him to the material plane, the demon sought a base of operation in the region to form a military force that could crush her, and while doing so, stumbled upon the ancient artifact Crenshinibon, which he claims had been "calling" to him. Poquelin immediately used its power to help him amass an army that he planned to use in conquering the lands of Icewind Dale, until Yxunomei's activities around Kuldahar led to the formation of Hrothgar's expedition.
Seeking to stop it, the demon had his frost giant minions crush the expedition, but did not count on the adventurers' survival being a problem until they recovered the Heartstone Gem, forcing him to eliminate Arundel.
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