Frost & Fur: The Explorer's Guide to the Frozen Lands (d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying)

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Everyone knows the arctic can be an unforgiving terrain. But there's much more to the wintry land than cold damage and snowstorms. In Frost & Fur, players and Game Masters alike will find a wealth of information about what the arctic has to offer...and how to survive it.

Inside you'll find new rules for environmental hazards, survival equipment, and the effects of cold on skills and spells. Discover a variety of cultures, both magical and mundane, and the prestige classes, races, creatures, and spells that are an integral part of their mythology.

Frost & Fur: the cure for the common cold!

Michael "Talien" Tresca is a writer, communicator, speaker, artist, and gamer. He has an 11-year-old D&D role-playing campaign, Welstar, which is one of the six worlds in RetroMUD and where many of his short stories take place. Michael has published three D20 modules: "Tsar Rising", "All the King's Men," and "The Dancing Hut" from MonkeyGod Enterprises. He has written numerous supplements, including "Frost and Fur" and "Abyss," also from MonkeyGod Enterprises, "Mercenaries: Born of Blood" from Otherworld Creations, and "Combat Missions" from Paradigm Concepts. Michael has also contributed to "Relics" from AEG and "The Iron Kingdoms World Guide" from Privateer Press.

Michael has also written magazine articles for D20 Weekly, Dragon Magazine, Imaginary Realities, The MUD Companion, Pyramid Magazine, RPGTimes, Scrollworks, and Spectre Press' Survival Kit series. He has reviewed a multitude of role-playing and computer games for Allgame.com, Gamers.com, RPG.net, and Talien and Maleficent's Bazaar. Michael has presented at various panels, including Bakuretsucon, Dragon*Con, and I-Con. When he's not writing, Michael can be found as his alter ego, Talien, on RetroMUD as an administrator.

Michael lives in Connecticut with his wife, who is an editor, and his cat, who is fluent in English.