FREQUENCY: Rare
NUMBER APPEARING: 1-6
ARMOR CLASS: 5
MOVE: 6”/24"
HITDICE: ½
% IN LAIR: 15%
TREASURE TYPE: Q
NO. OF ATTACKS: 1
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 1-3
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Spells
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Invisibility; immune
to cold
MAGIC RESISTANCE: 30%
INTELLIGENCE: High
ALIGNMENT: Neutral (good)
SIZE: S (1’ tall)
 

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1st Edition AD&D

Often called “snow fairies” or “snow
pixies,” these small, mischievous beings inhabit
forests and fields during the winter,
migrating northward in the spring to the far
ice and snow. They may go invisible at will,
but cannot attack invisibly.

Frosts may use a Cone of Cold of 3d8
value once per day (same dimensions as
Cold Wand), Control Temperature within a
10’ radius (12th-level ability) as desired.
When invisible, they may use Frost Fingers
twice per day (as Burning Hands in all respects
except it causes frostbite, freezes
liquids; 12th-level ability), and one creature
in six may use Otiluke’s Freezing Sphere
once per day, at 18th-level ability.

Frosts rarely attack any being except
patently evil beings like trolls and orcs, and
gain much enjoyment from playing tricks of a
harmless nature on wanderers in the woods
(dropping snow from above, creating
patches of ice, changing the temperature
abruptly, etc.)

If carefully approached, they may render
help to passers-by and give directions. If encountered
and only one is present, it will be
of the most powerful sort and have maximum
(4) hit points.

Frosts appear as diminutive elven-like
creatures with whirring, bee-like wings. They
have white or silvery hair and eyes, pale skin,
and dress in green or silver garments. They
speak their own language, Common, Pixie,
Sprite, and Sylvan Elven, as well as their
alignment tongue.

Frosts appear as diminutive elven-like
creatures with whirring, bee-like wings. They
have white or silvery hair and eyes, pale skin,
and dress in green or silver garments. They
speak their own language, Common, Pixie,
Sprite, and Sylvan Elven, as well as their
alignment tongue.