A group of the common fauna here are chased into the path of the party by one of the larger monsters

You can’t tell if a distant howl is the wind or…something more fearsome

The wind alone is colder than anything you’ve ever felt

You interupt a cult conducting a ritual

Led by one Cult Fanatic and including 5 Cultists

A druid tends to a wounded monster

Use one of the monsters below. Use the druid stats. If the characters help, the druid gives them a vial of antitoxin or a healing potion. If they do not help or appear antagonistic, the creature attacks and the druid will not help them.

One of the Level 5-10 monsters below breaks through some landscape feature into the path of the party

It is fighting 5 of one of the Level 1-4 monsters listed below.

3d4 folk running away from a monster listed below

Use the commoner stats for them.

A trail of blood in the snow stops abruptly

Three old soldiers emerge into view

They seem to be lost. As if they fought in a war a century ago and have never made it home. Use the Veteran stats.

Humanoid footprints in the snow lead in every direction

Outcroppings of stone seem to display ancient runes beneath the ice that covers them

Snow flurries all around you but doesn’t seem to be falling from the sky