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AulayanDuerf
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 Posted - 05 Apr 2003 : 06:12:41
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Contents, as posted by Rich Baker to the Realms-L List.
Introduction
> How To Use This Book in Your Campaign
> What You Need to Play
Chapter 1: Races of the Underdark
> Chitine
> [Censored]
> Drow
> Duergar
> Gloaming
> Grimlock
> Kuo-toa
> Slyth
> Svirfneblin
> Other Character Races
> Age, Height, and Weight
Chapt 2: Regions and Feats
> Character Regions
> > Chitine
> > [Censored]
> > Gloaming
> > Grimlock
> > Kuo-toa
> > Slyth
> Character Feats
> > Axeshield
> > Bowslinger
> > Caustic Adaptation
> > Caver
> > Elfhunter
> > Enhanced Adhesive
> > Exotic Armor Proficiency
> > Extra Wild Shape
> > Familiar Spell
> > Graft Illithid Flesh
> > Highborn Drow
> > Improved Familiar
> > Improved Levitation
> > Lolth's Meat
> > Metanode Spell
> > Node Defense
> > Node Spellcasting
> > Node Store
> > Node Sensitive
> > Portal Sensitive
> > Stone Soul
> > Strong Mind
> > Tunnelfighter
> > Tunnelrunner
> > Underdark Immigrant
> > Wisdom Breeds Caution
Chapter 3: Prestige Classes
> Arachnemancer
> Cavelord
> Deep Diviner
> Drow Judicator
> Illithid Body Tamer
> [censored]
> Inquisitor of the Drowning Goddess
> Prime Underdark Guide
> Sea Mother Whip
> Shadowcrafter
> Vermin Keeper
> Yathchol Webrider
Chapter 4: Magic and Spells of the Underdark
> Lore of the Underdark
> Node Magic
> Portals
> New Domains
> > Balance Domain
> > Portal Domain
> > Watery Death Prestige Domain
> New Spells
> > Amorphous Form
> > Blindsight
> > Burrow
> > Burrow, Mass
> > Caltrops
> > Camouflage
> > Changestones
> > Clarity of Mind
> > Contagious Fog
> > Darkvision, Mass
> > Deeper Darkvision
> > Dehydrate
> > Drown
> > Drown, Mass
> > Earth Lock
> > Earth Shield
> > Eradicate Earth
> > Excavate
> > Hail of Stone
> > Locate Node
> > Mark of the Outcast
> > Mineralize Warrior
> > Node Door
> > Node Genesis
> > Node Lock
> > Portal Barricade
> > Portal Stabilization
> > Portal to Portal Redirect
> > Portal Reformat
> > Portal View
> > Reflective Disguise
> > Reflective Disguise, Mass
> > Rushing Waters
> > Sanctuary, Mass
> > Spiderskin
> > Stick
> > Stone Metamorphosis
> > Stone Metamorphosis, Greater
> > Stoneskin, Improved
> > Stone Shape, Greater
> > Stone Sphere
> > Tremorsense
> > Tunnel Swallow
> > Undermaster
> > Viscid Glob
> > Wall of Dispel Magic
> > Wall of Greater Dispel Magic
> > Weighed in the Balance
> > Word of Balance
Chapter 5: Equipment and Magic Items
> Adventuring Gear
> > Weapons
> > Armor
> > Other Equipment
> > Poison
> Magic Items
> Illithid Grafts
Chapter 6: Monsters of the Underdark
> All-Consuming Hunger
> Annihilator
> Arachnoid Mouther (arachnoid creature template)
> Baphitaur
> Chameleon Bugbear (chameleon creature template)
> Earth Glider
> Elder Brain
> Faerzress-infused Minotaur (faerzress infused creature template)
> Giant Cockroach
> Giant Maggot
> Ineffable Horror
> Kuo-toa Leviathan
> Lith
> Lurker
> Maur (Hunched Giant)
> Mindwitness (half-illithid creature template)
> Phaerlock
> Portal Drake
> Stone Flyer
> Stony Devil (mineral warrior template)
> Gloura
Chapter 7: Exploring the Underdark
> Geology and Environments of the Underdark
> Rocks and Rock Formations
> The Underdark Environment
> > Climate
> > Ecology
> Spelunking
> > Cramped Spaces
> > Climbing
> > Access
> Underdark Encounter Tables
> > Encounter Chance
> > How to Use the Tables
> > Uppderdark (Underground, Frontier)
> > Upperdark Wilds (Underground, Wilderness)
> > Middledark (Undergaround, Settled)
> > Middledark Wilds (Underground, Frontier)
> > Lowerdark (Underground, Wilderness)
> > Lowerdark Wilds (Underground, Desolate)
> An Underdark Primer
Chapter 8: Geography of the Underdark
> Underdark Domains
> [[Lots of entries, beginning with Ammarindar and ending with Yathchol. This chapter is about 80 pages or so.]]
Chapter 9: Adventures in the Underdark
> Dungeons in the Underdark
> Adventure Sites
> > Drowned Multum
> > Gduar's Garden
> > Shape of Water
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(Edited to add:)
From Rich Baker:
>>RB: No poster map, but there is an 11 by 17 map (a two-page spread) of the Underdark below all of Faerun, plus a number of city and site maps. Obviously, the 2-page spread can't show detail to the same degree that the poster map in Drizzt's Guide did (hey, it was a poster and it only covered western Faerun), but there are many, many details in areas outside the North and Shanatar that haven't ever been seen before.
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Edited by - AulayanDuerf on 05 Apr 2003 06:16:57
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AulayanDuerf
Acolyte
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Posted - 05 Apr 2003 : 06:14:32
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And, time for speculation.
It's thought the censored race is either the Derro (so thinks many on the EN World boards) or the Desmodu (So think many on the Realms list).
Aulayan
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Lord Rad
Great Reader
United Kingdom
2080 Posts |
Posted - 05 Apr 2003 : 09:36:10
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WOW!! Now thats what i like to see! Another perfect companion to get you in the mood with WotSQ!
Any ideas on release date? ::drooling::
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Lord Rad
"What? No, I wasn't reading your module. I was just looking at the pictures"
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Bookwyrm
Great Reader
USA
4740 Posts |
Posted - 05 Apr 2003 : 11:41:15
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| Why are there entries "[censored]" in the chapters? Did the forum think you were talking dirty? |
Hell hath no fury like all of Candlekeep rising in defense of one of its own.
Download the brickfilm masterpiece by Leftfield Studios! See this page for more. |
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AulayanDuerf
Acolyte
23 Posts |
Posted - 05 Apr 2003 : 20:47:10
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quote:
Any ideas on release date?
October of 2003.
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Why are there entries "[censored]" in the chapters? Did the forum think you were talking dirty?
Not Quite. Just as the posted ToC for Unapproachable East had censored areas, so does this. I'm guessing they're things meant to be a surprise, or top secret. (Or Rich Baker just likes keeping us all in suspense.) |
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zemd
Master of Realmslore
France
1103 Posts |
Posted - 05 Apr 2003 : 21:32:46
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This book seems awesome... maybe my players will have to go to the Underdark |
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Elrond Half Elven
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
322 Posts |
Posted - 05 Apr 2003 : 23:53:16
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This book looks like it is going to include alot of information, i am just surprised it hasnt been released already, with the Year of the Drow and all that Spider queen nonsense  . Ha! well actually the underdark is an execlent place to adventure, and the politics of the drow leads to intreging gaming. This looks like a very good accessory, but is it a Forgotten Realms book or just a genric D&D book. Also how does it fit in the the Year of the Drow?
Hanx
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while i pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-
While i nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
-The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe |
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AulayanDuerf
Acolyte
23 Posts |
Posted - 06 Apr 2003 : 00:59:09
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It's a Forgotten Realms book.
And, the Drow are only going to be a small part of it. Year of the Drow was last year. Since this'll cover (supposedly) the entire underdark, there'll be stuff with Illithids, Duergar, possibly normal Dwarves, Svirfneblin and others.
It's easy to forget that there are other realms/'nations' in the Underdark than the Drow, due to how TSR and WotC loved to write about Drow this and Drow that, but they are there and rather extensive.
I myself hope they tell more on Araumycos. The Great Fungus beneath the High Forest. |
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zemd
Master of Realmslore
France
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Posted - 06 Apr 2003 : 18:16:04
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quote:
Originally posted by Elrond Half Elven
But is it a Forgotten Realms book or just a genric D&D book.
The Underdark is only FR related. |
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