The underdark is a huge set of caverns, tunnels spanning the entire world, and the below tables detail some of the encounters you may have in this frightening place. Basically the underdark connects some of the various surface encounters. The information is pretty huge and is about 20 pages long. Eels are common throughout the lakes, seas and oceans of the world, so it is no surprise that they would be encountered within the underdark. If youre reluctant to spend that kind of money, drivethrurpg has night below available in pdf, and reprints in both paperback and hardcover. The pcs start as beginning adventurers on a routine courier mission who soon become drawn into combating a sinister plot that menaces the pleasant land of haranshire. This is one of the best of the colossal tsr boxed sets this one will take your pcs from levels 1 to 10, with over 200 hours of play time. As such, he has become one of the best scouts of the deep gnomes with keen senses, quick reflexes and an imperceptible sixth sense when it comes to self preservation. This region of greyhawks underdark is detailed in carl sargents wonderful boxed set night below.
The first table is an optional modifier table, used to spice up the other three if necessary. Shop for vinyl, cds and more from underdark at the discogs marketplace. Jun 16, 2016 designed by peter lee, rodney thompson, and andrew veen, and produced by gale force nine, tyrants of the underdark is a competitive board game in which you play as a drow house recruiting monsters, cultists and demons to aid you in controlling locations such as menzoberranzan and blingdenstone. I found out i had a pdf of night below that i must have came. I was the editor of eric boyds exhaustively detailed 2nd edition sourcebook, drizzt dourdens guide to the underdark. It is really detailed and fleshed out, and yet leaves plenty of room to either incorporate your own ideas or to incorporate this into your own campaign. Night below seems to be available in pdf form online reddit i know when i first checked a while ago it was nowhere to be found like matt says in his starter videos. Game content and materials are trademarks and s of their respective publisher and its licensors. Activity guide for written by lisa wheeler illustrated by ivan bates being able to predict what will happen next separates the good readers from those who struggle. The set, with the product code tsr 1125, was published in 1995, and was written. Though underdark realms had been featured in adventures and setting books alike, night below was the first extensive campaign set beneath the earth. Each ferry they find can transport up to eight members of the expeditionary force. Survival guide into a single massive deepoerth campaign setting. The night below is, in brief, a complete campaign setting designed to move characters from introductory standing and first level up to the teens, complete with some backstory, interaction with politics and a whole lot of hackin and slashin.
The region most widely known as the underdark is an entire world beneath the feet of the surface dwellers of faerun. Advanced dungeons and dragons, 2nd edition planescape. What the granddaddy of roleplaying games is learning. Two new fighting styles for fighters, paladins, and rangers. Night below is an excelent campaign, taking a party from 1st to 10th level or beyond by the end of its third book. With some modification, they are compatible with sciencefiction games and modern military role playing in games. Check out this sweet timelapse of our 3 room night.
Hey all i was wondering if anyone can help me out i want to run night below. Shocking void hosts weekly events for all players to participate in. Main page, the most detailed area of my home campaign is the city of melkot. Staff 1995, hardcover at the best online prices at ebay. The night below box set also came out at that time. About 70% of the adventure takes place on the surface. Geldar is a young deep gnome who often wanders outside his home searching for new wonders throughout the underdark, much to the chagrin of his elders. The pdf comes with a vast array of bookmarks, indexes for statblocks and the different layout styles further help with navigation. The sunless sea, 26 photocopyable player handouts on 16 sheets, an eightpage monstrous compendium supplement, eight referee reference cards, three doublesided fullcolor maps with tactical maps on the reverse suitable for use with. Now, as you know if youve ever purchased an aawmodule, the cartography by todd gamble and jonathan nelson, quite extensive and improved from the already great original pieces, is simply stunning. An errie music track i scored for anyone who is making an underdark module to give atmosphere to some deep cave exploration and unexpected drow involvement. I remember being astonished at a campaign starting out characters at relatively low level in an underdark campaign, which was usually the playground of highlevel pcs. An underdark campaign, often known as night below, is a boxed set for the.
A set of tables for generating encounters in the underdark. The set, with the product code tsr 1125, was published in 1995, and was written by carl sargent, with box cover art by jeff easley. Underdark materials, or seek out duergar or kuotoa ferries for hire. Underdark includes details on the most popular underdark race, the drow, plus 16 other below ground character races.
Vortex the powerful opensource mod manager from nexus mods. Chapter 3 contains information on navigating the darklake. Because matt talks about night below quite a bit on his youtube videos, quite a few members of that subreddit also discuss night below on a regular basis. This page was last edited on 8 january 2016, at 12. Tsr 01125 night below an underdark campaign internet archive. Not to make you aggrieved, here is some crucial info. Menzoberranzan, the dreaded city of spiders, is only one of the hidden cities of the underdark. The underdark campaign will unlock for players who are at level 70 and have completed the featured quest series, the dwarven king, written by r. Although often seen as a food staple for the civilized races of the underdark, these eels are in and of themselves predators and they will eat all manner of creatures, sentient or otherwise. An underdark campaign 1995, a massive boxed adventure path.
There is a good adventure which is partially in the underdark, vault of larin karr. If the expeditionary force splits up, check for random encounters with each group separately. These aberrants abhor most humanoids and fight with a belief that their home was taken from them unjustly. Gaardians text searchable map of the underdark vi accessible version chaos. Night below is a boxed set that includes three 64page books book i. Night below seems to be available in pdf form online reddit. In addition to 25 new regional feats as well as new prestige classes, spells, monsters, and magic items, there is also background content on 60 cities and sites of interest, including extensive story content gathered from a. Aberrants the underdark beneath findalay teems with all manner of aberrant creatures looking to take the lives of the folk of quatus. This vast world beneath the surface is home to fabled races such as beholders, cloakers, drow, illithids, and ixzan. The tilesets which came with the hordes of the underdark expansion pack were used in several persistent worlds, most notably escape from the underdark. Oct 01, 2003 underdark includes details on the most popular underdark race, the drow, plus 16 other below ground character races.
An expansion pack based on the underdark setting was released for the neverwinter nights game series, titled neverwinter nights. This months installment of unearthed arcana features a number of new character options ideal for an underdark campaign. Apr 14, 2015 underdark is an excellent resource for exploration of the subterranean world, offering additional mechanics that complement those found in this book. Woot which are sold by the seller specified on the product detail page. The underdark denizens locales deities art gallery underdark links related products. An underdark campaign 1995 is clearly intended as a reinvention of gary gygaxs original series of d adventures. Of environmental daynight cycles in modulating cell cycle progres. Aug 20, 2012 4shared forgotten realms d20 shared folder free file sharing, 49,384 kb, file. These tunnels and caverns are typically five to 20 miles below the surface, and have very few connections to either the deepest of those shallow diggings known as dungeons, or with the surface of the realms. One of this periods plentiful publications was of particular note night below. I know it exist because it was sold on drivethru for awhile.
It is the home of horrific monsters that have never seen the light of day. The underdark as you enter the underdarkeither through irenicus portal or via the sahuagin cityyou will get another little cutscene of irenicus with some drow, and then chapter five will begin. You have been traveling with them for a few days now ever since you met them in the free city of greyhawk. The underdark at oblivion nexus mods and community. The underdark is an enormously widespread network of natural and constructed tunnels that run under the lands of the forgotten realms. Night below an underdark campaign experienced gm seeks 67 brave souls for a weekly romp to the darkest depths of the underdark. The setting is well established from the beginning, giving the pcs a place to base their adventures and a megaplot that really lasts for the whole of the module. It is here that the dark elf gromph baenre, archmage of menzoberranzan, casts a foul spell meant to ignite a magical energy that suffuses the underdark and tears open portals to.
Night below seems to be available in pdf form online i know when i first checked a while ago it was nowhere to be found like matt says in his starter videos. The pcs start as beginning adventures on a routine courier mission, who soon become drawn into combating a sinister plot that menaces the pleasant land of haranshire. This is also visible in many published adventures, especially in a personal favorite, night below, created by carl sargent. Like that primordial campaign, night below is set in a peopled underdark with monstrous. May 06, 2014 the underdark is teeming with dangers unlike any on canus known surface. However, it now seems easily available under the name of an underdark campaign.
The darkness of oblivion its not just beyond a door anymore. The underdark is a subterranean wonderland, a vast and twisted labyrinth where fear reigns. An underdark campaign, often known simply as night below. Experience it you will never forget it unique intense dark atmosphere with weather types, distinct day night, intense storms, distant atmospheric land. Designed to be fit into any campaign world, dms who wish to use it in their world of greyhawk should find that its placement here is particularly parsimonious, as many greyhawk community sages tend to agree. Similarly the late 3e drow of the underdark 2007 was more generic.
This box set detailed a fourteenlevel adventure path set in a new underdark region. Available again for a limited time, this huge adventure is packed with plots, subplots, sinister conspiracies, and action on a grand scale. Underdark, shifts the scene underground as the characters search the. Drizzt dourdens guide to the underdark 2e wizards of. Eric, as forgotten realms fans know, is a detail nut. The ability to develop a player group from level one to potentially level 15 with no drop. If your adventure is taking place there, it would help you a lot. Contains all of the maps, descriptions, characters, and encounters to run a complete campaign that goes from a simple ambush and investigation to an organized military strike against large factions in.
Underdark night below book one the neverwinter vault. Night below, the first epic campaign adventure for the add game. I remember my dm spent like 4 hours right before the game getting things ready for an encounter with illithids that were leading a slave caravan or something it has been a long time and my party and i were so terrified we fled the underdark entirely and never went back. An underdark campaign, often known simply as night below, is a boxed set for the second edition of the advanced dungeons dragons fantasy. It includes most of the underdark races that you would expect to see but is very light on drow. Introduction towns of the outlands is a collection of six fully populated, predominantly human habitations designed to be compatible with any of the currently available fantasy role playing games. Products on are sold by woot llc, other than items on gourmet. When asked how the designers dealt sorting through years worth of publications on the underdark to create a more definitive sourcebook, jeff quick responded. Night below seems to be available in pdf form online.
Help the denizens of the underdark stop the flow of demons from the abyss. There, the wizard gordrenn hired you all to act as couriers. The underdark the realm of northdark at oblivion nexus. The night below is by far my favorite campaign settingadventure i have ever played throgh or dmed. This was one of the boxed campaigns that tsr published at that time and was originally intended to invoke the same atmosphere as the old dseries did. Inhabited by monstrous and evil creatures that shun the daylight, the underdark teems with entire cities and nations of derro, drow, duergar, and mind flayers. Like that primordial campaign, night below is set in a peopled underdark with monstrous cities and entire civilizations beneath the earth. Spell compendium includes domains and spells used by various npcs presented in this book, and book of vile darkness offers additional rules suitable for this evil race. The original mod author has returned and wants to continue this mod, please watch aoikanis profile for future updates for the underdark. The denizens of the underdark are ready to start their business.
One dark night is the perfect book to introduce the skill of prediction to young children. Beginning in the dark and savage borderland wilds of the world above, the neophyte heroes will soon find themselves embroiled in a sinister, worldendangering demonic intrigue by the end of the campaign, theyll be battling the darkest forces of the. The pcs start as beginning adventures on a routine courier mission who soon become drawn into combating a sinister plot that menaces the pleasant land of haranshire. I dont however want to buy the physical copy, i want to buy the pdf only problem is i cant seem to find it. Im sure there have been conversions, or links to same, posted. Furthermore there is tons of material about the underdark.
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