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Cards77
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Posted - 12 Nov 2025 : 19:26:40
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Hello, looking for suggestions of further Underdark DM resources.
Could you please suggest any other sources that can help with preparation?
The players wish to find, clear and map an underground trade route between Silverymoon and Mithral Hall.
I have with me: 3e Underdark Races of Stone Caves and Caverns (Raging Swan) Drizzt's Guide to the Underdark Drow of the Underdark City of the Spider Queen - this group already ran it
After a 5 year break I am feeling very very rusty as a DM.
I do not want this to be a boring slog through bland caves, and I am not the most creative DM.
I have not looked at any available 3rd party sources in many years.
Hoping to save time by asking here. Thank you!
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Edited by - Cards77 on 12 Nov 2025 19:28:07
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Lord Karsus
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Posted - 12 Nov 2025 : 23:08:39
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-Found this cool map which is semi-interactive and can toggle between overland and underdark. It definitely is not as expansive as information from those aforementioned books regarding what can be found in the area, but it gives a pretty useful scale toggling back and forth between what can be found above and below.
https://forgottenmaps.web.app/map/Faerun |
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Cards77
Senior Scribe
  
USA
753 Posts |
Posted - 13 Nov 2025 : 04:59:34
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quote: Originally posted by Lord Karsus
-Found this cool map which is semi-interactive and can toggle between overland and underdark. It definitely is not as expansive as information from those aforementioned books regarding what can be found in the area, but it gives a pretty useful scale toggling back and forth between what can be found above and below.
https://forgottenmaps.web.app/map/Faerun
i was just thinking about how I was going to do this.
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TBeholder
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Posted - 13 Nov 2025 : 11:54:35
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quote: Originally posted by Lord Karsus
-Found this cool map which is semi-interactive and can toggle between overland and underdark.
Cool. Thanks!
quote: Originally posted by Cards77
i was just thinking about how I was going to do this.
My approach was to combine them in a format with layers (import both maps as layers, scale the larger one down, move to overlay properly, save). I now open it in GIMP and change opacity of the upper layer as needed. Not very convenient, of course, but semi-transparency has its advantages. |
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TomCosta
Forgotten Realms Designer
   
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Posted - 13 Nov 2025 : 15:29:54
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