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Crimson_King_of_the_Tower
Acolyte
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 Posted - 01 Aug 2013 : 19:07:19
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Hello all i was thinking aobut making a portion of my campaign in the Underdark and wanted to know what some good source materials were does anyone know if there was ever a random encounter table or anything for the underdark in 2nd ed. And what would be some good non monster random encounters (i.e.) a shipwreck in a large underground lake system the size of the great lakes) things of that nature thanks in advance for any info and help
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Hoondatha
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 01 Aug 2013 : 20:58:18
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I don't think encounter tables were ever published for the Underdark, but it's an interesting idea. Part of the problem is that a lot of the Underdark monsters all have rare/very rare ratings, which skews the table. Also, you'd need to have separate encounter tables by depth, at the very least.
As for your non-monster encounter ideas, here are a couple of ideas off the top of my head:
* Merchant caravan (drow, duergar, svirfneblin)
* Mining expedition and/or encampment (duegar, svirfneblin, dwarf)
* Pocket of explosive, non-breathable gas
* Watering hole (drinkable, poisonous)
* Gate to Demiplane of Shadow (lowerdark only)
* Remains (adventurers, miners, merchants, war party; skeletal to just killed)
* Cliff (have to scale up/down to continue)
* Field of mushrooms (edible, toxic, hallucinogenic)
* River
* Magma flow (for extra nastiness, have it melting its way through the ceiling)
* Abandoned tower (once residence of exiled drow wizard; amount of treasure/traps open to DM)
Anyway, those are a couple of ideas. I'm sure others will come up with others, and I might as well. |
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Crimson_King_of_the_Tower
Acolyte
USA
31 Posts |
Posted - 01 Aug 2013 : 21:38:23
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| Thats awesome i really appreciate the help yea ive been on this unerdark kick lately since i started playing a remake of an old pc game i use to play called Avernum it all takes place undergroung |
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Hoondatha
Great Reader
USA
2450 Posts |
Posted - 01 Aug 2013 : 23:21:16
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| I love Avernum. I haven't played any of the more recent games, but I started out with the original Exile, and played it up through Exile 3. I need to track them down again. I sure hope he still offers guide books; the Exile games were practically impossible without them (enormously fun, but incredibly hard). |
Doggedly converting 3e back to what D&D should be...
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Kris the Grey
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 02 Aug 2013 : 00:12:33
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| Random encounter tables for 2E Underdark can be found in the Menzoberranzan Boxed Set as part of the adventure therein. However, there is a much better 3E tables (which you can just use 2E monster stats for) in the 3E Underdark supplement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underdark_(supplement)). |
Kris the Grey - Member in Good Standing of the Watchful Order of Magists and Protectors, the Arcane Guild of Silverymoon, and the Connecticut Bar Association |
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Crimson_King_of_the_Tower
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 02 Aug 2013 : 02:02:03
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| @Hoondantha yea i did as well played exile 3 shareware version and i just got the humble bundle all 17 games he makes for 5 dollars so ive been playing it alot and Ty Kris ill try and track that down that helps |
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Hoondatha
Great Reader
USA
2450 Posts |
Posted - 04 Aug 2013 : 18:44:00
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| I just picked up the 2e Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume 2 at a used book sale, and as I was flipping through I saw that there was a whole bunch of updated encounter tables in the back. One of them, on page 124, is for underground. So I stand corrected, 2e did publish an underdark encounter table. |
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Crimson_King_of_the_Tower
Acolyte
USA
31 Posts |
Posted - 05 Aug 2013 : 18:29:19
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| Oh very awesome I will go check that out right now thank you! |
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Hoondatha
Great Reader
USA
2450 Posts |
Posted - 03 Sep 2013 : 23:00:22
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Found another one. In Dragon #152 they have an entire page of random encounter tables for the underground. There's one large one, then several breakout tables (ie: jellies, undead, water-filled, intelligent creatures). They even have separate tables for if you're close to a drow or svirfneblin city.
It's sort of edition 1.5, as Dragon was in the process of moving from 1e to 2e, but I think most if not all the critters were statted up as part of all three editions. |
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Zireael
Master of Realmslore
Poland
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Posted - 09 Sep 2013 : 10:17:37
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| I recall a drow-themed site with homebrew Underdark encounters table, too. Descent into Darkness maybe? |
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Cards77
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 10 Sep 2013 : 17:31:56
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| Also there is I believe and underground encounter table in the 3rd ED FR DM Screen. The booklet called "Encounters in Faerun". |
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Cards77
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 10 Sep 2013 : 17:44:44
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| The 3rd edition Underdark supplement has encounter tables starting on page 113 |
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
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Posted - 12 Sep 2013 : 14:44:19
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A stampeding herd of Rothé to get out of the way of.
A lost wandering mind slave of an illithid.
An underwater tunnel that the PCs must swim through to get to their destination.
A tunnel with falling stalactites to avoid. |
Karsite Arcanar (Most Holy Servant of Karsus)
Anauria - Survivor State of Netheril as penned by me:
http://www.dmsguild.com/m/product/172023 |
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
3054 Posts |
Posted - 12 Sep 2013 : 14:44:55
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A stampeding herd of Rothé to get out of the way of.
A lost wandering mind slave of an illithid.
An underwater tunnel that the PCs must swim through to get to their destination.
A tunnel with falling stalactites to avoid. |
Karsite Arcanar (Most Holy Servant of Karsus)
Anauria - Survivor State of Netheril as penned by me:
http://www.dmsguild.com/m/product/172023 |
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