Drow of the Underdark
Drow of the Underdark is the name of two supplemental rules books for D&D, providing supplementary game rules focusing on drow culture, equipment, and folklore for both players and DMs.
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons second edition
[edit | edit source]| The Drow of the Underdark | |
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| Code/Abbr.: | DotU (DotU2e) |
| Edition: | second edition |
| Creators | |
| Author: | Ed Greenwood |
| Cover artist: | Jeff Easley |
| Interior artist(s): | Tim Bradstreet, Rick Harris |
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| Publisher: | TSR, Inc. |
| Publish date: | July 1991 |
| Misc | |
| Pages: | 128 |
| ISBN: | 1-56076-132-6 |
The Drow of the Underdark was written by Ed Greenwood for use with second edition and focuses primarily on the drow of the Forgotten Realms. The book features cover art by Jeff Easley, and interior art by Tim Bradstreet and Rick Harris.[1]
Most notably, this sourcebook mentions the drow houses of the Vault of the Drow, and shows house symbols for those houses.[2]
This book details the nature of dark elves, dark elven society, drow religion (including Eilistraee, Ghuanadar/The Elder Elemental God, Lolth, and Vhaeraun), the high history of the drow, as well as spells, magic items, craftwork, languages, nomenclature, and dark elven runes. This book also details the Underdark of the Forgotten Realms, as well as several monsters of the Underdark (including the myrlochar and the yochlol).
Dungeons & Dragons third edition
[edit | edit source]| Drow of the Underdark | |
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| General information | |
| Code/Abbr.: | DotU (DotU3e) |
| Edition: | Third edition |
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| Author: | Ari Marmell, [Anthony Pryor, Robert J. Schwalb, Greg A. Vaughan |
| Editor(s): | Wizards of the Coast |
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| Publish date: | May 2007 |
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| Pages: | 224 |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7869-4151-3 |
Drow of the Underdark was written for use with third edition, and is not tied to any specific campaign setting. The book's format and contents are similar to that of Draconomicon, Libris Mortis, and Lords of Madness.
Although primarily intended for DM use,[3] players can use information from the book to play as a drow character or half-drow character, as well as to fight against drow, or to adventure in the Underdark in general.
This book was designed by Ari Marmell, Anthony Pryor, Robert J. Schwalb, and Greg A. Vaughan. It features cover art by Francis Tsai, and interior art by Steve Ellis, Wayne England, Lars Grant-West, Tomás Giorello, Carlo Bocchio|Jackoilrain, William O'Connor, Richard Sardinha, Beth Trott, Francis Tsai, Franz Vohwinkel, Eva Widerman, and James Zhang.[3]
Contents
[edit | edit source]- All About Drow
- The first chapter contains general information about drow and contains few rules other than drow racial traits. A guide to drow names and their meanings is also included.
- Drow Options
- This chapter contains new uses for various skills, new feats (including general, metamagic, ambush, divine, vile, and weapon style feats), alternate class features for many classes, and new spells and invocations (some of which require the user to be a drow).
- Prestige Classes
- New prestige classes in this chapter include Arachnomancer, Cavestalker, Demonbinder, Dread Fang of Lolth Eye of Lolth, Insidious Corrupter, and Kinslayer. Each prestige class also contains a sample NPC ready for quick use.
- Drow Equipment
- This chapter contains new mundane, alchemical, and magic items, along with poisons, magic-infused poisons, and artifacts
- New Monsters and NPCs
- Numerous new monsters are presented in Drow of the Underdark, including the deep dragon, trolls, goblins, and draegloth. There are also numerous ready-to-use drow NPC statistics, both for "generic" NPCs (such as "drow slaver") and "specific" NPCs (like Xil'Etha Dhuvvaryl). Statistics for one monster, the vril, were accidentally left out of the book.[4]
See also
[edit | edit source]- Underdark (2003, Wizards of the Coast)
References
[edit | edit source]Citations
[edit | edit source]- ↑ FOR2 The Drow of the Underdark (1991).
- ↑ FOR2 The Drow of the Underdark (1991), p.108.
- ↑ a b Drow of the Underdark (2007), p.5.
- ↑ Drow of the Underdark Errata: The Vril Warrior (2007-05-04).Archived. Accessed: 2021-11-07.
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- Marmell, Ari, Anthony Pryor, Robert J. Schwalb and Greg A. Vaughan. Drow of the Underdark. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2007. Item code 95726.
- Ed Greenwood. Drow of the Underdark. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1991. Item Code:9326 (FOR2) ISBN: 1-56076-132-6
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Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index
The Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index (EGI) is based on previous work of Jason Zavoda through '08, continued by numerous other fans. The EGI article has a list of sources, product names, abbreviations, and a link to the full, downloadable index.
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| FOR02 Drow of the Underdark | Adventure | DMGR4 - Monster Mythology | 60 |