The Ruins of Undermountain is a 2nd-edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons boxed set for the Forgotten Realms.[1]
UNDERMOUNTAIN awaits you: the fabled and feared battleground of the Realms—"The Deepest Dungeon of them all."
DARE YOU FACE ... miles upon miles of deadly traps, glittering treasures, strange and cryptic rooms, and slithering, skulking, lurking monsters? They await you underneath Waterdeep!
UNDERMOUNTAIN is a dungeon setting for AD&D® 2nd Edition campaign play: the oldest, largest, and deadliest dungeon-crawl in the FORGOTTEN REALMS™ Campaign Setting. It is the place where intrepid adventurers endeavor to become veterans, to win a place among the rich and famous—if they survive its depths. Enter an endless maze where waiting death bears a thousand faces and treasures lie hidden in a thousand places.
It's just the setting for long-running, memorable, great AD&D game play, the perfect locale you'll never forget. So please, come in. Mind your step among the skulls. Oh, yes—good luck—you'll be needing it.
The RUINS OF UNDERMOUNTAIN Campaign Set includes:
- A 128-page book describing Undermountain, its history, its horrors, and details of the first three levels of the dungeon;
- A 32-page adventure book for use exclusively with Undermountain and Waterdeep;
- Four full-color maps of the vast and dangerous dungeon;
- Eight Monstrous Compendium pages of new monsters; and
- Eight durable cards loaded with traps, treasures, and trinkets to fill your dungeons.
Description[]
The Ruins of Undermountain describes Undermountain, the infamous über-dungeon of the Forgotten Realms. It is the first in what became a series of supplements about Undermountain.
The set comprises several components designed to enrich the dungeon-delving experience in Undermountain. Included are a 128-page booklet titled Campaign Guide to Undermountain, a 32-page booklet titled Undermountain Adventures, eight double-sided loose-leaf pages featuring monster statistics, eight double-sided heavy-stock cards serving as "adventure aids," and four color fold-out poster maps.
The Campaign Guide to Undermountain provides exhaustive details about the dungeon's history, its notorious non-player characters such as Halaster Blackcloak, and the spells and magic items to be discovered therein. It also offers comprehensive mapping keys to various locations within Undermountain and guidelines for expanding the dungeon and crafting future adventures.
The Undermountain Adventures booklet outlines seven distinct adventures tailored for the Undermountain setting but adaptable to other dungeons. Additionally, it includes a Monster Guide with stat blocks and descriptions of monsters unique to this set and details about the subterranean city of Skullport. The booklet's cover features art by Jeff Easley, with interior cartography by David Sutherland.
The monster sheets in the set detail eleven creatures in the Monstrous Compendium style.
The adventure aid cards are designed to assist the Dungeon Master by providing detailed information on traps, encounters, treasure, and other elements that can be integrated into ongoing adventures.
The included maps meticulously detail the first three levels of the Undermountain ruins, with the third level being so extensive that it occupies two of the poster maps.
Contents[]
- Campaign Guide to Undermountain
- Introduction
- The Known History of Undermountain
- The City Above
- The Yawning Portal
- Ways In and Out
- Gates of Undermountain
- Rumors of Undermountain
- General Notes on Undermountain
- Undermountain: Level One
- Undermountain: Level Two
- Undermountain: Level Three
- NPCs of Undermountain
- Relevant NPCs of Waterdeep
- Magic Items of Undermountain
- Spells In Undermountain
- How to Expand Undermountain
- Undermountain Adventures
- Starters
- Frying Pan & Fires
- Down in the Dungeon
- Adventure Hooks
- Monster Guide
- Skullport
- The Rat Hills
- Maps & Charts of Undermountain
Index[]
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Creatures[]
- baneguard • bat • brown mold • bugbear • carrion crawler • chimera • clay golem • crawling claw • drow • dung snake • ettercap • gargoyle • ghast • ghoul • giant centipede • giant weasel • giant gar • giant spider • gnoll • goblin • grell • guardian skeleton • helmed horror • hobgoblin • kobold • leucrotta • lurker above • mimic • necrophidius • neo-otyugh • ochre jelly • orc • peltast • rat • roper • rot grub • salamander • snake • spectre • spider, flying • stirge • stone golem • tentamort • trapper • vampyre • water weird • wereboar • wyvern
Magic[]
- Items
- blast scepter • bracers of defense • brooch of shielding • glim-gauntlet • greenstone amulet • horned ring • iron bands of Bilarro • medallion of ESP • ring of fire resistance • ring of mind shielding • ring of protection • ring of the ram • ring of regeneration • ring of spell turning • rod of absorption • stun sphere • vorpal • wand of paralyzation • whip of withering
Miscellaneous[]
- Food & Drink
- apple
- Plants
- scuud
- Professions
- moneylending
Gallery[]
Credits[]
- Campaign Guide to Undermountain
- Design: Ed Greenwood
- Editing: Steven E. Schend
- Box and Book Cover Art: Brom
- Interior Art: Karl Waller
- Graphic Design: Dee Barnett
- Cartography: Diesel, Steve Beck, and David Sutherland
- Production: Sarah Feggestad
- Typography: Gaye O'Keefe
- Undermountain Adventures
- Design: Ed Greenwood
- Editing: Jon Pickens and Steven E. Schend
- Cover Art: Jeff Easley
- Interior Art: Karl Waller
- Cartography: David Sutherland
- Graphic Design: Dee Barnett
- Production: Sarah Feggestad
- Typography: Gaye O'Keefe
Trivia[]
- This adventure was ranked the 17th greatest adventure of all time by Dungeon magazine for the 30th anniversary of the Dungeons & Dragons® game in 2004.[4]
Appendix[]
See Also[]
Notes[]
- ↑ This is derived from the date given in Cloak & Dagger for the death of Flaern Cragsmere, mentioned in the Undermountain Adventures booklet in this boxed set.
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References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Ed Greenwood (1991). “Campaign Guide to Undermountain”. In Steven E. Schend ed. The Ruins of Undermountain (TSR, Inc.), p. 2. ISBN 1-5607-6061-3.
- ↑ Steven E. Schend, Sean K. Reynolds and Eric L. Boyd (June 2000). Cloak & Dagger. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 99. ISBN 0-7869-1627-3.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood (1991). “Undermountain Adventures”. In Steven E. Schend ed. The Ruins of Undermountain (TSR, Inc.), p. 19. ISBN 1-5607-6061-3.
- ↑ Erik Mona, James Jacobs and the Dungeon Design Panel (November 2004). “The 30 Greatest D&D Adventures of All Time”. In James Jacobs ed. Dungeon #116 (Paizo Publishing, LLC) (116)., pp. 68–81.