D&D General Experiences with Empire of the Ghouls, Night Below, or Other Underdark Adventures?

Voadam said:

The 4e Underdark sourcebook has a very good reputation for evocative environments.

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Oh yeah, that one's great. I'm using it as the primary foundation for what the Underdark is like.

City of the Spider Queen was the big 3.0 underdark adventure. I remember criticisms of the time centering around how fragile the drow were for their CR as the 3e CR formulas balanced their spell resistance against the physical survivability of similar CR monsters so all the drow were lower level than other similar CR NPCs would have been to balance out their spell resistance defense and level was a huge component of toughness as it affected spell power, attack bonuses and so on.

Whizbang Dustyboots said:

My guess is Empire of the Ghouls is their canonical explanation: There were drow, but they're almost all gone now. (The Empire of the Ghouls makes a strong argument for the ghouls eventually conquering the entire planet.)

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This is exactly right. Despite what that tweet says, there are drow but they aren’t very many left. A playable drow race is included in the Underworld Player’s Guide that accompanies Empire of the Ghouls but they’re different to the standard D&D version.

If you’ve got any questions about Empire of the Ghouls, please fire away - I am the lead designer on the project.

This article is helpful and I’ve been writing up my own Empire of the Ghouls campaign on my blog.

Cheers!