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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8392389" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>Out of the Abyss makes a decent underdark sourcebook, with lots of cool underdark locations and random encounter tables. As an adventure though, I find it really lacking. It starts out with the PCs in a drow prison, which they have to escape, and the first half of the adventure is just trying to escape from the underdark. It gets very formulaic very quickly: you spend several days traveling, doing one random encounter after another until you reach the next city, immediately get captured by its inhabitants, learn that there’s a conflict between the city’s inhabitants as some of them have recently formed a weird cult, then a demon lord shows up and wrecks everything giving you an opportunity to escape. Rinse and repeat until you’ve been through all the major cities and then you finally get to leave. Then the plot demands that you gather support for an excursion back into the underdark to deal with the demon lord threat. I haven’t done the second half because the first half was so awful nobody wanted to go back, so the plot couldn’t continue.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 8392389, member: 6779196"] Out of the Abyss makes a decent underdark sourcebook, with lots of cool underdark locations and random encounter tables. As an adventure though, I find it really lacking. It starts out with the PCs in a drow prison, which they have to escape, and the first half of the adventure is just trying to escape from the underdark. It gets very formulaic very quickly: you spend several days traveling, doing one random encounter after another until you reach the next city, immediately get captured by its inhabitants, learn that there’s a conflict between the city’s inhabitants as some of them have recently formed a weird cult, then a demon lord shows up and wrecks everything giving you an opportunity to escape. Rinse and repeat until you’ve been through all the major cities and then you finally get to leave. Then the plot demands that you gather support for an excursion back into the underdark to deal with the demon lord threat. I haven’t done the second half because the first half was so awful nobody wanted to go back, so the plot couldn’t continue. [/QUOTE]

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