RFI (Request for Ideas): Underdark Snippets

[not_me]

You have a party. They are going from point A to point B in the Underdark.

What nifty encounters, environments and challenges along the way have you used, seen used against you, thought of, know to look for, etc? I have created a bunch, but I'm guessing the EN collective has even more and wicked-er ones... muahahahahaha!

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[the Jester]

Deep gnomes!

 

[BiggusGeekus]

I typed in "cool cave" into Google and got this:

Neato


Anyway. Stuff.

Darkmantles

Black Pudding (fiendish template optional)

Some kind of underwater thing where they have to go underwater and come up again. Like the cave trail is U shaped and there's water at the bottom of the U. Oh and some kind of cave shark to attack the cleric

A combat with trolls or watever that starts to cause a cave-in. Give the party five rounds before all the rocks bash their skulls in. The first round will have dust followed by pebbles on up to rocks then SMASH!

You need the big underground crystal cave room. If you don't have it then it isn't really an underground adventure. Chuck in a couple of crystal monsters.

Oh, and yeah, like Jester said Svirfnel Sver Snivelbivel Deep Gnomes.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

They party encounters Dundee and his caravan of pack lizards. Dundee is a duergar/deep dwarf Underdark guide and wildlife expert who is hunting some big game.

Best played with an awful Australian accent and the personality of Steve Corwin, the Crocidile Hunter.

 

[Herobizkit]

Zombies.

Seriously.

Picture a whole "lost civilization" that is populated by semi-intelligent zombies who try and perform their daily schedule as if they weren't dead. And, of course, make their condition contagious... somehow...

You could crank out a whole adventure from this, as the PCs would delve into the Lost Temple of X (or whatever) and try and find a cause and a cure for the town's condition.

 

[MavrickWeirdo]

Have you looked at Monster Geographica: Underground ?

The only reason they don't use the word "underdark" in the title (in my opinion) is that it is not OGC.

 

[Stormborn]

The PCs have been traveling through some strangely twisting tunnels when they discover far too late that they are in the hive of sentient ants (formorians perhaps) who are currently in a running battle with their own undead!

A "Goblin" Market - a wandering market full of denizens from all over the underdark rulled by a unbreakable code of peace. The PCs can find all kinds of RP ops, and if there are any enemies who got away, or any relatives of defeated enemies, they just happen to be there. Make it very hard for them to keep the peace. Later, finding the market again can be an adventure, since it moves on some bizzare schedule that only certain leaders of the underdark know.

Underdark Prison! (was in an issue of Dungeon - nominally an addition ot city of the spider queen, but runable w/o that.) Home of the worst of the Mindflayer Outlaws, Drow Alienists, etc. currently experiancing a riot.

 

[not_me]

Cool, thanks everyone. I think I can mine some fun encounters out of this (no pun intended, of course, no, really!).

Olgar -- I'm not sure if my players wouldn't kill me if I tried this...

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