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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ruleslawyer" data-source="post: 3690172" data-attributes="member: 1757">Well worth it IMO. That said, I think that the first UM boxed set, the trilogy of UM adventures by Steven Schend, and the flavor text on remaining levels in the Waterdeep: City of Splendors book and the Expedition to Undermountain book are better than the second boxed set or the rest of EtUM. I'd use those as the core of your campaign.The original boxed set recommends 6th-8th level PCs; I'd say that this is a fine range. Waterdeep is a large, interesting, and relatively safe city (no Erelhei-Cinlu this!), so it has many opportunities for low-level adventuring. I'd use the city as the PCs' initial adventure site and "build up" Undermountain's reputation through rumors and the like (this is done quite effectively in the source material). Then, when the PCs enter Undermountain, the players will be trembling every step of the way, and you can get some nice tension and mystery going (especially if many of the rumors are, say, just plain wrong...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  ).</blockquote>