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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maldin" data-source="post: 5061267" data-attributes="member: 27170">The underdark was created, of course, with EGG's original GDQ series of 7 adventures from 1978 (and later repackaged as the GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders supermodule in 1986). In 1995, Carl Sargent's Night Below boxed set redefined the idea of an underdark campaign, and heralded the coming of the next generation of underdark adventure materials. However, the real grandfather to the underdark sourcebook was the highly underrated 1E Dungeoneer's Survival Guide, published in 1986. All underdark sourcebooks after it owe much to the totally new ground it opened up, and many of those later products can trace their history to ideas from that book that were greatly expanded upon.By coincidence, the latest update to my website, posted a mere 2 weeks ago (and still finishing up some of the last bits), is <a href="http://melkot.com/locations/underdark/underdark-region.html" target="_blank">a layered pdf map of the underdark beneath the World of Greyhawk</a> (and accompanying descriptions), combining the GDQ adventure series, the Night Below campaign setting, and the locations described in the Dungeoneer's Survival Guide. If you are thinking of running an underdark campaign in Greyhawk - using any of the sourcebooks described earlier in this thread, and using any edition of D&D - this regional-scale map could place it all in geographic context. For example, the Drow of the Underdark 3E sourcebook by our very own Ari Marmell/aka Mouseferatu could easily be used to flesh out Area 28 of my map. I haven't seen the new 4E book yet, but I'll have to check it out, and maybe include user notes on my webpage.Do click on the link to download the PDF. The map jpg image on the webpage really is just a glorified thumbnail for the layered, high-resolution map.Denis, aka "Maldin"Maldin's Greyhawk <a href="http://melkot.com" target="_blank">http://melkot.com</a>Loads of edition-independent Greyhawk goodness... maps, magic, mysteries, mechanics, and more!</blockquote>

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