Underdark Overview, aka Return of Drow Weaponry
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Wraithdrit
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The drow are only a sliver of the info on the book. Lots of stuff on all the other underdark races. The drow are a prominent race, but WotC said from the beginning that this is not a DROW book but an underdark book. Lots of Kuo-toa info, lots of illithid info, etc.
Example, two different kuo-toa specific prestige classes.
Race section has info on Chitine, Deep Imaskari, Duergar, Gloaming, Grimlock, Kuo-toa, Slyth, and Svirfneblin as well as quick ECL guides to play Derro, Mind Flayer (ECL 15!), Minotaur, Orog, Quaggoth, Tanarukk, and Trogs.
Really my mind is drow centric since I am running CotSQ, so it probably flavored my skimming, check it out for yourself.
Oh and I would rate the quality of the map 'good' for an inbook map, and by looking I would say a majority of the features are non-drow.
Example, two different kuo-toa specific prestige classes.
Race section has info on Chitine, Deep Imaskari, Duergar, Gloaming, Grimlock, Kuo-toa, Slyth, and Svirfneblin as well as quick ECL guides to play Derro, Mind Flayer (ECL 15!), Minotaur, Orog, Quaggoth, Tanarukk, and Trogs.
Really my mind is drow centric since I am running CotSQ, so it probably flavored my skimming, check it out for yourself.
Oh and I would rate the quality of the map 'good' for an inbook map, and by looking I would say a majority of the features are non-drow.
Wraithdrit
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Derro are listed as an other race to be played. They are 3 hit with a +1 level adjustment, meaning total beginning ECL of 4. Favored class Sorceror.
The map is in book, not pull out or fold up or anything. It will certainly due for its purpose (to locate Underdark features under realms features). It has the realms really dark beneath it and has the Underdark stuff printed on top.
The map is in book, not pull out or fold up or anything. It will certainly due for its purpose (to locate Underdark features under realms features). It has the realms really dark beneath it and has the Underdark stuff printed on top.
Simulacrum
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I will buy the book just for the info on the Imaskari.
They are my favorite *race* since I got into FR.
Interesting to read that there is a PrC for them.
Can you tell me what the Deep Imaskar PrC is?
What is the PrC like and what are the benefits?
They are my favorite *race* since I got into FR.
Interesting to read that there is a PrC for them.
Can you tell me what the Deep Imaskar PrC is?
What is the PrC like and what are the benefits?
Wraithdrit
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Actually the Deep Imaskari are the race. The PrC is called the Imaskari Vengeance Taker.
The Deep Imaskari get a +2 int, -2 dex. The have a spd of 30 ft, are medium size, have low-light vision, spell clutch (recall a 1st level spell 1/day), and +4 hide underground. Their favored class is wizard.
The Vengeance Taker is a rogue/arcane cross over class. It gets poison use, sneak attack, arcane casting (every other level), death attack, far sense (like clairaudience/clairvoyance), seeker (divination), scry target and Target of Vengence.
The last one is the really big part of the class. Damage bonus vs that target of 1+class level (it says 2 + 1 for each additional level of the class... same difference). Rituals taking a day to declare a target and new target may be declared after old one dies or after three days of rituals are done to get rid of the old one.
Note, other than sneak attack, most of the class abilities (scry, death attack, etc) are only usable on the Target of Vengeance.
The Deep Imaskari get a +2 int, -2 dex. The have a spd of 30 ft, are medium size, have low-light vision, spell clutch (recall a 1st level spell 1/day), and +4 hide underground. Their favored class is wizard.
The Vengeance Taker is a rogue/arcane cross over class. It gets poison use, sneak attack, arcane casting (every other level), death attack, far sense (like clairaudience/clairvoyance), seeker (divination), scry target and Target of Vengence.
The last one is the really big part of the class. Damage bonus vs that target of 1+class level (it says 2 + 1 for each additional level of the class... same difference). Rituals taking a day to declare a target and new target may be declared after old one dies or after three days of rituals are done to get rid of the old one.
Note, other than sneak attack, most of the class abilities (scry, death attack, etc) are only usable on the Target of Vengeance.
Wraithdrit
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Gloamings are planetouched beings descendant from natives or toril and the plane of shadows. Pale skinned humanoid with catlike eyes and furry wings. Skin is naturally luminescent, though the gloaming can control its level of illumination from none to as bright as a torch.
Slyth are humanoid shapechangers thought to be genasi descended from human pairings with earth and water elementals. They can assume an amorphous (read blob!) form as a standard action. In that form they are immune to crits, can not be flanked, etc. Can not attack in that form but is nearly fluid and boneless, enabling passage through small holes and narrow openings as small as 2 inches in diameter. Assuming normal form is a full round action that does not provoke an AoO. Can use amorphous form only 10 minutes/level. They can also breathe underwater.
Slyth are humanoid shapechangers thought to be genasi descended from human pairings with earth and water elementals. They can assume an amorphous (read blob!) form as a standard action. In that form they are immune to crits, can not be flanked, etc. Can not attack in that form but is nearly fluid and boneless, enabling passage through small holes and narrow openings as small as 2 inches in diameter. Assuming normal form is a full round action that does not provoke an AoO. Can use amorphous form only 10 minutes/level. They can also breathe underwater.
Simulacrum
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Hmpf the PrC is not what I expected......doesnt sound very appealing. I hoped for something funkier. Anyway what is the Vengeance Taker for? What is the background of this PrC....the Netherese?
Do they send them to kill of Netherese survivors?
Or to scare the shýt out of the other underdark races not to mess with the Imaskari?
Do they send them to kill of Netherese survivors?
Or to scare the shýt out of the other underdark races not to mess with the Imaskari?
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Gez
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For reference, here is the Table of Content that was posted by Richard Baker:
Introduction
How To Use This Book in Your Campaign
What You Need to Play
Chapter 1: Races of the Underdark
Chitine
Deep Imaskari
Drow
Duergar
Gloaming
Grimlock
Kuo-toa
Slyth
Svirfneblin
Other Character Races
Age, Height, and Weight
Chapt 2: Regions and Feats
Character Regions
Chitine
Deep Imaskari
Gloaming
Grimlock
Kuo-toa
Slyth
Character Feats
Axeshield
Bowslinger
Caustic Adaptation
Caver
Elfhunter
Enhanced Adhesive
Exotic Armor Proficiency
Extra Wild Shape
Familiar Spell
Graft Illithid Flesh
Highborn Drow
Improved Familiar
Improved Levitation
Lolth's Meat
Metanode Spell
Node Defense
Node Spellcasting
Node Store
Node Sensitive
Portal Sensitive
Stone Soul
Strong Mind
Tunnelfighter
Tunnelrunner
Underdark Immigrant
Wisdom Breeds Caution
Chapter 3: Prestige Classes
Arachnemancer
Cavelord
Deep Diviner
Drow Judicator
Illithid Body Tamer
Imaskari Vengeance Taker
Inquisitor of the Drowning Goddess
Prime Underdark Guide
Sea Mother Whip
Shadowcrafter
Vermin Keeper
Yathchol Webrider
Chapter 4: Magic and Spells of the Underdark
Lore of the Underdark
Node Magic
Portals
New Domains
Balance Domain
Portal Domain
Watery Death Prestige Domain
New Spells
Amorphous Form
Blindsight
Burrow
Burrow, Mass
Caltrops
Camouflage
Changestones
Clarity of Mind
Contagious Fog
Darkvision, Mass
Deeper Darkvision
Dehydrate
Drown
Drown, Mass
Earth Lock
Earth Shield
Eradicate Earth
Excavate
Hail of Stone
Locate Node
Mark of the Outcast
Mineralize Warrior
Node Door
Node Genesis
Node Lock
Portal Barricade
Portal Stabilization
Portal to Portal Redirect
Portal Reformat
Portal View
Reflective Disguise
Reflective Disguise, Mass
Rushing Waters
Sanctuary, Mass
Spiderskin
Stick
Stone Metamorphosis
Stone Metamorphosis, Greater
Stoneskin, Improved
Stone Shape, Greater
Stone Sphere
Tremorsense
Tunnel Swallow
Undermaster
Viscid Glob
Wall of Dispel Magic
Wall of Greater Dispel Magic
Weighed in the Balance
Word of Balance
Chapter 5: Equipment and Magic Items
Adventuring Gear
Weapons
Armor
Other Equipment
Poison
Magic Items
Illithid Grafts
Chapter 6: Monsters of the Underdark
All-Consuming Hunger
Annihilator
Arachnoid Mouther (arachnoid creature template)
Baphitaur
Chameleon Bugbear (chameleon creature template)
Earth Glider
Elder Brain
Faerzress-infused Minotaur (faerzress infused creature template)
Giant Cockroach
Giant Maggot
Ineffable Horror
Kuo-toa Leviathan
Lith
Lurker
Maur (Hunched Giant)
Mindwitness (half-illithid creature template)
Phaerlock
Portal Drake
Stone Flyer
Stony Devil (mineral warrior template)
Gloura
Chapter 7: Exploring the Underdark
Geology and Environmnets of the Underdark
Rocks and Rock Formations
The Underdark Environment
Climate
Ecology
Spelunking
Cramped Spaces
Climbing
Access
Underdark Encounter Tables
Encounter Chance
How to Use the Tables
Uppderdark (Underground, Frontier)
Upperdark Wilds (Underground, Wilderness)
Middledark (Undergaround, Settled)
Middledark Wilds (Underground, Frontier)
Lowerdark (Underground, Wilderness)
Lowerdark Wilds (Underground, Desolate)
An Underdark Primer
Chapter 8: Geography of the Underdark
Underdark Domains
[[Lots of entries, beginning with Ammarindar and ending with Yathchol. This chapter is about 80 pages or so.]]
Chapter 9: Adventures in the Underdark
Dungeons in the Underdark
Adventure Sites
Drowned Multum
Gduar's Garden
Shape of Water
Race Chart 1:
I'm guessing: Chitine, Imaskar, and drow.
Race Chart 2:
Still guessing: Duergar, Grimlock, Gloaming (?), Kuo-toa
Race Chart 3
Last guess: Svirfneblin, Slyth (?), Derro.
I've no idea what are gloamings and slyths, so I've associated the names with the two creatures I havn't recognized. Could be wrong in the association, tough.
Introduction
How To Use This Book in Your Campaign
What You Need to Play
Chapter 1: Races of the Underdark
Chitine
Deep Imaskari
Drow
Duergar
Gloaming
Grimlock
Kuo-toa
Slyth
Svirfneblin
Other Character Races
Age, Height, and Weight
Chapt 2: Regions and Feats
Character Regions
Chitine
Deep Imaskari
Gloaming
Grimlock
Kuo-toa
Slyth
Character Feats
Axeshield
Bowslinger
Caustic Adaptation
Caver
Elfhunter
Enhanced Adhesive
Exotic Armor Proficiency
Extra Wild Shape
Familiar Spell
Graft Illithid Flesh
Highborn Drow
Improved Familiar
Improved Levitation
Lolth's Meat
Metanode Spell
Node Defense
Node Spellcasting
Node Store
Node Sensitive
Portal Sensitive
Stone Soul
Strong Mind
Tunnelfighter
Tunnelrunner
Underdark Immigrant
Wisdom Breeds Caution
Chapter 3: Prestige Classes
Arachnemancer
Cavelord
Deep Diviner
Drow Judicator
Illithid Body Tamer
Imaskari Vengeance Taker
Inquisitor of the Drowning Goddess
Prime Underdark Guide
Sea Mother Whip
Shadowcrafter
Vermin Keeper
Yathchol Webrider
Chapter 4: Magic and Spells of the Underdark
Lore of the Underdark
Node Magic
Portals
New Domains
Balance Domain
Portal Domain
Watery Death Prestige Domain
New Spells
Amorphous Form
Blindsight
Burrow
Burrow, Mass
Caltrops
Camouflage
Changestones
Clarity of Mind
Contagious Fog
Darkvision, Mass
Deeper Darkvision
Dehydrate
Drown
Drown, Mass
Earth Lock
Earth Shield
Eradicate Earth
Excavate
Hail of Stone
Locate Node
Mark of the Outcast
Mineralize Warrior
Node Door
Node Genesis
Node Lock
Portal Barricade
Portal Stabilization
Portal to Portal Redirect
Portal Reformat
Portal View
Reflective Disguise
Reflective Disguise, Mass
Rushing Waters
Sanctuary, Mass
Spiderskin
Stick
Stone Metamorphosis
Stone Metamorphosis, Greater
Stoneskin, Improved
Stone Shape, Greater
Stone Sphere
Tremorsense
Tunnel Swallow
Undermaster
Viscid Glob
Wall of Dispel Magic
Wall of Greater Dispel Magic
Weighed in the Balance
Word of Balance
Chapter 5: Equipment and Magic Items
Adventuring Gear
Weapons
Armor
Other Equipment
Poison
Magic Items
Illithid Grafts
Chapter 6: Monsters of the Underdark
All-Consuming Hunger
Annihilator
Arachnoid Mouther (arachnoid creature template)
Baphitaur
Chameleon Bugbear (chameleon creature template)
Earth Glider
Elder Brain
Faerzress-infused Minotaur (faerzress infused creature template)
Giant Cockroach
Giant Maggot
Ineffable Horror
Kuo-toa Leviathan
Lith
Lurker
Maur (Hunched Giant)
Mindwitness (half-illithid creature template)
Phaerlock
Portal Drake
Stone Flyer
Stony Devil (mineral warrior template)
Gloura
Chapter 7: Exploring the Underdark
Geology and Environmnets of the Underdark
Rocks and Rock Formations
The Underdark Environment
Climate
Ecology
Spelunking
Cramped Spaces
Climbing
Access
Underdark Encounter Tables
Encounter Chance
How to Use the Tables
Uppderdark (Underground, Frontier)
Upperdark Wilds (Underground, Wilderness)
Middledark (Undergaround, Settled)
Middledark Wilds (Underground, Frontier)
Lowerdark (Underground, Wilderness)
Lowerdark Wilds (Underground, Desolate)
An Underdark Primer
Chapter 8: Geography of the Underdark
Underdark Domains
[[Lots of entries, beginning with Ammarindar and ending with Yathchol. This chapter is about 80 pages or so.]]
Chapter 9: Adventures in the Underdark
Dungeons in the Underdark
Adventure Sites
Drowned Multum
Gduar's Garden
Shape of Water
Race Chart 1:
I'm guessing: Chitine, Imaskar, and drow.
Race Chart 2:
Still guessing: Duergar, Grimlock, Gloaming (?), Kuo-toa
Race Chart 3
Last guess: Svirfneblin, Slyth (?), Derro.
I've no idea what are gloamings and slyths, so I've associated the names with the two creatures I havn't recognized. Could be wrong in the association, tough.
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