Underdark resources wanted

[Gilladian]

My campaign may be taking a turn into Deep Earth/ Underdark for a while in the near future.

I am looking for resources to plan what I want them to find down there, both in the immediate term (an adventure or two) and in the long term (campaign resources).

We play 5th edition, and the PCs are around 7th level, but truthfully, that's not terribly important in my planning; my real issue is that I have NO DROW in my campaign, and almost EVERY resource I find has a heavy reliance on them for the underdark.

Any suggestions on adventures, settings, and resources that I could use/borrow from that are underdark but not drow? Or not MAINLY drow?

 

[Dandu]

Ia ia Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

 

[Gilladian]

Ia ia Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

Yes, I bow to our hideous masters - but any good source material for 3e or such?

 

[Dandu]

Elder Evils

 

[pemerton]

We play 5th edition, and the PCs are around 7th level, but truthfully, that's not terribly important in my planning; my real issue is that I have NO DROW in my campaign, and almost EVERY resource I find has a heavy reliance on them for the underdark.

Any suggestions on adventures, settings, and resources that I could use/borrow from that are underdark but not drow? Or not MAINLY drow?

I've used both D1 and D2 - the latter, in particular, is mostly drow free.

There's also quite a bit of non-drow stuff in the 4e Underdark book.

 

[Gilladian]

Thanks Pemerton - someone suggested the 4e Underdark book - I mostly skipped 4e, but my brother may have it. I think I have D1 and D2 both, somewhere.

I'll also use the 2e Dungeoneer's Survival Guide. It's got a lot of good tidbits in it.

Any other resources anyone particularly likes?

 

[Random Bystander]

Thanks Pemerton - someone suggested the 4e Underdark book - I mostly skipped 4e, but my brother may have it. I think I have D1 and D2 both, somewhere.

I'll also use the 2e Dungeoneer's Survival Guide. It's got a lot of good tidbits in it.

Any other resources anyone particularly likes?

Svirfneblin. Aside from the fact that they are gnomes who use earth elemental magic and worship earth elementals and live deep underground, they have a really cool name.

 

[Voadam]

The pathfinder 3.5 one Into the Darklands is supposed to be very good. It has drow, but they are one of many factions much like the 4e underdark book and very segregatable. It also has serpent men, derro, an empire of ghouls, psionic neolithids, and lots of lovecraftian influences.

I also second checking out the 4e Underdark, it has a great underdark cosmology that is evocative and fun.

You could go with other underdark race sourcebooks if the races appeal to you. For Mind Flayers there is the 3e Unveiled Masters and the 2e Illithiad.

For underdark aberrations in general there is the 3.5 Lords of Madness.

For Beholders you have the 3e Complete Guide to Beholders and the 2e Monstrous Arcana I Tyrant.

Illithiad and I Tyrant each have a 2e trilogy of modules to support them.

The Forgotten Realms (in various editions) have decent underdark stuff as does Goodman Games for 3e, but they have a lot of drow stuff.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I really like the 3e Underdark sourcebook. Yes, there are drow in it, but there's a whole lot of other things in it, too.

The 1e Dungeoneer's Survival Guide also might be handy. It's got some cool environmental details.