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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hobbes" data-source="post: 6895750" data-attributes="member: 333">Hey all,I'm running a 5e campaign for a bunch of 12-14 year old kids (my son and his friends) who are fairly new to the game, and loving it! I have planned a campaign that will take them delving into the Underdark and surrounding areas, as it's such a great creepy vibe down there. So here's my dilemma: I need a sourcebook to pull the geographical/social details from. I'm not so much worried about the mechanics/crunchy bits, as I'm a veteran D&D nerd who's reasonably comfortable with pretty much every edition since AD&D. I'm completely expecting to update stats from the Monster Manual or rolling my own as needed, so that's not really a concern.The 5e book "Out of the Abyss" is Underdark-centric, but is much more focused on the storyline contained within and isn't really 'pure' underdark. It's got a lot of the whole abyssal subplot thing going on that I have no desire to include in this campaign. 4e's Underdark book looks promising, especially given WOTC's tendency during the 4e+ era of adding in lots of great RP flavor text and art to their books. 4e is radically different, mechanically speaking, but since I'll need to disregard that anyway, it's not a huge concern.3e's Underdark book is probably the most likely to be 'close to mechanics compatible' to 5e, but I'm not totally sure about how fleshed out the structure and fluffy details are.SO... any thoughts on which of the three books I should go to for source material, and why? Thanks!</blockquote>

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