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T ABLE OF C ONTENTS

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

How to Use This Book in Your

Campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

What You Need to Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Tunnelfighter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Tunnelrunner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Wisdom Breeds Caution . . . . . . . . . . 27

Devious Glouras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Half-Illithid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Ineffable Horror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Kuo-Toa Leviathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Lith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Lurker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Maur (Hunched Giant) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Maur Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Mineral Warrior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Phaerlock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Portal Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Stone Flyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Training a Stone Flyer . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Chapter 3: Prestice Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Arachnomancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Cavelord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Deep Diviner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Drow Judicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Illithid Body Tamer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Imaskari Vengeance Taker . . . . . . . 37

Inquisitor of the

Drowning Goddess . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Prime Underdark Guide . . . . . . . . . . 40

Sea Mother Whip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Shadowcrafter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Vermin Keeper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Yathchol Webrider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Chapter 1: Races. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Chitines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Deep Imaskari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Drow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Duergar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Gloamings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Grimlocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Kuo-Toas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Slyths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Svirfneblin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Other Character Races . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Derro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Mind Flayers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Orogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Minotaurs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Quaggoths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Tanarukks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Troglodytes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Age, Height, andWeight . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Character Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Height and Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Chapter 7: Exploring the Underdark. . . 100

Geology and Environments . . . . . . . . 100

Topography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Rocks and Rock Formations . . . . . 103

The Underdark Environment . . . . . . 106

Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Climate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Ecology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Underdark Hazards . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Spelunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Cramped Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Climbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Getting Lost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Underdark Encounter Tables . . . . . . 113

Encounter Chance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

How to Use the Tables . . . . . . . . . 113

Group Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

An Underdark Primer . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

The Upperdark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

The Middledark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

The Lowerdark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Chapter 4: Magic and Spells. . . . . . . . . . . 48

Lore of the Underdark . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Faerzress and the Underdark . . . . . 48

Node Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Portals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

New Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Balance Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Portal Domain (Alternative) . . . . . . 53

Watery Death Prestige Domain . . . 53

New Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Spell Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Chapter 2: Regions and Feats . . . . . . . . . . 22

Character Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Reading the Region Descriptions . . 22

Regions for Characters

above 1st Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Chitine Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Deep Imaskar Region . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Gloaming Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Grimlock Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Kuo-Toa Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Slyth Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Character Feats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Wild Feats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Axeshield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Bowslinger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Caustic Adaptation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Caver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Elfhunter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Enhanced Adhesive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Exotic Armor Proficiency . . . . . . . . 25

Extra Wild Shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Familiar Spell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Graft Illithid Flesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Highborn Drow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Improved Levitation . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Lolth’s Meat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Metanode Spell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Node Defense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Node Sensitive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Node Spellcasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Node Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Portal Sensitive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Stone Soul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Strong Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Chapter 5: Equipment and

Magic Items. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Adventuring Gear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Armors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Other Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Poison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Magic Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Magic Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Magic Armors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Rods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Staffs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Wondrous Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Minor Artifacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Artifacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Illithid Grafts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Chapter 8: Geography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Underdark Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Sites of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Ammarindar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Araumycos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Blessed Seahaven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Blingdenstone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Wererats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Ogremoch’s Bane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Drow Scavengers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

The Boneyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Denizens of the Boneyard . . . . . . . 130

Brikklext . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Cairnheim,

Demesne of the Dodkong . . . . . . . 132

Chaulssin, City of Wyrmshadows . . . 133

Ched Nasad,

City of Shimmering Webs . . . . . . . 133

Krashos Morueme . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Daughters of the Shadow Weave . 134

Ch’Chitl, the Kingdom Below . . . . . . 134

Cloakerhaven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

The Darklake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Chapter 6: Monsters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

All-Consuming Hunger . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Annihilator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Arachnoid Creature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Baphitaur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Chameleon Creature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Earth Glider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Elder Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Faerzress-Infused Creature . . . . . . . . . . 86

Giant Cockroach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Giant Maggot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Gloura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

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Deep Imaskar,

City of the Great Seal . . . . . . . . . . 138

Government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Deep Imaskari Society . . . . . . . . . . 139

The City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Deep Shanatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Barakuir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Drakkalor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Holorarar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Iltkazar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Korolnor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Sondarr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Torglor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Ultoksamrin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Xothaerin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Deepburrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

The Slickers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Dolblunde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Drik Hargunen,

the Runescribed Halls . . . . . . . . . . 143

Dunspeirrin, City of Sunken Spires . 145

Dupapn, Waters of Deep Hunger . . . 145

Durgg-Gontag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Earth’s End . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Eryndlyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

The Fardrimm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Fluvenilstra, Garden City of the

Lowerdark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Fraaszummdin, Steederhome . . . . . . 150

The Wandering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Gatchorof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Giant’s Chalice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Gracklstugh, City of Blades . . . . . . . . 152

The Great Rift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Guallidurth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Holy Mother Cauldron . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Iltkazar, the Mithral Kingdom . . . . . 156

King Mith Barak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Kuragolomsh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

The Labyrinth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Llurth Dreir, the Accursed City . . . . 158

LoobliShar,

City of Welcome Darkness . . . . . . 159

Lorosfyr, the Maddening Dark . . . . 160

Maerimydra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Mantol-Derith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Menzoberranzan, City of Spiders . . . 161

Visiting Menzoberranzan . . . . . . . 161

Nuur Throth, the Great Door . . . . . . 164

Oaxaptupa,

World Beneath the World . . . . . . . 164

Oghrann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Ooltul, City of Tyrants . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Visiting Ooltul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Oryndoll, City of Loretakers . . . . . . . 168

Visiting Oryndoll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Reeshov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Rringlor Noroth,

The City of Soaring Shadows . . . . 171

Rrinnoroth, Dwarven Ghost Town . . 173

The Sharnlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Sloopdilmonpolop, City of Pools . . . . 174

Sshamath, City of Dark Weavings . . 175

Sphur Upra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Tethyamar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

T’lindhet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Throrgar, the Shrieking Abyss . . . . . 179

Tomb Tapper Tomb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Traaskl Thorog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Undrek’Thoz, the Segmented City . . 180

The Wormwrithings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Yathchol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Table 3–1: The Arachnomancer . . . . . 29

Table 3–2: The Cavelord . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Table 3–3: The Deep Diviner . . . . . . . 32

Table 3–4: The Drow Judicator . . . . . . 34

Table 3–5: Spider Servants . . . . . . . . . 34

Table 3–6: The Illithid

Body Tamer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Table 3–7: The Imaskari

Vengeance Taker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Table 3–8: Inquisitor of the

Drowning Goddess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Table 3–9: Prime Underdark Guide . . 41

Table 3–10: Sea Mother Whip . . . . . . 42

Table 3–11: Shadowcrafter . . . . . . . . . 43

Table 3–12: Vermin Companion . . . . . 45

Table 3–13: Vermin Keeper . . . . . . . . 46

Table 3–14: The Yathchol Webrider . 47

Table 4–1: Earth Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Table 4–2: Typical Earth Node

Granted Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Table 5–1: Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Table 5–3: Donning Armor . . . . . . . . . 66

Table 5–2: Armors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Table 5–4: Special Items . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Table 5–6: Melee Weapon

Special Abilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Table 5–5: Poisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Table 5–7: Specific Weapons . . . . . . . . 69

Table 5–8: Armor Special Abilities . . . 70

Table 5–9: Specific Armors . . . . . . . . . 71

Table 5–10: Rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Table 5–11: Rods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Table 5–12: Staffs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Table 5–13: Wondrous Items . . . . . . . 73

Table 6–1: Arachnoid Creatures . . . . . 81

Table 7–1: Spotting Distances . . . . . . 107

Table 7–2: Underdark Diseases . . . . . 110

Table 7–3: Tunnel Constriction . . . . 112

Table 7–4: Encounter Chance . . . . . . 113

Table 7–5: Upperdark

(Underground, Settled)

(EL 2–7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Table 7–6: Upperdark Wilds

(Underground, Frontier)

(EL 5–10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Table 7–7: Middledark

(Underground, Settled)

(EL 6–13) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Table 7–8: Middledark Wilds

(Underground, Wilderness)

(EL 6–14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Table 7–9: Lowerdark

(Underground, Wilderness)

(EL 8–16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Table 7–10: Lowerdark

(Underground, Desolate)

(EL 10+) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Chapter 9: Adventures

in the Underdark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Dungeons in the Underdark . . . . . . . 184

Adventure Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Drowned Multum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Gduar’s Garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Shape of Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Sidebars

Chitine Web Implements . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

The War of the Spider Queen . . . . . . . 10

Scarification Ritual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Spiderkind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Spider Servant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

The Imaskari

Vengeance Taker Code . . . . . . . . . . . 38

The Vermin Keeper’s

Vermin Companion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Earth Node Access Variant . . . . . . . . . 50

Sample Portal Graffıti . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Underdark and Core D&D . . . . . . . . . . 53

The Underdark Maps and the

Epic Level Handbook . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Seeing Distant Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Torchstalks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Shadow Portals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Pliil Seachild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Headband of Idiocy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Gorothir’s Girdle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Illithilich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Nurr’Korzahg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Uskura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Anti-illithid devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

King’s Knife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Hizagkuur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

City of the Spider Queen . . . . . . . . . . 160

Creeds of Oryndoll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Reeshov City Traps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Tables

Table 1–1: Racial Ability Score

Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Table 1–2: Other Underdark Races . . 19

Table 1–3: Random Starting Ages . . . 21

Table 1–4: Aging Effects . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Table 1–5: Random Height

and Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Table 2–1: New Feats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

the Underdark, a lightless, subterranean realm that

is home to fabled races and ancient, unspeakable evil.

It is a domain of primeval mysteries and unending war, a hidden

world of cruel masters and hopeless slaves, filled with monstrous

races that were old before humans were born. It is a dank, dismal

place of fungus, rot, and slime. It is a land where a few lucky mer-

chants have found a lucrative trade, but where many more have

been slain (or worse) for their effrontery. So dire is the reputa-

tion of the Underdark and its denizens that mothers caution their

children to behave, lest the dark elves steal them away.

A proper account of the Underdark must include the cold

machinations of the hateful illithids, the unwholesome cities of

the drow elves who pay homage to the bitter Spider Queen, and the

unending servitude of the lesser creatures that fall into the

clutches of these two races. Unlike the upper world, where civi-

lization and the light of day protect travelers from horrors, the

Underdark holds the promise of deadly peril. Illithids, drow, phaer-

imms, and aboleths vie for supremacy in its dark tunnels and sun-

less seas. They fight one another with armies of slaves, terrible and

ancient magic, and mind-shattering psionics for control of the

encompassing tunnel systems and the extended caverns, vaults,

cavities, gaps, and nodes that riddle the earth beneath Faerûn. The

Underdark is literally an entire world, most of which is inhabited

by monstrous and evil creatures that shun the daylight. Hundreds

of independent cities, towns, and strongholds are scattered

throughout the caves and caverns that make up this realm.

Tunnels in the Underdark extend for miles, some ballooning

into caverns thousands of feet across, only to shrink to spaces too

narrow for a halfling to squeeze through. The largest cavern

halls are often representations of the surface in miniature, with

hills, valleys, underground rivers, and lakes. Most races native to

this realm make use of the walls and ceilings of their caverns,

accessing the higher levels via natural or magical flight or levi-

tation, or even wall-crawling mounts such as giant spiders and

certain breeds of lizards.

The Underdark is divided into three levels. The upper Under-

dark (Upperdark) is close to the surface, and its residents have

considerable interaction with surface races. The inhabitants of

the middle Underdark (Middledark) tend to see surface races as

potential slaves. The lower Underdark (Lowerdark) is an incred-

ibly strange place filled with alien societies and bizarre cultures

hostile to those unlike them.

How to Use This Book

in Your Cam p ai g n

This book provides everything you need to explore the Under-

dark in your own F ORGOTTEN R EALMS ® campaign. The subter-

ranean world is a fantastic realm for characters to explore, and

this book contains the tools for building exciting adventures

there. The Underdark is also a good place in which to set a dis-

tinctive and memorable campaign involving a lengthy quest that

takes characters ever deeper into the sunless world.

If you don’t intend to use this book in your F ORGOTTEN

R EALMS campaign, you can easily adapt the material on under-

ground adventuring for any game in which characters venture

below the surface. Any subterranean realm you design can bene-

fit from the concepts presented here.

Races: This chapter features a number of races native to the

Underdark, including spiderlike chitines, the stealthy gloamings,

the fierce grimlocks, the inexplicable kuo-toas, and the bizarre

slyths. These races are suitable for use as both player characters

(PCs) and nonplayer characters (NPCs).

Regions and Feats: New regional feats and a number of gen-

eral feats useful for characters native to the Underdark can be

found in this chapter.

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