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Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Underdark settlements, such as drow cities.
Deep Dragons
Deep dragons slither through the wet and lightless places of the Underdark. They are stealthy hunters with an affinity for lost lore and fungi
miles. Other deep dragons enjoy cultivating groves of molds and fungi, including colossal varieties sufficient to conceal the dragons’ sinuous forms. Many deep dragons collect forgotten tomes or
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Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
dozens of miles. Other deep dragons enjoy cultivating groves of molds and fungi, including colossal varieties sufficient to conceal the dragons’ sinuous forms. Many deep dragons collect forgotten
tomes or works of art and bully, cajole, or steal collections from drow or duergar sages.
Deep dragons are excellent swimmers. They often clash with aquatic Underdark societies, such as kuo-toa. Many
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Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
the Underdark to map hidden passages for dozens of miles. Other deep dragons enjoy cultivating groves of molds and fungi, including colossal varieties sufficient to conceal the dragons’ sinuous
forms. Many deep dragons collect forgotten tomes or works of art and bully, cajole, or steal collections from drow or duergar sages.
Deep dragons are excellent swimmers. They often clash with aquatic
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Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
through caverns and seas of the Underdark to map hidden passages for dozens of miles. Other deep dragons enjoy cultivating groves of molds and fungi, including colossal varieties sufficient to conceal the
dragons’ sinuous forms. Many deep dragons collect forgotten tomes or works of art and bully, cajole, or steal collections from drow or duergar sages.
Deep dragons are excellent swimmers. They
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Underdark armies arrayed against the followers of Lolth.
A Matron Mother’s Lair
The palace of a drow matron mother is her home and fortress. Sigils throughout the building allow the matron
Fey Ancestry. The drow has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put the drow to sleep.
Special Equipment. The drow wields a tentacle rod.
Sunlight Sensitivity
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, providing protection or advice.A Matron Mother’s Lair
The palace of a drow matron mother is her home and fortress. Sigils throughout the building allow the matron mother to use the following
Fey Ancestry. The drow has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put the drow to sleep.
Special Equipment. The drow wields a tentacle rod.
Sunlight Sensitivity
Glyph of Warding
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be closed (such as a book, a scroll, or a treasure chest) to conceal the glyph. The glyph can cover an area no larger than 10 feet in diameter. If the surface or object is moved more than 10 feet from
or drow), or alignment. You can also set conditions for creatures that don’t trigger the glyph, such as those who say a certain password.
When you inscribe the glyph, choose explosive
Deep Dragon Wyrmling
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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Adventure Hook
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Unfamiliar drow adventurers have been prowling a city’s streets at night and have been overheard talking about the dragon they
it to the surface world. Lost and confused, the wyrmling has been captured by a group of cruel adventurers.
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A deep dragon wyrmling whimsically rules over a worshipful group of kobolds, sending
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
spells that create illusions, allowing them to better conceal their treasures from prying eyes and divinations.
Creating an Emerald Dragon
Use the Emerald Dragon Personality Traits and Emerald Dragon
visits from a drow mage who corrects what the dragon has learned about the history of the elven schism.
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A young emerald dragon attempts to drive off a clan of cyclops;cyclopes who have taken up
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
underbelly of civilization, and you have survived up to this point by flouting the rules and regulations of society.
Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Stealth
Tool Proficiencies: One
Guild took over your family business, ran it into the ground, and burned the building for insurance money. You were driven into crime yourself, but you’ll never work for the Guild. You take
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
. Some locals believe that DeGrootz’s hanging was staged to conceal his murder at the hands of some old “friends” of his. Townsfolk are currently using the vacant building for lumber storage, but anyone
Ramshackle Closed inn This aptly named building—which used to be the only inn in town—closed after its last owner, a retired sawyer named DeGrootz, hanged himself in the common room two years ago
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
that conceal a dozen giant spiders loyal to the drow. The warehouse’s denizens attack the party unless the characters are accompanied by a drow. The merchants have been instructed to remain in the
building is protected by a glyph of warding (save DC 14) that triggers an explosive runes effect (5d8 thunder damage) when a creature other than a drow opens it. Treasure. Each storage building
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Encounter Building This section introduces new guidelines on building combat encounters for an adventure. They are an alternative to the rules in “Creating Encounters” in chapter 3 of the Dungeon
Master’s Guide. This approach uses the same math that underlies the rules presented in that book, but it makes a few adjustments to the way that math is presented to produce a more flexible system. This
Ancient Deep Dragon
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Adventure Hook
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Unfamiliar drow adventurers have been prowling a city’s streets at night and have been overheard talking about the dragon they serve.
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, they use local settlements—and any competent visitors—as pawns in their struggle.
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An ancient deep dragon has put the folk of a city to work building the dragon a metropolis to rule
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Drow Chase If the adventurers flee from the drow, use the chase rules in chapter 8 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide to play out the pursuit. The drow are on foot. If she gets close enough to do so
, Ilvara tries to cut off the party’s escape by casting web across the tunnel ahead. In addition to giving chase, the drow in the pursuit party pepper the characters with poisoned crossbow bolts, hoping to
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Mantol-Derith Population: Approximately 140 (drow, duergar, humans, and svirfneblin)
Government: Informal council comprised of four chief negotiators (one per enclave), recently dissolved
Defense
: Private guards
Commerce: Rare and exotic goods; see each enclave for information on the goods traded by the duergar, the drow, the svirfneblin, and the Zhentarim
Organizations: The drow, duergar
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
What the Prisoners Know Allow the characters to freely mingle and interact with their fellow prisoners or even the drow guards, although the guards rarely talk to the “surface-dweller scum.” Of all
establish telepathic communication to allow everyone to speak freely. The guards aren’t observant enough to notice. You might wish to consult the social interaction rules in the Dungeon Master’s Guide
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Society of Blood and Poison The principal organization in drow culture and society is the house, an extended clan that comprises many related families, plus a number of lesser families who have
pledged loyalty to the house. A house’s membership also includes some (potentially very large) number of indentured drow servants and slaves of other species. A house usually specializes in a business, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
run a special session—colloquially called session zero—to establish expectations, outline the terms of a social contract, and share house rules. Making and sticking to these rules can help ensure
that the game is a fun experience for everyone involved. Often a session zero includes building characters together. As the DM, you can help players during the character creation process by advising them to select options that will serve the adventure or campaign that awaits.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
the Underdark through the remorhaz tunnels, leaving Meldirn and Tlaknar to fend for themselves. H28. Drow Outpost Much of this building has collapsed, but the front room is intact—and also free of
the cube ripples, as it seems to be putting out enough dry heat to warm the room.
A drow mage named Yilsebek Dalambra has turned this partially collapsed Netherese building into an outpost. From
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
The Braeryn The Braeryn (also known as “the Stenchstreets”) is a shantytown of ramshackle structures overlooking garbage-choked alleyways, inhabited by the dregs of drow society. Fallen priestesses
Demogorgon’s rampage. Drow who have lost homes or businesses find what shelter they can here, scratching out a meager existence among the roughest folk in Menzoberranzan. The Braeryn is a great place to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
General Features Many of Thundertree’s buildings have crumbled in the years since the town was abandoned, even as nature threatens to swallow what remains. Buildings. A building in Thundertree is
terrain (see “Difficult Terrain” in the Basic Rules). Intact buildings are rundown, ramshackle stone cottages that are otherwise still standing. Their wooden doors are swollen and require a successful
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Quarters Two male drow guards named Krivven and Yazdriirn stand outside the door. They deny entry to all but T’rissa and immediately attack intruders. The building holds the following features: Stuffed
entrails and other less identifiable fixings. Non-drow intruders are attacked on sight. 20d. Demon Mirror The door to this building is locked, and T’rissa Auvryndar (see area 6) carries the only key
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
passage, and the slave pen. The lower chamber of the tower is occupied by two drow and one drow elite warrior on guard duty. It contains a zurkhwood table and three chairs, a smaller side table, and
armor 6 shields 6 hand crossbows 20 cases of hand crossbow bolts, each case containing 20 bolts 6 shortswords and 10 daggers 6 bags of caltrops (20 caltrops per bag) 4 100-foot-long coils of silk rope 2 building hammers (not usable as weapons) 2 bags of iron spikes (10 spikes per bag)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
notable leaders of the great houses and their honored heroes were cast into the lake, dressed in full regalia and weighed down with stone spars. Many less important drow have been sent by rivals to
sparsely populated, the area is so vital to the city’s survival that drow patrols are common here. Roll for random encounters as the characters cross this district. You can roll a d20 and consult the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
15. Way to Wyllowwood The drow cornered and killed several troglodytes in these caves after the reptilian creatures refused to be enslaved. 15a. Battle Scene The floor here is stained with blood and
strewn with a dozen spent bolts from hand crossbows. A character who inspects the bolts and succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Nature) check finds evidence of drow poison on the bolts, but the poison
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
describes what happens. Sometimes, however, rules govern what you can do with an object, as detailed in the following sections. What Is an Object? For the purpose of the rules, an object is a discrete
, inanimate item like a window, door, sword, book, table, chair, or stone. It isn’t a building or a vehicle, which are composed of many objects. Time-Limited Object Interactions When time is short, such
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
describes what happens. Sometimes, however, rules govern what you can do with an object, as detailed in the following sections. What Is an Object? For the purpose of the rules, an object is a discrete
, inanimate item like a window, door, sword, book, table, chair, or stone. It isn’t a building or a vehicle, which are composed of many objects. Time-Limited Object Interactions When time is short, such
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
(leaving the mage and eight drow to staff the outpost). Use the drow pursuit rules in chapter 2, and assume a pursuit level of 4. Drow Patrol B The characters encounter a drow elite warrior and 1d8
can approach the City of Spiders from literally any direction. However, all of these routes are known to the drow. The characters might have encountered a drow force on a previous attempt to reach
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
before the wall does. For the purpose of these rules, an object is a discrete, inanimate item like a window, door, sword, book, table, chair, or stone, not a building or a vehicle that is composed of many other objects.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
before the wall does. For the purpose of these rules, an object is a discrete, inanimate item like a window, door, sword, book, table, chair, or stone, not a building or a vehicle that is composed of many other objects.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
spell can have special rules or restrictions. For example, a drow mage can innately cast the levitate spell, but the spell has a “self only” restriction, which means that the spell affects only the
drow mage. A monster’s innate spells can’t be swapped out with other spells. If a monster’s innate spells don’t require attack rolls, no attack bonus is given for them. Spellcasting A monster with the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
spell can have special rules or restrictions. For example, a drow mage can innately cast the levitate spell, but the spell has a "self only" restriction, which means that the spell affects only the
drow mage. A monster's innate spells can't be swapped out with other spells. If a monster's innate spells don't require attack rolls, no attack bonus is given for them. Spellcasting A monster with the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Power of Secrets The characters can learn two secrets in this chapter applicable to the Power of Secrets rules found in this book’s introduction: Naxa’s Secret. The drow mage Naxa and her sister came
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
to the webs.
Webs. The dense webs of giant spiders kept by the drow conceal the outpost from below. A creature falling into the webs becomes restrained. As an action, a restrained creature can
Velkynvelve The drow outpost is located high in a cavern, built 100 feet above the rocky floor. The outpost consists of a series of small caves in the cavern walls and four “hanging towers