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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Drow Pursuit A party of drow from Velkynvelve pursue their escaped prisoners into the Underdark. The drow priestess Ilvara becomes increasingly obsessed with the adventurers, believing they are
. The drow party consists of Ilvara (drow priestess of Lolth), the drow elite warriors Jorlan and Shoor, and the junior priestess Asha Vandree (use the priest stat block in the Monster Manual, but add
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
complicated by the adventurers’ lack of familiarity with their surroundings. Even if the prisoners can get away from the drow, where will they go and how will they survive?
Escape! The characters’ goal in this chapter of the adventure is straightforward: escape from the drow outpost of Velkynvelve, with an eye toward escaping from the Underdark. However, this goal is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
. And even that achievement is no guarantee of safety, because a lone drow above ground is likely to be attacked on sight by surface dwellers. Those who find a way to survive in the painful world of
Drow Renegades Drow society is, paradoxically, extremely open-ended and extremely oppressive. All drow have a chance, at least theoretically, to improve their station in life, and movement does occur
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
passages and caverns, avoid pursuit by the drow, and find a route to the world above — all the while dealing with the dangers of the Underdark and struggling to find the resources they need to survive
chapter 3) offer modifications to these guidelines to suit those areas’ particular qualities. This chapter also offers guidelines for the drow pursuit of the escaped prisoners, along with additional encounters you can place along the adventurers’ route as they travel.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Cities without Sunlight The drow might have not chosen to live in the Underdark, but just the same they consider it their home, not a prison. Just as the sea elves adapted to their aquatic realm
, the drow have long been accustomed to the harsh conditions of life in the Underdark. They’ve lived away from sunlight for so long that they can’t bear the touch of it on their flesh, and thus they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
by the drow, although drowcraft items don’t survive exposure to sunlight (see the “Drowcraft Items” sidebar in appendix B). In addition, if the characters fled Velkynvelve without retrieving specific
Stand and Fight If the characters stand and fight, or if the drow catch them, they’re in for a tough battle. Ilvara alone is a challenge for a group of 8th-level characters, and she is accompanied by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
other prisoners, many of who aren’t what they seem. Captured by the drow! You wouldn’t wish this fate upon anyone, yet here you are — locked in a dark cave, the cold, heavy weight of metal tight
around your throat and wrists. You are not alone. Other prisoners are trapped in here with you, in an underground outpost far from the light of the sun. Your captors include a cruel drow priestess who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
forming an alliance. Characters can keep their distance and avoid the altercation. However, any drow who survive the battle head to the nearest drow outpost 1d4 miles away. After hearing the survivors
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->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
the orcs and goblinoids of the region, and having to fight off assaults from below by duergar and drow, the shield dwarves have stood fast, determined to hold their halls against all threats — and
, when necessary, reclaim them. Holds that survive from the days of Delzoun include Mithral Hall, Citadel Adbar, and Citadel Felbarr. The fabled city of Gauntlgrym, built by the Delzoun dwarves and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
that the adventurers’ drow jailers or pursuers from Velkynvelve (chapter 1) managed to survive to this point in the campaign, and that they have returned to Menzoberranzan in the wake of Demogorgon’s
the eight great drow houses gather and meet. Each noble estate in Qu’ellarz’orl maintains its own militia, consisting of several hundred highly disciplined drow warriors and drow elite warriors, with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
18. Drow Fortress House Freth built its dark fortress in a 100-foot-high cavern, the roof of which is dotted with stalactites. Outside the fortress walls, the cavern floor is hidden under a 2-foot
approaching with light draws the attention of the drow in the guard towers and the vrocks in area 17. The north end of the fortress grounds is where the drow cultivate food using the labor of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Chapter 1: Ten-Towns Like the famous drow Drizzt Do’Urden, many people who come to Ten-Towns are outcasts, fugitives, or pariahs in search of a place where they can be tolerated, if not accepted
harsh climate, the slow pace, and the isolation. Like the hardy lichens and determined reindeer of the tundra, residents endure and do what’s needed to survive. Icewind Dale has few trees, so lumber is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
The Dark Seldarine Lolth demands the lion’s share of worship from the drow, according to her wishes and by the command of her priestesses. The Spider Queen isn’t, however, the only entity venerated
by drow. They revere a host of divine entities, which they refer to as the Dark Seldarine in mockery of the surface elves’ deities. The Dark Seldarine are mighty, immortal beings, survivors from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
, however, the vengeful drow pursuing the adventurers catch up to them, intent on dragging them back to their domain of perpetual darkness. If they survive this final confrontation, the characters reach the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Deep Gnome (Svirfneblin) Deep gnomes, or svirfneblin, live far below the world’s surface in twisting warrens and sculpted caverns. They survive by virtue of their stealth, cleverness, and tenacity
brings them into conflict with beholders, drow, kuo-toa, duergar, and mind flayers. Of all their natural enemies, deep gnomes fear and despise the murderous, demon-worshiping drow the most. Earth Friends
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Rangers Montolio held out his arm, and the great owl promptly hopped onto it, carefully finding its footing on the man’s heavy leather sleeve.
“You have seen the drow?” Montolio asked.
The owl
talkative owl, the ranger had monitored the drow for several days, curious as to why a dark elf had wandered into the valley. At first, Montolio had assumed that the drow was somehow connected to Graul
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Having eluded the drow so far, ten grimlocks huddle in the back of this 10-foot-high cavern. They feed on fish from the River Sargauth and fight only in self-defense. 10c. Sea Hag Coven This 30-foot
-drow, because Halaster has tasked them solely with ridding the Sargauth Level of the dark elves. The hags keep their affiliation with Halaster a secret and pretend to be harmless shell collectors with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
, which is the stronghold of King Grol, leader of the Cragmaw goblins. Here the characters discover that the Black Spider is a drow adventurer named Nezznar, and that the Cragmaw goblins work for him
(drow are elves who hail from a realm deep underground). More importantly, they recover Gundren Rockseeker’s map to the lost mine, or learn the mine’s location from one of the other leads they unearth
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
, hoping that the characters survive and returning to thank them if they prevail. Tlad Xolbrys uses his magic to help the characters unless it looks like they’re near defeat, whereupon the drow turns
Xolbrys (NE male drow mage)
A visitor to Omu who was trapped during the construction of the Tomb of the Nine Gods Aids or betrays his liberators to ensure his own survival 8 Pox (doppelganger) Disguised
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
order to escape and survive. Prisoners of the Drow Buppido Talkative and cunning derro Prince Derendil Quaggoth who claims to be a cursed elf prince Eldeth Feldrun Shield dwarf scout from Gauntlgrym
others await death at the hands of the drow or their pets. Regardless of what they might think of the adventurers — and each other — outside the slave pens, all the NPCs have good reason to cooperate in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
fragment caused the mudslick tower to grow and tip through the natural stone between the gnome enclave and the drow treasure vault. Wedged in the earth this way, the tower is immune to all damage. Without
don’t learn how to shrink the mudslick tower from Zoklork, they can learn its command word with an identify spell or by perusing the notes in the drow shrine (area G20). If the characters shrink the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
emerald dragon’s lair.
4 A young emerald dragon invites repeated visits from a drow mage who corrects what the dragon has learned about the history of the elven schism.
5 A young emerald
has spent the past century collecting magic items that he hopes will enable him to survive the coming conflict.
Raulothim’s drive to amass magic and his innate mistrust of anyone powerful enough to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
levels of the mines could manipulate and dominate key hobgoblins in an attempt to wipe out the orcs. And all the while, a hidden cell of drow scouts watches and plots to slay the mind flayers, then
repeatedly encounter manage to survive. Encounter Difficulty You might be inclined to increase the encounter difficulty as the adventurers descend deeper into the dungeon, as a way to keep the dungeon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
been conflict between giants and dragons, or they might have long ago set aside any lingering resentment. Perhaps giants and dragons banded together in ages past in a desperate effort to survive the
be a largely subterranean clash between stone giants and mind flayers while dwarves and drow seek to escape the earth-shaking and cavern-collapsing aftershocks of battles. Or storm giants might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
wizard Halaster built his tower at the foot of Mount Waterdeep and delved deep into tunnels first built by dwarves and drow in search of ever greater magical power. Halaster and his apprentices expanded
. Most visitors are content to swap stories by the hearth, but sometimes a group driven by greed, ambition, or desperation pays the toll for entry and descends the well. Most don’t survive to make the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Dambrath as well as Halruaa and the Shar. Many Arkaiuns lived under the yoke of drow slavery centuries ago after a failed military campaign against the dark elves, which led to the eventual
. Hunters and gatherers, Ulutiuns live in small tribes that have managed to survive in one of the harshest environments in the world. Each has only a single name (sometimes handed down from one’s parent
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
to be on Grandolpha’s side, the duergar that support her turn against their kin. If the characters let these duergar fight among themselves, five duergar survive the battle, all of them loyal to
. Chest 2 holds a gold mask shaped like the visage of a male drow (750 gp), lying on a bed of 350 gp. Chest 3 contains a silver chalice shaped in the likeness of a spider and inlaid with eight obsidian
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
revere Silvanus, Malar, and occasionally Selûne. Given the Dambrathans’ history of domination by the Crinti, a ruling caste of half-drow, it is no surprise that they reserve their greatest hatred for
the drow. The clans meet twice a year at a sacred site known as the Hills of the Kings, where dozens of totem sculptures are preserved. At these gatherings, each clan updates its totem with an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
their fabled treasure!” As the ghost intones these words, four specters of dead drow killed here long ago in a cave collapse materialize and attack the living. Roleplaying Reulek. Earth cultists found
, challenging those who avert their eyes to behold his power and beauty. The medusa is infuriated if anyone manages to meet his gaze and survive, concentrating his attacks on such characters. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
. The island’s smaller coastal settlements include the fishing and trapping villages of Bjorn’s Hold and Icewolf. The natives of Ice Peak survive by catching fish and hunting goats, seals, and whales. The
that the High Captains are under the sway of Jarlaxle Baenre, the leader of a clandestine brotherhood of drow mercenaries and rogues called Bregan D’aerthe. Jarlaxle is a master schemer (and a master of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
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Overcoming the jabberwock in area P22 is one of the main challenges of this chapter and, indeed, the whole adventure. The characters are unlikely to survive a head-on fight with the creature, but there
pompous bullywug knight (see appendix C) and an emissary of the Soggy Court (see chapter 2) named Lord Slubb, the Marquis of Brackishbog Two drow mages (chaotic good) named Kelchrin and Valtis, who