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Escape from the Underdark!

by PseudoWyvern more by them Jan 13, 2022 71 likes 32 downloads

Part of: Magnificent Mansion Demiplane Themed UnderDark City

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Licence: CC BY-NC · Attribution-NonCommercial

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Escape from the Underdark is a one-shot meant to teach new players how to survive and reference their character sheet.  You start by being stuck in a collapsed cave that leads deeper down and encounter either a rust monster or carrion crawlers - then you find an abandoned bridge built by drow and now the bridge is infested with spiders.  The next challenge is to find a way across the gap in the bridge - which collapses a little more every time the players jump.  Finally the players make it to an abandoned drow settlement with a single drow survivor in a church on the far side.  They are chased by a Spider Drake, a dragon cursed by Lolth after destroying a loyal settlement of hers.  They can loot the surrounding buildings then continue on to the church where they are greeted by a priest of lolth (a Yochlol in disguise) and she demands that they kill the Drake - a creation of Lolth that the priest cannot bring herself to destroy, yet knows that Lolth is no longer amused by it's existence - and in return she will grant players passage through a staircase that leads to the surface.  Players touch a crystal in the church that brings them to the top where they'll find ballistae to use against the Drake.

Assets used in this build:
"The Festering Cathedral" by WheatyPete - https://talestavern.com/slab/the-festering-cathedral/
"Mushrooms" by GENGUS4 -  https://talestavern.com/slab/mushrooms/
"Glowing Underground Mushrooms" by Scott - https://talestavern.com/slab/glowing-underground-mushrooms/

There are also a couple building assets that I can no longer seem to find, if anyone could let me know where I could find the link to these buildings I can add them to this list.

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slashkey · Jan 18, 2022

Looks great! Might try it out :)

Graham · May 5, 2022

This is not bad! I wish you included more screenshots.

PseudoWyvern · May 5, 2022

Thanks! Gotta keep some things a surprise ?

@Mad.Dee.Em · May 31, 2023

This had the exact vibe I needed for a drow village. Thank you so much. Also, huge shout out to doing the backgrounds - it makes so much difference in the feel and I know it's a lot of extra work.

GoT_Banished · Jun 5, 2025

This is phenomenal. Its enormous.