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Sill Alias
Senior Scribe
Kazakhstan
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 Posted - 02 Nov 2012 : 12:13:59
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Hello, everyone.
So happened that I started running campaign in Undermountain. I looked through few guides of 2nd and 3.x editions, having fleshed out some ideas. However, something bothers me.
Most of info I got from 2nd edition and the adventure goes in 3rd. Were there any major changes in population of Undermountain levels, general monsters, NPCs and various organizations including? It would be awkward to use someone who is supposed to be long dead or who who don't live there anymore.
Thank you.
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 02 Nov 2012 : 14:12:28
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Not until 4E...
Personally, I'd stick with the 2E info. I found what little I read of the 3E book to be underwhelming -- not only did I not care for the plot, I was immediately discouraged when, within a few pages of it detailing what kind of magic didn't work in Undermountain, it described an Undermountain-based NPC using magic that wouldn't work.
For the 2E lore, you've got the 2 boxed sets, the three modules, and the updates in Dragon 227. Plus the info on the Promenade, in Dragon 176, and the Skullport supplement. |
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Hoondatha
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 02 Nov 2012 : 14:42:32
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The only major change that happens in non-Skullport denizens that I know of is that the drow presence on the upper levels is periodically wiped out by adventurers and then re-inhabited by ambitious (and expendable) younger nobles. I think they go through the process two or three times.
Also, I think Muriel might have gotten killed somewhere between 2e and 3e, but I may be misremembering. And Arcturia was supposed to have been killed in that awful Undermountain novel. But in both cases they're such powerful, twisty beings that it's just as easy to believe that death didn't "stick." |
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Undermountain dungeons and timeline
