Dungeon Delver's Guide
The Dungeon Delver's Guide is a resource for Narrators that want to create compelling and deadly mazes and lairs, and adventurers who want to venture below and return to the surface alive.
FOR PLAYERS
- New archetypes, heritages, and cultures, from ratling filth druids to dolppelganger spell spinner warlocks
- New gear, spells, mounts, and magic items to prepare your adventurers against subterranean threats
FOR NARRATORS
- Dozens of clever traps, tricks, and puzzles that challenge players instead of punishing them
- How-to guides for building satisfying underground adventures
- A quick dungeon-building system that lets narrators -- and characters! -- build unique, thematic dungeons and lairs
- Premade dungeons for characters of any level, ready to drop into an existing campaign
- A guide to the haunted cities and midnight seas of Underland, the weird realm beneath the earth
Chapter 1: EXPLORING THE DUNGEON
- Heritages || Doppelganger | Motley | Mycelial | Oozefolk | Ratling | Rockborn
- Cultures || Carven | Faceless | Grimlock | Meld-Member | Mischief Maker | Motley Crew | Sewer Rat | Sunless Mariner | Underharvester | Underlander
- Backgrounds || Deep Hunter | Dungeon Robber | Escapee from Below | Imposter
- Archetypes || Arachnid Guardian (adept) | Sound Sculptor (bard) | Troll Slayer (berserker) | Labyrinth Priest (cleric) | Decomposer (druid) | Dungeoneer (fighter) | Stone Warden (herald) | Expedition Leader (marshal) | Tenebrous Stalker (ranger) | Shadow Stalker (rogue) | Stoneheart (sorcerer) | Fatewoven (warlock) | Oozemancer (wizard)
- Equipment || Dungeon Delver Equipment | Aboleth Equipment | Grimlock Equipment | Deep Dwarf Equipment | Ratling Equipment | Tinker Gnome Equipment | Shadow Elf Equipment | Dungeon Mounts | Dungeon Vehicles
- Spells || 13 new spells
Chapter 2: BUILDING THE DUNGEON
- Mapping the Dungeon
- Dungeon Theme
- Designing a Dungeon's Structure
- Stocking the Dungeon
- Running the Dungeon
- Traps || Over 100 new traps
- Random Dungeon Delves || Bastion | Caverns | Laboratory | Mine | Ruin | Sewer | Temple | Tomb
- 10 two-Page Dungeons
Chapter 3: NARRATORS' TOOLS
- Ability Scores
- Magic Items || 16 new magic items
- Monsters & NPCs || Over 30 new monsters & NPCs
Chapter 4: Underland Gazetteer
- Appendix A: 5E Races
- Appendix B: Conditions
- Appendix C: Stat Blocks by Challenge Rating
- Appendix D: Stat Blocks by Name
- Appendix E: Compatibility