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Awesomely frightening, Underdark finally makes the classic adventuring area truly chill inducing. The Underdark has always been filled with potential, but its actual depiction has traditionally been a let down. Generally it just boils down to caverns, more caverns, and look over here: caverns. Even 5e suffers from this problem (see Out of the Abyss with the exception of Zuggtmoy’s Wedding). This 4e book portrays The Underdark as a diverse world - each area more terrifying than the last. It truly...
My 4e group has just descended to the Underdark as the next step on their Paragon level quest for glory. I picked up this book to help flesh out the module: Demon Queen's Enclave. Overall the book was a good read. There was some really interesting things that I had no clue about. I expect things like the Kings Highway and some of the new monsters like the Incuballa to make an appearance in my game. The problem with this book is that it is one of the older 4e books written before the new monster
Despite some bizarre 4E choices (it all relates back to primordials. All of it. Always), and despite some annoying overused artwork (vs. a lack of artwork at places that desperately needed something to illustrate what they were talking about), this is a really solid, incredibly useful-yet-open exploration of the Underdark in 4E.