- Out of the Abyss pretends to be a sand-box campaign, but in my opinion it is not. If the PC’s take some paths, then some quests lose meaning or become obsolete. So, taking into account the continuity of the story and meaning of the different quests and set encounters, my suggested order of encounters and settlement for maximum fun is this.
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Read :892 The Apostle Paul branded him the “man of lawlessness.” The Prophet Daniel marked him as a “little horn,” and a king. John, the author of Revelation, stamped him as a “scarlet beast.” The Apostle John labeled him “Antichrist.” Many left behind after the Rapture will be amazed and terrified at his mysterious, yet miraculous reappearance. Who is this troublesome figure that will pervert all that is good and decent and right? Is it possible to solve the number of the Antichrist before he appears? Does the Bible promote or even permit identification of this man of sin who will personify and epitomize the Mystery of Iniquity? Both believers and non-believers have been perplexed and intrigued with these questions for centuries! This book will propel you on an unforgettable voyage to the ancient Roman world, to the very origin and lair of the beast, to the 1st century Church, to the Abyss and back again, to the preemptive death and eternal destruction of Antichrist, to the mesmerizing visions of John, Daniel, and Zechariah, and to high level heavenly counsels. Out of the Abyss will expose and declassify that which has been concealed and classified. To wit: the secret of the beast presumed to be confidential until the body of Christ is taken from this earth. You may not agree with where the journey takes you, i.e. with the conclusions reached. But with all his heart and utmost conviction, the author believes you will enjoy the trip. He proposes that, at the very least, you will be fascinated with the relevance and application of Scripture to some of the most astounding events in human history, both past and future. You will take part in and be enthralled with a partial refitting of the prophetic puzzle.
Out Of The Abyss
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When two similar personalities collide, love is caught in the middle… Wyatt Sanders is on a mission no one knows about except his boss. Captured, tortured, and eventually rescued by a CIA agent determined to return him back to the United States, he refuses. He must finish his assignment — for the sake of his country. What he doesn’t expect is for love to hamper his assignment. Reagan Morrison’s mission as a CIA agent is clear — protect her country. When she rescues an injured and physically helpless Falcon agent from a Mexican Drug Cartel basement, her focus is on getting him medical attention, then back to the States so she can finish her assignment — bring down the drug cartel and the man in charge of it. She does not plan for the stubborn male under her protection to refuse her orders, or insist on joining her in the fight ahead. Can two strong personalities survive not only the battle with the drug cartel, but with each other? The mission is on, and winning the war on love will turn out to be the most important battle ahead of them.
Out Of The Abyss
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Out of the Abyss is about a woman who educated herself, survived an abusive and horrific marriage, and due to severe depression after the loss of a loved one, ended up in prison. It is a true story, showing that despite everything she has gone through, the author has managed to climb Out of the Abyss.
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Dare to descend into the Underdark in this adventure for the world s greatest roleplaying game The Underdark is a subterranean wonderland, a vast and twisted labyrinth where fear reigns. It is the home of horrific monsters that have never seen the light of day. It is here that the dark elf Gromph Baenre, Archmage of Menzoberranzan, casts a foul spell meant to ignite a magical energy that suffuses the Underdark and tears open portals to the demonic Abyss. What steps through surprises even him, and from that moment on, the insanity that pervades the Underdark escalates and threatens to shake the Forgotten Realms to its foundations. Stop the madness before it consumes you! 'A Dungeons & Dragons(r) adventure for characters of levels 1 15'
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The Abyss And Sexual Creation
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In this writing the author takes us to the depths of consciousness- a walk through the abyss and back out again. Deeper, down, down, all of you down deeper, faster, know me, know that--there is no death in me--down one vortex, there is only rebirth--up the other side. Know me--I am the space between connecting all separate things, I am the moment's rest between all events. I am the silence that you hear when you are still. Know me. I am female from which you, male, come from and to which you return, the two of us comprising sexual creation together. The Abyss and Sexual Creation
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The Jewish Popes
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Will we ever see peace in the Middle East? If so, how will it come about? Currently negotiations are in the works for the creation of an independent Palestinian State. However, it will be located in part of the land, which Orthodox Jews believe was set aside by God exclusively for the Jews. They contend that the Israelites under Moses covenanted with God never to let non-Jews live in any part of the Promised Land. They further believe, that a breach of this sacred Covenant will lead to divine curses for the disobedient Jews, including the conquest of Israel by her enemies and the deportation of the surviving Jews to foreign lands. Dr. Leon G. van Wert now has written a new and exciting eschatological work, which clearly shows that the creation of a new, non-Jewish Palestinian State, within the boundaries of the Promised Land, will bring us one pivotal step closer towards the End Times. Using the Old Testament as his guide to interpreting the book of Revelation, Dr. van Wert has unlocked this mysterious book of the Bible. When is the end? The end is near, says the author, when after the creation of an independent State of Palestine, the Cardinals elect two successive Jewish Popes.
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Despite the many ways in which the so-called psychoses can become manifest, they are ultimately human events arising out of human contexts. As such, they can be understood in an intersubjective manner, removing the stigmatizing boundary between madness and sanity. Utilizing the post-Cartesian psychoanalytic approach of phenomenological contextualism, as well as almost 50 years of clinical experience, George Atwood presents detailed case studies depicting individuals in crisis and the successes and failures that occurred in their treatment. Topics range from depression to schizophrenia, bipolar disorder to dreams, dissociative states to suicidality. Throughout is an emphasis on the underlying essence of humanity demonstrated in even the most extreme cases of psychological and emotional disturbance, and both the surprising highs and tragic lows of the search for the inner truth of a life – that of the analyst as well as the patient.
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The first extended treatment of Hegel’s theory of the unconscious and his anticipation of Freud.
Rising From The Abyss
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The Apocalypse With A Commentary And An Introd On The Reality Of Prediction The History Of Christendom The Scheme Of Interpretation And The Antichrist Of St Paul And St John
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'Trafton has produced a clear, understandable, insightful reading of the book of Revelation - not an easy task for a book that has left many readers puzzled and confused. One of the particular strengths of Trafton's commentary is his close attention to the structure of John's work and the internal connections between various passages of the book. Readers will also benefit from Trafton's identification of John's extensive indebtedness to the Hebrew Bible for much of his imagery and ideas.' - Mitchell G. Reddish O.L. Walker Professor of Christian Studies and Chair, Department of Religious Studies Stetson University
A Short And Simple Explanation Of The Book Of The Revelation Of Jesus Christ
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The Abyss Beyond Dreams
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The first volume in the Chronicles of the Fallers, The Abyss Beyond Dreams by Peter F. Hamilton, is an exceptional novel exploring the mystery at the heart of the Commonwealth Universe. Fitting between the events of the Commonwealth Saga and the Void Trilogy, The Abyss Beyond Dreams is the first in an expansive duology, from the master of space opera. To save their civilization he must destroy it . . . When images of a lost civilization are 'dreamed' by a self-proclaimed prophet of the age, Nigel Sheldon, inventor of wormhole technology and creator of the Commonwealth society, is asked to investigate. Especially as the dreams seem to be coming from the Void - a mysterious area of living space monitored and controlled because of its hugely destructive capabilities. With it being the greatest threat to the known universe, Nigel is committed to finding out what really lies within the Void and if there's any truth to the visions they've received. Does human life really exist inside its boundary? But when Nigel crash lands inside the Void, on a planet he didn't even know existed, he finds so much more than he expected. Bienvenido: a world populated by the ancestors of survivors from Commonwealth colony ships that disappeared centuries ago. Since then they've been fighting an increasingly desperate battle against the Fallers, a space-born predator artificially evolved to conquer worlds. Their sole purpose is to commit genocide against every species they encounter. With their powerful telepathic lure - that tempts any who stray across their path to a slow and painful death - they are by far the greatest threat to humanity's continued existence on this planet. But Nigel soon realizes that the Fallers also hold the key to something he'd never hoped to find - the destruction of the Void itself. If only he can survive long enough to work out how to use it . . .
Journey To The Abyss
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These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler—patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat—present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle Époque Europe, a glittering world poised to be changed irrevocably by the Great War. Kessler’s immersion in the new art and literature of Paris, London, and Berlin unfolds in the first part of the diaries. This refined world gives way to vivid descriptions of the horrific fighting on the Eastern and Western fronts of World War I, the intriguing private discussions among the German political and military elite about the progress of the war, as well as Kessler’s account of his role as a diplomat with a secret mission in Switzerland. Profoundly modern and often prescient, Kessler was an erudite cultural impresario and catalyst who as a cofounder of the avant-garde journal Pan met and contributed articles about many of the leading artists and writers of the day. In 1903 he became director of the Grand Ducal Museum of Arts and Crafts in Weimar, determined to make it a center of aesthetic modernism together with his friend the architect Henry van de Velde, whose school of design would eventually become the Bauhaus. When a public scandal forced his resignation in 1906, Kessler turned to other projects, including collaborating with the Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the German composer Richard Strauss on the opera Der Rosenkavalier and the ballet The Legend of Joseph, which was performed in 1914 by the Ballets Russes in London and Paris. In 1913 he founded the Cranach-Presse in Weimar, one of the most important private presses of the twentieth century. The diaries present brilliant, sharply etched, and often richly comical descriptions of his encounters, conversations, and creative collaborations with some of the most celebrated people of his time: Otto von Bismarck, Paul von Hindenburg, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Diaghilev, Vaslav Nijinsky, Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, Sarah Bernhardt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Marie Rilke, Paul Verlaine, Gordon Craig, George Bernard Shaw, Harley Granville-Barker, Max Klinger, Arnold Böcklin, Max Beckmann, Aristide Maillol, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Éduard Vuillard, Claude Monet, Edvard Munch, Ida Rubinstein, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Pierre Bonnard, and Walther Rathenau, among others. Remarkably insightful, poignant, and cinematic in their scope, Kessler’s diaries are an invaluable record of one of the most volatile and seminal moments in modern Western history. From the Hardcover edition.
Up From The Abyss
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I assure you, though, there is nothing trite about coming down with Guillain-Barre syndrome. For the person hit by it, it's war and revolution wrapped in one: A catastrophe, an upheaval, a devastating blow. But also an invaluable experience and a possibility for renewal. I wouldn't be what I am now, a man at peace with himself and the world, had I not come down with, and fought back from, this terrible ailment. But I don't want to sound excessive. It isn't terminal cancer at young age, or trauma-induced coma and vegetative state; but, as Joseph Heller said, it's no laughing matter, either. The blessing about Guillain-Barre syndrome-and I mean that with only a little bit of irony-is that it doesn't affect the gray matter upstairs. You know it's bad, but you also know it can be defeated, and the struggle to overcome it lends a tremendous meaning of truthfulness to the old saying: 'That which does not kill you.' You know the rest. It can paralyze you completely, and, occasionally, do you in, but the road back or, as I imply in my title, the uphill struggle from the abyss is Herculean and character forming.'
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Following on the heels of Hoard of the Dragon Queen, The Rise of Tiamat, and Princes of the Apocalypse, Out of the Abyss is the fourth campaign adventure supplement for Dungeons & Dragons 5E. Like Princes of the Apocalypse, Out of the Abyss will take the characters up to level 15 as they confront the effects of a massive demonic incursion into the Underdark. Out of the Abyss released today, September 15, 2015.
Warning: This review isn’t going to do anything like give map locations, but it will contain information on the outlines of the plot of the Out of the Abyss campaign. If you might be playing through the campaign, and don’t want any information going in, turn away now!
The Basics
Out of the Abyss is a 250-page, full-color hardcover that retails for about $50. The campaign was produced by Wizards of the Coast and Green Ronin Publishing (Dragon Age, Mutants & Masterminds, A Song of Fire and Ice). It is also tagged as part of the “Rage of Demons” event, tying in with several other product releases (don’t worry, despite Drizzt Do’Urden’s presence in some other Rage of Demons material, he will not show up here to steal the characters’ thunder).
The graphic design, art style, cartography and other production aspects are consistent with the high level of quality for D&D. However, I must regret to report that my review copy of Out of the Abyss failed the impact test we performed, so be advised that if you leave your copy of Out of the Abyss on top of your vehicle, then go through a roundabout, the resulting collision will do significantly more damage to your book than it does to the pavement. On the bright side, despite the inattention-induced smushed corner, the book’s binding has not shown any negative effects from the test.
Out of the Abyss sort-of takes the characters from levels 1 through 15. I say sort-of because the first part of the campaign can be run with first level characters … or second … or third. So I’m going to go out on a limb and say that first level characters are going to have a pretty rough time of it. This is reminiscent of Princes of the Apocalypse, which was also levels 1-15, but the meat of the campaign started at level 3 – that book, however, explicitly had an introductory town to run level 1 characters through. I would probably not start the characters at level 1, either dropping them right in at level 2, or letting them play through an introductory adventure that ends up with the characters in the clutches of the Underdark …
Overview
In the Underdark city of Menzoberranzan, drow archmage Gromph Baenre lets his magic get a little bit away from him, resulting in all of the demon lords (but one) from the Abyss and into the Underdark (those being Baphomet, Demogorgon, Fraz-Urb’luu, Graz’zt, Juiblex, Orcus, Yeenoghu, Zuggtmoy – Lolth stays behind because this is her plan, and she wants to have the Abyss to herself). The PCs, starting out as low-level schmucks just lucky to be alive, start out trapped in the Underdark and go on a bit of a mini-tour before eventually getting back to the surface. Throughout these adventures, the PCs come to realize that something is going very wrong in the Underdark, as the presence of the demon lords is slowly driving everyone mad (including, potentially, some of the PCs). The PCs are then tasked with going back down into the Underdark and dealing with the problem. If the PCs have played their cards right, this time they will be at the head of a small expeditionary force. Eventually, with the help of the PCs, another archmage will be able to bring all of the demon lords together, where they will savage each other until the PCs can take out what’s left.
Out of the Abyss is the most free-form of the D&D adventures to date. Early on the characters will have a lot of choice of which Underdark location to visit next. Throughout the campaign there is a lot of emphasis on the travel between different points. Instead of just moving from big dungeon to big dungeon, the characters will tend to face more, smaller challenges and encounters – individual characters or locations they run into while traveling or in the vicinity of other, bigger locations. A lot of it is not integral to the plot, but rather colorful and interesting – I can see game groups getting a bit tired of Underdark random monster encounters well before the campaign is over, but you should definitely keep an eye out of the unique chapter encounters they’ve included.
Additionally, Out of the Abyss from the very start presents the characters with a lot of opportunities to pick up NPC companions. Some of these characters will come and go fairly quickly, but some may stay with the characters throughout almost the entire campaign. Later on the characters will have the opportunity to command underlings, as the surface factions support their efforts to deal with the problems of the Underdark before they get any higher. There is a lot of mileage to be had out of how the PCs deal with these repeating and sometimes interlocking characters.
This more free-form method makes things a bit more taxing for the DM to determine appropriate challenge levels for the first half of the campaign. Princes of the Apocalypse similarly let the PCs face the dungeons in an order of their choosing, but it also specifically told the DM what level each dungeon was designed for – so you could push the players towards the “right” dungeon, adjust the difficulty of the dungeon to fit the level of the party, or let the PCs hit locations they just couldn’t handle knowing in advance they just couldn’t handle them (hopefully accompanied by some sort of signals to the PCs that leaving was an option, because you’re a nice DM, right?). If that’s a concern, I think that the most natural order of progression is (not shockingly) the order the locations are presented in the book, as I think that has the best narrative feel to it, including getting the most mileage out of interconnected plot hook (for example, getting an item in Chapter 4 that needs to be given to someone in Chapter 6).
Contents
Chapter 1: Prisoners of the Drow (~10 pages) – Yes, yes, the campaign starts off with all of the characters stripped of their gear and in prison. I’ll admit that this is a bit of a clichéd start to a campaign. On the other hand, I played through or DMed Escape from Zanzer’s Dungeon (from the 1991 Classic/New-Easy-To-Master Dungeons & Dragon boxed set) more than a couple of times, so I have some serious fondness for this particular cliché. Plus, what else would a group of level 1-3 characters be doing this deep in the Underdark? This chapter will end with the characters escaping into the wilds of the Underdark. The most significant development here will be which of the 10 NPC prisoners the PCs escape with, because (in addition to plain old character interaction) almost all of those NPCs have a hook into one of the towns the characters will visit from chapters 3-6 and 8 (sometimes in a way that will help the characters, and sometimes not so much). I personally recommend making sure that Stool (the myconid sprout) gets to tag along, because there’s a lot of fungus plot hooks (I’m not making that up; there’s a lot of fungus in the Underdark).
Chapter 2: Into Darkness (not the Star Trek kind) (~20 pages) – This is the primary travel and setting chapter for the book. Here is presented information on navigating the Underdark, the random encounter table for the Underdark, figuring out how to eat, all the different kinds of fungus (I told you fungus was important), how the PCs might go about getting to the locations of their next adventures, and the various plot hooks the DM can use to get them there (heavily tied into the fairly safe presumption that the PCs would like to leave the Underdark right now please). This chapter also presents the rules for madness used throughout the campaign, which has a Cthulhu-esque vibe of trying not to lose it when exposed to bizarre and disturbing stuff. Also included are rules for handling the drow pursuit that will dog the characters during the first half of the campaign. Finally, this chapter includes four small set piece encounters, with the intention that the PCs will run into one of the four before reaching each of the four destinations in chapters 3-6. My favorite is the oozing temple, a sealed room puzzle where the PCs can acquire as a companion a sentient, telepathic gelatinous cube.
Chapter 3: The Darklake (~10 pages) – The first of four “tour of the Underdark” chapters, the Darklake features a kua-toa settlement disturbed by the influence of Demogorgon. This chapter will likely see the PCs help one side in this straightforward conflict, before Demogorgon shows up and wise characters get out of dodge. Warning: it may be difficult to run this chapter with a straight face, seeing how it takes place in the town of Sloobludop and features a conflict between characters named Ploopploopeen, Glooglugogg, and Bloppblippodd about whether to worship a being known as Blibdoolpoolp.
Chapter 4: Gracklstugh (~30 pages) – As you might guess from the page count, the characters visit to the Duergar city of Gracklstugh is a lot more substantial than their stop in Sloobludop. There are multiple quest threads to be followed in the City of Blades, with the characters potentially working for the city government, a red dragon, the guys who think they control the red dragon, and some stone giants. While some of the parts of this take place entirely in the city, others resolve in a ‘dungeon’ area called the Whorlstone Tunnels, which are pretty cool. Alice in Wonderland fans will get a kick out of the magic mushrooms that can shrink and enlarge the characters, allowing them to sneak through tunnels that are otherwise inaccessible. This dungeon also features the character’s first chance to learn about the Zuggtmoy (demon price of fungi) plot, and potentially pick up another myconid companion.
Chapter 5: Neverlight Grove (~10 pages) – Speaking of Zuggtmoy plot, Chapter 5 will let the characters return their adorable mushroom companions to their home … which is not as idyllic as they left it. While this chapter is about the same length as Chapter 3, Neverlight Grove has a lot more to it, with the characters able to interact with the myconids and discover that their community has started to become corrupted by Zuggtmoy, who has a really disturbing wedding fantasy going on. The characters will learn more if they risk madness, and ultimately will have to flee, possibly with the uncorrupted portions of the myconid colony in tow.
Chapter 6: Blingdenstone (~20 pages) – At this point the PCs have met drow and duergar (and derro), so it must be time to catch the third Underdark variant of a standard PC race, the svirfneblin. Blingdenstone is a city in the early stages of recovery, having been virtually wiped out by a drow attack decades ago. Like the duergar chapter, this one features multiple plot threads, as the PCs (probably) cleanse a temple, make peace with wererat-svirfneblin, and placate ghosts. This culminates in a semi-successful assault against an infestation of oozes called through the power of the demon lord Juiblex.
Chapter 7: Escape from the Underdark (~5 pages) – The characters, having now wrapped up the initial part of the campaign, are finally directed to a functional way out of the Underdark. But wait! First there has to be an awkward encounter with the drow who have been pursuing the PCs all this time. I say awkward because the encounter seems to be intended as a bit too much for the PCs to handle, to the point of including tips on how to help the PCs out if/when it goes badly. I understand the desire to provide closure on the drow pursuit, but I don’t really get why it’s presented this way. The characters should be 8th level by the time this chapter is done.
Chapter 8: Audience in Gauntlgrym (~10 pages) – The characters’ visit to the dwarven city of Gauntlgrym is the focus of the one chapter of this book that takes place outside of the Underdark. It feels a bit forced, but the characters will (because reasons) end up with an audience in front of the king, and will then have meetings with representatives of each of the five Forgotten Realms factions. The four good guy factions all generally support the PCs’ mission, but the characters will have to convince them to provide actual support. The ‘bad guy faction’ (the Zhentarim) have what the characters really want, and will ultimately provide it to them because it suits their purposes, but they’ll try to get something out of it as well. Some of the factions lay down small plot hooks for the trip back into the Underdark as well (for example, keeping an eye out for a missing spy). For each faction the PCs succeed at their interactions with, they will get a small detachment of minions to take along on their journey.
Chapter 9: Mantol-Derith (~10 pages) – There are a number of interactions to be found in this merchant outpost of various Underdark factions, but the main purpose is to get directions to Chapter 11. The characters also have the chance to destroy the gem imprisoning demon lord Fraz-Urb’luu, which banishes him back to the Abyss (the PCs will also see the continued mental effects of the presence of the demon lords).
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Chapter 10: Descent into the Depths (~10 pages) – Somewhat revisiting the concepts of Chapter 2, Descent into the Depths, presenting new random encounters, information on how the party’s travel is different with all of the NPCs they may have along, and giving an update on what the PCs might find if they detour to past adventure sites.
Chapter 11: Gravenhollow (~10 pages) – This exotic stone giant library (it includes visions of past, present, and future, so a bit more than normal books are available) serves two functions in the campaign. First, it can give the characters an info dump, giving them insight into what’s happening to the Underdark and why. Second, it hooks them up with exiled drow archmage Vizeran DeVir, who is the key to the characters actually dealing with the menace of the demon lords.
Chapter 12: The Tower of Vengeance (~5 pages) – This is Vizeran’s home base, and will most likely just serve as the place where he explains his plan to deal with the demon lords. The PCs will have to go get the components necessary for a great ritual that will reverse the ritual performed by Gromph Baenre – the demons will be summoned to one place, they will mostly kill each other, and then the PCs will finish off what’s left. You will probably not be surprised to learn that Vizeran has ulterior motives – he does want the demon lords dealt with, and his ritual works, but there are certain aspects of it he just might be fibbing about.
Chapter 13: The Wormwrithings (~10 pages) – This chapter features several smaller locations in a general area of the Underdark as the characters begin collecting ingredients like a purple worm egg and a beholder’s eye. As is the usual for this campaign, it also features plain old interesting run-ins, and also the chance to interact with NPCs that will affect how difficult (or not) the rest of the characters’ mission is. The chapter includes a nifty set-piece battle with a beholder, with the PCs fighting the flying eye tyrant from a series of rope bridges.
Chapter 14: The Labyrinth (~10 pages) – Like the Wormwrithings, the Labyrinth is a general area of the Underdark, and this chapter features a series of encounters and locations. This includes witnessing a run-in between Baphomet and Yeenoghu. One of the more noteworthy, but kind of pointless, side events here involves modrons and a malfunctioning Orderer (or the Maze Engine, to everyone else). The characters can attempt to activate the device to “fix” problems in the Underdark. If all goes to plan, then the Maze Engine will banish all extraplanar creatures within a wide distance, including Baphomet and Yeenoghu. But that doesn’t matter to the final battle. Activating it creates this set-piece battle probably on top of the malfunctioning Maze Engine as it slowly falls into magma. This is represented by a random roll every turn – there’s a 20% chance the intended outcome happens, and some of the other stuff is pretty wild, maybe a bit too wild. For example, one of the possible effects is to send the characters back to the beginning of the campaign – they go back in time and get dropped into the drow prison, but will all of their levels, equipment, and memories intact. That’s a pretty clever thing to read, but that would make for some pretty miserable gameplay if it actually happened. One of the few disappointing set piece encounters in a book full of good ones.
Chapter 15: The City of Spiders (~15 pages) – This chapter sees the characters finally go into that most famous of Underdark locations, Menzoberranzan. As with Gracklstugh and Blingdenstone, there’s some background information presented on the city. However, there is not a terrible lot of use for it – only drow and the slaves of the drow are allowed in Menzoberranzan, so the characters’ options are limited. Unless they’re really sneaky (in which case they’ll might be able to just flat out steal Gromph’s grimoire, which is why they’re here), the PCs will eventually be brought before one of the power brokers of the city – and, conveniently, all of these folks want the demon lords stopped as well, so the characters are escorted to Gromph’s sanctum so they can break into it.
Chapter 16: The Fetid Wedding (~5 pages) – This chapter is both awesome and out of place. It is the culmination of all things fungus-related, as Zuggtmoy seeks to “marry” Araumycos, the super-size fungus that covers hundreds of miles of the Underdark. The PCs will have the opportunity to interfere, distracting Zuggtmoy so that she loses when Juiblex attacks, and then the PCs can finish off the weakened ooze demon lord. But by this point the characters have everything they need for Vizeran to do the ritual and just finish off all of the demon lords. And the plot with Zuggtmoy and Juiblex (let them fight, then finish off the winner) is exactly what the PCs are going to do in the next chapter. The GM might want to consider switching chapter 15 and 16, upping the pressure as, when in Menzoberranzan, the PCs learn about Vizeran’s little fibs.
Chapter 17: Against the Demon Lords (~5 pages) – The fib told by Vizeran is where the characters need to be for the ritual to work. Vizeran hates Lolth and Menzoberranzan, and he wants the PCs to take a ritual object back into the city so that it is the location of the battle of the demon lords. However, the characters will already have learned by this point that Vizeran lied about this, and the PCs can basically pick some deserted location to get trashed by the fight. They still need Vizeran to cooperate, so it will be up to the PCs whether they simply lie to the archmage about how they’re going back to Menzoberranzan, or if he finds out and he grumpily accepts their refusal. I think the presumption is that the PCs aren’t going to want to go back to Menzoberranzan, which they just recently left, although I could see characters arguing that destroying a hive of scum and villainy might not be the worst thing for the health of everyone else in the Underdark. Wherever they choose, the demons will come, they will battle, and Demogorgon will come out on top, at which point the PCs will have to face him. It is left to the DM whether the PCs are able to do this at full strength, or if they’ve had to fight some demons beforehand.
Appendix A: Modifying Backgrounds (1 page) – Some substitute features and bonds to tie the characters into the Underdark. I usually think these are a great idea, but they may not be here because things like extra survival abilities in the Underdark somewhat cut against the sense of mystery, horror, and danger of that setting.
Appendix B (Magic Items) and Appendix C (Creatures) (~10 pages) – Pretty self-explanatory.
Appendix D: Demon Lords (~20 pages) – Here one can find full write-ups of all of the demon lords. These write-ups are designed for general use, not really in this campaign. The characters only directly fight a couple of demon lords, and they are always weakened from prior combat and without the use of their Lair abilities.
Conclusion
There are just a lot of really, really good little encounters in here. Even if one isn’t interested in running the overarching campaign, there are quite a few encounters or small dungeons that would be great to drop into many games.
One thing I really like to see in Out of the Abyss was consequences for actions. As I read Out of the Abyss it reminded me of the great flaw of the Rise of Tiamat, which was that it had this involved system where the PCs’ actions would influence various factions to support them (or not) in their quest against the Dragon Queen – but then they got to climax of the campaign, and none of that mattered at all. In Out of the Abyss there are also a lot of bits of aid that the characters might pick up along the way, and it all actually matters in specific ways – and in ways that do not get in the way or take the spotlight off of the PCs. For example, during the confrontation with the Pudding King in Blingdenstone, if the PCs had acquired necessary ingredients for a certain quest, then their equipment has been treated and is immune to the corrosive effects of some oozes.
The plot hook filled NPC companions in general are also a great inclusion I’d like to see more of in long-term campaigns like this.