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culture, equipment and folklore for both players and Dungeon Masters.

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''The Drow of the Underdark'' was written by

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for use with ''AD&D'' (2nd Ed.), and focuses primarily on the drow of the

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. The book features cover art by

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, and interior art by

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and Rick Harris. This book details the nature of dark elves, dark elven society, drow religion (including Eilistraee, Ghuanadar/The Elder Elemental God,

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, and

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), the high history of the drow, drow

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, drow magical items, drow craftwork, drow languages, drow nomenclature, and dark elven runes. This book also details the

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of the Forgotten Realms, as well as several monsters of the Underdark (including the myrlochar and the yochlol).

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''. Although primarily intended for DM use, players can use information from the book to play as a drow character or half-drow character, as well as to fight against drow, or to adventure in the

in general. This book was designed by

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, and interior art by Steve Ellis,

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, Beth Trott, Francis Tsai,

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, and James Zhang.

;"All About Drow" The first chapter contains general information about drow and contains few rules other than drow racial traits. A guide to drow names and their meanings is also included. ;"Drow Options" This chapter contains new uses for various skills, new feats (including general, metamagic, ambush, divine, vile, and weapon style feats), alternate class features for many classes, and new spells and invocations (some of which require the user to be a drow). ;"Prestige Classes" New prestige classes in this chapter include Arachnomancer, Cavestalker, Demonbinder, Dread Fang of Lolth Eye of Lolth, Insidious Corrupter, and Kinslayer. Each prestige class also contains a sample NPC ready for quick use. ;"Drow Equipment" This chapter contains new mundane, alchemical, and magic items, along with poisons, magic-infused poisons, and artifacts ;"New Monsters and NPCs" Numerous new monsters are presented in ''Drow of the Underdark'', including the deep dragon, trolls, goblins, and draegloth. There are also numerous ready-to-use drow NPC statistics, both for "generic" NPCs (such as "drow slaver") and "specific" NPCs (like Xil'Etha Dhuvvaryl). Statistics for one monster, the vril, were accidentally left out of the book.

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''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' 2nd edition

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