The Ruins of Undermountain

The Ruins of Undermountain is a 2-edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons boxed set for the Forgotten Realms.
==Description==
The Ruins of Undermountain describes Undermountain, the infamous über-dungeon of the Forgotten Realms. It is the first in what became a series of supplements about Undermountain.
The set comprises several components designed to enrich the dungeon-delving experience in Undermountain. Included are a 128-page booklet titled Campaign Guide to Undermountain, a 32-page booklet titled Undermountain Adventures, eight double-sided loose-leaf pages featuring monster statistics, eight double-sided heavy-stock cards serving as "adventure aids," and four color fold-out poster maps.
The Campaign Guide to Undermountain provides exhaustive details about the dungeon's history, its notorious non-player characters such as Halaster Blackcloak, and the spells and magic items to be discovered therein. It also offers comprehensive mapping keys to various locations within Undermountain and guidelines for expanding the dungeon and crafting future adventures.
The Undermountain Adventures booklet outlines seven distinct adventures tailored for the Undermountain setting but adaptable to other dungeons. Additionally, it includes a Monster Guide with stat blocks and descriptions of monsters unique to this set and details about the subterranean city of Skullport. The booklet's cover features art by Jeff Easley, with interior cartography by David Sutherland.
The monster sheets in the set detail eleven creatures in the Monstrous Compendium style.
The adventure aid cards are designed to assist the Dungeon Master by providing detailed information on traps, encounters, treasure, and other elements that can be integrated into ongoing adventures.
The included maps meticulously detail the first three levels of the Undermountain ruins, with the third level being so extensive that it occupies two of the poster maps.
==Contents==
;Campaign Guide to Undermountain
* Introduction
* The Known History of Undermountain
* The City Above
* The Yawning Portal
* Ways In and Out
* Gates of Undermountain
* Rumors of Undermountain
* General Notes on Undermountain
* Undermountain: Level One
* Undermountain: Level Two
* Undermountain: Level Three
* NPCs of Undermountain
* Relevant NPCs of Waterdeep
* Magic Items of Undermountain
* Spells In Undermountain
* How to Expand Undermountain
;Undermountain Adventures
* Starters
* Frying Pan & Fires
* Down in the Dungeon
* Adventure Hooks
* Monster Guide
* Skullport
* The Rat Hills
* Maps & Charts of Undermountain
===Adventure: The Ghost Knight===
===Adventure: The Eye And The Hand===
* In this short adventure, a group of high-level adventurers find themselves kidnapped off the streets of Waterdeep by members of Xanathar's Thieves' Guild and taken down to the Sargauth Level of Undermountain.
===Adventure: Coils In The Dark===
* In this short adventure, adventurers find themselves gated away from Undermountain and out to the High Moor, close to Ithkyxan's Lair.
===Adventure: The Killing Tree===
* In this short adventure, adventurers find themselves gated away from Undermountain and out to the central forest of Cormyr, where deadly plants and tendrils await.
===Adventure: The Black Viper Strikes===
* In this short adventure, adventurers have an encounter with a notorious thief.
===Adventure: Gathgaer's Iron Maiden===
===Adventure: The God of the Dry Depths===
==Index==
===Creatures===
:baneguard • bat • brown mold • bugbear • carrion crawler • chimera • clay golem • crawling claw • drow • dung snake • ettercap • gargoyle • ghast • ghoul • giant centipede • giant weasel • giant gar • giant spider • gnoll • goblin • grell • guardian skeleton • helmed horror • hobgoblin • kobold • leucrotta • lurker above • mimic • necrophidius • neo-otyugh • ochre jelly • orc • • rat • roper • rot grub • salamander • snake • spectre • spider, flying • stirge • stone golem • tentamort • trapper • vampyre • water weird • wereboar • wyvern
===Magic===
;Items: blast scepter • bracers of defense • brooch of shielding • glim-gauntlet • greenstone amulet • horned ring • iron bands of Bilarro • medallion of ESP • ring of fire resistance • ring of mind shielding • ring of protection • ring of the ram • ring of regeneration • ring of spell turning • rod of absorption • stun sphere • vorpal • wand of paralyzation • whip of withering
===Miscellaneous===
;Food & Drink: 
;Plants: scuud
;Professions: moneylending
==Gallery==
The Ruins of Undermountain Back Cover.jpg|Back Cover
Campaign Guide to Undermountain Cover.jpg|Campaign Guide to Undermountain Cover
Undermountain Adventures Cover.jpg|Undermountain Adventures Cover
==Credits==
;Campaign Guide to Undermountain
* Design: Ed Greenwood
* Editing: Steven E. Schend
* Box and Book Cover Art: Brom
* Interior Art: Karl Waller
* Graphic Design: Dee Barnett
* Cartography: Diesel, Steve Beck, and David Sutherland
* Production: Sarah Feggestad
* Typography: Gaye O'Keefe
;Undermountain Adventures
* Design: Ed Greenwood
* Editing: Jon Pickens and Steven E. Schend
* Cover Art: Jeff Easley
* Interior Art: Karl Waller
* Cartography: David Sutherland
* Graphic Design: Dee Barnett
* Production: Sarah Feggestad
* Typography: Gaye O'Keefe
==Trivia==
* This adventure was ranked the 17 greatest adventure of all time by Dungeon magazine for the 30th anniversary of the game in 2004.
==Appendix==
===See Also===
* Images from The Ruins of Undermountain
===Notes===
===External Links===
* RPGGeek
* DriveThruRPG product page
===References===
===Connections===
Category:Boxed sets
Category:Undermountain sourcebooks
Category:2nd edition sourcebooks
Category:Sourcebooks
Category:Works by Ed Greenwood
Category:Published in 1991
Category:Undermountain adventures