Undermountain 3.0/3.5 - WHAT THE FREAK??!?!?!

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Undermountain 3.0/3.5 - WHAT THE FREAK??!?!?!

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Sorry, if this has been posted a dozen times already...If anyone knows a thread of how to use the Expedition to Undermountain 3.5 version in C&C, please direct me there, or tell me how this thing works. I finally snagged a decent copy from ebay. It looks like a hodgepodge of the original AD&D one, and the maps mostly seem blank and zoomed in on, instead of the whole maps, complete with matching encounter locations.

Anyone as confused as I am with this? BTW, I also won an auction for the original with the Menzzobenzaran campaign. Waiting on that one, though.

I thank you all in advance;
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Buy this PDF:
http://paizo.com/store/brand/forgottenR ... rce=search

It will be much easier to convert to C&C. The power levels of the creatures in 2E are closer to C&C than 3E. Plus the original is much better than the piece of junk they did for 3E.
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Post by GameOgre »

If I remember right undermountain was a huge fill in the blank kind of adventure.There was very little detailed out for you.

I think there were some adventures that took you there with more info. The boxed set just wasnt one of them.
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Post by Foxroe »

I agree with Treebore; don't bother with the 3.x version (but you can always mine it for ideas). I have the UMI and UMII PDF's and they are very good, and way more compatible with C&C.

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Yep! Do what the guys suggest!
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Post by CoryKhouri »

Thanks all, that is very helpful. I'm thinking of snagging ideas from both versions to fill out my 0One games, 7-level "Dungeon Under the Mountain" pdfs, which I also have.

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Post by Jyrdan Fairblade »

2e Undermountain was awesome.

Yeah, it had a lot of open spaces, but had enough random encounter, event, and whatnot tables to fill in the blanks. And the numbered locales almost always proved to be memorable.

Fond memories of that one, including making the player with the bad attitude playing the fighter with a bad attitude run all the way back to the entrance.

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Post by serleran »

Undermountain, the first box set anyway, is decent. I like that it is purposefully left blank in many places - gave it a much more "old-school vibe" like the original Tegel Manor, for example, or B1. Though, I did find the spaceship rather absurd.

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