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'''''Drow of the Underdark''''' is the name of two supplemental rules books for D&D, providing supplementary game rules focusing on drow culture, equipment, and folklore for both players and DMs.

== ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' second edition ==
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'''''The Drow of the Underdark''''' was written by Ed Greenwood for use with ''AD&D'' (Second Ed.), and focuses primarily on the drow of the Forgotten Realms. The book features cover art by Jeff Easley, and interior art by Tim Bradstreet and Rick Harris.{{csb|DotU2e|}}

Most notably, this sourcebook mentions the drow houses of the [[Vault of the Drow]], and shows house symbols for those houses.{{csb|DotU2e|108}}
 
This book details the nature of dark elves, dark elven society, drow religion (including Eilistraee, Ghuanadar/The [[Elder Elemental God]], [[Lolth]], and [[Vhaeraun]]), the high history of the drow, drow spells, drow magic items, drow craftwork, drow languages, drow nomenclature, and dark elven runes. This book also details the [[Underdark]] of the Forgotten Realms, as well as several monsters of the Underdark (including the myrlochar and the yochlol).

== ''Dungeons & Dragons'' third edition ==
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|author           = [[Ari Marmell]], [Anthony Pryor, [[Robert J. Schwalb]], [[Greg A. Vaughan]]
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'''''Drow of the Underdark''''' was written for use with D&D 3e, and is not tied to any specific campaign setting. The book's format and contents are similar to that of ''[[Draconomicon]]'', ''[[Libris Mortis]]'', and ''[[Lords of Madness]]''.

Although primarily intended for DM use,{{csb|DotU3e|5}} 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 [[Underdark]] in general.

This book was designed by Ari Marmell, Anthony Pryor, [[Robert J. Schwalb]], and [[Greg A. Vaughan]]. It features cover art by Francis Tsai, and interior art by Steve Ellis, Wayne England, Lars Grant-West, Tomás Giorello, Carlo Bocchio|Jackoilrain, William O'Connor, Richard Sardinha, Beth Trott, Francis Tsai, Franz Vohwinkel, Eva Widerman], and James Zhang.{{csb|DotU3e|5}}

=== Contents ===
;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
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;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.<ref>{{cite web |date=2007-05-04 |url=http://web.archive.org/web/20100627054559/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/20070504a |title=Drow of the Underdark Errata: The Vril Warrior |archive-date=2008-05-18 |access-date=2021-11-07 }}Archived.  Accessed: 2021-11-07.</ref>

==See also==
* ''Underdark'' (2003, [[Wizards of the Coast]])

==References==
===Citations===
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===Bibliography===
* [[Ari Marmell|Marmell, Ari]], [[Anthony Pryor]], [[Robert J. Schwalb]] and [[Greg A. Vaughan]]. ''Drow of the Underdark''. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2007. Item code 95726.
* Ed Greenwood.  ''Drow of the Underdark''.  Lake Geneva, WI: [[TSR]], 1991.  Item Code:9326 (FOR2)   ISBN: 1-56076-132-6
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