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This Month's Pack: The Dark Below — Episode 2

The greatest danger in the darkness is the thought that isn't yours.

Deep beneath the kingdoms of the Drow, beyond the mines of the Duergar and the sprawling fungal colonies, something ancient has been waiting.

Something intelligent.

Something hungry.

The Mind Flayers have built an empire in the deepest reaches of the Underdark. Their power is not measured in armies or territory alone, but in the minds they control, the secrets they steal, and the creatures they bend to their will.

This is The Dark Below — Episode 2: The Illithid Dominion.

The Drow still scheme within their hidden courts. Duergar miners uncover secrets better left buried. Myconid creatures spread through the caverns, while prisoners disappear into strange chambers from which few ever return.

And at the center of it all, the Mind Flayers are watching.

Episode 2 takes the adventure deeper.

The party may arrive as escaped prisoners, hunters pursuing a dangerous creature, explorers searching for a lost civilization, or adventurers investigating the disappearance of an entire underground settlement.

Whatever brought them here, the Illithid Dominion has already taken an interest.

Run It Your Way

A flexible Underdark adventure filled with psychic horrors, political intrigue, and dangerous discoveries:

• Infiltrate a Mind Flayer stronghold and discover what its overlord is planning.

• Face psychic warriors who wield psionic shields, conjured blades, and devastating mental powers.

• Uncover a conspiracy within a powerful Drow house whose Matron may be working with—or against—the Illithid Dominion.

• Follow a Duergar miner into abandoned tunnels where something ancient has been uncovered.

• Help a desperate Duergar prisoner escape captivity, or discover why the Mind Flayers wanted them alive.

• Encounter a massive fungal brute guarding a colony of strangely innocent Sporlings.

• Challenge a powerful Drider guarding a forbidden passage, ancient shrine, or hidden entrance to the Dominion.

• Discover a mysterious Thrall Capsule and decide whether the creature trapped inside should be freed.

• Build a complete campaign around the expanding influence of the Illithid Dominion, or introduce its creatures individually into an existing adventure.

Included in This Pack

The Mind Flayers

They do not need to raise their voices to command obedience.

The Illithid Dominion is an ancient civilization built around overwhelming psychic power. Its rulers, warriors, and psionic specialists operate with terrifying coordination, treating lesser creatures as servants, experiments, or obstacles to be removed.

This collection introduces five distinct Mind Flayers, giving Dungeon Masters the foundation for an organized psionic faction rather than a single wandering monster.

• Mind Flayer Overlord

• Mind Flayer Floating Duelist

• Mind Flayer Psi Shield

• Mind Flayer Psi Sword Fighter

• Mind Flayer Psionic Summoner

The Mind Flayer Overlord can serve as the calculating ruler of an underground city, the mastermind behind a growing network of enthralled servants, or an ancient intelligence manipulating the factions of the Underdark.

The Floating Duelist brings supernatural mobility and lethal precision to the battlefield, while the Psi Shield and Psi Sword Fighter represent the disciplined military might of the Dominion.

The Psionic Summoner offers a different kind of threat, commanding supernatural forces and powers that can transform an ordinary encounter into something far more dangerous.

Use them together as the elite hierarchy of a powerful Mind Flayer civilization, or introduce them individually as dangerous enemies, mysterious patrons, or the hidden masterminds behind seemingly unrelated events.

The creatures of the Underdark have spent centuries fighting over territory.

The Mind Flayers have been fighting for control of their minds.

The Drow

Power is never surrendered willingly.

The noble houses of the Drow have survived the Underdark through ambition, cunning, and violence. But even their carefully constructed hierarchies are threatened by the growing influence of the Illithid Dominion.

Episode 2 introduces four additional dark-elven characters ready to expand an existing faction or create entirely new conflicts.

• Drow Matron

• Drow Alchemist

• Drow Dual-Sword Warrior

• Drow Shadow Warrior

The Drow Matron can lead a powerful noble house, command a secret rebellion, negotiate with the Mind Flayers, or manipulate the adventurers into doing her dirty work.

The Alchemist brings dangerous experiments, mysterious substances, and forbidden knowledge into the underground world.

Meanwhile, the Dual-Sword Warrior and Shadow Warrior provide deadly specialists for palace guards, assassination squads, rival adventuring parties, and secret missions.

Perhaps the Matron has discovered a way to resist Illithid mind control.

Perhaps she has already fallen under its influence.

Or perhaps she believes she can control the Mind Flayers herself.

In the Underdark, ambition can be just as dangerous as any monster.

The Duergar

Some dig for riches. Others dig because they have no choice.

The deep dwarves have carved their existence from the unforgiving stone, building mines, settlements, and trade routes beneath the world.

But even the Duergar are not immune to the influence of the Illithid Dominion.

• Duergar Miner

• Duergar Prisoner

The Duergar Miner can serve as a guide through dangerous tunnels, a worker who has discovered something extraordinary, or the last survivor of an excavation that went horribly wrong.

The Duergar Prisoner offers countless opportunities for storytelling. A captive awaiting experimentation, an escaped thrall struggling to reclaim their mind, or a criminal whose knowledge could change the fate of an entire underground settlement.

Not every encounter needs to end with a battle.

Sometimes the most important character in the dungeon is the one begging to be released.

The Myconids

Life finds a way, even where the sun has never shone.

The ancient fungal colonies continue to spread through the deepest caverns, thriving in places where other creatures struggle to survive.

Episode 2 introduces two very different inhabitants of these strange underground ecosystems.

• Myconid Brute

• Sporling

The towering Myconid Brute can serve as a powerful guardian, a territorial monster, or the defender of a colony threatened by encroaching forces.

The Sporling, small and curious, offers an entirely different kind of encounter. It might be a harmless creature wandering through the darkness, a messenger from a nearby colony, or the first sign that adventurers have entered a living fungal network.

Perhaps the Brute protects the Sporling from predators.

Perhaps the colony has begun behaving strangely under the influence of psychic interference.

Or perhaps the party discovers that the smallest creature in the cavern knows something even the Mind Flayers have overlooked.

Big Bad

Drider

Some transformations are worse than death.

Half dark elf and half monstrous spider, the Drider is a terrifying fusion of elegance, predatory instinct, and supernatural power.

Armed and dangerous, this formidable creature can become the centerpiece of an unforgettable underground encounter.

Perhaps she was once a powerful Drow noble, transformed by a cruel punishment or forbidden ritual.

Perhaps she guards the entrance to an ancient temple where the Drow refuse to venture.

Maybe she hunts creatures escaping the Illithid Dominion, dragging her victims back into the darkness.

Or perhaps she is an unlikely ally, willing to help the adventurers bring down a common enemy.

A Drider does not need to be a mindless monster.

She can be intelligent, calculating, bitter, ambitious, and every bit as dangerous as the creatures she hunts.

Give her a territory.

Give her a purpose.

And give your players a reason to fear the sound of approaching legs in the darkness.

Terrain

Thrall Capsule

Someone is still inside.

Deep within the chambers of the Illithid Dominion stand strange vessels designed to hold living captives.

The Thrall Capsule brings an immediate sense of mystery and unease to any subterranean encounter.

Is the occupant a prisoner awaiting transformation?

A failed experiment?

A powerful creature being kept alive for reasons unknown?

Or someone the party has been searching for?

Use the Thrall Capsule as:

• A prison holding an important NPC or missing adventurer.

• An experimental chamber within a Mind Flayer stronghold.

• A mysterious objective the party must activate, destroy, or investigate.

• The centerpiece of a rescue mission or underground laboratory.

• Evidence of a larger operation involving captured creatures from across the Underdark.

• A dangerous discovery that forces the party to choose between curiosity and survival.

The capsule does not have to belong to the Mind Flayers, either. Place it in an abandoned ruin, forgotten laboratory, or ancient underground vault.

The party may never learn who built it.

But whatever is inside might already know their names.

Want to Continue the Adventure?

The Dark Below — Episode 2 expands the subterranean world introduced in Episode 1, but every miniature can stand on its own in an existing fantasy campaign.

The Drow houses introduced in Episode 1 now have new rivals, leaders, and dangerous specialists.

The Duergar trade routes may lead directly into the territory of the Illithid Dominion.

The Myconid colonies may be growing restless as strange psychic forces disturb the natural order of the caverns.

And the mysterious psychic presence hinted at during the first descent now has a name.

The Illithid Dominion.

Perhaps the party defeated a powerful Drow noble only to discover that the noble was serving a greater master.

Perhaps a friendly merchant from Episode 1 has disappeared, leaving behind evidence of an underground prison.

Or perhaps the adventurers have already attracted the attention of a Mind Flayer Overlord who has been studying their every move.

The characters they helped may return.

The enemies they spared may become allies.

And the decisions they made during their first descent may determine who stands beside them when they confront the Dominion.

Episode 1 showed the party what lives beneath the world.

Episode 2 reveals what rules it.

Dungeon Master's Note

The Dark Below — Episode 2 is designed to expand the possibilities of an Underdark campaign while providing a flexible collection of fantasy miniatures that can be used individually across countless adventures.

The Mind Flayers are the heart of this release. Five distinctive characters allow Dungeon Masters to build a coordinated psionic enemy faction with powerful commanders, specialized warriors, and supernatural abilities. Use them as an organized military force, the rulers of a subterranean empire, or individual villains whose schemes unfold over multiple sessions.

The Drow expand the political and military possibilities introduced in Episode 1. The Matron offers a powerful character around whom an entire story can revolve, while the Alchemist, Dual-Sword Warrior, and Shadow Warrior provide additional specialists for noble houses, underground settlements, and dangerous encounters.

The Duergar Miner and Prisoner create opportunities beyond combat. They can become allies, guides, informants, victims, or unwilling participants in the schemes of more powerful factions.

The Myconid Brute and Sporling bring contrasting personalities and encounter possibilities to the fungal colonies. One offers a physically imposing guardian, while the other can introduce curiosity, mystery, and unexpected moments of levity to an otherwise terrifying environment.

The Drider provides a dramatic centerpiece encounter. Use her as a dangerous predator, powerful faction leader, guardian of a forbidden location, or an intelligent enemy with motives of her own.

Finally, the Thrall Capsule offers an immediate adventure objective. Place it in a laboratory, prison, ancient ruin, or hidden chamber and let the players decide what happens next.

Together, these miniatures give Dungeon Masters the tools to build political intrigue, desperate escapes, terrifying combat encounters, and entire adventures centered on the horrors of the Underdark.

Build the Dominion.

Choose who serves it.

Decide who resists.

And remind your players that some monsters don't need to touch you to take everything away.

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