D&D groups who have been improvising the Underdark with mismatched dungeon tiles have something better coming. Archon Studio, the Polish manufacturer behind Dungeons & Lasers and the StarCraft tabletop miniatures game, has revealed an officially licensed D&D terrain line starting with The Underdark Pre-Painted Set, on sale now at £99 with shipping in early June.
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Set up your group for freeThe Wizards of the Coast partnership matters because official D&D table terrain has been thin on the ground for years. Archon's set is built to look like the current edition of the game, so dungeon masters running Out of the Abyss or any homebrew Drow campaign get pieces that match the published art rather than fighting the aesthetic.
Inside the box: 14 floor tiles, a clutch of curved and U-walls, ledges, corners, a 28-piece Drow ruin centrepiece and a 25-piece bridge. Everything uses Archon's "Dock & Lock" modular system, so pieces snap together without glue and can be reconfigured between sessions. The pre-painting comes courtesy of PrismaCast UV printing on HIPS plastic, which Archon says is scratch-resistant and ready to drop straight onto the table.
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See how it worksThere is one caveat in the Wargamer write-up. The contents are enough for a single encounter rather than a full dungeon level, and you will spend roughly two hours clipping the components from sprues. Compared to gluing and painting your own Underdark, that's a fair trade.
For UK DMs, £99 sits at a price that doesn't feel ridiculous next to the cost of two hardcover sourcebooks. If you've been planning a Forgotten Realms campaign and need a reason to actually run it, round up the group and clip some Drow ruins.
Sources: Wargamer | Archon Studio | DnD Fan
