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== Common Features ==
 
== Common Features ==
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Below is a list of elements and features that are common to subterranean areas.
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* [[Alarm]]
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* [[Altar]]
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* [[Armoury]]
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* [[Barracks]]
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* [[Bestiary|Monster]]
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* [[Cave-in]]
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* [[Chamber]]
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* [[Chasm]]
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* [[Chimney]]
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* [[Chute]]
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* [[Cistern]]
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* [[Concealed Door]]
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* [[Continual Light (spell)|Continual Light]]
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* [[Crypt]]
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* [[Dead End]]
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* [[Ditch]]
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* [[Drafts & Winds]]
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* [[Dungeon Door]]
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* [[Dungeon Level]]
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* [[Fire Trap (spell)|Fire Trap]]
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* [[Flagstone]]
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* [[Flooding]]
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* [[Floor Plan]]
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* [[Fountain]]
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* [[Fracture]]
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* [[Furnishings]]
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* [[Gaol]]
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* [[Gas (atmosphere)|Gas]]
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* [[Gating|Gate]]
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* [[Glyphs & Runes]]
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* [[Gong Pit]]
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* [[Guardroom]]
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* [[Guards & Wards (spell)|Guards & Wards]]
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* [[Hall]]
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* [[Hallucinatory Forest (spell)|Hallucinatory Forest]]
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* [[Hoist]]
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* [[Hold Portal (spell)|Held Portal]]
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* [[Hot Spring]]
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* [[Illusion]]
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* [[Kennel]]
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* [[Kitchen]]
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* [[Laboratory]]
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* [[Lake]]
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* [[Magic Mouth (spell)|Magic Mouth]]
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* [[Maze]]
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* [[Natural Bridge]]
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* [[Nystul’s Magic Aura (spell)|False Magic]]
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* [[Observatory]]
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* [[Passage]]
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* [[Pit]]
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* [[Pool]]
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* [[Portcullis]]
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* [[River]]
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* [[Room]]
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* [[Rope Bridge]]
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* [[Rubble & Trash]]
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* [[Secret Compartment]]
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* [[Secret Door]]
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* [[Shrine]]
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* [[Sink Hole]]
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* [[Smithy]]
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* [[Sounds & Noises]]
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* [[Spiral Stair]]
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* [[Spring]]
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* [[Stairway (steep)]]
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* [[Stalactites & Stalagmites]]
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* [[Statue]]
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* [[Stores]]
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* [[Stream]]
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* [[Submerged Cave]]
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* [[Sump]]
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* [[Throne Room]]
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* [[Trap]]
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* [[Treasure]]
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* [[Trick]]
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* [[Vegetation (subterranean)|Vegetation]]
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* [[Vent]]
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* [[Wall of Force (spell)|Wall of Force]]
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* [[Wall of Iron (spell)|Wall of Iron]]
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* [[Wall of Thorns (spell)|Wall of Thorns]]
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* [[Wandering Monster]]
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* [[Waterfall]]
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* [[Well]]
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* [[Wizard Lock (spell)|Wizard-locked Portal]]
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* [[Workshop]]
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Revision as of 21:50, 24 August 2020

Subterranean environments include underground lairs, cave labyrinths and dungeons, where the setting is below the land's surface in a dark and dangerous place. Some of these places are merely a burrow carved into the earth, which can be explored in a few game minutes and the creatures within met almost at once. Another form is a humanoid garrison that has been built below the surface to allow raids upon the local area through providing a refuge that is difficult to find. These can develop into underground villages for races that are comfortable dwelling below ground, where crops and animals bred to the subterranean environment can be raised to provide food.

Still other subterranean places are sprawling, multi-layered palaces, protecting ancient cult, humanoids that dwell very deep in the ground or where fiercely malevolent creatures make plans to wreak destruction upon the surface world. Another form consists of secret rooms and chambers beneath vast citadels and fortresses, where even the owners of such places remain certain of what spaces exist "down there," built by some mad ancestor generations ago.

Common Features

Below is a list of elements and features that are common to subterranean areas.