Menzoberranzan: City of Intrigue

by Brian R. James, Eric Menge, Wizards of the Coast

This product provides an in-depth exploration of Menzoberranzan, the greatest drow city in the Dungeons & Dragons game and Forgotten Realms campaign setting. It contains all of the information a Dungeon Master needs to run adventures or an entire campaign based in the treacherous city, including descriptions of city locations, drow houses, key organizations, and the precarious political landscape.

It gives players the information they need to create characters who are members of drow houses or organizations within Menzoberranzan, as well as explains the benefits and rivalries that come with choosing a particular allegiance.

Includes a full-color, fold-out poster map of Menzoberranzan, the fabled drow city.

Genres: Dungeons and Dragons, Role Playing Games, Fantasy, Forgotten Realms

160 pages, Hardcover

First published August 21, 2012

Reviews

[Liz Jaikes · Rating 5 out of 5]

While I've been playing 5e and have no intention of playing 4e, there's a lot of great background info and lore here for running a homebrew campaign or short adventure in Menzoberranzan!

[Uri Kurlianchik · Rating 3 out of 5]

Absolutely gorgeous art and terrific house and org descriptions. Sadly, there is no crunch in the book, which makes it less useful for lazy DMs and the geographic information is very sparse. Some more maps would be nice too. A good book, but incomplete.

[Jeremy Blum · Rating 5 out of 5]

Still the most up-to-date D&D book on Menzoberranzan, aside from a tidbit in Out of the Abyss. Get this if you want to design a campaign in the City of Spiders - the book is about 90% lore with very little crunch, so it's perfect even if you're running 5e.

[Dave · Rating 4 out of 5]

The only 4th edition D & D book I own I bought strictly because I’m a huge fan of the Drow and all of their politics, families, back stabbing, and drama. This book does a deep dive into all of that.

[Richard · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wish they still made campaign setting sourcebooks like this!

This was just the kind of sourcebook I was looking for to plan my homebrew evil campaign set in Menzoberrqnzan

[Gary Makries · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reviewing this for www.geeksofdoom.com

[KingKoopa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very nice illustrations and neatly packed information about how to role-play the drow race.