Status Updates From Night Below: The Underdark ...

Glory? I guess, some. There were dice rolled that could have gone poorly... but other than that, in the end, the personal decisions - paths chosen, convictions held on to - were few and far between.

"...this is a good time for them to return to the surface world, train to gain experience levels, re-equip, and consider their options."

No, no, no. Nope. If you can have characters just climb back up out of the dungeon in the course of a single paragraph, all simple and casual and businesslike, you can't be much called an "Ultimate Dungeon Adventure".

We're underground now, but it's still not much of a crawl, just a bunch of monster lairs and railroad.

Some more bandits, orcs... still nothing special, barely Adequate, let alone Ultimate. But we're headed to Underdark now. It should finally get good.

Right?

For an "Ultimate Dungeon Adventure", there sure's a lot of simple and generic outdoor encounters here. Not a whole lot to evoke imagination. A great deal skipped over, left to guidelines.