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# locations/the-undersands.md

title: The Undersands
author: evilchili
tags: region
date: 2024-02-17 17:09:11.225832
template: region
show_dm_content: True
thumbnail: /images/overland/the_undersands_thumb.png
region:
  name: The Undersands
  size: 60
  terrain: difficult
  skills:
    Travel:
        DC: 16
        Notes:
    Forage:
        DC: 20
        Notes:
    Track:
        DC: 20
        Notes:
    Evade:
        DC: 15
        Notes:
    Survey:
        DC: 15
        Notes:
  cr: 6
  encounters:
    d1-d13:
      Difficulty: None
    d14-17:
      Difficulty: Difficult
    d18-d19:
      Difficulty: Dangerous
    d20:
      Difficulty: Deadly
  weather:
    d1-d3:
      Rarity: Common
      Description: Clear Skies
      Effect: No effect
    d4:
      Rarity: Uncommon
      Description: Glowing Dust Storm
      Effect: Disadvantge on WIS checks and saves
    d5:
      Rarity: Rare
      Description: Spontaneous Hail
      Effect: No effect; counts as magical water if consumed
    d6:
      Rarity: Rare
      Description: Broken Time
      Effect: At the start of each round, the DM rolls a d20. Until the start of the next round, anyone with initiative score greater than or equal to the DM's roll is slowed and anyone lower is hasted.
    d7:
      Rarity: Uncommon
      Description: Air of Dread
      Effect: Succeed on DC 15 WIS save or be frightened for half-day.
    d8:
      Rarity: Rare
      Description: Glowing Auras
      Effect: Faerie Fire spell effects
  regional_effects:
      - Darkvision not functional
      - "Blacksand: Pools of bubbling black sand dot the dones; 1d6 necrotic per turn."
  forage_table:
    d1:
      Rarity: Uncommon
      Name: Scorpion Flower
      Description: Green-black flower with an elongated black style ended in a sharp thorn. Stabs anything that gets close. 1d4 piercing damage.
      Value: 2 GP
    d2:
      Rarity: Common
      Name: Sand Poppy
      Description: Small red flowers growing in sandy soil.
      Value: 1 GP
    d3:
      Rarity: Uncommon
      Name: Wand Cactus
      Description: Tiny spiraling cactus resembling a magical wand. Glows faintly blue at night.
      Value: 2 GP
    d4:
      Rarity: Rare
      Name: Choke Dust
      Description: Moss that crumples into dust when touched. 1d4 poison damage. Must be dug out by the root.
      Value: 2 GP
status: published
---

Between Bone City to the west and Gopher Gulch to the east lies a vast, empty stretch of dunes. To most the region does not even warrant consideration; it is simply "more Sahwhat." But the savvy Hopper knows it by a different name: The Undersands. For beneath the dunes lies a twisting labyrinth of caverns and  tunnels, accessible from caves in the low buttes rising from the sand known only to a few. In recent times, the Undersands have been overrun by necrotic magics, and they say the sands are roamed at night by the undead.