Dungeon Survival Guide

The Dungeon Survival Guide is a quasi-splatbook released by Wizards of the Coast in 2007 for Dungeons & Dragons. It's a purely fluff-centric book, and is thusly technically edition-neutral, similarly to such splatbooks as Elminster's Forgotten Realms, Grand History of the Realms or Menzoberranzan: City of Intrigue. In practice, it uses Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition as its basis, most notably by having "in universe" flavored sidebars narrated by various 3e iconic characters.

This splatbook is an informative guideline to the concept of Dungeons; it covers, in brief, the basic concept, essential gear for the would-be dungeon-delving adventurer, a basic analysis of different dungeon environments, a summary of dungeon hazards (from monsters and traps to other environmental nastiness), and the kinds of treasure that dungeon-delving can produce.

The bulk of the book is taken up with a list of various famous dungeons from throughout D&D's history up until that point, covering each of the following dungeons in brief with a couple of simple survival tips.

The basic idea for this book was taken and reworked in Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition as the Dungeon Survival Handbook, a splatbook aimed at actual players and Dungeon Masters rather than the "tie-in fiction/infotainment" splatbook we're discussing here.

List of Dungeons

• The Underdark
• Castle Greyhawk - specifically referring to 3e's Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk module.
• Castle Ravenloft - specifically referring to 3e's Expedition to Castle Ravenloft module.
• The Caves of Chaos
• The Demonweb Pits - specifically referring to 3e's Expedition to the Demonweb Pits module.
• The Dungeon of the Slave Lords - from A4: In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords.
• Firestorm Peak - from The Gates of Firestorm Peak
• The Forge of Fury
• The Ghost Tower of Inverness
• The Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl
• The Hall of the Fire Giant King
• The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan
• The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
• The Pyramid of Amun-Re
• Slaughtergarde - from The Shattered Gates of Slaughtergarde.
• The Sunless Citadel
• The Temple of Elemental Evil - specifically referring to 3e's Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil module.
• The Tomb of Horrors
• Undermountain - specifically referring to 3e's Expedition to Undermountain module
• White Plume Mountain