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In the ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' [[fantasy]] [[role-playing game]], the '''Demonweb Pits''' is an [[alignment (role-playing games)|chaotic evil-aligned]] [[plane (Dungeons & Dragons)|plane of existence]]. In the standard 2nd edition ''Dungeons & Dragons'' ''(D&D)'' cosmology it exists as the sixty-sixth layer of the [[Abyss (plane)|Abyss]], however in the 3rd edition it is now a plane separate from the Abyss, follwing the events of The War of the Spider Queen. Thus it is also one of a number of [[Outer Plane]]s that form part of the cosmology used in the 3rd-Edition ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' campaign setting.<ref>{{cite book | author=Baker, Richard; Wyatt J. | year=2004 | title=Player's Guide To Faerûn| chapter= | editor= | others= | pages=149-150 | publisher=Wizards of the Coast | id=ISBN 0786931345| url= | authorlink= }}</ref>
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The plane is the home of evil [[drow]] deity [[Lolth]], the Demon Queen of Spiders and many other deities of the drow pantheon of gods. The plane resembles a giant spiderweb across space, formed from strands of interwoven planar matter. Lolth's palace is a giant iron stronghold stylized in the shape of a [[spider]], that crawls across the web strands of the plane.
The 1980 1st-Edition AD&D module ''[[Queen of the Demonweb Pits]]'' describes the Demonweb Pits as an environment quite unlike the [[Prime Material Plane]], stating that many magical [[magic (gaming)|spells]] and effects do not function as expected here. The web strands themselves are reported to be composed from the lost souls of the [[Abyss (plane)|Abyss]], surrounded by a grey foul-smelling fog above and to the sides of each strand, forming a tunnel-like structure.<ref>{{cite book | author=[[David C. Sutherland III|Sutherland III, David C]]; Gygax, Gary| year=1980 | title=Queen of the Demonweb Pits| chapter= | editor= | others= | pages= | publisher=TSR Inc. | id=ISBN 0-935696-20-2| url= | authorlink= }}</ref>
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==References==
* {{cite book | author=Grubb, Jeff; Cordell, B.R.; Noonan D. | year=2001 | title=[[Manual of the Planes]] | chapter= | editor= | others= | pages=115-123 | publisher=Wizards of the Coast | id=ISBN 0786918500 | url= | authorlink= }}
