Drow are my favorite race, and so I made this thread. On this thread, you can discuss the drow in the Realms and, in addition, post any home-made drow content, such as drow NPCs or drow enemies.
This thread will accept content from both 4e and 3.5:D
I am not so good at making custom material, so I will start a Realms Drow Discussion.
The death of Eilistraee. Am I the only one upset about this? And I personally believe the Vhaerun should still be alive. Anyone agree with me?
-Many people agree with you. I, personally, don't. I was happy to see Eilistraee and Vhaeraun merge, and become the Masked Lady. Good stuff. Makes more sense, for both, that way.
They merged? I just thought they axed both of them...
They meged? I just thought they axed both of them...
-Have you read the Lady Penitent trilogy?
-Have you read the Lady Penitent trilogy?
No... Since I live in Germany it is hard for me to find Forgotten Realms books... last one I read was the Hunter's Blades Trilogy...
Although I do know that Vhaerun was absorbed by Eli from my Grand History of the Realms book... I just didn't know that survived through the spell plague.
No... Since I live in Germany it is hard for me to find Forgotten Realms books... last one I read was the Hunter's Blades Trilogy...
-Gotcha.
-Well, no, they didn't survive. I was just talking about the fact that I was happy that, for the course of the second and third book, and the two-three years that represented, the two were merged as one deity.
-RW
-Gotcha.
-Well, no, they didn't survive. I was just talking about the fact that I was happy that, for the course of the second and third book, and the two-three years that represented, the two were merged as one deity.
OK. Good to know:D
By the way, does anyone here have any custom Realms Drow Content? Such as monsters or enemies? Remember, you can post both 3.5 and 4e content:D
-Gotcha.
-Well, no, they didn't survive. I was just talking about the fact that I was happy that, for the course of the second and third book, and the two-three years that represented, the two were merged as one deity.
You beat me to it.
But I agree. I liked the idea of the Masked lady a great deal. I was annoyed to see the idea so short lived. While I knew what had to happen, a part of me hoped Eilistraee would win the game, and become in turn a reformed Lolth.
Granted her rebirth was not long ago, but the running trend is to establish something, and destroy it immediately for sales.
-RW
OK. Good to know:D
By the way, does anyone here have any custom Realms Drow Content? Such as monsters or enemies? Remember, you can post both 3.5 and 4e content:D
-Elves of Faerûn has some stuff. Mostly items.
You beat me to it.
But I agree. I liked the idea of the Masked lady a great deal. I was annoyed to see the idea so short lived. While I knew what had to happen, a part of me hoped Eilistraee would win the game, and become in turn a reformed Lolth.
Granted her rebirth was not long ago, but the running trend is to establish something, and destroy it immediately for sales.
-RW
-Before the final book was released, I was thinking that Eilistraee was going to kill Lolth, and then, in the epilogue, or something, Hallistra, the Lady Penitent, was going to become the "new" Lolth.
-Before the final book was released, I was thinking that Eilistraee was going to kill Lolth, and then, in the epilogue, or something, Hallistra, the Lady Penitent, was going to become the "new" Lolth.
Isn't Halistra in the book Insurecction?
By the way, I was mistakened, the last Realms book I read was Insurecction and I am looking for somewhere to buy the remaining books in the War of the Spider Queen series.
It's one thing to establish a character, and kill it right away. It's another entirely to give a character a shot at something, establish them failing and becoming subservient in the manner we saw, and then rewriting them into the spot of power.
In this matter anyway. On smaller scales I admit it can work. Hallistra was lost in more ways than one, so her as lolth would have been bland to say the least.
-RW
Isn't Halistra in the book Insurecction?
-Yes. She is introduced in that one, and becomes a main character in the rest of the series.
By the way, I was mistakened, the last Realms book I read was Insurecction and I am looking for somewhere to buy the remaining books in the War of the Spider Queen series.
-Amazon.com, or eBay are probably your best bets, if local bookstores don't have them.
I am glad they did not go that route. There's only so much nonsense I can take before I throw it all down and walk away.
It's one thing to establish a character, and kill it right away. It's another entirely to give a character a shot at something, establish them failing and becoming subservient in the manner we saw, and then rewriting them into the spot of power.
In this matter anyway. On smaller scales I admit it can work. Hallistra was lost in more ways than one, so her as lolth would have been bland to say the least.
-RW
-My reasoning at the time was that Halistra would fufill her role with Eilistraee to kill Lolth, being as that she hated Lolth, and Dannifae. And then, of course, being a Drow, she would then claim the role herself, bringing Lolth back, and screwing Eilistraee.
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On the one hand Pharaun risks his life for a complete stranger (Danifae), and on the other he lets his friend (Ryld) die without caring.
And through the entire series they build his character up to something kind of cool, and then kill him almost as an afterthought - I felt like the final author left him alive by accident, and hastily scribbled-in the last few paragraphs just so the novel/series could end as planned.
And through the entire series they build his character up to something kind of cool, and then kill him almost as an afterthought - I felt like the final author left him alive by accident, and hastily scribbled-in the last few paragraphs just so the novel/series could end as planned.
Taken individually I probably enjoyed them (couldn't tell you, now), but as a series I feel it failed.
On the one hand Pharaun risks his life for a complete stranger (Danifae), and on the other he lets his friend (Ryld) die without caring.
And through the entire series they build his character up to something kind of cool, and then kill him almost as an afterthought - I felt like the final author left him alive by accident, and hastily scribbled-in the last few paragraphs just so the novel/series could end as planned.
If you're going to have a MAIN character die like that, you should go back to writing obituaries for a local town newspaper.
You could of put that in a sblock, you know. Not all of us have finished the series
On the one hand Pharaun risks his life for a complete stranger (Danifae), and on the other he lets his friend (Ryld) die without caring.
-Well, she was a woman, and beautiful, apparently. So...
-Well, she was a woman, and beautiful, apparently. So...
One of the many strange drow motivators:D
Oh and RW could you hook me up with the FaerunRP site again. Last time I was there it was having some major construction done so I let it stew for a while. Hope it's still around.
One of the many strange drow motivators:D
-One of the many people motivators.
Oh and RW could you hook me up with the FaerunRP site again. Last time I was there it was having some major construction done so I let it stew for a while. Hope it's still around.
http://www.faerunrp.com/forums/
-One of the many people motivators.
True. Though I believe that the drow use that motivator way more than humans. By the way, I consider drow people.;)
It's been to long. Hopefully I haven't lost my touch.
The death of Eilistraee. Am I the only one upset about this? And I personally believe the Vhaerun should still be alive. Anyone agree with me?
Actually, there have been countless threads and comments on this topic. No, you are most definitely not the only one who thinks that way, on both points.
And yet still no custom content
Give me a few hours, I might come up with something...;)
-Like I said, Elves of Faerûn has some custom content. Drow feats, items...
Think you could post some of the major stuff here? Or no?
-Let's see...There was the Drowvision feat, that let you see in Infravision, and Darkvision at the same time, smoothing that lore out. There was the Drow Prosthetics article, which was a very good one. Plenty of weapons and items that saw coverage in 2e, but not in 3e, like Crawlchariots, for instance, got 3e updates...
-I can tell you about them, but you'll have to check them out yourself. ;)
-Let's see...There was the Drowvision feat, that let you see in Infravision, and Darkvision at the same time, smoothing that lore out. There was the Drow Prosthetics article, which was a very good one. Plenty of weapons and items that saw coverage in 2e, but not in 3e, like Crawlchariots, for instance, got 3e updates...
Sounds great!
I might be making a 4e Drow NPC to post here...
Some sort of powerful drow... maybe a house wizard?
PS. It actually opens to the aformentioned Pharaun stat layout of my own design.
If you do make a 4e character could you do me a solid and not only post him here, but here as well.
PS. It actually opens to the aformentioned Pharaun stat layout of my own design.
Will do, just don't expect something to great, I haven't acctually made 4e NPCs yet, only 3.5 so he may be a bit sketchy...
No... Since I live in Germany it is hard for me to find Forgotten Realms books... last one I read was the Hunter's Blades Trilogy...
Huh? You can get most of the newer novels and many of the old ones from Amazon.de. In English. For a low price.
And Phelf, thinks have slowed down slightly for the summer, and a few RL things have taken away some of the people charged with finishing the skin for the forum.
So don't like the exterior fool you, there abound great stories within.
-RW
Huh? You can get most of the newer novels and many of the old ones from Amazon.de. In English. For a low price.
The hobby store I go to has none, most book stores have none, so I have been getting my books from amazon.co.uk, but I never get the chance to buy any... busy with other books...
No... Since I live in Germany it is hard for me to find Forgotten Realms books... last one I read was the Hunter's Blades Trilogy ...
Ahem ... what? Check out amazon.de, type Forgotten Realms and you get all that there is. In no-time. Or, if that pleases you more, check for ISBN numbers on amazon and try the bookseller of your choice. Due to the current exchange rates, FR books are quite "cheap", and you don't even have to pay P&P.
Unless, of course, you read them in German.
so I have been getting my books from amazon.co.uk,
Hö?
Why would someone buy in the UK with their stupid BPs? Like the other germans said, amazon.de is the best source for novels and most other things from the USA. Actually I got 3 novels for the price of one german book last week, thanks the Euro. Theres no reason to spend extra money to get things shipped from this small island northwest of us.About Eili, well I never liked her much, but I don't dislike her. She was unimportant, too much like Lolth, only a bit whitewashed. Reminds me a bit like Artemis, the vrigin- and huntinggodess of the ancient Greeks. Nothing I would pray to. What I really do not like is the easy way how Smedman let all the gods die. It was sometimes disgusting, too easy and at certain points of the story I've known what would happen, so it started to be boring.
Although I've come to grips with - and even in many cases like - the divine down-sizing of the Realms, it is the loss of the Drow Pantheon that stings the most.
I've already given my feelings about Eilistraee - hopefully Selune will pick-up her followers in 4e - but Vhaeraun is another one that hits home. I had high hopes that they would just roll him into Mask in 4e (saying Mask was really always an alias of Vhaeraun's) rather then out-right kill him, but that novel series really screwed the pooch for many of us.
Since they had plans on 're-assigning' many of FR's gods as others in disguise, I don't see why they couldn't have done this with Vhaeraun as well. I know I could simply say that many of the god's followers switched to Mask during the Spellplague, but thats just not the same thing. Where I found Vhaeraun interesting, I find Mask *meh* - just another shadowy thief-god, who walks in Shar's shadow (who doesn't, these days?)
Anyhow, I'll be keeping him alive in my games, because I think this (and Eilistraee) was one of the biggest mistakes made by WotC for 4e.
Or they should become the way how they were originally described in the famous and godselling RSA novels with Drizzt. Were there some other drow who were not the usual spiderloving *****es and their slave males in this series?Maybe it was the plan to get it "easier" and make drow simple evil and singleminded spiderkissers of Lolth.
-So it seems.
Besides, what gods worship drow in Eberron?
-Some kind of scorpion deity, I believe.
-So it seems.
All part of the plan to bring 4E back to the D&D 1E, when drow were indeed just bloodthirsty, Lolth-loving creatures out there to gain XP from. More or less the same throughout Greyhawk and very much on the cards since the new Drow of the Underdark. Suum cuique.
All part of the plan to bring 4E back to the D&D 1E, when drow were indeed just bloodthirsty, Lolth-loving creatures out there to gain XP from.
-How blase...
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And I thought the racial write up was given in the 4eMM. Obviously not with the 4egotten realms fluff, but still there.
-Some kind of scorpion deity, I believe.
Some do. Most of them don't.
I don't think either publisher is going along with the GSL, so I'm crafting the Drey for 4e. I've made some sweeping changes to drow society in my game as well as creating a seperate world where Matron Mothers are known as "baronesses" and the whole thing is based off the Old West. I wrote the part I had about the Baronesses elsewhere on this site... ah, here it is:
Drow Baroness
Surface dwelling drow females, often exiles from their Underdark homes, have secured moderate tracts of land, often through use of their merchant skills (what drow house doesn't have their fingers in trade?). The land thus purchased, often through an agent to reduce the shock of dealing with the drow, will occupy large streches of wilderness where the Baronesses amass wealth through legitimate trade, such as the cattle or sheep industry, roadways (created and maintained, pay a small fee and your caravan won't be attacked by brigands running around loose*), or any other number of things. The Baronesses call their holdings "ranches", and each maintains a stable of "ranch males" who are generally not allowed to leave the ranch. They do the heavy lifting around the ranch, are often exiles themselves with no place to go. Cattledrives are led by females (often a younger daughter and other lesser females) with males as their underlings. Aside from the brand they receive, males suffer practically no physical abuse. A Baroness's daughters and other female relatives, and a handful of favored males, will live in the big house while the rest of the ranch males will live in bunkhouses.
The daughters work the ranch as regulators (regulating the theft of livestock from the ranch, qv. "Young Guns"), and the eldest serves as the interface between an established ranch and the rest of the world they have to do business with. Without Lloth's favor, they do not carry snake whips, but they do carry whips and each female is required to be proficient with it. Bolos are also present. Firearms are in my game, and the females carry pistols and something akin to a bowie knife. Males, when they are allowed to go to town, go unarmed and never go unescorted. (A crafty male can hide a dagger, a sling, or a bolo somewhere on his person.)
The Baronesses themselves form an informal corporation with Nepthas (sp?) contracts keeping them from turning on each other without good cause. Rules for "hostile takeovers" are clearly spelled out, and should a contract be broken, the Baroness and her three eldest daughters suffer the consequences. It is hoped that the new Baroness will learn by example.
The goals of the Baronesses varies from corporation to corporation. Some seek only to maintain their livelihoods and amass wealth while others seek to get into a position of power and secure larger and larger chunks of land to call their own, building armies and whatnot as they go.
*I'll give you one guess as to who ensures that the uncontrolled, no-fee roads are replete with brigands...
It's just a germ of an idea, with other bits falling as they make sense to the whole theme (Coal Dragons with dual breath attacks, flame AND black soot, gnomish railroads, dwarven miners, a half-orc dance-hall girl
...). I've based it only slightly off of the Old West of Hollywood and more on the Old West of historical fact, so it's very gritty, right down to the rumble of the wagon wheels. We've played it in bits and pieces, and the PCs hate dealing with the Baronesses, but they're the ones with the money and they own damn near everything in town soooooo...(The Baronesses were inspired by the illustration of Wee Jas in Deities & Demigods. I just pictured that face as a drow telling the adventurers that more head of cattle are missing from her land and her daughters are apparently incompetent buffoons who couldn't catch a lame hen if it was tied to a fencepost and had a sleep spell cast on it. Find what's cutting into her profits and destroy it.)
Chapien If you don't mind going third party, there are "Plot & Poison" (Green Ronin)and "The Complete Book of the Drow" (Goodman Games), both 3x material and both heavily used in my campaign. "Plot & Poison" introduced my other favorite race, the Drey. The Drey are to the Drow what the barbarians were to Rome, and a Drey female could leave a Drow male longing for the tender mercies of an irate Matron Mother.
I don't think either publisher is going along with the GSL, so I'm crafting the Drey for 4e. I've made some sweeping changes to drow society in my game as well as creating a seperate world where Matron Mothers are known as "baronesses" and the whole thing is based off the Old West. I wrote the part I had about the Baronesses elsewhere on this site... ah, here it is:
It's just a germ of an idea, with other bits falling as they make sense to the whole theme (Coal Dragons with dual breath attacks, flame AND black soot, gnomish railroads, dwarven miners, a half-orc dance-hall girl
(The Baronesses were inspired by the illustration of Wee Jas in Deities & Demigods. I just pictured that face as a drow telling the adventurers that more head of cattle are missing from her land and her daughters are apparently incompetent buffoons who couldn't catch a lame hen if it was tied to a fencepost and had a sleep spell cast on it. Find what's cutting into her profits and destroy it.)
I like it! It is awsome
And I do not mind if you go third party, go right ahead as long as you convert it to Realms;)
-Elves of Faerûn has some stuff. Mostly items.
where is this located??? I tried searching amazon and wizards site but couldn't find this.
The Drey are to the Drow what the barbarians were to Rome
The superior heirs of their empire and culture?
The superior heirs of their empire and culture?
I wouldn't call them the superior heirs to Rome, though they did eventually play a significant role in it's demise.
-RW
I turned the clock forward a hundred years, used the Red Steel maps to represent Anchorome, and used some of the gun rules and flavor stuff from the Deadlands setting - including Ghostrock to power to steam engines. :D
Dwarves ran my Railroad, though (from the novel Iron Dragons); Gnomes instead ran the Royal Airship Company (which no-one trusted).
We could have had so much fun together.
Love the idea of te Drey, BTW - I think I might marry that to a similar plot. in Blade 3 we have Wesley Snipes allying with the vampires because there is something even worse then them - a new form of vampire-mutation that feeds on other vampires. Now I'm picturing a small group of Drow Vampires having their own community and slowly growing (MY Drey), and then systematically going after the other Drow to take them over one city at a time.
In that scenario, you'd have desperate Drow trying to ally with anyone they could, even surface races, just to survive.
The only problem I have with that is would Drow even mind being Vampires? I could see Lolth minding A LOT, but would the Drow themselves care? Its just one more way to achieve greater power.
In fact, I've often wondered why all the Drow didn't just become Vamps on purpose.
I wouldn't call them the superior heirs to Rome, though they did eventually play a significant role in it's demise.
The demise was the failure of the romans and their culture. The socalled barbarians assimilated roman lifestile and adopted their complete infrastructure, military strength (they even commanded the armies of rome in the eastern and western part of the empire for centuries), technology and livestile. It was the problem of the roman political structure which caused its downfall. The barbarian invasion was only a symptom. Rom failed in the late republic to create a system that was more than a city state with a lot of conquered terrain. Even under the emperors it took 2 centuries until one of them decided that every one living in the empire should be a roman citizen and so gain part in the leading political structures. But then it was too late and the political class was even more foreign with the needs of the people in the provincies and so they often let them do what they wanted and caused them to fall of or try to get their own emperors of their province. Ursurpers and complete countries falling of the mainbody was the result und rom could do nothing. They needed the barbarians to hold a little bit control and so they gave them the keys to the empire and made them the heirs. What followed then was much bigger than a city state, it was a the creation of a whole nation with one countyside and citizens under the leadership of one and part of a united culture, a complete new idea, nothing romans would have thinked of, because Rome was always the city Rome and then the rest. Until the end of the Roman Empire you had to be in Rome itself to elect the mainparts of the leading class of the empire. Rome was not able to react for the good of the provincies swift and fast, if there was need, because some enemy stood there at the door. So the provinces elected their leaders and that caused bloody civil wars, which brought even more chaos than some barbarians could have done.
That doesn't make them superior, it makes them oppertunistic and lucky.
-RW
Do note that they start with racial HD and a total ECL of +3 (male) and +4 (female). Which is important for PCs only, of course.
*"All text in this document is Open Game Content."
If I make one of them a lunatic vivisectionist who conducts 'medical experiments', can I call him Dr, Drey? :P
:heehee
Translation: Very fiunny comment!
Zanan- Ah, how could I forget Dezzavold? It played such a major part in what I did to the drow, although it's still whispered that Kane was a fool to have trusted Gromph with his city for even a moment (political dealings in my game). I thought that the 3.5 version of P&P was a hard copy? (Mine is 3, got it used off of Amazon. I never fully upgraded to 3.5, so I didn't look too hard.)
Lord Karsus- I've wondered that myself, but haven't looked too deeply into it. I suppose I could write them.
Drow Drow Drow Drow Drow Drow Drow Drow Drow Drow Drow Drow Drow Drow :P
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-I am glad that this thread is not titled:
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Ya... That title I thought was "un-drowy".
By the way, I have come up with a new word:
Drowy: To act like a drow, to perform a drowish act.
And another one:
Drowish: Something a drow would do.
She doesn't look Drowish. :P
A very bad pun of a bad pun, courtesy of Mel brooks and Spaceballs.
How about another?
Drizzmo - when you're acting as Emo as a Drow. :D
The only non-Drizzt being left in existance is some crazy old man who lives in Shadowdale, performing puppet shows for children. :P
Thats funny...
She doesn't look Drowish. :P
-Drow Druids...You know, there's not many of them. Underdark Drow Druids...
Hey, let's play a game.
How many times can I stick
My knife in your back?
You know, let me think
the answer is none because
I just stabbed you
Zelda and The King laugh together*
Thats funny...
She doesn't look Drowish. :P
A very bad pun of a bad pun, courtesy of Mel brooks and Spaceballs.
How about another?
Drizzmo - when you're acting as Emo as a Drow. :D
:heehee
:heehee Funny, funny.:D
-Drow Druids...You know, there's not many of them. Underdark Drow Druids...
#1) It means caring about something other then yourself, and #2) It means putting your beliefs in nature ahead of your beliefs in Lolth.
Either will get you killed in Drow society, and both are just a death warrant.
Strangely, I can see Drow Druids being readily excepted by most other Underdark societies, except, perhaps, the Illithids - but they'd probably just ignore them...
unless they were hungry. :coolcthul
Reading the above replies I wonder if that is what 4E turns us into ...
-LG Albino Dwarves.
#1) It means caring about something other then yourself, and #2) It means putting your beliefs in nature ahead of your beliefs in Lolth.
-Caring about? Eh, not particularly. You can harness the power, and not particularly care about it. Likewise, you can harness the power, but focus on a particular niche that is more in tune with a Drow's thinking. Like Blightlords, who focus on the rotting/dying part.
Strangely, I can see Drow Druids being readily excepted by most other Underdark societies, except, perhaps, the Illithids - but they'd probably just ignore them...
-Yes, that's why I said what I said. There aren't many Druids in the Underdark, period, but it'd probably be a good place for a druid.
There are actually drow druids in the CotSQ web enhancement (where a patron deity is not offered, of course). And, of course, druids need not always to be of the "caring ilk".
(Hmm, how appropriate for the drow... a "web" enhancement...;) )
With the dynamic shift of Cleric might falling on Lolth's table will the drow empire become more theolgicaly chocked off, giving even more power than ever to practicing Priestess of Lolth? or will the ever present squeeze presented by this new found one way road cause people to look in different more desperate and dangerous areas for control?
Such as Shar..?
Or if it becomes to insufferable will the wizards step up..? all very intresting.
And if Shar does become a big hit with the antielves it presents another crossroads as Shar has no outward feelings about males practicing Clerical magic. Does this mean the first practioners that find Shar (whom will most likely be female) will withhold this information, staying on the centuries old path of a sexually split society or will the use this as an advantage over the unisex seeing Lolthoites?
Not to mention if these ideas coupled. If the wizards started fraternizing with the Shadow Weave.. power is the greatest currency and to a drow loyalty is a cheap thing to buy. With the power Shar can give them it isn't a question of which wizard they will bring over to their side, but just how long it takes to do it.
Just the thoughts that run through the idle mind of a forgotten realms junkie.
And, of course, druids need not always to be of the "caring ilk".
-No, of course not. Again, the Blight Lords.
-And, a Drow Druid Cabal would also be handy for foodstuff and construction, in the Underdark.
Such as Shar..?
-Shar indeed has been courting the Drow, and vice-versa. There was Zezztra Alhaelhand (Sp?) in Ched Nesad, leading a secret cult of Shar. There is also the Cult of the She-Spider, I believed it was called, that attempted to link the worship of Shar and Lolth. That one didn't work out too good, though, since neither Shar or Lolth took kindly to it.
-The 4e Shar = Lolth thing has now been officially debunked. That's a good thing.
Indeed. Still moaning about Mask though ...
Indeed. Still moaning about Mask though ...
-Eh, I never particularly cared for Mask too much. The thing is, since Mask is gone, there needs to be a deity associated with thievery somewhere.
ps. If it's shar I'll tear it up.. and then set fire to it.
And I swear if it's somehow Cyric I'll tear up the 40$FRCS book I bought and read it in.
ps. If it's shar I'll tear it up.. and then set fire to it.
-If Cyric killed Mask, then he would indeed have the 'Thievery' portfolio.
Yep. And last time I checked they weren't exactly on the best of terms.
-No, certainly not. Brandobaris, I think it was, is the only one with a Thief prtfolio.
-Drow Druids...You know, there's not many of them. Underdark Drow Druids...
Yes, but they can be quite ok at it. In fact, there is actually a pretty flavorful PrC for them in the Underdark - the Vermin Keeper. Lloth being the Spider Queen and all, a drow druid(ess?) with a spider companion is quite conceivable.
I think drow are rather hedonistic, so the rough lifestyle of a druid might not suit them, but apart from that why not? The typical drow cares about power more than anything else, and a druid can be very powerful in the Underdark realms. Themes such as the strong preying on the weak and making the rules (the law of the jungle) are already quite familiar to most drow.
Themes such as the strong preying on the weak and making the rules (the law of the jungle) are already quite familiar to most drow.
-Exactly. I bet the Drow would enjoy being able to literally turn into a spider, and hunt their prey.
-You know, I think I am going to use this in my own campaign. A small group of Drow Druids who live just outside of a specific Drow city, and "hunt" in Spider-Form.