Thursday, October 19, 2006 8:31 AM
Chris posted wondering what the attraction to the Drow race was.
Well, let me tell you...
Elf: walks around
Drow: levitation
Elf: normal vision
Drow: ability to switch eyes to see in different spectrums
Elf: crappy armour
Drow: one word - piwafwi
Elf: hides behind a rock
Drow: inherent ability to create globe of darkness
Elf: images of trees, moon, woodland creatures
Drow: sweet-@ss spider imagry
Also, we need to clear up some misconceptions about the Drow.
Although most of the books have revolved around the followers of Loth, there are other deities that do not promote the matriarchal society, or even require a good-sided alignment. For instance:
VHAERAUN: Loth's son, who's followers live in a Patriarchal society where the males are the spiritual leaders
EILISTRAEE: diety of all good Drow on the surface world
So really, you don't need to be a female chatoic evil female character to have any sort of pull as a Drow (but if your'e living in Menzoerranzan it would help ;) ). So why play a Drow? I think because out of all the elven races the have the richest mythos built around them, as well as their innate abilities (did I mention they have their own sign-language as well?). Plus they look hella-kewl!
So there you go kiddies; a rundown on the Drow. Oddly enough, although I love the Drow, I see many hours playing a Blood Elf in my future...
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