Mind of tempest
(he/him)advocate for 5e psionics
do not speak to me of half my family for I will never shut up about the fights my grudges against them and the fact I an neither side.Easy answer to keep drow the antagonists without making them evil:
Ancient grudges and competition for resources leads to antipathy between them and surface elves, but individually they've got all the same variety as anyone else.
Y'know. Like France and England. Or Spain and England. Or Germany and England. Or England with other Britons. Damned English, ruining England for everyone else!
but more on-topic historical grudges work to keep them as foes or at least having fights.
but now what the dark should be.
I believe Pathfinder did that but kept the rest of the problem.I was going to suggest this.
In essence, change the Drow's origin story: They were driven underground in order to avoid the fallout of a cataclysmic event. Their culture is based around surviving the brutal UnderDark.
I do not need "why they are" but a better "what they are".
you can't cull the elf varieties they replicate too fast for that and the elf worshippers will be insufferable about it.How about we make Shadar-kai humans again and then remove all elves but eladrin?