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<blockquote data-quote="Jurkunaite" data-source="post: 197864" data-attributes="member: 4624"><p>Drow to me were once a highly regimented, patriarchal surface dwelling race. Then came my misguided purchase of the Menzoberanzen box-set. </p><p></p><p>The problem with Toril is it tends to swamp the creativity of some people (including me, who ended her 2e career with a campaign setting comprised of kender, drow and the depredations of the Complete Book of Elves). Now I'm all for Forgotten Realms products (if nothing else a sponge for my disposable income) but I like the way that Dragon magazine has made everything more generic. Now if we could only turn back the clock on the idea of dark elves it'll be OK. My current idea is to turn it right back to my pre-Menzoberanzen days and fit the drow into a non-Lolth/spiders template of the militaristic, lawful, regimented ideal of my former creations. I have a large evil empire in the current draft, and my thoughts were to have the drow as elves who had been corrupted by the evil goddess Kivutar into the service of her empire, humans of course needing no prior corrupting. </p><p></p><p>I liked the unseelie variant though there is more of an individual plot or NPC in there rather than a society. Unless of course the Unseelie Court idea (from Monstrous Mythology and updated in the plane of Faerie in the new Manual of the Planes) can be implemented in place of the Lloth worshipping munchkins.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jurkunaite, post: 197864, member: 4624"] Drow to me were once a highly regimented, patriarchal surface dwelling race. Then came my misguided purchase of the Menzoberanzen box-set. The problem with Toril is it tends to swamp the creativity of some people (including me, who ended her 2e career with a campaign setting comprised of kender, drow and the depredations of the Complete Book of Elves). Now I'm all for Forgotten Realms products (if nothing else a sponge for my disposable income) but I like the way that Dragon magazine has made everything more generic. Now if we could only turn back the clock on the idea of dark elves it'll be OK. My current idea is to turn it right back to my pre-Menzoberanzen days and fit the drow into a non-Lolth/spiders template of the militaristic, lawful, regimented ideal of my former creations. I have a large evil empire in the current draft, and my thoughts were to have the drow as elves who had been corrupted by the evil goddess Kivutar into the service of her empire, humans of course needing no prior corrupting. I liked the unseelie variant though there is more of an individual plot or NPC in there rather than a society. Unless of course the Unseelie Court idea (from Monstrous Mythology and updated in the plane of Faerie in the new Manual of the Planes) can be implemented in place of the Lloth worshipping munchkins. [/QUOTE]
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