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<blockquote data-quote="eryndel" data-source="post: 6453571" data-attributes="member: 13120"><p>For me, I have to side with the folks stating that Sunlight Sensitivity is one of the defining characteristics of being a drow. Someone who doesn't want to play with that, is not <em>really</em> looking at playing a drow. If I were feeling generous, I'd even posit that Drizz't's "getting over" sunlight sensitivity was a metaphor for his abandonment of Drow society, but this isn't Lit Analysis class. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>To answer the question, why goggles don't work... you need to really look at what is causing the sunlight sensitivity in the first place. Three reasons come to mind: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Physiological - Drow eyes and skin are built differently and more susceptible to sunlight.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Psychological - Exile from the surface and millennium spent underground have created a pathological anxiety of the surface</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Magical/Mystical - The gods themselves have cursed the drow who venture up to the surface.</li> </ul><p></p><p>For Drow in my campaign, the causes of Sunlight Sensitivity are a combination of all three. Goggles, at best, can mitigate <em>part</em> (eye concerns) of the Physiological aspect of the drawback. If in your campaign, the drow curse has any psychological or mystical component... goggles would be worthless.</p><p></p><p>Finally, even if drow curse is really just about bright lights, for me colored lenses is just not a powerful enough solution. I have (diagnosed) light sensitivity, for which sunglasses really help me drive and do other things on particularly bright days. I've had friends on the albinism spectrum who's issues are orders of magnitude worse than mine. For them, really dark sunglasses can help, but they can't completely fix the discomfort they have. I could see a solution more like the Inuit snow goggles, which are surprisingly effective, but have a whole set of other drawbacks to contend with. Therefore, for me, even if it was just a fact of drow eye physiology that they received disadvantage in full sunlight, I can't imagine a way that simple colored lenses would fix it, any more than I could see a vampire slapping on SPF 50 sunblock to go for an mid-morning stroll.</p><p></p><p>Of course, your mileage may vary.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="eryndel, post: 6453571, member: 13120"] For me, I have to side with the folks stating that Sunlight Sensitivity is one of the defining characteristics of being a drow. Someone who doesn't want to play with that, is not [I]really[/I] looking at playing a drow. If I were feeling generous, I'd even posit that Drizz't's "getting over" sunlight sensitivity was a metaphor for his abandonment of Drow society, but this isn't Lit Analysis class. :) To answer the question, why goggles don't work... you need to really look at what is causing the sunlight sensitivity in the first place. Three reasons come to mind:[LIST] [*]Physiological - Drow eyes and skin are built differently and more susceptible to sunlight. [*]Psychological - Exile from the surface and millennium spent underground have created a pathological anxiety of the surface [*]Magical/Mystical - The gods themselves have cursed the drow who venture up to the surface. [/LIST] For Drow in my campaign, the causes of Sunlight Sensitivity are a combination of all three. Goggles, at best, can mitigate [I]part[/I] (eye concerns) of the Physiological aspect of the drawback. If in your campaign, the drow curse has any psychological or mystical component... goggles would be worthless. Finally, even if drow curse is really just about bright lights, for me colored lenses is just not a powerful enough solution. I have (diagnosed) light sensitivity, for which sunglasses really help me drive and do other things on particularly bright days. I've had friends on the albinism spectrum who's issues are orders of magnitude worse than mine. For them, really dark sunglasses can help, but they can't completely fix the discomfort they have. I could see a solution more like the Inuit snow goggles, which are surprisingly effective, but have a whole set of other drawbacks to contend with. Therefore, for me, even if it was just a fact of drow eye physiology that they received disadvantage in full sunlight, I can't imagine a way that simple colored lenses would fix it, any more than I could see a vampire slapping on SPF 50 sunblock to go for an mid-morning stroll. Of course, your mileage may vary. [/QUOTE]
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