Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is coming! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Drow "Sunlight Sensitivity" workarounds?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="True_Blue" data-source="post: 6458280" data-attributes="member: 49066"><p>I've finally figured out what bothered me so much about the light sensitivity. The drow race is a PHB race that is put in the core book to be used by players. No other race has a penalty like the Drow do. Halflings can only move 25 feet, etc, but nothing that impacts combat as much as what disadvantage does. And unless a whole campaign is catered to being done underground, or some other theme, it is likely there will be a good amount of battles in sunlight.</p><p></p><p>This is not a race that some person thumbed through the Monster Manual and said hey that would be cool, can you make up some stats for it, and oh by the way, i don't want the penalties. Its a race that is put there for the PC's to use in the Player's Handbook, and thus should not have such a huge negative for people to play as. I realize that to some people it *is* a monster race, but in the PHB its a valid race to pick and should be on par with the other races.</p><p></p><p>With such a stark disadvantage, its hard for me to really think many people will play a drow. If I took the sunlight sensitivity away, I think it would get played as much as all of the other races. So I really don't see any harm in just taking it away. I know at my table I wouldn't see a huge influx of people starting to play a drow because it was so powerful. Instead, it would be on par with all of the other races, except now it actually is an option for people to use.</p><p></p><p>It just seems silly to me to have such a race in the PHB for people to choose, that has such a disadvantage in combat. I think it either should have been written as a race in the PHB without such a harsh negative, or it should have been left out and considered an optional "monster" race. Since it *is* in the PHB, I want to allow people who do want to play it, to do so without such a harsh penalty to combat.</p><p></p><p>While classes can have some negatives to features they have, I don't believe any of them have such a common occurrence as disadvantage in sunlight. In my campaigns this would happen all the time, and I think is just too harsh as a PC race in the PHB.</p><p></p><p>I also don't see any point in fixing the problem by creating some special glasses or something else just to mitigate the problem, so that I can say "well yeah they have this disadvantage, but each drow PC has this special way to get around it". I might as well just take away the sunlight sensitivity in the first place.</p><p></p><p>Again, I think that for a lot of people they do see the Drow as a monster race, and this is them kind of keeping it that way. I dig it, but for me since its in the PHB and I think it should be on par with the other races and I actually want it to be playable since I know people will see it and want to play as one, the easiest and best thing for me is to just take it away.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="True_Blue, post: 6458280, member: 49066"] I've finally figured out what bothered me so much about the light sensitivity. The drow race is a PHB race that is put in the core book to be used by players. No other race has a penalty like the Drow do. Halflings can only move 25 feet, etc, but nothing that impacts combat as much as what disadvantage does. And unless a whole campaign is catered to being done underground, or some other theme, it is likely there will be a good amount of battles in sunlight. This is not a race that some person thumbed through the Monster Manual and said hey that would be cool, can you make up some stats for it, and oh by the way, i don't want the penalties. Its a race that is put there for the PC's to use in the Player's Handbook, and thus should not have such a huge negative for people to play as. I realize that to some people it *is* a monster race, but in the PHB its a valid race to pick and should be on par with the other races. With such a stark disadvantage, its hard for me to really think many people will play a drow. If I took the sunlight sensitivity away, I think it would get played as much as all of the other races. So I really don't see any harm in just taking it away. I know at my table I wouldn't see a huge influx of people starting to play a drow because it was so powerful. Instead, it would be on par with all of the other races, except now it actually is an option for people to use. It just seems silly to me to have such a race in the PHB for people to choose, that has such a disadvantage in combat. I think it either should have been written as a race in the PHB without such a harsh negative, or it should have been left out and considered an optional "monster" race. Since it *is* in the PHB, I want to allow people who do want to play it, to do so without such a harsh penalty to combat. While classes can have some negatives to features they have, I don't believe any of them have such a common occurrence as disadvantage in sunlight. In my campaigns this would happen all the time, and I think is just too harsh as a PC race in the PHB. I also don't see any point in fixing the problem by creating some special glasses or something else just to mitigate the problem, so that I can say "well yeah they have this disadvantage, but each drow PC has this special way to get around it". I might as well just take away the sunlight sensitivity in the first place. Again, I think that for a lot of people they do see the Drow as a monster race, and this is them kind of keeping it that way. I dig it, but for me since its in the PHB and I think it should be on par with the other races and I actually want it to be playable since I know people will see it and want to play as one, the easiest and best thing for me is to just take it away. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Drow "Sunlight Sensitivity" workarounds?
Top