Half-Drow and Moonblades

[Gromnar]

Hi Enworlders!

I'm wondering if anyone would be able to give me any official info for a CG half-drow of Eilistraee would technically be capable of wielding a dormant moonblade who's family line has died out? I know half-elves can, but half-drow is a different story.

Thank you for your help!

Gromnar

 

[Dragon's Lair(Italy)]

You can, if you are going to use some unofficial manual, use the half-drow template in "Advanced Bestiary" which you can apply to your half-elf CG ^^

 

[Alzrius]

I can't recall where the official information regarding moonblades is located, but from what I recall, half-drow are in Races of Faerun, and are like standard PHB half-elves, save that they swap out low-light vision for darkvision.

 

[delericho]

Yes. Per the MM, drow are a subset of elves, and so just as half-elves are considered to be elves for the purposes of activating magic items, so too should half-drow.

That said, given that the blade is said to test its wielder, and given the unusualness of a half-drow claiming it, as DM I would consider that license to test the character very carefully.

 

[Scrivener of Doom]

How would a half-drow be of the correct family bloodline?

 

[Gromnar]

Thank you everyone for the replies. My thoughts were to possibly introduce a Moonblade at a later point in the campaign as a character's "campaign item". Using the moonblade rules, if the correct family line dies out, the blade itself can accept another wielder, as long as they find them fitting for it.

 

[delericho]

How would a half-drow be of the correct family bloodline?

Well, the moonblade description notes that if the correct bloodline has died out, any elf or half-elf can be adopted as a new user, provided they pass the tests.

However, it shouldn't be impossible for a half-drow to be of the correct bloodline anyway - all it would take is for the character's human parent to have a great-great-great...-grandparent who was a half-elf, whose elven parent was of the correct line. IIRC, that was essentially the situation in "Sword of Shannara".

 

[Scrivener of Doom]

Yeah, I had forgotten about that "adoption" ruling. I never paid much attention to the mechanics: all I wanted to do was run a Starym sun elf worshipper of Moander with the Starym moonblade as a leader of an Eldreth Veluuthra cell. I basically ignored all the others.

I was also thinking of the FR precedent where the offspring of two different elf sub-races becomes only one of those sub-races. Thus, a sun elf/drow pairing results in a full-blooded drow and that drow's subsequent offspring via a human is a half-drow but also of the sun elf bloodline two generations back.

 

[delericho]

Yep, that works too.