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[Son of the Serpent]

And I imagine the shens (from Oriental Adventures) like the cousins of elves from Eastern lands.

The shen. Yet another reason im convinced that in d&d "asian" is not racial. Its a template.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Those are cool but we need ELVES

ELVES OF ALL SORTS

BATS AND DOGS AND INSECTS

Excuse me

Listening to NADDPOD right now, and it has honestly made me add Creek and Field Elves as canon to my Forgotten Realms campaign... got to have me elves with a West Country and Louisiana swamp accents!

 

[Bohandas]

Those are cool but we need ELVES

ELVES OF ALL SORTS

BATS AND DOGS AND INSECTS

Excuse me

There's a webcomic like that. Ballad of Adler Young

 

[gyor]

Doesn't count. They are just altered drow. Therefore not viable for a seperate big type for a seperate alignment block. Now...if you associate them to a new bug then we're getring somewhere. But otherwise they are just abnormal CE SPIDER BUGELVES. Excuse me.

Shadar Kai are not Altered Drow. Heck until rescently they weren't even elves. And they aren't evil. And if you want to give them a bug, I'd suggesf Moths.

 

[Arnwolf666]

I think Scandinavian dark elves actually just referred to them living underground in the dark rather than necessarily being dark skinned. And depending on who is translating they were elves or dwarves. I think we are referring to the svartalfar. Not an expert on this. These seem to be vary by region and translation to me.

 

[Son of the Serpent]

I think Scandinavian dark elves actually just referred to them living underground in the dark rather than necessarily being dark skinned. And depending on who is translating they were elves or dwarves. I think we are referring to the svartalfar. Not an expert on this. These seem to be vary by region and translation to me.

Ive mostly just though it generally refered to elves "in the dark", "of the dark", or "from the dark", tbh. Not really dark skin. ALTHOUGH dark skin would make sense. Camoflage. If "sighted" creatures and biolumineacence is something they will often fi d themselves aroud, which, in the under dark, is a thing.

 

[Son of the Serpent]

Shadar Kai are not Altered Drow. Heck until rescently they weren't even elves. And they aren't evil. And if you want to give them a bug, I'd suggesf Moths.

Sorry. Never really messed much with shadar kai. Got my 5e mixed up with my 3e. And i guess they arent related to drow. Woops.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Shadar Kai are not Altered Drow. Heck until rescently they weren't even elves. And they aren't evil. And if you want to give them a bug, I'd suggesf Moths.

Bats.

 

[Son of the Serpent]

Bats.

Yes. Yes, bats are arthropods. I say give the emofey bats.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

the evil matriarchy thing is actually also quite easy to explain. The answer? Spiders. Its actually a spider thing. Spiders are envisioned as cruel, sadistic, predatory and the females are typically overwhelmingly dominant among their kind. Unchallangeable.

Ah, yes, but it's not entirely obvious which came first. I don't think Loth was mentioned when drow first appeared in Against the Giants. Are Drow a matriarchy because of their spider fetish, or where they given a spider fetish because they are a matriarchy?

That is not to say that I think Gygax was sexist - but it's how things are interpreted now that matters, not the original intent.

The current issue with skin tone seems to be largely misunderstood though. I don't think it's the evilness that is the issue. It's more a case of "non-white actors have a tough enough job getting parts, without white actors "stealing" non-white characters".

What no one has mentioned yet though are the tentacle rods...