224 page book on Drow yet...

[I'm A Banana]

Sample NPC's

Sample cities

Miniadventures/Full Adventures

Drow In Various Campaign Settings

DM Advice for Underdark campaigns

Could be a lot of stuff.

Still, I'll echo the "Drow bore me silly" statement. They sell like hotcakes, but I guess so do Nora Roberts novels.

 

[RangerWickett]

The original 2e "Drow of the Underdark" was good and told me everything I ever wanted to know about drow to the extent that I thought "the night below" was superfluous.

If you're talking about the 2e mega-adventure "The Night Below," it actually wasn't about drow at all. There was in fact only one drow in the entire campaign.

Me, I'm holding out for "Dragon Drow," which I suspect will be coming out in 2008.

 

[RangerWickett]

Honestly, what the game needs is an "Art of D&D" book. Just have all the hot drow pics you want, cool dragon pics, pics of hot drow riding dragons, drow in schoolgirl outfits hanging out with illithids, nymphs and succubi and erinyes having wet chainmail bikini contests, and lots of pics of Jozan's 'holy symbol.'

Ooh, pick the 12 best iconic characters, and have a calendar!

Seriously, though, I like drow. I won't buy the book, but I'll admire how pretty it will no doubt be in the collections of my friends.

 

[Felon]

I don't get 224 pages on one subrace. I like drow fine, but I guess WotC has molded my brain to prefer to see a breadth of critters covered in a single book.

Pack drow, githyanki, and yuan-ti in a single book. Now that would rock.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I think you'll find that the argument is simply that drow sell.

Olaf the Stout

 

[I'm A Banana]

4e = Dungeons and Drowgons

Vast cavern complexes + dragons who have fallen from the light and adopt humanoid form (and have angst).

Seriously, though, I wonder if Salvatore smiles at least once a week knowing he basically invented a new fantasy archetype?

 

[MerricB]

The original 2e "Drow of the Underdark" was good and told me everything I ever wanted to know about drow to the extent that I thought "the night below" was superfluous. I doubt I'll buy the 3e version unless I read some seriously good things about it.

Indeed. Of course, not everyone got the 2e version.

Now what do you think it'll contain? Easily 50 pages of prestige classes, probably 10 pages of spells, 10 of magic items, 10 of monsters and maybe 20 on deities. Even with feats and full write-up of drow as a PC race, you're left c.100 pages of ... what?

Drow cities and intrigue. They could do some serious work on that. The initial appearance of the drow in Vault of the Drow can certainly be revisited and worked on, especially for non-FR settings.

Cheers!

 

[greywulf]

Must admit, I'd love to see Githyanki and Githzerai in a book. Give me them as playable races with PrCs, hooks into the Realms, Eberron and Greyhawk and info on how to run them as a stand-alone campaign too. Flesh out Dragon/Dungeon's excellent Incursion campaign and give it life. Y'know.

That, I'd buy.

 

[Waldorf]

Word has it this book will be filled with Greyhawk related material and other Underdark goodies such as maps and setting specific info to the fabled Vault of the Drow.

Hence the 224 pages I will eat up with pleasure.

 

[Nyeshet]

I've never really liked drow, although I admit to liking some of the 'lives underground in caverns, etc race' concept. Personally, I dropped Drow and created a race of pale(r) elves that lived in hills, have crystalline buildings and structures (the better to permit and transfer what little light the embedded glow stones emit, along with focusing on the artistic element of the race), but otherwise are basically just a subtype of elf - not a whole 'nother race (which drow, considering their many racial traits differences from typical elves, most certainly are).