D&D 4E 4e Drow predictions?

[Mercule]

The older generation hate them because the newer generation love them.

Incorrect. I hate drow because pretty much every PC drow I've ever seen IMC has been some sort of misogynistic geek wet dream of a lesbian dominatrix. After about eight of those, I banned both drow and gender-bending. That was sometime in the very early nineties, and it's been good. All the Drizzt clones or angst-ridden emo-elves I've read about haven't exactly made me want to change my mind, either.

 

[Satori]

After about eight of those, I banned both drow and gender-bending. .

Wait a minute...how do you ban gender-bending?

"You, sir, are FAR too feminine looking. Out!"

"You, ma'am, have FAR too much arm hair. Out!"

What about metrosexuals? Lesbian identified men? Tomboys? Guys who like Barbara Streisand? Girls who like Barbara Streisand? Barbara Streisand herself?

When will the madness stop!

 

[Mercule]

What about metrosexuals?

I don't think any of the women in my group wear make-up. I'm sure not going to let a guy be the only one.

 

[Thunderfoot]

I think that WotC should be truly visionary and get rid of all the spider-crap that the drow wallow in.

Spiders are so old school.

Instead, the drow should be associated with some new, fresh kind of creature.

Hmm.

Like hamsters.

Nah, that's what the Duegar are doing.

 

[Thunderfoot]

Drow to me haven't been correctly represented since the original Demonweb of the Spider Queen came out in the 80s.

Personally, I used the 'everyone knows that' attitude and screwed with my players heads, they just found out that the dark elves came first and that the lighter skinned elves are the "pretenders to the throne" (Actually they were originally human but changed due to a god's interference in the world).

So, drow came first, and elves are a younger race than humans....pretty much ends that superiority complex doesn't it. Of course, all this has been buried by a conspiracy and one of the PCs, an elf actually, has to bring it in to the light...heh, I love political intrigue.

 

[The Ubbergeek]

Mercule, bad players do not make a whole concept bad - if played well.

 

[Mercule]

Mercule, bad players do not make a whole concept bad - if played well.

True. But, enough experience with bad players can convince one that the rewards of randomly having the right player playing a concept do not warrant the pain involved in allowing people to try.

I'm quite certain the right GM and group of players could run an exhilarating Synnibar campaign, too. I'm still not going to sign up for any such groups, though.

 

[I'm A Banana]

I predict that Drow will become bikers. Drenched in leather and chains, driving around in spider-like vehicles. They're loud, they're proud, and they will STOMP YOU.

Lolth is now a stone cold biker with a bandana and an eyepatch. Rhaar.

I prefer my bikers to be Orcs, thank you very much!

 

[Rechan]

This stuff is actually one of my pet hates. Players who play evil characters in good parties, but in disguise! I find it a really lame and played-out plotline, and it's really stupid when it turns out everyone in the party was evil but hiding, from the start.

I prefer openly evil parties, if that's what the players want to play.

It wasn't a "party".

As I said, it was freeform. Meaning, 'we all sit in a tavern and have drama going on behind the scenes'.

You know, LARP.

Besides. NE or LE isn't "I'm Evil, I'm Proud, GET USED TO IT!" At least, not to me. NE is "I'm in it for me, so I have no loyalty to the rest of you."

 

[Dormammu]

My prediction is that drow will still be lame and overused and I will still hate them. The end.

Best post ever!

It's hard to remember what it was like when Drow were mostly in D3. I remember thinking they were so crazy looking when they were in the Fiend Folio (right next to the Elemental Princes of Evil... any Yan-C-Bin fans in the house?). Really, it's not young people. It's just people. There will always be those of sophomoric tendency who latch onto things that aren't cool but still think they are cool.