D&D 5E Altering Drow Culture.

[Blue Orange]

cThis is absolutely the vibe in the Sojourn series anyway, so I dunno if that changes anything. It really does have this "I hate your dumb orgies mom, I'm going to church!" thing going on.

But that is absolutely a type of rebellion teenagers do!

I went to a progressive high school (this was in the 90s) where we listened to multicultural Christmas carols (yes, we also sang the Hanukkah song) and learned all about the labor movement and the antiwar movements in a roughly positive sense. So, of course, I read National Review and Commentary, took pride in abstinence (sour grapes component? naaaahhh...that couldn't be it ) and made fun of Clinton. I became obsessed with doing Nixon impressions and making the 'V' sign.

(I really, really hate to drag politics into this but that was a huge part of it. If everyone around you does X, as a teenager there is a huge temptation to do not-X.)

 

[Mecheon]

We've gone this far into the thread without any Aussieposting?

They come from the Underdark, the land down-under if you will, they have spiders around as pets (look, if a huntsman is in your house, its dealing with worse things, so just let old mate do his thing), the land they live in is full of strange and unusual creatures that will murder you if they get the chance....

As an Aussie, just go full Aussie with drow at all oppertunities

 

[DrunkonDuty]

I'm an Aussie. I posted just upthread.

As for being drowish - I cannot claim to be happy having spiders around. I mean, yes, I won't hurt a huntsman, no matter how big the bloody thing gets. But I will throw them out of the house. The thing about the big moustaches is true, they are back in style with a vengeance. In some circles they never went out of style.

 

[Blue Orange]

I'm an Aussie. I posted just upthread.

As for being drowish - I cannot claim to be happy having spiders around. I mean, yes, I won't hurt a huntsman, no matter how big the bloody thing gets. But I will throw them out of the house. The thing about the big moustaches is true, they are back in style with a vengeance. In some circles they never went out of style.

Once a jolly ranger camped by a pool of muck
Under the shade of a glowing fungus tree
And he sang as he watched and waited with his panther,
“You’ll come a waltzing Underdark with me!”

 

[Bacon Bits]

I've got a homebrew setting where I made drow a completely separate species, with subraces of traditional drow, duergar, and deep gnomes. The race's common ability was a shapeshifting ability similar to change self.

Elves, on the other hand, also had three major subraces: high elves (traditional elves), iron elves (called dwarves by most humans), and stone elves (gnomes).

The two races are reflections of each other, and both originate from the Feywild/Shadowfell (which is one plane). The animosity between "dwarves" and elves was caused ages ago by drow shapechangers, though the elves (both high and iron) are too arrogant to admit it.

Edit: Clarity.

 

[MechaTarrasque]

The Durgar only listen to old school, twangy, "my wife left me, my dog died, and my truck is broke" country music, and that is why they feud with the rest of the dwarves who have bought into pop country music.

 

[Blue Orange]

The Durgar only listen to old school, twangy, "my wife left me, my dog died, and my truck is broke" country music, and that is why they feud with the rest of the dwarves who have bought into pop country music.

I'm a little bit duergar...
and I'm a little bit hill dwarf...
I'm a little bit battle axe and scrub n' hills
But to invisible form I can still morph
I don't know if I'm good or bad
But I know I love it so...

 

[Stormonu]

I'm an Aussie. I posted just upthread.

As for being drowish - I cannot claim to be happy having spiders around. I mean, yes, I won't hurt a huntsman, no matter how big the bloody thing gets. But I will throw them out of the house. The thing about the big moustaches is true, they are back in style with a vengeance. In some circles they never went out of style.

Now I'm imagining this huntsman with a magnificent moustache...

 

[Charlaquin]

My drow commonly refer to Lolth as the Dreamweaver, and consider dreaming (like, actually dreaming, not the mental exercises performed during trance) a sacred communion with her. They achieve it via the famous drow sleeping poison, which is harvested from the venom of a particular species of spider found only in the Underdark. The other elves consider Lolth a goddess of deception, who betrayed the other elven gods and lead their brethren astray with this foul drug, poisoning their minds as they lay unconscious.

 

[Weiley31]

Look, lets be real: if Drizzt wasn't the iconic Drow hero, said iconic Drow hero would've been the Drow version of David Bowie. Ziggy Stardust drow edition even.