D&D 5E Altering Drow Culture.

[Charlaquin]

WotC's current approach to "fixing" the drow problem is to expand on existing lore, which is okay I guess, but . . .

I really like what you've got going on here. Not sure how far you've taken it, but I like the idea of reinventing, or retconning, the drow so that existing drow culture isn't really evil. Dark, maybe. Antagonistic even, but not truly evil. The story we all think we know is just a stereotype based in fear and misunderstanding, but the truth is much deeper and complex.

Thanks very much! I’m a big fan of recontextualizing traditionally evil races/gods to be reasonable from an internal perspective. And more broadly, I just like making traditional fantasy tropes into in-universe stereotypes, asking where those stereotypes might have come from, and using the answers I arrive at as a basis from which to develop more nuanced versions of those peoples.

 

[Zardnaar]

that would certainly explained the paired weapons.

Suck it!!!

My idea with the Drow I've been throwing around since the 90's. My Elves are often like Melinboneans.

If Drow exist they're the good Elves who fled underground.