Are we sick of the Drow yet?

[Faraer]

Never! My lover is a stoic dual-wielding drow ranger.

Luckily, I've had no contact with people who want to play drow as PCs.

Kinda, but they can still be cool sometimes.

No, absolutely not 'cool'. They're not supposed to be cool, they're supposed to be terrifying and sinister.

Oh yes. Enough already!

No one can deny that drow are overexposed, and anyone who hasn't been drowed out a little either hasn't been paying attention or is sick in the head; but what's good about them remains untouched, and their next use might always be a good one.

What's a drow?

Sometimes I wish.

...I think the idea that drow are inherently evil is just plane silly

This is fantasy, not science fiction or sim anthropology. Fantasy races are a storytelling technique to exemplify human traits and states of being, not real species or ethnic groups that just happen to be fictional. If that were so, accusations that Tolkien and other strands of the fantasy tradition were severely racist to their core would be correct.

 

[MDSnowman]

Either way, as someone mentioned above.. for me, I am not half as bored with drow than I am with a bunch of other dead horses that keep getting beaten (i.e. Orcs, Demons, Undead or most notably Dragons - *yawn*)

On many levels I agree with the above statement. Orcs have been getting beat on since before I knew what D&D was, give me Warcraft Orcs any day of the week, Demons- Well they were scary back before everyone knew all their stats, Undead work best in hordes with the occasional vampire (but never the generic vampire template... I play Ravenloft for a reason... send a Vyrkolaka after a group of heroes, they'll pee themselves.)

And Dragons... poor poor dragons....they get tottled out so often for an easy kill and make PCs feel good. The only thing I never liked about the Adventure path series was the sheer number of dragons... and NEVER were they the focus of the adventures. People have to learn that if you're going to take the time and effort to use a Dragon, make it memorable!! They shouldn't be prevelant enough to warrant Anti-Dragon Prestige Classes.

I think there is plenty of life in the Drow. I think the Drow of FR are all played out. Overexposure. I am interested in the Drow of Eberron, surface dwelling scorpion-lovers living in the land that enslaved them. Jungle Drow. Hopefully, they will be cruel, efficient and deadly. More Eclavdra than Baenre.

Yeah I love the Eberron Drow as well. People complain endlessly about Drow, but the second people found out there were Drow living in the Ju8ngles of Eberron they practilly demaned to know more. The lack of knowledge about them is what makes them fun in my book. I hope they never get detailed, especially not to the degree they are in FR.

 

[ecliptic]

I've seen one drow played.

If people are getting sick of drow, it has to be the groups fault.

 

[argo]

Sick of drow. Though I'll admit that it might just be FR drow, and their overexposure, that I'm tired of. Maybe I'll give Night Elves a spin but I doubt it.

But what I'm really sick of, and it doesn't matter what world we're talking about here, is the Underdark. The incongruent nature of a vast, global network of siezable tunnels and caverns that supports dozens of intelligent civilizations who reguraly war with each other and plot and scheme against the surface world just makes my brain hurt. Ancient undergound citadels I'm ok with. Forgotten horrors buried in the deep places of the earth I love. Isolated "lost worlds" are cool. But the underdark is a bloated amalgimation of every possible scenario stiched together and combined with DnD's own wacked-out dungeon ecology that I haven't found interesting since I was 12. The underdark is one of the main reasons I don't play FR.

/rant

 

[Dark Jezter]

Yeah, I'm sick of drow. They've become so overexposed in D&D products and novels that they've pretty much become the standard underdark villains (remember how last year was The Year of the Drow at WotC's web site?). They used to be cool and unique, but now they're just boring and cliche. When my PCs visit the underdark, I have them encounter duergar and mind flayers instead.

 

[Akrasia]

... IMO, anyone who's "sick" of them has only themselves, or their crappy DMs, to blame. YMMV. ...

Hey, I'm an amazing DM. And I haven't used drow in years.
But I'm STILL sick of them... :\

 

[nopantsyet]

I'm sick of them. There's lots of terrifying things to throw at PCs, and I just prefer others at the moment.

That's not to say that I don't have black-skinned [desert-dwelling] elves or underdark-adapted [pallid, ghostlike] elves; I just don't have drow. I am just not into the FR Underdark. It's personal preference. I've run games there in the past, but it's not where my interest lies now.

 

[MerakSpielman]

There's a reason I eliminated the Underdark from my Kalamar campaign.

 

[Angcuru]

The Drow were cool for a while, before they started showing up virtually everywhere, in too many modules, and just being present in the game in general. They live ONLY ONLY ONLY ONLY in the Forgotten Realms in the UNDERDARK, and should not be seen on the surface outside of a few, select characters (except for the occasional raiding party). They have been completely overdone.

I am so sick and tired of seeing Drow references in almost every book and in EVERY D&D video game I buy. Unless the product is set entirely in the Underdark, the Drow should not be alluded to in any way outside of a few tales to scare little children. And not a moment more.

 

[Akrasia]

... They live ONLY ONLY ONLY ONLY in the Forgotten Realms in the UNDERDARK, and should not be seen on the surface outside of a few, select characters (except for the occasional raiding party). ...

Not to be nit-picky, but the Drow first appeared in the World of Greyhawk (module G3).

In those days, they were completely new, mysterious, and ... cool.