D&D Beyond: Drow in MTOFs

[Tales and Chronicles]

He could be that vain in your world.

I know my gods, even the ''good'' and ''lawful'' ones are pretty vain and somewhat alien to human mentality. Lets say he doesnt not kill gods to steal their folio, but create self-borns in waiting for the inevitable day where one god kills another to grab the free folio and give it to his child/Himself. The does it in a concern of efficiency: he's the head of the elven pantheon, its better for everybody if he looks over more domain, right?

 

[gyor]

I think a bunch of Seldarine might be his children already. Two Gods of the Dark Seldarine Corellon's Children of Lloth, and a third is his grandson. Actually it's kind of weird that Corellon has more direct family in the Dark Seldarine then in the normal Seldarine.

 

[Irennan]

This lore is pretty much the generic D&D version of the descent, with a twist on it. It's fine to me, and I also enjoy the new lore about the elves being able to change form in their original state. It is vaguely close to what I did in my own homebrew.

I don't mind at all the blessed elves/drow who can change sex (it's gonna be pretty fun in a Lolthite community), but I don't understand why such a blessing would come with the ability to only change sex, and not go back to a wider shapechanging set of abilities, closer to the elves of old (in their new version of this story). I mean, I can totally see why they did that from a real-world perspective, but it seems arbitrarily limited from an in-universe perspective.

Also, I'm so happy that the drow pantheon is back, and with more than a mere blurb in the book to just signal their presence. Eilistraee, Vhaeraun&Co will get their own section each this time around, according to what Crawford said here: https://twitter.com/JeremyECrawford/status/973712612083945472 (the guy only asked about Eilistraee, Ghaundaur, and Vulkoor--from Eberron--but it's clear that all the drow gods will get their section). The elven gods being back to their normal selves (rather than "aspects" of the human ones) is also a very welcome addition.

 

[FlyingChihuahua]

This lore is pretty much the generic D&D version of the descent, with a twist on it. It's fine to me, and I also enjoy the new lore about the elves being able to change form in their original state. It is vaguely close to what I did in my own homebrew.

I don't mind at all the blessed elves/drow who can change sex (it's gonna be pretty fun in a Lolthite community), but I don't understand why such a blessing would come with the ability to only change sex, and not go back to a wider shapechanging set of abilities, closer to the elves of old (in their new version of this story). I mean, I can totally see why they did that from a real-world perspective, but it seems arbitrarily limited from an in-universe perspective.

Also, I'm so happy that the drow pantheon is back, and with more than a mere blurb in the book to just signal their presence. Eilistraee, Vhaeraun&Co will get their own section each this time around, according to what Crawford said here: https://twitter.com/JeremyECrawford/status/973712612083945472 (the guy only asked about Eilistraee, Ghaundaur, and Vulkoor--from Eberron--but it's clear that all the drow gods will get their section). The elven gods being back to their normal selves (rather than "aspects" of the human ones) is also a very welcome addition.

That's good to hear about Eilistraee. A lot of what people hate about good aligned Drow would be lessened if she was given a bigger focus.

 

[guachi]

I like this preview because it tells me the book isn't for me. I guess that's useful information.

 

[MechaPilot]

I know my gods, even the ''good'' and ''lawful'' ones are pretty vain and somewhat alien to human mentality.

That's definitely true. A quick look at real world mythologies will show how petty, vain and capricious a pantheon of gods can be, even those gods considered to be "the good ones."

 

[MonsterEnvy]

I like this preview because it tells me the book isn't for me. I guess that's useful information.

Why is that.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

I certainly the idea of Corellon's Blessing, as it has quite a lot of flavour and almost no impact on game mechanics, which makes it something easy to put in there.

As for deities, I don't go by what's in any FR or GH book, I always felt that one of the most important books in 2e was Monster Mythology as it fleshed out the Pantheons of most of the non-human races and was treated as if it's something that applies to most worlds. PS certainly treated it as such, along with the assumption that there are world specific deities and multi-world ones (the Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and so on deities) which most of the non-Human deities fell into.

 

[gyor]

I'm curious does Vulkoor now count as a member of the Dark Seldarine now? Is his worship not exclusive to eberron anymore.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

I'm curious does Vulkoor now count as a member of the Dark Seldarine now? Is his worship not exclusive to eberron anymore.

Almost every conventional Deity in Eberron might be an incarnation of one of the Sovereign Host or the Dark Six. Vulkoor might be the Mockery of the Dark Six.