D&D 5E Do you think they will go back to driders being a curse instead of a blessing?

[ForeverSlayer]

FWIW, I know a few people who really do miss the dog-men kobolds. Mostly some real grogs, the sentiment is out there. And I would not be half-shocked to see them making an appearance in 5e.

And fat halflings have been missed since 3e.

4e made a lot more changes (the drider one specifically is not one of the more major ones, but it's one that got anchored in 4e), of course.

And it's not edition warring to hate on a given change that 4e wrought. Far from it, in fact -- edition warring is tribalistic sniping about how some edition sucks or is above criticism. Just saying that you don't like Change X is specific, narrow, and about the change, not about the edition.

Veterans of the Edition Wars sometimes have PTSD and jump at shadows.

Thank you so much for saying this!

 

[Balthazor]

If people really thought this was so cool or a blessing why aren't. More people opting to play centaurs or other half human species?

I remember a scene from star trek where data asks if Geordi's vision is superior to standard human vision, why don't all star fleet officers have their eyes replaced by visors?

This transformation is a curse. If it wasn't there would be an option to switch between forms. I thought in earlier versions only male Drow were cursed this way? Was I mistaken or did it change when they turned it into a blessing?

 

[The Human Target]

Maybe drow care more about power than being pretty?

Maybe some of them are crazy religious fanatics?

 

[Shasarak]

Maybe some of them are crazy religious fanatics?

Some of them?

 

[The Human Target]

Some of them?

That's what I'm saying!

 

[Mecheon]

I do like Driders being both a curse and a blessing

They're sacred to Lolth but oh boy you do not want to end up as one

(Unless you're obsessed with spiders like that Arachnomancer idea I've had for ages)

 

[Ancalagon]

Aren't they sterile? That would be a bit of a problem for a lot of people.

 

[Sunseeker]

Maybe drow care more about power than being pretty?

Maybe some of them are crazy religious fanatics?

Wouldn't being remade in the image of your god elevate your beauty, not lower it?

IMO: Drow are crazy, it's their thing it's their whole society and their religion worships a crazy goddess.

So, traditionally I've always used driders as both a punishment and a blessing, the difference being that the ones who retain their minds are the blessed, while the ones who don't are the cursed. I find this fitting to Lloth. She just strikes me as the kind of goddess that you'll never know if a punishment is actually a punishment or a blessing is really a blessing until you receive it.

 

[Azzy]

Wow! This is some serious thread necromancy! A two-year and one month jump between posts 121 and 122. WTF?

 

[SkidAce]

FWIW, I know a few people who really do miss the dog-men kobolds. Mostly some real grogs, the sentiment is out there. And I would not be half-shocked to see them making an appearance in 5e.

Never changed them really.

Well, other than the fact that I made a note that kobolds are mutagenic over time and generations, depending on the proximity of a powerful creature.

So my pig demon imprisoned in a deep cavern gradually influenced the nearby kobold tribe into becoming little swine like kobolds. And it explains the draconic kobolds.

But "most" of them are still dog like.