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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9531330" data-attributes="member: 7026594">Yup.  These kind of pronouncements are very much in keeping with what gets discussed in When We Were Wizards.  Gary and the Blumes strongarmed all the creatives at TSR into signing their IP rights over to the company, and Gary led the way by signing first, but he later acted like and argued that said contract never actually applied to him.  The courts in the 1980s disagreed, but here he was in 2007 still pretending. Which is extra galling given that my understanding is that WotC paid him and Dave significant sums after their acquisition in '97, to ensure there would be no further disputes and make sure they had the goodwill and support of the originators.The original word definitely rhymes with and is a variation on Trow aka Troll.  As a kid I assumed Drow rhymed with snow, and thought rhyming with cow sounded absurd, but made myself get used to it after Dragon issue 142 (Feb 1989) officially told us that it rhymes with cow:[ATTACH=full]389065[/ATTACH]It's evolved over time, but the lore for Drow has always had some non-evil rebels and subversives.In D3 The Vault of the Drow one of the encounters possible is with disaffected drow youth who are "neither totally degenerate nor wholly evil - they are haters of the society around them and see no good in it", and who can potentially be recruited as allies against the forces of Lolth.[ATTACH=full]389066[/ATTACH]Drizzt comes along in 1988.  Then by 1991 you get 2E supplement The Drow of the Underdark, which details the cult of Eilistraee, a matron of good drow who long to return to the surface, whose rites of song and dance take place under starlit skies.  So already there we're getting a larger population of non-evil Drow.</blockquote>

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