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<blockquote data-quote="GM Lent" data-source="post: 9532254" data-attributes="member: 6798775">I've always pronounced drow so it rhymes with &quot;cow&quot; and so did all my friends and it confused me deeply the first time I heard someone rhyme it with &quot;grow.&quot;Re: racism/sexism: I've long taken the approach that most common folks in a setting know next to nothing about the &quot;monsters&quot; that live on their borders, and so the cultures are ripe with misinformation, exaggeration, and superstition. All it takes is some townsfolk to get their butts handed to them in a surprise encounter with a strange group of female elves while exploring a cave and all of a sudden it's &quot;but they used magic! and they were evil! SO eeeeevil! their skin was black as pitch and they moved so silently nobody could have heard them coming!&nbsp; . . . and they totally dominated the menfolk! and they totally worship spiders. Yeah, spiders!&quot;How true is any of that? Who knowns, and really - how often does it come up anyway?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GM Lent, post: 9532254, member: 6798775"] I've always pronounced drow so it rhymes with "cow" and so did all my friends and it confused me deeply the first time I heard someone rhyme it with "grow." Re: racism/sexism: I've long taken the approach that most common folks in a setting know next to nothing about the "monsters" that live on their borders, and so the cultures are ripe with misinformation, exaggeration, and superstition. All it takes is some townsfolk to get their butts handed to them in a surprise encounter with a strange group of female elves while exploring a cave and all of a sudden it's "but they used magic! and they were evil! SO eeeeevil! their skin was black as pitch and they moved so silently [I]nobody [/I]could have heard them coming! . . . and they totally dominated the menfolk! and they totally worship spiders. Yeah, spiders!" How true is any of that? Who knowns, and really - how often does it come up anyway? [/QUOTE]

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