Evil Drow Statblocks to Return in Forgotten Realms Rulebooks Later This Year

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Drow-specific NPC statblocks will be included in the upcoming Forgotten Realms Adventurer's Guide set for release later this year. Over the past several weeks, much hullabaloo has been made over the Monster Manual, specifically that the D&D design team replaced specific drow and orc statblocks with generic NPC statblocks that can be used for any kind of humanoids. In a video released today, D&D lead designer Jeremy Crawford confirmed that more specific statblocks tied to specific humanoid sects or characters would return in future rulebooks, with evil drow given as an example.

"Also for anyone who's eager to see more species-tailored humanoid statblocks, people are going to see more of that in our setting books," Crawford said. "You're going to see that in our Forgotten Realms products, for example. The malevolent drow of Menzoberranzan are an important part of that setting and so they get their own statblocks. This is really true of all the creatures in the Monster Manual. This is your massive starting toy box of monsters that are usable anywhere in the multiverse. The bestiaries in our setting products, that's where we can provide you versions of things tailored to the cultures and histories of our different worlds."

 

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Christian Hoffer

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This thread definitely makes me want to run an evil drow Menzoberranzan campaign!

I saw how R A Salvatore was inspired by the Godfather. Would love to run a mafia style/Sopranos Drow House rising through the ranks campaign.
Drow politics is great because there's way more angles for intrigue since everyone has a scheme going.

The Houses scheme against each other, the members of each House scheme against each other, the various religions scheme against each other, the members of those religions scheme against each other, even the table-clearer at any given Drow restaurant is waiting for the day their scheme to take the bartender's place comes to pass so they can get access to those sweet sweet tips.
 

I got a lot of use out of the drow stats in D&D 2014. In fact, when I started playing 5E, I thought drow were kind of lame. Tryhard edgelord stuff. But thanks to those stats in the Monster Manual, I warmed up to them. Now I think they're cool. So I'm glad to see old school evil drow returning in whatever product to D&D 2024.
 

Got a few likes to my post so thought I would expand. Would appreciate peoples thoughts.

 


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