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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MaximumHavoc" data-source="post: 4665963" data-attributes="member: 82231">i changed it.i prefer the idea that only the very best and most devoted of lolth's drow servants are awarded with this transformation.  syncing driders with matrons mothers just made sense to me.  so, instead of driders being "subservient to lolth's priests", they represent the elite of lolth's priests.  some of whom, naturally, are matron mothers.i will share with you a post i made on the wizards forums years ago, back when i was first reinventing the driders:"driders are now favored by lolth, not unfavored (don't ask. she IS chaotic.). ;-)at first, the drow have a hard time adjusting to this. they have always held disdain for the driders. now, lolth has deemed that driders are favored because to be more "spider" is to be better. the pre-existing driders have returned to their houses, to be treated--begrudgingly--with honor and respect, even above priestesses. the pre-existing driders continue to bear much resentment towards the drow. they repeatedly exploit their newfound power and authority to exact various incidences of revenge upon their family members and other drow. however, they know that an excess of this behavior will be disfavored by lolth. now, a new drider is created only as a reward by lolth to an exceptional priestess, who, upon becoming a drider, assumes the role of matron mother of her house. not all houses are blessed with a drider matron mother. it is a cause for political strife and manipulation among the houses. now, new driders are almost exclusively female. the rare creation of a new male drider is a source of confusion and consternation amoung the drow society ("what does lolth mean by this? a male favored?"). driders have spider reproductive organs and have spider offspring (note to self - create a large spider that has an intelligence score of 10 and, perhaps, special abilities). any remnant sexual urges that drider may still feel towards drow are satiated only through violence. this is an aspect of lolth's blessing that is cruel both to the drider (sexual frustration and adjusting to having sex with spiders) and to the drider's "sexual" victim (obviously)."i am happy to see wotc implement this change from disfavored to favored.</blockquote>

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