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<blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 7798864" data-attributes="member: 926">I'd pay a lot for that!There has been so damn much Forgotten Realms Drow lore written over the decades but virtually nothing written for the original Drow city of Erelhei-Cinlu (named after Gary's kids, which I know that you're well aware of, grodog<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />) and they could so so much rad stuff with it. Just pick up on the original ideas from GDQ and run with them... a factious city of Drow Noble Houses locked in eternal intrigue and covert war. A Greyhawk book and a Drow book... what is there to lose?And they could also use it to break the Drow from the &quot;Lolth and Lolth Alone&quot; mindset that writers have locked them into for far too long, and instead get them back to their origins where different Drow Houses each worshiped different Demon Lords, with Lolth just being the dominant one out of many.&nbsp; I'd love to see a 5E Eclavdra!&nbsp; (They could even revisit the original Drow Defector From Decadance who was introduced long before Drizzt, a Drow male being tortured way back in GDQ as a &quot;Good Drow&quot; who was actually just Chaotic Neutral.)I've always thought a Drow House dedicate to Graz'zt was so obvious that an explanation why really shouldn't even be necessary... with his obsidian skin, weird beauty, and twisted sexual themes being such a perfect fit for the Drow that I was always almost certain that Graz'zt was created by Gygax specifically to be a patron for male Drow worship, as a symbol of male empowerment and freedom from female dominance (as well as being an object of a substantial minority of female Drow worship for... other reasons.)&nbsp; Graz'zt's name even sounds absolutely Drowic!&nbsp; He would make an absolutely perfect Demonic patron for Drow males who refused to bow down to Lolth's dominance.(Hmmmm... dammit, now I really want to make a Drow Pact of the Blade Warlock with the Fiend (Graz'zt) Patron!)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aaron L, post: 7798864, member: 926"] I'd pay a lot for that! There has been [B]so damn much[/B] [I]Forgotten Realms[/I] Drow lore written over the decades but virtually nothing written for the original Drow city of [I]Erelhei-Cinlu[/I] (named after Gary's kids, which I know that you're well aware of, grodog:)) and they could so so much rad stuff with it. Just pick up on the original ideas from GDQ and run with them... a factious city of Drow Noble Houses locked in eternal intrigue and covert war. A Greyhawk book [I]and[/I] a Drow book... what is there to lose? And they could also use it to break the Drow from the "Lolth and Lolth Alone" mindset that writers have locked them into for far too long, and instead get them back to their origins where different Drow Houses each worshiped different Demon Lords, with Lolth just being the dominant one out of many. I'd love to see a 5E Eclavdra! (They could even revisit the [I]original[/I] Drow Defector From Decadance who was introduced long before Drizzt, a Drow male being tortured way back in GDQ as a "Good Drow" who was actually just Chaotic Neutral.) I've always thought a Drow House dedicate to [I]Graz'zt[/I] was so obvious that an explanation why really shouldn't even be necessary... with his obsidian skin, weird beauty, and twisted sexual themes being such a perfect fit for the Drow that I was always almost certain that Graz'zt was created by Gygax specifically to be a patron for male Drow worship, as a symbol of male empowerment and freedom from female dominance (as well as being an object of a substantial minority of female Drow worship for... [I]other[/I] reasons.) Graz'zt's name even sounds absolutely Drowic! He would make an absolutely perfect Demonic patron for Drow males who refused to bow down to Lolth's dominance. (Hmmmm... dammit, now I [I]really[/I] want to make a Drow Pact of the Blade Warlock with the Fiend (Graz'zt) Patron!) [/QUOTE]

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