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<blockquote data-quote="William Ronald" data-source="post: 2622136" data-attributes="member: 426"><p>Ironically, I never encountered the problem that some people have had with the drow.&nbsp; In a former campaign that I was in, two of the players around the time of the original Unearthed Arcana had drow characters.&nbsp; One was a cleric/thief and the other was a cleric.&nbsp; They were renegades who had taken up on worshipping a deity of Nature (which might be a logical thing for people who live underground), essentially Danu the Earth Mother.&nbsp; They were essentially neutral, and more interested in trade than conquest.&nbsp; So, dealing with their families, was more like dealing with a household interested in wealth as opposed to the typical drow.&nbsp; The neutral drow were something of a minority, but we never really got into how drow were often portrayed elsewhere. They could be ruthless and determined foes, but there was more diversity to them than in many of the published products.&nbsp; (I think one of the problems with how drow have developed is that it was assumed that all drow automatically followed Lolth.&nbsp; The Realms have livened this up a bit with different sects, but I think that some of the wonder and mystery of the drow is gone.&nbsp; So, when one myth lacks meaning, create a new one.)</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="William Ronald, post: 2622136, member: 426"] Ironically, I never encountered the problem that some people have had with the drow. In a former campaign that I was in, two of the players around the time of the original Unearthed Arcana had drow characters. One was a cleric/thief and the other was a cleric. They were renegades who had taken up on worshipping a deity of Nature (which might be a logical thing for people who live underground), essentially Danu the Earth Mother. They were essentially neutral, and more interested in trade than conquest. So, dealing with their families, was more like dealing with a household interested in wealth as opposed to the typical drow. The neutral drow were something of a minority, but we never really got into how drow were often portrayed elsewhere. They could be ruthless and determined foes, but there was more diversity to them than in many of the published products. (I think one of the problems with how drow have developed is that it was assumed that all drow automatically followed Lolth. The Realms have livened this up a bit with different sects, but I think that some of the wonder and mystery of the drow is gone. So, when one myth lacks meaning, create a new one.) [/QUOTE]

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