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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 2622765" data-attributes="member: 2020">(humor) Answers to questions and comments!  <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />To answer questions put to me (using my old IR format)  -  Numion posted:  Why do you do this, Edena?  From Edena:  Humor always made the game funner for me.  And humor is funner to post, and to read.  I post humor when I can:  the Seriousness gets dumped on me all too quickly anyways!  <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />    -  mythusmage posted:Drow are like black widow spiders.Black widow spiders eat insects.To the drow you are insects.Do the math.  From Edena:  This is a classic case of that Elven Subterfuge and Chicanery.  Don't listen to those Golden Pointed Earred Charlatans!  Black Widows - who are arachnids - eat only insects ((I believe.))  Thus, drow - being demihuman - do not eat other demihumans or humans.  Perhaps they do eat humanoids, but I doubt it, since orc tastes pretty lousy.  -astralpwka posted:  Now I can't wait to unleash a more passionate and reluctant drow upon my players!  "We're Black Widow Drow! Back off! You're looking for the Hobo Spider Drow, or maybe the Brown Recluse Drow... They're down that tunnel there..."  From Edena:  Actually, it's the Wolf Spider drow the adventurers have to fear.  They ARE aggressive (sorta like elves, but that's another tale.)  The peaceful drow of Lolth were never a threat (and are rarely seen by adventurers of any stripes, since they are very good at hiding, and they tend to hide themselves from pretty much everyone that comes by.  They are EXTREMELY shy!  On the other hand, consider a nymph who was once a drow of Lolth.  Now, you have unearthly beauty combined with unearthly passion, and then ...)  -  Dog_Moon2003 posted:  First of all, it's a fantasy world, so anything goes, even if it wouldn't normally make sense.Secondly, I assume that perhaps the attitude of the spiders could be the result of training. Like a dog, for example. Depending on how you train it, it could be a mean, vicious animal or a nice, cuddly pet. I see no reason why a race focusing purely on spiders couldn't, after a few generations or so, turn the spiders into exactly what they want them to be for. Perhaps it's a sort of forced evolution, or perhaps its merely the result of very dedicated training since birth.  From Edena:  You have it backwards.  The elves have deceived you.  Yes, originally, the Illthyrri (I think that's how that's spelled) or black elves of the surface world, WERE violent and aggressive and killers like the elves were (and still are, today.)  After going underground, the illthyrri slowly turned to the worship of Lolth, Queen of Spiders, and that is when they began adopting their ways to that of the black widow.  Over thousands of years, they evolved into the shy, gentle, loving people they are today.  So yes, there was training and evolution involved:  it was the illthyrri who evolved (becoming the drow) and not the black widow spiders!  -shilsen posted:Drow are mammals.Drow flip out and kill people.And there you have it  From Edena:  Elven propaganda at work!  Just look at the mess the elves made (example:  the High Moor.  Or, the whole shattered nature of Faerun and other continents on Toril, since the elves shattered them making Evermeet!)  And because some rogue drow commit a few evil acts, they demonize the whole race.  Typical elves!  -Dog_Moon2003 posted:You know, I think it would be cool if Drow were MARSUPIALS. I mean seriously, how many races do we have that are like that? Dnd needs more marsupials.  From Edena:  I agree with you.  Well said, Dog_Moon.  -WormwoodDrow taste like chicken.Lame, bishi chicken.  From Edena:  Those aggressive elves claim drow taste like veal cutlets.  Appropriate, considering all those maniac elven bladesingers running around chopping and dicing like cooks from an Animal House film.</blockquote>

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