Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 3415127" data-attributes="member: 11760">Thinking about how I -- as a guy who has never been paid more than a comp PDF copy of a D20 book as a wannabe designer -- would do this, I think I'd expand the influences dark elves are inspired by from spiders to all predators.It'd keep them grounded in the natural world as elves are, but would broaden what sort of flavor they might have. They'd be more interested in "nature, red in tooth and claw" rather than holding hands and prancing around in the moonlight with their buddies.If you go along with the (2E?) theory that sahuagin are as to aquatic elves as drow are to surface elves, this is arguably something that's already in place in D&D lore.So you'd have dark elves with a tiger motif who slip out of the jungle on the darkest nights, riding tigers and slaughtering villagers in their huts -- and possibly even consuming them there on the spot.You could have dark elves who ride through enormous underground cavens atop dire bats or dark elves with a cobra motif (confusing players who are expecting yuan-ti) and the like.Or, you know, the actual paid professionals could come up with something even better. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>