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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7093560" data-attributes="member: 6704184"><p>But no one ever just does that. Eberron Drow are not the same, in lore, as FR Drow, but hey don't just "strip away the lore" and leave it at that. If they did...that would be a huge, glaring, nonsensical, failure on their part, not a problem with porting Drow to another world.</p><p></p><p>i can't even imagine how one could do that, much less why one would try. It seems harder than giving them new/translated lore would be. </p><p></p><p>I mean, just the process of literally giving them a basic outline of a culture, political structure, determining how they view and are viewed by other races, ie he very basics of including race in a setting, will make them more than "a dark skinned elf that lives underground". </p><p></p><p>Or that sont live underground. Or that sometimes do but sometimes don't. </p><p></p><p>Hell, I've a setting where they live nocturnally in deserts in hidden clan holds dug into and under rock outcroppings, keep very clever sand cats and their larger and even smarter Dune Panther cousins as pets and guards, worship the moon and her two sisters, and gather yearly in a hidden oasis called The Court of Stars, accessible only through tunnels or via magic, where they celebrate births, exchange gifts, set up trade deals and marriages and the like, and take council amongst eachother. </p><p></p><p>There is also a culture of raider drow, who worship scorpions, get high on their venom, and are generally a bad time. </p><p></p><p>The dwarves in that setting are more Black Forest dwarves, as well, and the elf elves live in cities with a vaguely pseudo ancient Persian culture, and humans are a small minority that has only recently come to the region. </p><p></p><p>In Eberron, many of the drow live in the jungle, or amongst the ruins of the Giants' empire, and some worship fire. </p><p></p><p>This stuff is malleable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 7093560, member: 6704184"] But no one ever just does that. Eberron Drow are not the same, in lore, as FR Drow, but hey don't just "strip away the lore" and leave it at that. If they did...that would be a huge, glaring, nonsensical, failure on their part, not a problem with porting Drow to another world. i can't even imagine how one could do that, much less why one would try. It seems harder than giving them new/translated lore would be. I mean, just the process of literally giving them a basic outline of a culture, political structure, determining how they view and are viewed by other races, ie he very basics of including race in a setting, will make them more than "a dark skinned elf that lives underground". Or that sont live underground. Or that sometimes do but sometimes don't. Hell, I've a setting where they live nocturnally in deserts in hidden clan holds dug into and under rock outcroppings, keep very clever sand cats and their larger and even smarter Dune Panther cousins as pets and guards, worship the moon and her two sisters, and gather yearly in a hidden oasis called The Court of Stars, accessible only through tunnels or via magic, where they celebrate births, exchange gifts, set up trade deals and marriages and the like, and take council amongst eachother. There is also a culture of raider drow, who worship scorpions, get high on their venom, and are generally a bad time. The dwarves in that setting are more Black Forest dwarves, as well, and the elf elves live in cities with a vaguely pseudo ancient Persian culture, and humans are a small minority that has only recently come to the region. In Eberron, many of the drow live in the jungle, or amongst the ruins of the Giants' empire, and some worship fire. This stuff is malleable. [/QUOTE]
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