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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MonsterEnvy" data-source="post: 7671088" data-attributes="member: 6706188">NOTE Spoilers for Drizzt books in this post.Drizzt is good but not that good. Drow are also good but not that good at stuff. Most are just very arrogant and have a hugely inflated view of themselves. Take this story from the books.A powerful Drow Cleric and her team of Drow at one point attempted to start a war in the north with Orc's and Frost Giants. At first things were going well for them, until it was revealed the Orc Leader was smarter and stronger then they thought and they realized they had no power over him. When it became clear that the Orc leader Obould was growing tired of them and that he was planing on ending the War to solidify his gains, they decided to kill him and put a warmongering puppet in his place. However they felt it too risky to do it themselves. (Given that Obould fought Drizzt and beat him this was smart of them.) They found out Dirzzt was coming in for a rematch (Drizzt also had a cool new magic weapon to help tip the odds in his favor.) and planned on rigging the fight so that Drizzt would win. By tricking another Orc they managed to curse Oboulds armor which would activate when they wanted it to. Despite things going to plan with the armor curse. Obould stripped and fought Drizzt naked and it was still an equal battle. So they went the direct route and blasted the two off a cliff and bolted. (Both survived.) Despite thinking the war was going to continue now they ran into Obould when going through their escape route who bit the Cleric's throat off. For a shorter example of why Drow are not the best. The currently known most powerful Drow in the world is the Wizard Gromph (Aka the guy responsible for the Demon Outbreak in this adventure.) For one of their plots. They managed to gain the aid of Arauthator (Aka Old White Death) a dragon who has a been around for a while. (He is also a villain in Rise of Tiamat) Some of the villains wanted to Order Arauthator around have them do things for them. Some of their leaders pointed out that was stupid. Arauthator was not their pet and the only Drow in the city who could even have a chance against Arauthator was Gromph and even then they would not be too sure of who to place bets on. (They also pointed out that while Gromph recruited Arauthator he would never dare risk fighting him for their sake.) Drizzt also fought Arauthator twice in the latest book. The first time he nearly died and survived out of pure luck. (His wife had cast a cold resist spell on him when he went into the snow.) the second time was from the back of a copper dragon of which he was a bystander and was pretty much useless.</blockquote>

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