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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7250847" data-attributes="member: 58172">Wait. Are you saying, where the 1e origins had Wisdom Drow Cleric as a female type, the 5e incarnation of this tradition now has a Charisma Drow Warlock as a female type? I dont see this view as true upto now, but may well be the direction that this tradition is evolving.3e switched Drow to a high Charisma (plus Dexterity plus Intelligence).It seems to me, 4e tried to cohere this tradition by making the Drow high Dexterity-plus-Charisma/Wisdom. Thus regarding females who happened to have high Dexterity and Wisdom, the Drow culture groomed them to excel as great Clerics. Those males who happen to have high Dexterity and Charisma to excel as great Warlocks. In this way, the Warlocks were flavored as a male Drow type. Nevertheless, these types seemed to gain less traction and played out in a messy way, with Drow Rogue and Drow Sorcerer mixing things up, not to mention Dexterity-Wisdom Drow Avenger often serving as the female priestess, and so on.So far in 5e, the Drow is only Dexterity and Charisma, for both female and male. Maybe the female ‘priestess’ type is now defacto a Drow Warlock with a Spider pact, plus an Acolyte background? Meanwhile the rest of the Drow, including both females and males, tend to excel in the ‘military academies’ as a Rogue, and to some degree Dexterity Fighter? Drow magic institutions promote ‘Drow blood’ Sorcerer?Or maybe Drow culture makes magic mainly warlockry? Where the female priestess is more an infernal pact, while the male is more a fey pact? Plus Rogues dominating the nonmagical sector?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 7250847, member: 58172"] Wait. Are you saying, where the 1e origins had Wisdom Drow Cleric as a female type, the 5e incarnation of this tradition now has a Charisma Drow Warlock as a female type? I dont see this view as true upto now, but may well be the direction that this tradition is evolving. 3e switched Drow to a high Charisma (plus Dexterity plus Intelligence). It seems to me, 4e tried to cohere this tradition by making the Drow high Dexterity-plus-Charisma/Wisdom. Thus regarding females who happened to have high Dexterity and Wisdom, the Drow culture groomed them to excel as great Clerics. Those males who happen to have high Dexterity and Charisma to excel as great Warlocks. In this way, the Warlocks were flavored as a male Drow type. Nevertheless, these types seemed to gain less traction and played out in a messy way, with Drow Rogue and Drow Sorcerer mixing things up, not to mention Dexterity-Wisdom Drow Avenger often serving as the female priestess, and so on. So far in 5e, the Drow is only Dexterity and Charisma, for both female and male. Maybe the female ‘priestess’ type is now defacto a Drow Warlock with a Spider pact, plus an Acolyte background? Meanwhile the rest of the Drow, including both females and males, tend to excel in the ‘military academies’ as a Rogue, and to some degree Dexterity Fighter? Drow magic institutions promote ‘Drow blood’ Sorcerer? Or maybe Drow culture makes magic mainly warlockry? Where the female priestess is more an infernal pact, while the male is more a fey pact? Plus Rogues dominating the nonmagical sector? [/QUOTE]

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