D&D General The Gygaxian Origins of Drow and Some Thought on their Depiction As Villians

[Richards]

...men are considered only good at the four fs (fighting, feasting, feuding, and ...)

Fishing? Foraging? Finagling? Flying? Wait...farting? Don't leave us guessing here!

Johnathan

 

[Staffan]

Fishing? Foraging? Finagling? Flying? Wait...farting? Don't leave us guessing here!

Johnathan

 

[Ancalagon]

The treatment of dark elves in The Malazan Book of the Fallen surely should be examined... especially considering that the books were born from an RPG campaign.

It's only 3.25 million words after all @_@

 

[Weiley31]

Some drow are obsidian black, some drow are purple, some drow are blue.. Just a range of colours at the cooler end of the spectrum. It makes drow their own weird thing

Ive seen a lot of Drow art depict them as having Dark Grey Skin.

 

[Weiley31]

I just can't believe with the holidays, everybody doesn't like the name Chris. My best bro is a Kris, and he's a great guy!

 

[Weiley31]

there are no pictures of white drow

There are Albino Drow, but they are extremely rare.

 

[Richards]

...there are no pictures of white drow...

Maybe not, but I'll bet there are drow wights....

Johnathan

 

[Voadam]

I know that someone (white, of course) will jump up and say there are no pictures of white drow

There are Albino Drow, but they are extremely rare.

I think the elf here is one.

 

[Voadam]

Maybe not, but I'll bet there are drow wights....

Johnathan

 

[Weiley31]

Szarkai

Szarkai (pronounced: /ˈzɑːrkaɪ/ ZAHRK-eye), meaning "ghost spiders", were albino drow. Although extremely rare and a subject of mystery, they could easily pass as normal elves, making them ideal spies for the drow noble houses, able to operate freely in the surface world. As albinos, they had...

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The Albino Drow.