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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dontpunkme" data-source="post: 2586198" data-attributes="member: 17938">Drow have lost what made them so great in the first place--mysteriousness.  In an age long ago they were this fearful pseudo-myth.  And then everybody played one (who here can not honestly say they never played a drow campaign).  We've seen good drow and evil drow and they've just become so commonplace.  I'm not saying that I dislike drow (far from it, I still love reading Salvatore novels), but they're no longer an enigma.  In my current campaign, the drow are a mystery.  The elves know of them and will not even speak of them.  The only humans to have encoutered them are left a gory mess (to which most people blame the deaths on everything but the drow).  Dwarves are aware of them and do despise them, but like the elves do not want to draw awareness to the threat.  Parties of drow do get boring though.  Besides the aforementioned poison, SR, and darkness, there is still the problem that as a DM it is next to impossible to argue logically why the drow don't end up killing each other (certainly Lloth wouldn't discourage it).  This just leads to ill will and distrust (which logically as drow should be the mindset), but this does create headaches trying to maintain a semblance of group chemistry.  From personal experience one of the greatest races to play in an all same race campaign is dwarves.  When played properly dwarves are a force to be reckoned with and there still remains an air of mystery.  Surface elves also make for good groups (especially if the characters play Elves as Elves should be played and use harry and trickery to defeat oponents), but even this has become too cliche in my group.  I've been considering running a Sniverberfli (yeah I know my spelling is off but I'm lazy and don't feel like looking it up) campaign as I think there remains a lot of mystery to a group that is really best known for Belwar Dissengulp.  But if your DM persists and you do play a drow campaign, knife some punks in the spine for me.</blockquote>

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