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<blockquote data-quote="Dark Jezter" data-source="post: 2588773" data-attributes="member: 1015"><p>Because... <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They're psychotic and constantly backstabbing each other.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They can't stand the sun.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Drow really aren't that good of a race in 3e (from a purely rules standpoint). Sure, spell resistance is nice, but that +2 level adjustment and -2 constitution are real killers.</li> </ul><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No. One is a creature special ability, the other is a magic item.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, there is the fact that dissolving drow stuff was a concept created to let drow have good magical weapons and armor that the players would not be able to keep (this combined with the general overpoweredness of drow in earlier editions). It basically screws over the players by saying "Congratulations! You just beat a group of dark elves armed with disproportionately powerful magical weapons and armor! Don't bother looting it, though, because all that cool stuff you just found is gonna turn into dust once you take it out of the Underdark."</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Again, magical items are not the same as creature special abilites. Disliking the fact that drow weapons dissolve on the surface in an obvious attempt to let drow NPCs have more powerful weapons and armor than the PCs is not the same as disliking not being able to take a dead creature's special abilites, and even suggesting such a thing is a severe stretch of logic.</p><p></p><p>I can't even understand liking dissolving drow stuff from a flavor standpoint.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dark Jezter, post: 2588773, member: 1015"] Because...[list] [*]They're psychotic and constantly backstabbing each other. [*]They can't stand the sun. [*]Drow really aren't that good of a race in 3e (from a purely rules standpoint). Sure, spell resistance is nice, but that +2 level adjustment and -2 constitution are real killers.[/list] No. One is a creature special ability, the other is a magic item. Well, there is the fact that dissolving drow stuff was a concept created to let drow have good magical weapons and armor that the players would not be able to keep (this combined with the general overpoweredness of drow in earlier editions). It basically screws over the players by saying "Congratulations! You just beat a group of dark elves armed with disproportionately powerful magical weapons and armor! Don't bother looting it, though, because all that cool stuff you just found is gonna turn into dust once you take it out of the Underdark." Again, magical items are not the same as creature special abilites. Disliking the fact that drow weapons dissolve on the surface in an obvious attempt to let drow NPCs have more powerful weapons and armor than the PCs is not the same as disliking not being able to take a dead creature's special abilites, and even suggesting such a thing is a severe stretch of logic. I can't even understand liking dissolving drow stuff from a flavor standpoint. [/QUOTE]
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