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<blockquote data-quote="DungeonmasterCal" data-source="post: 2589075" data-attributes="member: 5388">I love this take on them.&nbsp; I'm gonna have to steal it.I think Drow have been over used to the point of cliche'.&nbsp; They started out as very scary and intimidating.&nbsp; Then novel after novel and supplement after supplement came out, people just got used to them.&nbsp; Remember when the Borg first appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation?&nbsp; The mere mention of them sent the crew (and viewers) into the shivers.&nbsp; Then they became the running villain on Voyager, and they were just completely emasculated.&nbsp; Every encounter saw this lone ship with it's supposedly limited resources whuppin' the Borg all over the place.The same with the Drow.&nbsp; Evil.&nbsp; VERY evil.&nbsp; Powerful and scheming.&nbsp; But the heroes in the books wipe the floor with them.&nbsp; The supplements and modules talk about their evil ways, but really, in mass market publications that have to be fairly toned down so as not to &quot;cross lines&quot;, they just don't ring true.&nbsp; Drow exist in my homebrew setting, but encountering them is VERY rare.&nbsp; I think in a 10 year long campaign I ran, the players encountered Drow twice.&nbsp; The PC's survived both encounters, but only barely.&nbsp; They even turned down an adventure once where they were offered a huge sum of cash to hunt down an alleged Drow raiding party because of the risk.&nbsp; I can be a very malicious DM when the storyline warrants it, and they just didn't want to risk their PC's dying, I think.&nbsp; It also&nbsp; helps that my players never read any of the FR novels featuring Drow, so the mystique was still there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DungeonmasterCal, post: 2589075, member: 5388"] I love this take on them. I'm gonna have to steal it. I think Drow have been over used to the point of cliche'. They started out as very scary and intimidating. Then novel after novel and supplement after supplement came out, people just got used to them. Remember when the Borg first appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation? The mere mention of them sent the crew (and viewers) into the shivers. Then they became the running villain on Voyager, and they were just completely emasculated. Every encounter saw this lone ship with it's supposedly limited resources whuppin' the Borg all over the place. The same with the Drow. Evil. VERY evil. Powerful and scheming. But the heroes in the books wipe the floor with them. The supplements and modules talk about their evil ways, but really, in mass market publications that have to be fairly toned down so as not to "cross lines", they just don't ring true. Drow exist in my homebrew setting, but encountering them is VERY rare. I think in a 10 year long campaign I ran, the players encountered Drow twice. The PC's survived both encounters, but only barely. They even turned down an adventure once where they were offered a huge sum of cash to hunt down an alleged Drow raiding party because of the risk. I can be a very malicious DM when the storyline warrants it, and they just didn't want to risk their PC's dying, I think. It also helps that my players never read any of the FR novels featuring Drow, so the mystique was still there. [/QUOTE]

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