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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Satori" data-source="post: 3728805" data-attributes="member: 37233">This is why people hate Drow PCs.-The Drow are one of those "Taboo" races...like Mind Flayers.They are buried hundreds of miles below the earth, indoctrinated to be as evil as possible, kept under the perpetual thumb of an extremely evil Demon Queen (now with God status), and given stats that make them nearly unplayable.Hence, they make perfect evil bad guys.Then RA Salvatore comes in and creates the equivalent of an 'Exalted Lawful Good Mind Flayer Vow of Poverty Monk' (yes, I know this has already been done.  Nothing is sacred anymore).He took a purposefully (in my opinion) unplayable race, ignored DnD stats, and made him sound really REALLY cool......in the "I'm an angsty teenager with a really cool appearance and all sorts of poor me tragedy...but I'm invincible, so high school bullies leave me alone."In fact, he did such a good job that Drizzt is the poster boy for angsty, EMO, cry baby, tragically noble teenagers that happen to play DnD.---Now, the problem is that said "Drizzt Fanboys" can't seem to leave the archetype alone and come up with something original.Redeemed Orc/Devil/YuanTi/Demon?  Just as much evil, less statistical/geographical headache!Oh no...it HAS to be a redeemed Dark Elf.---In other words, imagine an author who created a book based on a "Mineral Warrior Half-Demon Half-Dragon Vampiric Swan Princess"...the concept is so far out that it works in a novel......but not so much in a game with rules.</blockquote>

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