Can drow elves be good?
They value and protect others’ freedom as well as their own, and they are more often good than not. The drow are an exception; their exile into the Underdark has made them vicious and dangerous. Drow are more often evil than not.
Are drow and elves the same?
The drow (/draʊ/ or /droʊ/) or dark elves are a dark-skinned and white-haired subrace of elves connected to the subterranean Underdark in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game. The drow have traditionally been portrayed as generally evil and connected to the evil goddess Lolth.
Do drow consider themselves elves?
Drow ( sing & pl ; pronounced: /draʊ/ drow or: /droʊ/ dro [note 1]), also known as dark elves, deep elves, night elves, and the Dark Ones among orcs, were a dark-skinned sub-race of elves that predominantly lived in the Underdark.
What do drow elves eat?
According to Bob Salvatore’s various underdark novels, dark elves get by just fine on mostly domesticated meat breeds (like the Rothe mentioned by SPavel, each about twice the size of a yak), insects and reptiles, fish, fungi, and fermented spirits.
What class is best for drow?
Drow make good bards, rogues, sorcerers, and warlocks, but they can also work as fighters and rangers.
How long do drow elves live?
400 years
Drow live as long as elves, although in their violent society it is rare for any individual to live longer than 400 years. Drow begin schooling at age 8, and enter adolescence at age 20, where they enter an apprenticeship. Those who survive the harsh drow culture reach adulthood at age 80.
Can a drow be a druid?
The gray (underdark) druid in The Complete Druid’s Handbook can be a half-drow, but not a drow, but as it is a core AD&D book, only half-elves (not full elves) can be druids. The Demihuman Deities entry says a drow druid is an exception to the core rules, so maybe you could use it.
Do all drow have white hair?
In the forgotten realms (the main D&D universe), drows have for ancestors dark elves, who lived in the surface and had brown skin. However, it’s clearly stated that drows have not only brown, but ebony-black skin. Their ancestors also probably didn’t have the distinctive white hair of the drows, but black one.
Do drow eat spiders?
Some drow would ceremonially eat a spider at the beginning of each meal as a way of giving thanks to Lolth. Hishnashapers often kept spiders and parts of spiders for use in their magic.
Why are drows black?
UV stops at skin, but hard radiation penetrates tissues. The drow would therefore have melanin through and through – not just on skin but also interior tissues and organs, blood, sclera and everywhere. Their sclera would be black and their blood would be black.
Does drow need evil?
According to the Player’s Handbook, Drow no longer have to be evil in your D&D game.
Do drow have pets?
A giant lizard can be ridden or used as a draft animal. Lizardfolk also keep them as pets, and subterranean giant lizards are used as mounts and pack animals by drow, duergar, and other Underdark dwellers.
Why are the drow black?
Why do drow have white hair?
They instead use melanin pigment (the only human pigment) to capture hard radiation to make vitamin D. The Drow are actually cave adapted albinos who secondarily acquired the ability to capture hard radiation energy via pigment, which is why they have white hair and pink eyes but skin that is nearly coal black.
Can you Wildshape into a dinosaur?
A normal druid can do that at 8th level, and a saurian shaman can do it at 6th level. Considering Paizo, and some of its staff, I am both surprised and disappointed that there is no way to wild shape into a t-rex.