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| Feanor |
Posted - 20 Feb 2006 : 20:30:32
One question : do the drow sleep or they take their rest in Reverie, like the rest of the elves ? In the first editions, I remember that they slept, but War of the Spider Queen insists a lot that drow rest in Reverie. Anyone knows something precise ? |
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| warlockco |
Posted - 21 Feb 2006 : 21:43:59
Most lore points towards Drow as using the Reverie, however some find their "visions" while in Reverie to be too disturbing, and therefore sleep. |
| Kentinal |
Posted - 20 Feb 2006 : 21:10:52
Ed has spoke on this.
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posted Nov. 5, 2004
As Elaine Cunningham said, elsewhere here at Candlekeep: "I postulated that natural adaption would result in other solutions, but also assumed that their elven natures, including the ability to enter reverie, were fragmented by their environment. So I left the issue unresolved, describing various drow in different situations. Some drow slept, some entered a form of Reverie, and some, such as Gromph, could not sleep at all. (It also occurred to me that the drow would likely have developed some sort of brief but deeply restorative meditation -- a very useful skill for warriors, priestesses and wizards who, for whatever reason, cannot afford to take their eyes off their enemies for long.)... there are references in the earlier lore to support these possible options: dreamless sleep, sleep with a dream phase, elven reverie."
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| KnightErrantJR |
Posted - 20 Feb 2006 : 20:36:55
Oh, from a strickly game rule perspective, Drow are a sub group of elves, and are listed as having the same traits unless it is mentioned specifically that they do not share a trait. This being the case, all drow according to D&D 3.5 rules would go into Reverie, and given that novels try to deal with the current rules set, that means in the future, most drow are likely to be referred to as going into Reverie.
Also, if you read the ROTAW books, there is kind of a grandfather clause in all of this that says that if an elf is extreemly tired or sick or badly wounded, he may actually sleep like a human, but this is a very odd thing for them, though its not unheard of. |
| KnightErrantJR |
Posted - 20 Feb 2006 : 20:34:28
Well, in order to take the middleground position, if you read the Starlight and Shadows books, its says definatively that some sleep and some go into Reverie. Yes, I know, that doesn't help. I guess thats the price you pay for rules changes affecting how things have been written in the past.
We don't even want to think about the huge tracts of novel text that refers to infravision, which nothing apparently has anymore. |
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