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Mistellor
Acolyte
USA
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 Posted - 27 Sep 2002 : 21:23:39
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I was wandering if anyone knew where I could get any Info on the Drow and there classes etc.
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Mumadar Ibn Huzal
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 28 Sep 2002 : 09:46:41
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| If you're looking for 3rd edition rules, I wouls suspect that the City of the Spider Queen will hold most of the information you're looking for. Other than that, the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting has a little information in the section of powerfull races. |
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kahonen
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
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Posted - 30 Sep 2002 : 19:30:43
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There are three excellent sources available for 2nd edition:
"Drow of the Underdark" by Ed Greenwood - it does exactly what it says on the tin.
"Drizzt Do'Urden's Guide to the Underdark" - while not a book about Drow per se, it's a very good book for uderstanding the Drow minset.
"Menzobarranzan" - the boxed set of the main Drow city. I don't believe this is in print anymore but I've seen it on e-bay a few times recently.
For 3rd edition - I think we'll have to wait and see what comes out in the future. |
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Arion Elenim
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 08 Oct 2002 : 03:29:55
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Perhaps my fellow scribes will ostracise me for this one, but...
As helpful as those afore-mentioned core books are, I don't think ANYTHING compares to Salvatore's novels as far as how deeply one can get into the world of the Drow....
Homeland, Starless Night and Siege of Darkness in particular leave no stone unturned.....I always get chills when Matron Baenre intones the line that I think truly defines the Drow: "My sisters...it is good that we never met this day."
I think that it should be made punishable by death for a DM to use Menzoberranzan or Drow in general without having read Homeland at the very least...but, that's just me..... |
My latest Realms-based short story, about a bard, a paladin of Lathander and the letter of the law, Debts Repaid. It takes place before the "shattering" and gives the bard Arion a last gasp before he plunges into the present.http://candlekeep.com/campaign/logs/log-debts.htm |
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ArcticKnight
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 08 Oct 2002 : 04:02:37
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| Arion , i couldnt have said it better myself, nothing in the WORLD compares to Homeland in respects of understanding and seeing what the drow are about and how they operate!! |
"The man who does not read has little advantage over the man who cannot read."
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Mumadar Ibn Huzal
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 08 Oct 2002 : 09:46:43
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Originally posted by kahonen
For 3rd edition - I think we'll have to wait and see what comes out in the future.
I agree with kahonen. Though I referred to City of the Spider Queen, it does not really provide the answers Mistellor is looking for. I'm afraid all there is for now are the 3e Core Rule Books and the various references in the 3e Realms products. |
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kahonen
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
358 Posts |
Posted - 18 Oct 2002 : 19:19:27
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Originally posted by ArionElenim
Perhaps my fellow scribes will ostracise me for this one, but...
I wouldn't ostracise you (even if I knew what it meant) |
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kahonen
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
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kiwidoc
Acolyte
United Kingdom
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Arion Elenim
Senior Scribe
933 Posts |
Posted - 29 Nov 2002 : 05:31:53
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Greetings, kiwidoc...
Don't know if you are still on, but I must say...it is good INDEED to see another lady around these dusty walls.....
Chatting with Alaundo is well and good...but the beard just does NOTHING for me....
Forgive me, I am terribly uncouth....
What's that? Yes Master Alaundo...I'll go back to sweeping the cobwebs off of the ever-cobwebbed ceiling...........sigh......... |
My latest Realms-based short story, about a bard, a paladin of Lathander and the letter of the law, Debts Repaid. It takes place before the "shattering" and gives the bard Arion a last gasp before he plunges into the present.http://candlekeep.com/campaign/logs/log-debts.htm |
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Alaundo
Head Moderator
United Kingdom
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Tyreal Nyquis
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 09 Dec 2002 : 05:24:43
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| Allow me to recomend my perfered compendium of all things drow, http://drowfortress.cjb.net/ , The Drow Fortress. Within it's walls contains information on Drow culture and society that would rival that of Candlekeep. |
"Spells are highly overrated. I mean, you spend half your life shut up in a dusty tower pouring over unitelligible tomes and for what? A few gloriful moments on the battlefield and a permanent case of eye strain." - Tyreal Ny'quis of Sigil |
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cpthero2
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 24 Sep 2018 : 17:04:11
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Acolyte Mistellor,
I would have to agree with Senior Scribe Elenim. I think about it as I do an academic with my works in economics: applied versus theory. I have plenty of things I've learned as I was being educated as an economist, however, when you get to work trying to apply it, you get a whole different feel for it, and I think that is where the novels versus the texts (both very relevant of course) are applicable.
I would also recommend Polyhedron magazine #140 where the city of Undreath is discussed with Queen (yep, you heard me right, a Drow Queen) Nathglaryst, some discussions of Ched Nasad, and of course the vast amount of Drow related novels out now, which I believe number thirty-three.
Best regards,
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Originally posted by Mistellor
I was wandering if anyone knew where I could get any Info on the Drow and there classes etc.
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