[ian-reeds-games] Re: some drow questions
- From: michael Tholl <mrtholl@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 17:35:50 -0400
They would be like grunts, yes. But they would still need to be led by
drow fo some sort, to ensure that they didn't run off. If you wanted
to try for a drow army, you'd need drow priestesses, drow warriors,
which would be male, drow magicians, which I think could be both,
though heavily weighted toward males, likely dryders, however that's
spelled, I forgot them earlier, they were hybrids of drow with
spiders. I don't remember the origins though.
Then you'd have bugbear, orc and goblin troops to do all the dying, at
least until the main objective, where they just wouldn't be trusted to
do the work.
I still need to look up that lizard thing that comprises their cavalry.
I'd say for the faction you might want to limit the slave races in the
drow faction since many have their own faction.
Don't think you have bugbears and kobolds though, so you might be able
to sneak them in as lower level troops.
Assassins could be the archer unit with crossbows or darts, though the
dark elves already have crossbows.
Anyways, think I may be rambling on now. and I need to go check on
part of dinner. grins
On 10/13/13, Allan Thompson <allan1.thompson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> Thanks! That helps me a lot!
> So would you say that the demi humans, orcs and trolls etc would compromise
> most of the military?
>
> Thanks,
> al
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> Hi Allan,
> Drows from Icewind Dale, or perhaps the entire D&D subgenre are highly
> matriarchical, and the matron is a high priest of Loth, who seems to be a
> spider god.
> Militarily they might be a bit difficult to reproduce because a lot of
> factions in the dark or evil side are enslaved by the drow.
> Drizzt does travel with a companion btw, it is a black panther that
> belonged
> to another drow.
> Sorry for the discontinuity there. grinSo for this drow society, you have
> matrons and priestesses who use snake headed whips.
> Then you have the noble males who can be magic users or warriors, skilled
> with sword and crossbow mostly it seems.
> They also have limited magical abilities such as globes of darkness and
> levitation.
> Somehow assassins fall into this category as well, though I think theyt may
> fall a caste lower than the male nobles.
> The drow are further divided into houses, with each house working to gain
> rank by eliminating, or discrediting the houses above it. This is how you
> become a matriarch in drow society. You must move up to first house, then
> the matron of first house, who would already be a priestess of Loth,
> becomes
> the ruler of the society.
> Under all of this are the slaves, many are used for the fighting.
> Goblins, orcs, bugbears kobolds, hobgoblins, trolls and any surface
> dwelling
> life they capture on raids, so also a lot of humans.
> I don't know if any of this helps, and some of it may be flawed, since I
> haven't read anything in that series in a long time.
> They do have a sort of lizard that they ride as well, but I can't remember
> what it's called. cave crawler? hmm.
> maybe I'll look that up.
> That's all for now, coffee is screaming for me to stop ignoring it.
> grins
>
>
> On 10/12/13, Allan Thompson <allan1.thompson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Does anyone have really good knowledge about drows and drizzt?
>> I was thinking of putting the drow in as a second "dark elf" race. The
>> first hangs with dragons, grin.
>>
>> I have never read any books about drizzt although I am hearing they
>> are pretty good. Doesn't he have a lion or something that travels with
> him?
>>
>> I am wondering about the drows military capacity. If anyone has any
>> insights that would be great! I do seem to recall they are a
>> matriarchal society.
>> Does that mean they are more like amazons, or that females just rule
>> and males do the fighting or what?
>>
>> al
>> Thanks,
>> al
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>> "The truth will make you free"
>> Jesus Christ of Nazareth 33AD
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