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be more honest in portraying their Player Characters’
reactions to a drow, but if the Games Master decides
having a drow as a permanent Player Character is not
right for his campaign, the drow is easily removed once
the mutual goal is accomplished.
� For higher-level campaigns, the Games Master might
consider introducing a drow Player Character as the
victim of a curse. Perhaps he recently fell victim to a
helm of opposite alignment or similar item, and, with
his new and wildly-shifted worldview, has fled to the
surface to escape what he now perceives as the evil
ways of his race. However, as a prominent member of
a drow Noble House, he is considered too valuable by
his kin to simply abandon him. Intent on retrieving him
and restoring his mind, his family sends hunting parties
out searching for him.
� Sometimes evil simply flocks together. A party of
evilly-aligned Player Characters would be more likely
than good characters to accept a drow Player Character
into their midst.
� A Games Master and his players might be willing to
try a whole new twist on adventuring. Rather than
the standard group of adventurers, they might create
a group composed entirely of drow and based out of
the Underdeep. In this ‘reverse dungeon’ scenario,
the Player Characters would venture into the alien and
hostile surface world for adventuring, then fall back
into the Underdeep to the drow city in which they are
based to rest, recuperate and reequip.
Evil and the Player Character
Though this is often the easiest way to introduce drow
Player Characters, a campaign of evil Player Characters
is something that should be approached with caution
by players and Games Masters alike. There is a certain
appeal in the idea of shrugging off social conventions in a
roleplaying game, to embrace selfishness, greed and other
motivations shunned in politically correct culture.