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of the world. This will require some substantial
adjustment of the history and cultures of the drow as
presented in The Tome of Drow Lore.
� After untold millennia of mutual hatred, the second
war of the elves has at last begun. The Games Master
may choose to involve the Player Characters directly
in the events of the war, or he may simply prefer to
keep the war as a backdrop against which the action
of the campaign takes place. Either way, it will be a
demanding job for the Games Master but will also be
intensely rewarding both for himself and for his players.
The game world will certainly be changed dramatically
by these events, as two ancient and powerful enemies
finally fling themselves at one another, their rage
and might shaking the world to its foundations, even
threatening to destroy it utterly. Whichever race is the
final victor, a campaign set during such a tumultuous
time is certain to be remembered by the players long
after the last die has been rolled.
� The pressures of the Underdeep have forced some of
the drow to develop in ways not covered in The Tome
of Drow Lore. Games Masters should feel free to
create a new Lost Tribe of the drow, or even to alter
one of the existing sub-races. Perhaps the fiendish
taint of Azzanoth’s bloodline has spread through the
entire race of Kanahraun and has strengthened over the
years, creating an entire race of winged drow that lair in
hollow stalactites and jagged cracks.
� The drow are actually a race of elves which is not
native to this plane. They were long ago forced into
this world from the infernal plane where their race
was created, for reasons long since forgotten. Games
Masters using this idea for the drow might consider
granting them some fiendish traits in addition to
their standard racial characteristics.
The Drow and the Core Classes
Some of the base character classes are more
prominent than others among the drow, and some
are absent altogether. Listed below are the
base character classes and how they fit into
drow society.
Barbarian
Aside from the hordes of the lower class of
the Kanahraun, there are few drow who take
up the life of the barbarian. Drow culture,
despite its many arguable faults, is very
civilised. Further, the drow tend to gather in large
cities for mutual protection, something which makes
the emergence of barbarians as a common character
class all but impossible. Among some of the Houses
that make the exploration of the Underdeep their business,
such as House Devoren, there are a few barbarians, but
most choose the path of the ranger instead.
Bard
Bards are exceptionally rare among the drow. The primary
gifts of the bard, of music, song and oratory, are not popular
amusements to the drow, who prefer to read their stories
and histories in a book, and consider most music a waste
of time, a pleasantry to be sure, but not something to which
one should devote his life. This is not the case among
some of the drow subraces, particularly the Pol’Tah, who
treasure music, dance and the oral history of their people.
To the deep drow, bards are held in high esteem as those
responsible for preserving the culture and history of the
sub-race.
Cleric
Religion is an extremely important part of drow life, and
the position of priest at one of the temples is a highlyregarded
profession among the dark elves. Even the
acolytes of the temples have a place of honour in drow
society. This is, obviously, more noticeable in those
drow cultures where the temples enjoy a large measure of