#grandma drow

[tantlisart]

Grandma Drow and the characters of "The Legend of Drizzt". Yes, she is pleased with the behavior of only Catti-Brie.

[meanbossart]

Yeah you and me both

[spiderwarden]

Someone: come! Let us eat and make peace! Let us talk of surface trade relations and build trust between our people!

The Baenre: oh? Let us discuss then! Oh this is most intriguing!

Them once everyone is sat down and relaxing: Ah! It’s seems you’ve fallen into my trap, time to die!

The Baenre: 👁️ 👄 👁️ 🍴 🍲

The Baenre: :(

[checrawford]

[pcktknife]

speaking of nightmares I had a double feature one last night

[n1ghtwarden]

i need to do minth's pre tadpole stats and levels just bc i know she was beefy.

[oathtorn]

// when you realize the kind of shitty tyrannical manipulation lolth uses on drow society but instead of using this knowledge to grow as a person or help others, you go "she was onto something tbh"

[heylinhenchman]

Always handwaving a tabletop species for Jack that isn’t explicitly ‘oh he’s kinda monkey’ but for the sake of a bg3 playthrough…. Settling on Half-Elf Jack for the major depression of him potentially outliving his fathers side of his family and being stuck with his mothers. For hating all the tradition and perfectionism but loving all the performances and power of status. And never really fitting in with his ‘peer’ group.

[angeryvoidchild]

I've decided that Vierna's twin is alive and chaotic evil. I'll try to use him to woo Gale. It'll be hell of a ride, but I regret nothing. Yet. Probably will in about three hours.

But let's be honest, what aligment could possibly have Mezzoberranzean noble with black dragon blood that's so strong it awakened while in cradle?

I'm so sorry, Gale. You deserve so much better...

[aresnergal]

So I'm playing BG3 as a Drow and to my surprise, so far the people who went 'ah fuck ! A Drow !!' haven't been any of the 'vanilla' elves

[r3dvlvet]

Let me give my Tav hobbies. Sure my bard probably noodles around with her lute when chilling at camp, but what about the cleric? Shes over in the corner knitting for everyone. She’s asking Astarion if vampires get cold and trying to figure out how to make Wyll and Karlach hats that will work with their horns

[tantlisart]

Drow grandma and her categorical opinion about drow gods. She's not very religious. She could also have a blog about cooking and lifestyle.

If the drow's grandma had a tavern, it would be called the Eat and Get out.

[meanbossart]

astarion always looks like a tired grandma with du drow it’s so fucking funny

That's what you get for dating younger.

[coolseabird]

How would gale and minthara raise their wizard (gale is not have a noncaster) daughter (she is not having a son)? 😅

Lmao that is a fantastic question.

A half drow wizard lmao. Going off of a “best case scenario” the ending where Gale goes with Minthy to the Underdark she would grow up in a time where the whole political structure of the Underdark is changing due to her mother. She would face a lot of pressure from Minthara as the heir to a new dynasty (Drow gonna Drow) and due to this Minthy would put her on a poison training regiment from birth of course as well as self defense classes. I do think that Minthara would make an effort to be a better mother to her than her own was but would make a lot of mistakes. (I’m imagining her acting like the mother in Brave but worse😭)

Based somewhat on my multiplayer playthrough with @dandyvampling (if the best case scenario happened lol) I think Minthara would make an alliance with Astarion and his beloved Durge spouse along with the vampire spawn to help her in her takeover of the Underdark so Minthy and Gale’s kid would of course visit her “uncle” a lot. (I think Astarion would be like one of those grandmas who covers everything in plastic when a kid comes over though 😂)

I also think Minthara would let her kid visit Waterdeep with her dad often and that Morena and Tara would spoil the kid rotten when she was there. They would make up for her grandparents on her mother's side being terrible and at war with her parents. Gale would try to give her a sense of normalcy as best he could but it's hard to have a normal childhood as the kid of a Baenre and an archmage who saved the world so she might grow up with some issues about that. She would definitely inherit a lot of brains from her dad and he would train her in all the best wizard techniques (as well as in cooking) but I feel like their kid might actually lean towards becoming an artificer to get out from her father's shadow. I could imagine her making magical doodads in a little lab. This ask also inspired me to try and make their hypothetical kid in BG3 as a Tav so here:

I’m not very creative though so I’m gonna tag some of my fanfiction writing Galethara mutuals who are good at this sort of thing 😊

@quantum-dragon @velwynn

[heybiji]

What subclass is Dandelion? I’m guessing Archfey because you mentioned charm magic a while back?

Also, was the amazing Dande always a Warlock in your mind? Or did you ever consider other classes/subclasses for him potentially?

I’m wishing for his swift recovery from his curse!

Yeah, Dande's an Archfey Warlock (patron not yet revealed, but he says he gets his magic from his grandma).

Dande's my first dnd/ttrpg character and I knew immediately that I wanted to play a Warlock because it has a built in dynamic I like to explore (loyalty? sold souls in a way? conditional "love"?). Actually, when my friend who is the DM put out feelers on twitter for who wanted to play, I was immediately like, "I wanna play a drow warlock!!!"

For the subclass I wasn't sure. To be honest I really wanted to go GOO Warlock because I dig eldritch horrors and horror in general, but ultimately I went Archfey since i found a story that clicked better for baby's first dnd game; I wanted an older elf who has adventures a lot already but wanted narratively satisfying reasons for starting at level 1, so I figured a warlock that forgot most of their magic could work well, and also a character with memory problems in general could play well for me, someone completely new to dnd. So: Feywild! Memory loss! And a lighter tone of magic for a game I wasn't certain what the narrative tone would be like, but I figured it'd be lighter than what I tend to make.

And then I got very lucky and have gotten to play him for over a hundred sessions which is a total dream so he's gotten to grow a LOT.

I will one day have to make a GOO Warlock, though. Or maybe just DM for one one day in a long campaign. either way I get to dip into that GOOd shit.

And thank you for the well wishes!!! He needs them 💀

[falcataa]

Tav and Vardana character worksheet

Thanks @hybernating-bear for the tag. I am gonna try this as an English practice (sorry if I misspell something or if it can’t be understood). I am gonna talk about my two ‘Tavs’ since they are siblings and the background is the same.

Tagging @necroticyuzu , @vo09 and @elven-e-girl (I dont want to annoy you, no pressure, just an invitation)

Names: Gustav (the elder one) and Vardana (the younger one) from Winterwood.

Tav is Gustav, because I like it (and I love ‘Gustavo’ name). Vardana is misspelled ‘bardana’ , a name of a plant (I believe it is ‘burdock’ in English). I like how this plant grows up in wild places. 

Gender: Tav is male; Vardana is female.

Sexuality: Tav is gay, Bardana is heterosexual.

Pronouns: He/him and She/her, 

O T H E R

Family: The important figure here is their grandmother, a Kelemvor cleric, a Doomguide and an exceptional duelist. Her name was Tabitha from Winterwood in Interior Faerûn and she was a human who, after a long life of adventures, became an hermit and recluded herself in Winterwood to help some little half blooded villages, since the wood has a lot of tension between orcs, dragons, lizards and woodelven. Tav and Vardana’s father was an adventure bard that fell in love with a drow and was killed by her when she was tired of a simple life. The little ones were raised by the grandma in Kelemvor ways and that’s why they are both kelemvorites clerics and don’t have any idea about drow culture. In fact their physical appearance is human-like.

Birthplace: Winterwood. They were raised there and completed tasks helping Tabitha. For instance, they were trying to eradicate Myrkul and Bhaal cults in the region. 

Job: Clerics, but Tav is the ‘blessed’ one. He is more skilled in the magic of his God. He is also a good bard and a duelist, like her grandma. Vardana developed herself more as a warrior (an Orc friend of the grandma trained her), due the drow skills and a lack of divine magic (for some reason it seems that Kelemvor only gifted her with basic cleric abilities). 

Phobia: Tav fears deep water. Vardana is afraid of her God not replying to her, that’s why she decided to protect and join Tav wherever he goes as a shadow. They are very dependent on one another.  

Guilty pleasure: Sometimes they have cruel pulsions, but can control them thanks to the strict training and their strong beliefs. 

Hobbies: Tav likes to spend time playing the lira and composing silly songs. He is a very joyful fellow. Vardana is silent most of the time, and she likes training, training and training.

M O R A L S

Alignment: Lawful Good (both), but Tav could be chaotical in some situations.

Sins: Tav enjoys tricking enemies and being a traitor to them. He feels really fine when they realize he has betrayed them and can’t do anything, it is his dark side. About Vardana, she doesn’t show it normally, but she is really possessive. 

Virtues: A very strong moral sense. They are really kind with people in need and value kindness and cordiality. 

T H I S  O R  T H A T

Introverted / Extroverted: Vardana is introverted in general (or quiet, at least). Tav is extremely extroverted. 

Organized / Disorganized: She is organized, he is disorganized. 

Close minded / Open minded: Both are open minded in general, except about their religion. 

Calm / Anxious / Restless: She is really calm, but he is restless. 

Disagreeable / Agreeable: Agreeable in general. 

Cautious / Reckless: Cautious, all the time. Tav seems a little reckless, but it is a kind of mask. 

Patient / Impatient: Patient in general, but Tav could be eager in specific situations. 

Outspoken / Reserved: She is reserved as Hell. Tav is a nosy tattletale.

Leader / Follower / Flexible: Tav is the Leader, but it seems like an irresponsible one (at least externally). Vardana is a Follower but just with Tav, almost as a shadow in the case of following her brother.

Empathetic / Unempathetic: They both are Empathetic, except in the case you are a cold blooded murderer. 

Optimist / Pessimist / Realist: Optimist. Their beliefs guide them on the topic. 

Traditional / Modern: In between. They are very traditional about their religion and respect goodness above all, but open minded about everything else (as soon as ‘everything else’ is kindness). They really respect and follow laws, but they don’t care about laws that lack morality, the laws should externalize moral ideas. 

Hardworking / Lazy: Hardworking, even when Tav could be mistaken as a lazy guy sometimes. 

R E L A T I O N S H I P S

OTP: Tav adores Rolan, because he likes haughty grumpy wizards. Vardana simps Zevlor a lot, because she is a possessive crazy one deep inside who likes wet sad (and old) cats (even if the others don’t notice she is a damn simp). The siblings hadn’t seen tieflings in Faerûn Interior. The moment they saw them at Emerald Grove, they agreed that they were the cutest creatures ever (Yes, they talk to each other about their love interests, they truly get along as siblings and friends). 

Brotp: Tav usually is doing silly things with Astarion and Karlach. He loves Jaheira's attitude as well. He also adores his ‘siblings-in-law’ and could do anything for Cal and Lia. Vardana gets along with Gale (they are simple, quiet and obsessive) and trains a lot with La’ezel. As strange as it sounds In Baldur’s Gate it is very common to see her and Naaber go around the city. She is Blurg’s penpal. 

Notp: Wulbren. On the other hand, Tav insisted on killing Minthara himself in a horrible way, the same for Nere. The Emperor's betrayal was a hard blow for him (how did the squid dare to use his same modus operandi?). Vardana silently swore to kill Orin and Raphael the moment she met them, she hates manipulative and deranged fellows.

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