#its just drow.........

[steamclouds]

I wonder if Larian realises what irreversible damage they've done to the dnd community by introducing the terms "lolth-sworn" and "seldarine" for drow

[kawareo]

Imagine having beef with a god cause you went bhaals deep in his son, cringe

"It's as if you were made for me" happens in like 1/3 of all durgetash smut fanfics, and while i personally love the trope, i dont think Bhaal shares the opinion

reposting cause i labelled it wrong earlier and it got flagged, prayin for the best this time

[basketobread]

lotus has always been a little intimidated by lunara...

[feyspeaker]

"I see you."

[foxx-queen]

i keep thinking about the datamined conversation between halsin and minthara and what gets me about it is that if you side with halsin and turn minthara away, thats objectively the bad choice.

like at this point, you've rescued minthara from moonrise. you know now that she was being controlled to act against her will. you've gone to the trouble of rescuing her from her tormentors, and you've experienced what it felt like as they tried to destroy her mind. you know what will happen to her if you turn her away. and if you do, you're willingly condemning her to that fate. you've essentially allowed her to experience freedom, to regain her sense of self, only to tear that away from her again.

whereas if you side with minthara, and halsin leaves, that's the only consequence he experiences. that he's not a companion anymore. at this point, we've saved the grove, we've saved him, and we've lifted the shadow curse. we've helped him achieve what hes been hoping to do for over a century. leaving your party won't see him lose his free will. he can return to the grove and live his life.

the choice is essentially either condemn someone to a fate worse than death, knowing exactly what that entails vs not letting someone travel with you anymore. its pretty clear cut to me.

its just interesting to me that they've switched the morality of it around given that minthara is considered the 'evil' companion by so many.

[ersatz-eye]

What crack did Larian put into the drow

[rukafais]

Thinking about the time I saw people getting pissy about "how dare ra salvatore claim he created the drow in forgotten realms! he's being so domineering!" and its like He did though. He literally did. Drizzt Do'urden of House Do'Urden from Menzoberranzan is the progenitor of every other drow in Forgotten Realms literally ever, because that was what they asked him to do as a result of suggesting a drow sidekick who became more popular than the actual protagonist for his novels. All drow lore in Forgotten Realms is quite literally in conversation, or opposition, to him because it's a giant group project and the novels ran alongside the gameline. You get a narrow view of drow worldbuilding from Drizzt's perspective because They Wanted You To Buy The Sourcebooks And The Peripherals. Ed Greenwood's Drow of the Underdark sourcebook explicitly references Drizzt and tells you to look at the Drizzt novels for more stuff because it's all in service to the Dungeons and Dragons brand ahhhhh

[elgarabelas]

After such a long break from drawing anything i present u yet another wip :)

[computerram]

finally started BG3 👍

[twinchromatid]

so many things i never finished …

[steamclouds]

So for my own canon I like to imagine that infravision from earlier editions still exists, but it's exclusive to the races that live deep in the Underdark, so drow, duergar and deep gnomes. Maybe it's a byproduct of constant faerzress exposure and adaptation since it allows for much better vision than the "shades of grey" that darkvision allows.

And now I'm imagining the shock everyone has in camp when the companions see Voradras use it for the first time and all they see is two glowing red dots floating across the campsite in the dead of night.

[torrikor]

save me mean gay people. mean gay people save me-

[moghedien]

listen listen listen. I know "Lae'zel is a frog" jokes are funny and all but people keep getting actually upset because they think gith are supposed to actually be frogs or lizards or reptiles when they're literally mammals

they have hair. they (can) feed their offspring (though githyanki at least probably don't due to how their society is built, a choice that human societies in real life also make/have made). they're mammals.

"but what about xyz thing about reproduction"

there are mammals that lay eggs. there is evidence of mammalian parthenogenesis (asexual production) being possible in captivity/intentionally created circumstances. anyway, if you think all mammalian reproduction looks like human reproduction, you're very sheltered in how fucked up nature can be. look up how hyenas give birth if you want to feel unsettled.

and gith are literally a race intentionally bred by mind flayers to have whatever traits mind flayers wanted, so that would probably include them reproducing in a way that was convenient to mind flayers. but they probably were evolved from humans or at least humanoid species that mind flayers did eugenics on.

regardless, gith are mammals.

[swordmaid]

actually finished this a while ago but i havent gotten around to sharing it .. but this is shri'iia's act 1 costume hihi... scuffed fancy drow armor that's based around the ingame set except it's more heavy armor than light/medium. the pose looks so awkward rn but im planning to do a set with her costume progression so it'll make sense later <3

[foxx-queen]

the my minthara is living in my head rent free

[meanbossart]

Drew you some Drow (or. One Drow and one Drow-shaped thing). ((Is the plural of Drow still Drow or is it Drows??? Pretty sure it's Drow.))

Turns out Izzy is super out of my niche to draw and I couldn't get the perspective down. But whatever lolz. I was going to include some long winded little quip about how much your art's inspired me to get back into drawing but you've probs heard that plenty so just know that's a general sentiment I have towards you.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHMYGOODNESS LOOK AT THEM LOL THEY LOOK LIKE THE FREAKIEST DORKS I'VE EVER SEEN

THANK YOU SO MUCH FRIEND Izzy looks phenomenal but DU drow's dead-eyed fucking stare is just... Wow LOL what an absolute creature of a man. The way you draw eyes and brows is just enthralling. Incredible job!!!!