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Drow

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, drow (/draʊ/ or /droʊ/) or dark elves are a dark-skinned and white-haired subrace of elves connected to the subterranean Underdark. The drow have traditionally been portrayed as generally evil and connected to the evil spider goddess Lolth. However, subsequent editions of Dungeons & Dragons have moved…

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Alignment
Usually Chaotic Evil or Neutral Evil (1st–3rd Editions) Any alignment (4th–5th Editions)
Based on
Dark elf, Drow
First appearance
G3 Hall of the Fire Giant King (1977)
Type
Humanoid or fey humanoid

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Drow

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related to Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition · 37
Drow → Abyss, Advanced Dungeons, Archmage, Chang, Chris Perkins, Coast, Community, Dragons, Eberron, Exandria, Explorer's Guide, Foes, Forgotten Realms, Gromph, Gromph Baenre, Hulu, In, Lolth, Menzoberranzan, Monster Manual
related to In Exandria · 36
Drow → Academics Lisa Horton, Bright Queen Leylas Kryn, Compared, Critical Role, Critics, Crucially, Dan Arndt, David Beard, Digital Humanities, Dragons, Due, Dungeons, Dwendalian Empire, Dynasty, Empire, Exandria, Explorer's Guide, In, It's, James Grebey
related to In the Forgotten Realms · 36
Drow → According, Advanced Dungeons, Araushnee, Araushnee's, Corellon Larethian, Crown Wars, Demonweb Pits, Dragons, Eilistraee, Elves, Evermeet, Forgotten Realms, Ghaunadaur, However, Ilythiir, Ilythiirian's, In, Kiaransalee, Llurth Dreier, Lolth
related to In other campaign settings · 35
Drow → Aside, Coast, Coast's Open Game License, Dark, Dragons, Drow Trilogy, Dungeons, Golarion, Golarion's, Green Ronin Publishing, GRP, Guidebook, In, In Mongoose Publishing's Drow, It, Known World, May, Modern, Mystara, Nazis
related to Creative origins · 34
Drow → AD, Compare TROLL, Dark Elves, Dragons, Dungeons, English Language, Etymology, Funk, Gary Gygax, Gygax, However, In, Keightley's The Fairy Mythology, Norn, Norwegian, Old Norse, Orcadian, Prose Edda, Scot, Scots
related to Other deities · 34
Drow → Advanced Dungeons, As, City, Dead, Demihuman Deities, Dragons, Edition, Edition's Faiths, Eilistraee, Faiths, Forgotten Realms, Ghaunadaur, Kiaransalee, Lady, Lisa Smedman's Sacrifice, Lolth, Lolth's, Masked Lord, Monster Mythology, On Hallowed Ground
related to Novels · 33
Drow → Artifact, Come Endless Darkness, Dance, Darkness, Death, Demons, Drizzt, Drizzt Do'Urden, Elaine Cunningham's Starlight, Evil, Forgotten Realms, Gary Gygax's, Gord, Greyhawk Adventures, Gygax's, Inc, Legacy, Lisa Smedman's The Lady, New Infinities, Other
related to In Greyhawk · 22
Drow → Clannair Blackshadow, Demon Queen Lolth, Derken Gale, Drow Elves, Eclavdra, Edralve, Erelhei-Cinlu, Greyhawk, Greyhawk City, House Eilserv, In, Jawal Severnain, Known, Landis Bree, Lolth, Males, Queen, Slave Lords, Spiders, The
related to Society · 22
Drow → CBR, Consequently, Dragons, Dungeons, Eilastree, Eilistraee, Game, Hence, Lannister/Bolton, Lolth, Matron, Matthew Beilman, One, Some, That, The, Their, There, This, Thrones
related to Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition · 20
Drow → Advanced Dungeons, Black Elves, D3, Demon, Dragons, Dragons Monster Manual, Dungeons, Edition, Elf, Fiend Folio, From, G3, Greyhawk, Gygax, Likewise, Lolth's, No, The, They, Underdark

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lolth elves evil dark realms forgotten also dungeons edition dragons spider goddess setting eilistraee race campaign underdark one society queen

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DrowAlignmentUsually Chaotic Evil or Neutral Evil (1st–3rd Editions) Any alignment (4th–5th Editions)1.00infobox
DrowBased onDark elf, Drow1.00infobox
DrowFirst appearanceG3 Hall of the Fire Giant King (1977)1.00infobox
DrowTypeHumanoid or fey humanoid1.00infobox
Drowis adescription and statistics for the drider0.90text
Drowis aspider0.90text
dwarvesinstance ofDrow constantly war with other underground neighbors0.80text
deep gnomesinstance ofDrow constantly war with other underground neighbors0.80text
Lisa Smedman's Sacrifice of the Widowinstance ofand novels0.80text
Drowrelated to AbilitiesWith0.60section
Drowrelated to AbilitiesDungeons0.60section
Drowrelated to AbilitiesDragons0.60section

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