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kalos1987
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So i purchased the founders pack and am in the character creation screen, wheres this unique race???
Menzoberranzan renegade??
Menzoberranzan renegade??
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AFAIK Menzoberranzan Renegades are Drows that live on the surface - not much actual difference in terms of characteristics, more so on their views and beliefs. Seeing as they hate worshipping Llolth enough to escape to the surface, general (OOC) consensus is that they reject the "evil" ways of their former brethren dwelling in Menzoberranzan, and as such generally not "evil" in a sense. Aside from who they worship, not much of a difference between the two, at least not enough to warrant a different race IMO.
Gameplay-mechanic wise, it seems like one of the selling points of Menzoberranzan Renegades is the racial ability, Faerie Fire - which is also one of the most common innate and natural abilities all Drows should possess, surface / renegade or otherwise. So, it might be just as muzrub333 said, a background thing - but seeing as how the description states that it is a whole -unique- race, brings 2 possibilities to mind, both of which I cannot confirm or disapprove of unless a beta player comes along to do so:
1) The unique race are the Drows itself, unlikely in my opinion, or
2) They have not implemented yet. I'm more in personal favor towards option 2, as by taking a quick peek in the FAQs (http://nw.perfectworld.com/about/faq#which) seems to suggest that they did not include the unique playable race of Menzoberranzan Renegades in the beta weekends.
Their basic structure / build are roughly the same in terms of weight and height, but features such as affinity to magic, color of skin / eyes / hair / etc, natural prowess or strengths that they are born with sets them apart from one another - the magic and sharp minds of the Eladrin, the keen senses, preference and expertise on matters of nature and such of the Sylvan Elves, and the long-life spans and dark magics / powers of Lolth of the Drows, each and all of them have rather significant differences as a race (disregarding their different psychologies and general train of thoughts, as that's where the Renegades are different from your average Drow).
As you can tell, all of these are (for the sake of simplification) "physical" differences - varying largely in and between the races. Of course, there are sub races and the like, but these are the predominant "branches", so to speak - the sub races all stemming from the same kind of pool of abilities, features and characteristics of the aforementioned branches, but with slight variances.
It seems a bit unfair for throwing culture, psychology and general mindset out of the window when breaking up different races, but to factor in all these would cause an incredibly large and rather unpractical list. It's a way to blanket a whole different lot of individuals as a race - an example would be that we are all Humans, despite the vast differences we always seem to find between ourselves and others.
This is only my own personal opinion, however, and I repeat, I am certainly no expert in matters of lore or D&D, though I always held a probing interest, or curiosity, towards them.
I have no idea why but without a doubt that's part of the reason you're not able to play as Drizzt Do'Urden.
** Pauly wisely decides to hold his tongue**
Hope you guys have fun with all the toys you get from the founders kit !
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• Five-day head start access to Neverwinter when it launches.
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It... technically is a unique race, but not all together. Its like saying, "You can be a... Highland Human, with unique stats." You're still just a drow, but you're a 'different' drow... lame, I know. Cryptic likes money, what can I say.
Im also prepared to see everything for free being utter <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>, while the 'why are you not buying this' stuff will be microtransactions. I had this discussion in the CO forums along time ago (when it first went f2p), and just thought they should switch the f - p for p2f (Pay To have Fun).
Well, when ya think about it, either way you're paying. Also, when the game is 3-4 months old, you'll probably stop spending money since you bought everything you wanted already. Its a 'pay alot now to pay alot less later' sorta thing. Im just happy the game started out f2p, instead of Champions. I cant play my main anymore, unless I sub to them (its a char I had since launch, that got changed to a gold char. So Cryptic has been holding my char for ransom, so to speak). At least this way, everything starts off on an equal footing.
I would still hardly say this is scamming.