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tykune
Member Posts: 6 Arc User
I would like to lodge a complaint, though it may seem silly and just nit-picking at small details, about the model of the drow.
They are just too tall to even be called drow. The standard height of a drow is 4'6" to 5'6" feet tall, but clearly they are taller than some human NPCs in the game.
So please, for the sake of all that is lore and iconic about the drow race, reduce the height of their models.
Thx
They are just too tall to even be called drow. The standard height of a drow is 4'6" to 5'6" feet tall, but clearly they are taller than some human NPCs in the game.
So please, for the sake of all that is lore and iconic about the drow race, reduce the height of their models.
Thx
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As such the Drow I made have always had the shortest body proportions possible.
Thanks for the feedback though!
You dont have any idea why? :rolleyes: I do.... pretty obvious.
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Check out the scaling options in The Foundry! I think you would be amazed by how well the models can be scaled so I don't think it is exactly challenging.
But if the local FR Guru is saying drow are not shorter than other elves I am inclined to agree even though I have heard numerous times from various sources drow are, on average, far shorter than other elves. Not that it's the best source but the Forgotten Realms Wiki, as usual, supports what the Guru has stated.
You are wrong. I just created a Drow with black skin and white hair.
If you haven't since the game patched, check your advanced settings under Options -> Video. Look for the option that says Shader Detail or something like that. If your computer can handle it at any setting higher than minimum, kick it up. That will correct colors and lack of character detail in the game. Something got changed with the patch so that stuff doesn't look right until you refiddle with your graphics.
Kaylee Krankenwagen, level 60 GF | Tavandruil Wayfinder, level 49 GWF | Aldith Langley, level 51 HR
Check your graphic settings. There's a bit of an issue where colors have appear different than intended.
The more I see with this game, the more I feel like you do. it's still a fun game for the most part, but it's becoming more and more apparent that the devs and designers are not giving a great deal of thought to that "For D&D players by D&D players" line.
Kaylee Krankenwagen, level 60 GF | Tavandruil Wayfinder, level 49 GWF | Aldith Langley, level 51 HR
Elistraee is dead.
Thank goodness Ed Greenwood has the reigns again.
*Grumbles about how much WotC screwed up the FR Lore*
I'm with you on WotC's lore department being weak in 4th (seriously, I swear they fired anyone that knew how to write fluff and just kept the guys that could write mechanics - those guys did a pretty ace job). Ya lost me at thinking Ed Greenwood in control is a good thing, though.
Ed's a good writer, but Elminster was one of the biggest plot tumors the setting had by a long shot, and a lot of his story material got downright creepy when you stopped to examine them trope-wise. Out of the two creators of FR, though, I feel Grubb was better overall.
The drow height change (going on topic) does seem somewhat odd, but I think we can chalk it up to 'A lot of weird stuff has happened since the last time we saw Faerun'. Sweet babies, has a lot of weird stuff happened.
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As for character editing in the foundry, I really hope that one day they add these advanced options to the live game for all our characters!
I'd like to see Lolth in the god options as well. Of 5 characters I have currently, 3 are drow.
Lolth be praised!
I think generally they're trying to avoid adding 'evil' deities (Cyric is absent as well, but we can have face tattoos of him). Lloth is functionally in that same category, as are a number of others.
Basically, the entire player quotient at this point is assumed to be Neutral/Unaligned* at best, and possibly Lawful Good at the highest spectruum (though you aren't required to be).
(*NOTE: 4th tossed out most of the old Alignment system for a simpler, easier to define system that is somewhat less prone to arguements. The spectruum now goes from Chaotic Evil to Evil to Unaligned to Good to Lawful Good. A lot of the old alignments were rolled into one or two of these [Unaligned can be tinged heavily with good, and Good can be tinged heavily with Unaligned tendencies so long as, on the whole, you act in respect to the alignment most of the time].)
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A bit more variation in male/female model types would have been nice, so it's sad seeing the best opportunity for it get skipped.
It seems to me that after the last patch the drow skin and hair selections seem off. When I created my renegade drow, I recall having white hair. Now the white hair goes to the moon elves in the selection? I did re-adjust my graphics settings after the last patch. But, I think the drow hair and skin selections became very limited after the last patch. It could be just my imagination. However, it would be nice to be able to have white hair for the drow, instead of the greyish-white hair.
EDIT - I did not see the line about already changing your graphic settings...
Nothing was changed regarding the drow skin and hair selections and while I have seen complaints there isn't a "white" hair option that's really only because you are looking at the swatch rather than the hair. The hair is still white but as any artists can tell you without some tone black and white can easily become matte.
The brightest option looks exactly how I would imagine drow hair and any whiter and it would become matte. Ignore the swatch and care about the actual appearance because if the swatch lied and showed it as pure white I guarantee you wouldn't be able to tell.
Can I third that? And if they allow it as an option in the future can we get the ability to change deities for free?