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nordveig
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Is it my imagination but does it give you the option to choose black hair when creating the drow? As far as I'm aware no drow have black hair, if so I might have choosen it. I saw some earlier debate and some drow do have different skin tone but not black hair. I thought white hair was a defining aspect of being a drow.
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The thing is it denotes that they have moon elf blood in them and are normally immediately sacrificed. Ask Zebular (The Community Lore Fiend) if you want more details!
http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_elf
Ok but when they revert back they're not drow they're dark elves, that doesn't explain why you can create a drow with black hair. Not sure if that's the point you were making.
The point I was making is that they gave people the option to play a dark elf rather than a drow with the hair and complexion palettes. Maybe they should just make dark elves an option with drow, like sun and moon elves are high elf options in the character creator... but then they'd have to come up with another set of racial passives.
And the lore is not "loosely" based... since they have to get approval from Wizards for the game material, everything is canon.
A Drow, normally, would never associate it self with a High Elf or a Half Orc. Lets say that a server was mainly Drow players, you don't see a problem with that? A whole city a Drow and Humans living above ground in the open light? Wouldn't that screw with the lore of Drow? The game is "loosely" based around D&D.
by the same token, a Sun Elf would never associate itself with a human, moon elf, half orc, dwarf, or pretty much anybody else but themselves on their island. little things like these may not be much on their own, but they add up to a pattern of treating the lore like little more than a passing suggestion.
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Drow can have black hair but it often results in a sacrifice as it denotes impure blood.
for the most part, I agree, especially when it comes to playability and game systems, etc, since some abilities just don't translate well and aren't fun without at least some alterations (though hopefully, the flavor can be maintained). Lore, on the other hand, I think that there is some leeway there, especially if a game is intended and advertised as not being the same place so much as a variant of it. that being said, a lot of things that don't make sense lorewise are things that could be very easily dealt with, imo.
maybe not everything, but there is sooooooooo much history and background available in FR that if something doesn't fit right, then there is something else that can be found that will fit right.
SO, then it's a fantasy game with the D&D label and nothing else?
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I totally get that and understand it. the thing that rubs me the wrong way here is that by cryptic's design, there will be a seriously disproportionate number of them running around. Meanwhile, the moon elves, who actually WOULD be found all over the place, especially in a place like neverwinter, are limited to people who bought a $60 pack. Personally, in a place like the city of Neverwinter, I think there would even be more moon elves than the wood elves that have been around since pre-launch, even if there are likely more wood elves in the world as a whole. PC sun elves should be a relatively rare thing to find. It's like the earlier poster in this thread who pointed out how weird and funky (lorewise) it would be if suddenly everyone on the server started playing drow.
I've said it before in other threads, and I'll likely say it again. Cryptic should have made moon elves the free race and made sun elves the pack-exclusive race. it would have been an easy, very logical step if they actually cared about lore as more than passing suggestions. but it's too late for that now, probably. As much as I've loved Cryptic games going back many years now, it's this lack of forethought that seems to be getting worse and worse.
if it is cannon or not people can dye their hair and black/brown is the easiest option even in a medieval setting. this is more so a rp preference than a cannon thing imho. and does not reflect how...D&D like this game is or is not.
imo, that's perfectly valid to RP. just one of those little possibilities that a lot of people forget about.
That kind of thinking would prevent the making of mountains from molehills.
Zebular has often nudged them about the fact that there isn't the ability to have green or blue eyes which is, again, a rare possibility due to having a surface elven bloodline. Seems strange they have the dark hair option but not the green/blue eyes.
Oh I see, can have a source where you got that information?