The Drow of the Underdark (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons: Forgotten Realms Accessory)

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Summary: Great book even if you don't play Underdark
Review: This is the best D&D rules supplement I have ever purchased. It contains so much information about the drow (dark) elves. It talks about their religion, their language, and a sect of drow that are good aligned. If you have any interest in ever including drow in your campaign this is the book for you. I use the drow- english dictionary in it all the time. It makes interesting puzzles for my PCs. Even when I am not playing D&D I use this book; it has some cool drow names that I like to use as names for some of my MUD characters. Without a doubt this is the most useful D&D book I own short of the Monsters Manual.

Rating:
Summary: Great book even if you don't play Underdark
Review: This is the best D&D rules supplement I have ever purchased. It contains so much information about the drow (dark) elves. It talks about their religion, their language, and a sect of drow that are good aligned. If you have any interest in ever including drow in your campaign this is the book for you. I use the drow- english dictionary in it all the time. It makes interesting puzzles for my PCs. Even when I am not playing D&D I use this book; it has some cool drow names that I like to use as names for some of my MUD characters. Without a doubt this is the most useful D&D book I own short of the Monsters Manual.

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Summary: Definitive Guide to the Drow Race
Review: This volume is by far the finest and most complete information source concerning the drow elves! It contains character generation material, notes on innate abilities, and loads of info relating to drow culure. This volume also gives new spells, magical items, underdark monsters, and tables regarding drow-style names and listings of known drow houses and cities. Simply a must have.

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Summary: This was, sadly, a disappointment...
Review: When I finally got this book and found out that it doesn't exactly have everything you need to know about the drow in it, I was really disappointed. What really bothered me was that it starts out in a kind of narrative, story format rather than a scientific, "factual" treatise. It does give info on the drow pantheon and its unique spells, but then so does Demihuman Deities. It's also got stuff on specific drow-associated monsters, but then so does the Monster Manual. There's a little on drow architecture, religion, and culture, but nothing extraordinarily revealing. It does have this nice (but small) Drow-Common dictionary but there's still so much drow lingo that I can't piece together any sense of. The reference's got nothing specific about things such as drow child-bearing and -raising, everyday life, and common practices. We know that the important things they do is worship Lolth, scheme, and murder, but what do they do in the meantime when they *aren't* acting out of ambition, anger, or lust? What food, sport, or fashion-style are they fond of? What of the lives and fate of the inevitable half-drow? Still, I have to recommend this book if you want to read stuff on the drow because it's the only one out there that has so much relating to them in one compilation.