(08-02-2015, 02:30 AM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: Once upon a time, I played in a Forgotten Realms setting in Neverwinter Nights. Â Now, originally I'd planned on playing a slightly-damaged, kind and open-minded Elven character. Â But as I started playing, I noticed the strangest thing. Â We were in Cormyr, and there, in the middle of Arabel, were some Drow. Â Openly. Â Advertising their presence. Â But don't worry, they assured us, they weren't the bad Drow. Â They were good Drow. Â And 90% of the population played right along, complete with hugging of the Drow, petting of the Drow, oh, the Drow are so awesome, etc.
And I thought that was really weird, to be frank. Â Because in the setting, Drow are the people who murder your family while you're sleeping and hang their skinned corpses from the ceiling to greet you when you wake up. Â They're the stuff of absolute nightmares to most people, to the point that many Elves refuse to even believe their good deity - Elistraee - exists at all. Â Because the Drow are so evil, how could there possibly be good ones?
I briefly played Neverwinter, and ran into this, as well. A friend of mine and I played a pair of traditional Drow. She played a female who had been sent up to the surface as a spy, and I played a male who was sent up to be her minion. We literally ran into 0 traditional Drow RPers. They all played good Drow, to the extent that they would take me aside and try to tell me that I didn't have to live subserviently to my friend's character, that I could throw that all aside and come be free.
We enjoyed the hell out of this, because our Drow were evil. Sure my drow was subservient to hers. That's the way it's supposed to be, after all. But he sure as hell wasn't about to treat those turncoat good Drow as anything other than the filth they were.
