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Does anyone else love playing the seldarine drow? I must admit that I fell in love with this option. Tav drow faces a world that hates him just for what race he is. It's very satisfying to see a hated drow who is unwelcome almost everywhere save everyone's ass. I like the fact that you can play by resisting the patterns of behavior that your culture of origin instilled. Plus, I love how goblins grovel in front of tav

I adore Seldarine Drow too ^^

My main character is a Seldarine Sword Dancer of Eilistraee who is a very graceful and benevolent goody two-shoes priestess, so it's an amazing roleplay experience that's incredibly well integrated into the story. Went so hardcore into roleplaying her that I even made my Guardian appear as Eilistraee in her dreams


Just like Lolth-sworn, the unique dialogue options are brilliant and the Drow are pretty much the most unique race one could play when it comes to dialogue and roleplay, as their culture and lore are beautifully integrated with the main story.

Regardless of which race you pick at the start of the game, all players may enjoy the experience unique to every race in this game. All you'd need to do is to disguise yourself to match the race of the NPCs you will be interacting with. For goblins, you match them with the appearance of being a Drow.

In this game, you being a Drow are often mistakenly considered by goblins to be the equivalent of another Minthara. That's why they, in general, treat you with respect, making your early gameplay more likely to be a bit smoother. However, they won't be able to recognize that you are not a Lolth worshipper (not another Minthara). And outside this little backdrop, you being a Drow carries little meaning. You being a Drow are not hated everywhere.

In general, NPC in this game tend to completely ignore your race other than occasionally making a race-specific comment. Even if you are not a Gith and are not traveling with a Gith, you may still proceed with a Gith-specific quest line.

In terms of unique in-game racial benefits not bound to any race by the rulebook, being a Gith is far better than being any other race.

@Crimsomrider, I'm currently playing as a priestess of Elistraee, a sword dancer. What's great is that as a drow I can canonically sometimes choose a morally ambiguous solution. I'm just telling myself that it's a family heritage But being a priestess of Elistraee obliges me to be good, so I like the tension that comes with the game.

My favourite bit about being a Drow female happens in the Underdark (of course). Bossing the unpetrified wizard always makes me giggle.

My role play is that I am from a small clan family of Drow Elistraean escapees from the Underdark currently living in Silverymoon, two generations later these include all sorts of small family artisans including a musical instrument maker, one who owns a herb farm etc, one member of the Knights, an aunt who married into a family of merchants etc etc. A right old mixed bag of skills, family members (some mixed race), kids, apprentices etc. My characters grandmother is the matriarch of the family, she and her partner live in the city itself whereas the rest of the tribe live in the extended farm and workshop complex just outside.
Her Mum was initially bard trained but decided to became a sword dancer and she basically vanished for years to pursue the necessary training. She is currently raising a small family at the farm complex with her road companion who is a Half Drow Fighter.
My girl considers herself a journeyman rather than a full anything whatsoever. Her Mum did train her, so she's pretty useful (read better than most but nothing super extraordinary) with a sword but needs much more training to be considered sword dancer (assuming she wants to go that road).

Elistraean Drow from this particular family is my usual backstory but I change other details to vary the playstyle for any particular playthrough - all my playthroughs later the family she comes from is pretty well fleshed out with who is married to whom, who escaped the underdark and why etc

This particular playthrough she's a draconic sorceror from her fathers side mixed heritage.