Astarion being a vampire create even bigger plot holes:
Why do cure wounds spells and healing items not cause severe damage. In general you can use healing spells to cause significant harm to all undead. Why doesn't Shadowheart's "turn undead" affect him? he should at least be fleeing and has she raises in level it could ultimately destroy him.
As far as the Drow issues there has been much discussion over the racial implications read historically into the drow as a race, and an effort to re-brand the old version as the Mezzo=Loth Worshiping sect and introducing different sects that do not represent pure chaos and evil. These sect are not being looked as something new, but they have been around for as long as the Loth sect.
Admittedly the table top version I played was 2nd edition, but I do not recall Druids having access to ressurect...they only got reincarnation and raise dead.
