I really wish more cRPGs had recruitable drow companions and overall more drow options. To play as an evil paladin of Lolth, with a gang of deep gnomes, duergar etc... I am an edgelord, what can I say. Black 'n' blue skinned boogiemen magicans of the underground are so fucking cool to me. Worshipping a fucking spider queen. Awesome, dude.
For me, it's Vhaeraun.If you throw out your usual D&D stat-system out of the window and make drow the main race, it could work. They have their soldiers, their scouts, rangers and assassins, their clerics and wizards. Add some half-orcs/duergar/monster races as big tanks and deep gnomes/goblins as sneaky bastards, and you got some variety. Could add all manners of intelligent monsters anyway.Throwing your lot with a noble house of your choice, fighting, beating and absorbing other noble houses, taking slaves and work your way up in prestige. And over time, a bigger, grander evil reveals itself.The thing with evil campaigns is that people like being assholes, but rarely be absolute psychopaths. It works well when you fight an evil while hardly caring about morals when it comes to how you chose to fight it.Not even a drow-fag, but fund it/10.
>>3657320Would definitely play something like that. Underdark in BG2 was really fun, you could say that was a tiny little snippet of the experience you described.
>>3657311>I am an edgelordYou mean you're a fat retard with a pony tail
>>3657311Most races are boring these days because you can't have fascist drow society depicted or some leftist will cry about racism sexism, or whatever imaginary slight they're trying to get attention by signalling about.Everything you see in modern games are thusly just human San Francisco 2024 american culture cosplaying with ears. Around every corner is another Tiefling or lolsorandom elf/gnome to drop some quick reddit wit in the middle of the lloth sacrificial pit.The whole fantasy genre lacks gravitas that it used to have, witcher probably being the last real attempt at it.Fantasy writers are bad at writing alien culture in the first place, and the introduction of constant propaganda into the entire genre didn't teach anyone anything useful.
>>3657496Don't reply to yourself, man.
>>3657311I'm a big fan of dark elves, too. D&D, Warhammer, whatever... Also like that the women are always portrayed as being pragmatic sluts... guess they would have to be when death is always around the corner.That being said, and it's not really related to the topic, but Age of Wonders 4 is like Civilization fucked an RPG and created a mutant baby that dabbles in everything. You can create your own leader, race, custom spells and even start in the underground for the full larp experience. Worth checking out for Dark Elf fans, imo. I've got about 90 hours out of it so far. There are a few quirks that could be so much better, and it may potentially get there, but there's also some modding potential too, so I'm always hoping the underground gameplay gets some major features to be more interesting.
>>3657311Fantasy writers after Tolkien can't write at allI have yet to check out Malazan and stuff like that but speaking about d&d related fluff authors there just won't create a new mythology and just use Tolkien's base for their work, which put Elves as the morally superior, mortal gods and the evil as unwashed horde like in the codex of Genghis horde. Naturally there was no "dark elf", so that doesn't fit, at all
>>3657496Based. Is up to indieCHADS fixing this shit genre.
>>3657496>>3657511From a creativity standpoint, I think you're kind of boned when making races for fantasy and sci-fi in the modern age.>Make something like a wolfman raceFurfags and monster rape lovers will latch onto your game.>Make sentient plant creatures that are in tune with the environment"Why not just make elves, bro?">Just make all the non-humans monster boys and monster girlsGet accused of being a /d/egenerate.Then there's the game design portion. How do you handle a creature that has four arms? Do you let them hold more weapons at once or just give them a bonus to strength and/or dexterity?
>>3657520Whiny bitches opinion are irrelevant, they don't buy or play games. You just need to make something cool and promote the shit out of it.
>>3657542This, people need to learn that they don't have to kneel to control freaks.
>>3657311>I really wish more cRPGs had recruitable drow companions and overall more drow optionsyes there should be big tiddies drow waifus and small tiddies drow waifus, with different flavors of femdom and skimpy outfits
>>3657392I do have a ponytail lool, but I am muscularly built as I've been training for ten years. Good guess with the ponytail though.
>>3657785>personal hair style named after horseletHow come?
>>3657791Ponytail is not my main style, its just the easiest way to handle long hair on day to day basis.As to why it's called that... Who knows?
>>3657821What's your main hairstyle? Stallion?
>>3657791>How come?Better than our name for it (horse cock).
>>3657311I played drow on BG3 to justify my pragmatism (and for the night vision). I usually don´t care for the cartoonish dog kicking, random NPC murdering kind of evil (so i avoided durge on my first playthrough) but i don´t enjoy the dumb goody two shoes selfless hero archetype either.I like my characters to be in line with the eternal champion. One helps if the reward is fair and the NPC making the request is respectful (disrespect is punishable) or if there are potential benefits to doing so. One does not torment the weak for no reason but tormenting enemies is fair game. Good aligned characters are not allowed these degree of freedom and pragmatism.
>>3657898>i don´t enjoy the dumb goody two shoes selfless hero archetype eitherI do enjoy this so that I have a reasonable in-character explanation for why I’m stopping my adventure every three feet to do menial tasks for literal whos to gain experience points
>>3657912>why I’m stopping my adventure every three feet to do menial tasks for literal whos to gain experience pointsDo you really not help people when asked? I do in real life to the point where I've become known as "handy" and am approached by random people in the neighborhood I dont even know. You are quite literally gaining irl experience points by helping others.
>>3657311>purple elvesdoesn't sound very original
>>3657868Nice horse cock you have there, made it yourself?
>>3657311>sitting at home underground>worshipping an oversized silk dispenser >while having the same stereotypical features of every other elf race >Pride, Vanity, Frailty sounds boring also sounds like the average women for some reason >>3657496>witcher probably being the last real attempt at itthe only thing I really liked is when that Siegfried guy shows up
>>3657311Forgotten Realms is garbage.
>>3657311Agree, still can't believe no one has made a good Drizzt RPG. THere are so many Drizzt novels to cover. It would be amazing.
>>3657311>Here's your drow game bro
>>3657311>evil paladinGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY
>>3658249nta but I like chaos warriors
>>3658218There was an article in an old issue of Dragon magazine that explained how Drow matrons use magic to temporarily grow male genitalia and use them to fuck lower ranking women.
