Fey Ancestry. The drow has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put the drow to sleep.
Innate Spellcasting. The drow’s spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 11). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: dancing lights
1/day each: darkness, faerie fire
Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the drow has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.
Shortsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage.
Hand Crossbow. Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 30/120 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 hour. If the saving throw fails by 5 or more, the target is also unconscious while poisoned in this way. The target wakes up if it takes damage or if another creature takes an action to shake it awake.
How do you get drow as a race?
you have to buy them
Bummer, I'm broke XD
They would likely be listed as dark elves, though I haven't checked recently.
Exactly
How does the Drow race not have it's own language? Seems they should have an odd dialect of Elvish or Undercommon.
RAW: Because they're still elves, every subrace of surface-dwelling elf doesn't have their own dialect.
Your Game - you can give them one if you want it in your world :)
It's Trow. I'll give you a hint, the original pronunciation had two syllables and rhymed with [trʌu]. If you plug this into an IPA reader, you will notice it sounds neither like Cow nor Crow. "Cher-Roo". Drow would be "Djar-Roo".
Now you know why the "original" pronunciation is not the preferred one.
To my knowledge it's not in a book I don't think but I haven't looked too hard, they have low drowic which is a common dialect of elven with characteristics of elvish, common, and undercommon, then they have High drowic which is mostly unique to them and typically used by drow priestesses and matrons, and they have their sign language which is essentially a silent Drow specific thieves' cant.
I know this is an old post, but this is an excellent explanation of the “inherent evil” argument. It comes down to the environmental vs genetics vs lore aspects of it all. DMs should always do WTF they want regardless of what canon/RAW might suggest. I apply this thought process to all types of evil/good creatures.
Now, please have a seat and tell me where Lolth hurt you….
I tend to pronounce the name like "brow" but with more of an open "a" sound + short "oo", so IPA /dɹɑʊ/.
Yeah, why?
Drow is listed as a 'subrace' of Elf: https://www.dndbeyond.com/races/3-elf#DarkElfDrow
Why is there a charisma spell casting, aren’t they kinda hated bye everyone?
old question, so if you havent figured it out yet, i hope this gets to you. its because "good" or playable drow are very rare, in fact i know of only three, the two in the Drizzt series, and my own character i created in like 02 without ever hearing of Drizzt at the time. he started out as a TN rouge, and slowly became a Barb, WM, Rouge and CG
You must buy the players handbook online, which I find silly since I bought the more expensive hardcopy. You could just buy the race for $2
Should have super dark vision
I do not think my original comment was in contradiction with anything you said, but it may have been a bit ambiguously worded.
By “not *uniformly* evil”, i did not meant to say that Drow are not “usually” evil. I simply meant that they are not evil in the same way a gnoll or sahuagin are evil.
By “good Drow living quietly”, I did not mean that all the Dark Elves who stay in the Underdark were good, just that any hypothetical “nice” Drow who survive at all in their cutthroat society, are far more likely to end up scrubbing chamberpots and keeping their heads down, than leading a raiding party where PCs are more likely to encounter them.
It’s a shame I didn’t see this reply earlier. You are clearly pretty knowledgeable on the subject, and it was interesting to see what you have to say.