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Nezznar the Black Spider
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Lost Mine of Phandelver
Special Equipment. Nezznar has a spider staff.
Fey Ancestry. Nezznar has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put him to sleep.
Sunlight Sensitivity. Nezznar has
, the Demon Queen of Spiders. Drow society is strictly matriarchal. Male drow are relegated to servitor roles, and while most train as warriors, a few, such as Nezznar, become skilled wizards.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Fey Ancestry. The drow has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put the drow to sleep.
Special Equipment. The drow wields a tentacle rod.
Sunlight Sensitivity
. While in sunlight, the drow has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.Multiattack. The drow makes two Demon Staff attacks or one Demon Staff attack
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Fey Ancestry. The drow has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put the drow to sleep.
Special Equipment. The drow wields a tentacle rod.
Sunlight Sensitivity
. While in sunlight, the drow has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.Multiattack. The drow makes two Demon Staff attacks or one Demon Staff attack
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Special Equipment. Nezznar has a fully charged spider staff (see appendix B).
Fey Ancestry. Nezznar has advantage on saving throws to avoid or end the charmed condition on himself, and magic can
, magic missile, suggestionThe Spider—a drow mastermind named Nezznar—is searching Wave Echo Cave for the Forge of Spells, a magical forge that was used by dwarves and gnomes in bygone days to
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
Special Equipment. K'thriss wears a robe of stars (accounted for in his statistics). The robe allows him to cast the following spells:
6/day: magic missile (7 missiles)
Awakened Mind. K'thriss can
","rollAction":"Sickle","rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage.The drow warlock K'thriss Drow'b cuts a dashing figure as the worldly representative of the Ur — a ravenous, inscrutable, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Special Delivery Draac and Taal Xorlarrin, a pair of drow mages, arrive at Ironslag with six drow elite warriors. If the characters encountered these drow previously in Gauntlgrym, there might be
fewer drow in their party, since they have had no opportunity to replace lost members. If his mission in Gauntlgrym was successful, Draac carries an iron flask that he aims to return to Duke Zalto. The
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Basic Rules (2014)
pages were tales of bold heroes, strange and fierce animals, mighty primitive gods, and a magic that was part and fabric of that distant land.
— Elaine Cunningham, Daughter of the Drow
In the
single elf or dwarf might take on the responsibility of guarding a special location or a powerful secret, humans found sacred orders and institutions for such purposes. While dwarf clans and halfling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
spell can have special rules or restrictions. For example, a drow mage can innately cast the levitate spell, but the spell has a "self only" restriction, which means that the spell affects only the
Special Traits Special traits (which appear after a monster's challenge rating but before any actions or reactions) are characteristics that are likely to be relevant in a combat encounter and that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
spell can have special rules or restrictions. For example, a drow mage can innately cast the levitate spell, but the spell has a “self only” restriction, which means that the spell affects only the
Special Traits Special traits (which appear after a monster’s challenge rating but before any actions or reactions) are characteristics that are likely to be relevant in a combat encounter and that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
become a priestess of Lolth. Then, to ascend to the status of high priestess, she must take advantage of powerful connections or craft special alliances. The path to ultimate power in drow society is
Rule of Matriarchs Females are the top figures in drow society. At the head of each house is someone who is a shrewd business operator, a skilled tactician, a high priestess of Lolth, and probably
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
use of special drow poisons, are a constant threat. Bodyguards and food tasters are as necessary to the survival of a high-ranking drow as air and water. Squabbles within a house also occur from time to
Society of Blood and Poison The principal organization in drow culture and society is the house, an extended clan that comprises many related families, plus a number of lesser families who have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
Nezznar the Black Spider Drow (dark elves) are a devious, scheming subterranean race that worships Lolth, the Demon Queen of Spiders. Drow society is strictly matriarchal. Male drow are relegated to
Arcana +5, Perception +4, Stealth +3
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 14
Languages Elvish, Undercommon
Challenge 2 (450 XP)
Special Equipment. Nezznar has a spider staff.
Fey
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
12. Drow Battle Characters who approach this 50-foot-high cavern for the first time hear the sounds of battle ahead. Demons. In the narrower section between the north and south halves of the cavern
, two chasmes fight a hezrou. All three demons are glowing.
Drow. Two opposing groups of drow are peppering one another with spells and crossbow bolts, ignoring the demons. Ten drow spread out north
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
. The drow has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put the drow to sleep.
Special Equipment. The drow wields a tentacle rod.
Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight
Drow Matron Mother Among drow followers of Lolth, each noble house is led by a matron mother, an influential priestess of Lolth charged with carrying out the god’s will while also advancing the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
it grants them certain kinds of magic. Drow, high elves, and wood elves are examples of elves who have been transformed thus. Drow Drow typically dwell in the Underdark and have been shaped by it. Some
drow individuals and societies avoid the Underdark altogether yet carry its magic. In the Eberron setting, for example, drow dwell in rainforests and cyclopean ruins on the continent of Xen’drik
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
them certain kinds of magic. Drow, high elves, and wood elves are examples of elves who have been transformed thus. Drow Drow typically dwell in the Underdark and have been shaped by it. Some drow
individuals and societies avoid the Underdark altogether yet carry its magic. In the Eberron setting, for example, drow dwell in rainforests and cyclopean ruins on the continent of Xen’drik. High Elves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Nocturnal Raiders If the drow kept to themselves in their subterranean cities and fortresses, few other creatures would care. The dark elves could indulge their evil practices until their caverns
were heaped with corpses and awash in blood. Even the surface elves might be content to overlook their hatred for their kin and leave the drow alone, as long as they never had to lay eyes on the drow or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
4. The Dying Second While the incredibly devout Gadrille the Reef-Reaver leads the group of cultists at the caves, Fheralai Stormsworn assigned a second-in-command to assist her — with special
instructions to keep an eye on Gadrille to ensure she doesn’t kill all her followers in a fit of mad devotion to Talos. That second-in-command is Sovendahl Erkinze, a drow elite warrior. Sovendahl’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
growing around them.
One voice calls out loudly in Undercommon — a female drow fighting to speak. “Please … for your gods of light . . . kill me!” She manages to stir within her living grave, raising
… she’s here … the Lady of Decay … Zuggtmoy …”
The drow is Xinaya, a young acolyte of Lolth. She was leading a routine scouting patrol out of Velkynvelve before Ilvara contacted her with a sending
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Sex You can play a male or female character without gaining any special benefits or hindrances. Think about how your character does or does not conform to the broader culture’s expectations of sex
, gender, and sexual behavior. For example, a male drow cleric defies the traditional gender divisions of drow society, which could be a reason for your character to leave that society and come to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Rangers Montolio held out his arm, and the great owl promptly hopped onto it, carefully finding its footing on the man’s heavy leather sleeve.
“You have seen the drow?” Montolio asked.
The owl
talkative owl, the ranger had monitored the drow for several days, curious as to why a dark elf had wandered into the valley. At first, Montolio had assumed that the drow was somehow connected to Graul
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Terrain Encounters The Underdark contains dangerous hazards and wondrous terrain. Special terrain rules are explained after the table. d20 Encounter 1 Boneyard 2 Cliff and ladder 3 Crystal
the ladder once they are at the top, they decrease the drow pursuit level by 1. Crystal Clusters The adventurers pass through a faerzress-suffused area containing fist-sized chunks of quartz that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Cunning, and Innate Spellcasting features of a deep gnome). Despite the desecration of the drow invasion and the decades of scavenging and raiding in its aftermath, the old city’s honored dead still rest
time before they meet Burrow Warden Jadger, a ghost from the time of the drow invasion. If the characters recovered Pelek’s severed hand in the “Whorlstone Tunnels” section of chapter 4, they can lay
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Crimes and Punishment Consistent with their long perspective on the world and their knowledge of its history, elves have a special view of morality. They abide by the traditional definitions of good
engaged in. Of these, exile is the most severe punishment. The surface elves’ attitude toward murder — which some races see as bordering on blasé — is carried to the extreme by the drow, who have elevated
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
on the map. View Player Version J1. Main Deck Three sailors (drow) and a mate (drow elite warrior) are on deck at all times. If the characters board the ship and ask to speak with the captain, the
another. Two off-duty mates (drow elite warriors) relax in the hammocks. Three walnut chests sit under the hammocks. The chests are unlocked. Treasure. Each chest holds two sets of common clothes, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
spice up a game that involves the characters in the struggle described in chapter 3. The ranks of the drow and the shadar-kai are swelled by the addition of special individuals that can add depth — and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Jarlaxle Baenre Jarlaxle is a flamboyant, swashbuckling drow iconoclast. He leads a renegade drow faction called Bregan D’aerthe, made up of disenfranchised male drow, most of them culled from
Abyssal, Common, Draconic, Dwarvish, Elvish, Undercommon
Challenge 15 (13,000 XP)
Special Equipment. Jarlaxle wears +3 leather armor, a hat of disguise, a bracer of flying daggers (see appendix A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
communicate simple ideas to any Beast that has a swimming speed. It can understand your words, though you have no special ability to understand it in return. Keen Senses. You have proficiency in the
, each group of elves mystically took on characteristics of the environment with which they bonded, whether forests (wood elves), fey crossings in the Material Plane (high elves), the Underdark (drow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
. Roll a d6 and consult the Fungi table to determine what special type of fungi can be found here. If this encounter takes place in Araumycos’s domain, an overabundance of fungi cover all of the other cave
Spore Servants 1–2 1d6 chuul spore servants (see appendix C) 3–4 1d6 drow spore servants 1d6 duergar spore servants (see appendix C for both) 5–6 1d6 drow spore servants (see appendix C) and 1d6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
K’thriss Drow’b All things are divided into meat and mouths — but even a mouth is just meat. The drow warlock K’thriss Drow’b cuts a dashing figure as the worldly representative of the Ur — a
., passive Perception 12
Languages Celestial, Common, Elvish, Undercommon; can read all writing
Challenge 3 (700 XP)
Special Equipment. K’thriss wears a robe of stars (accounted for in his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
hostile cubes spill their contents on the ground: 12 gp and a +1 shortsword of drow manufacture (see the “Drowcraft Items” sidebar in appendix B). Development After the gelatinous cube encounter
city (labeled “The Pudding Court” on the map of Blingdenstone). XP Awards The characters gain a special award of 100 XP each for delivering Werz’s sack of gems to Kazook Pickshine. If the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
dwarves put special emphasis on diplomacy and trade as key elements in the clan’s survival. They appreciate the value of creating high-quality goods to trade with others, both to enrich the clan and to
ambitious assault to reclaim even a single miner captured by attackers. Even the cruel drow are reluctant to raid mountain dwarf settlements, since they know a single attack will ignite the flames of war
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
continues to be Arcane Armor until you don another suit of armor or you die. Armorers, a Drow Infiltrator and a Tiefling Guardian Armor Model 3rd-level Armorer feature You can customize your Arcane Armor
. When you do so, choose one of the following armor models: Guardian or Infiltrator. The model you choose gives you special benefits while you wear it. Each model includes a special weapon. When you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Special Features You can add distinctiveness to a magic item by thinking about its backstory, in much the same way you would for a location. Who made the item? Is anything unusual about its
item is made from scales and talons shed by a dragon. Perhaps it incorporates precious metals and gems from the dragon’s hoard. It grows slightly warm when within 120 feet of a dragon. 7 Drow. The item
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
experience (and feels quite different than the rapport the characters might have shared with Stool). Voosbur happily tells the party how its “troupe” was attracted by the special mushrooms in these
away from the party to join the myconids. The drow turns one last time to give the characters a look of terror and despair before his face loses all expression. He and the dancing myconids then enter