Adv Race Guide vs Beastiary: Drow


Rules Questions


If one looks in the Beastiary under "drow" and then in the ARG you can see that the base critter is essentially the same.

Until you add in the "noble" powers.

Using the ARG you have to be a minimum 13th level to get all the feats that would make you a "noble" and you can never get the full set of stat modifiers.

So which one is the "true" noble drow? Because that CR3 cleric in the bestiary can't actually exist (according the the ARG).

Dark Archive

As is mentioned in the Bestiary:

"About one out of every 20 drow is gifted with special powers from birth—the overwhelming majority of these exceptional drow are female, and as a result, drow society tends to be matriarchal in nature. These special births are engineered and encouraged among the ruling caste, and are far more likely to occur when the mother is of noble heritage. Strangely, the status of the father seems not to increase or decrease the chances of a child being born a drow noble."

This is actually a different 'race' altogether. You have the normal drow, and then the Noble ones.

The ARG offers a way for PCs to get the noble-ish powers, but does not actually transform the base race into the Drow, Noble race.


Didn't notice that. Thanks for pointing it out

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