My 11 year old Stepson Wrote this for his homework - which had to be an informative paragraph on somethnig he knows alot about.
Rocco is his Dwarven Ranger 14 / Green Dragon bloodline 2 / Cavelord 2 currently looking for another way into the city of the spider queen after a beating by the Gate guarding Firegiants.
Rocco.
Rocco is very interesting. I have his Character sheet in front of me that is very good.
It tells his Hit points ( 172 ) favored terrain ( Underdark ) and hated enemies ( Drow , Trolls and Vampires.)
I will tell you this, Rocco could kill 3- 30 drow in one fight. Now this other fact amazed me- The females are harder to kill.
The males are weaker.
There are over 300 different Drow houses, they live everywhere in the underdark- even the lowerdark.
Their life span is a few centuries or until they meet me.
When a drow comes of age it must pass a test. The test sees how well they can harm other creatures. If they fail they transform into a Drider. It does not breed but are still active. The change is painful and the drow becomes a Drider 12 hours later.
Last but not least they develop a poisonous bite.
Then the females decide to test more Drow and it starts all over again.
I hope you have learned something. I almost forgot -Rocco found a squashed Drow ear on his Hammer.
I got this information from The world of Dungeons and Dragons that my stepdad makes.
Excellent. Another generation of gamers is here. :)
That's cool. It warms me heart to see a new generation of gamers. That reminds me of my Biology report on Dragons. 30+ pages, A+. :)
Lets just offer a moment of pryaer to the DnD gawds that he doesn;t have an over protective nanny of ateacher who gets concerned over the level of violence and anti social behaviour in this fine young man's writing. Much worse, the level of racial intolerance it speaks to is just apalling.
:) Keep up the good work dad!!
Wow. Its amazing to read the first hand account of the discovery of D&D. Things that seem old hat to the older generation, or even cliche (the matriarchal drow, driders and the underdark) have new life breathed into them. Sometimes its easy to take those things for granted but its good to see that they still hold as much wonder and magic for the next generation as they did for us when we first encountered them.
Still nothing beats 'they live for centuries, until they meet me', that had me laughing out loud, I don't think that Conan could have descibed the adventurer's attitude better! :)