if a drow and and an elf have a.....

[zainale]

child would that child be half elf? a drowblood elf? can there be any other kind of half elf that is not half human?

[UnArcaneElection]

The child would be an Elf with some Drow traits, as actually covered in the Elf section on d20pfsrd.com (look for Darkvision and Dusk Elf).

[David knott 242]

There are also alternate drow racial traits that could be used for the drow offspring of such a union.

[Cavall]

A white and black elf would have a mixed race elf that could become leader but would only be referred to as drow and people would question it's religion all the time and demand to see its birth certificate and even of you show them they still say he was born in the dark lands and not the steaming sea.

[Soilent]

They have a filthy half blood abomination baby, that should be thrown in the garbage pits of the glorious Drow nation.

[djones]

Soilent wrote:

They have a filthy half blood abomination baby, that should be thrown in the garbage pits of the glorious Drow nation.

This was the background for one of my characters, although rather than going directly to the garbage dump she was used as a test subject by an alchemist developing new poisons.

[Omernon]

There are half-drows in Forgotten Realms, so I guess the same thing will apply to any other setting. Just as in real life - such mixture will make their skin darker, but not as much as real drows have. Hair and eye color on the other hand may resemble more surface elves.

[Skylancer4]

Omernon wrote:

There are half-drows in Forgotten Realms, so I guess the same thing will apply to any other setting. Just as in real life - such mixture will make their skin darker, but not as much as real drows have. Hair and eye color on the other hand may resemble more surface elves.

Drow in Golorian aren't the same drow from FR from the bits and pieces I've read on the forums.

They are still elves however.

I guess it would really depend on if it was for a PC or NPC. Full on drow tend to be more powerful, so not a great idea for PCs in a group that doesn't all have the same bump.

The racial traits would probably be the best bet for a PC and just re-fluffed as needed by background.

As per genetics, pretty much everything from full on normal elf, to full on drow is possible. Similar to tieflings and Aasimirs. Sometimes there is just the tiniest little difference.

[Gwen Smith]

Soilent wrote:

They have a filthy half blood abomination baby, that should be thrown in the garbage pits of the glorious Drow nation.

That was generally the experience of my half-drow/half-elf in Rise of the Runelords...both sides hated her equally.

[UnArcaneElection]

Skylancer4 wrote:

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I guess it would really depend on if it was for a PC or NPC. Full on drow tend to be more powerful, so not a great idea for PCs in a group that doesn't all have the same bump.
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They are in approximately the same power range (and even Race Points range, although that isn't reliable) as Aasimar and Tieflings, so not all that overpowered. Pre-ARG Noble Drow were overpowered, but now the way to get a Noble Drow is to start with a normal Drow and take a costly feat chain to get the upgrades (and still doesn't come up to original Noble Drow ability scores -- probably need to add a Drow Sorcerer Bloodline that gives you ability score upgrades like the standard Abyssal Bloodline's 9th level power does).