Quixote |
If I remember my drow lore correctly, a drider is born when a priestess of Lolth fails some kind of trial or test.
So I would probably say no, since (1) it's the noble drow that become driders in the first place and (2) driders represent a loss of refinement and sophistication, becoming something more base and feral.
That said, you could always boost a drider's stats, give it a bunch of SR or fast healing or extra spells/SLA's and a few pieces of equipment and call it a noble drider.
That, or you could change the base drider's stats and remove some of the more magic-y stuff and boost the bite attack to represent male driders.
Claxon |
Well, since Lolth isn't a Golarion thing I'm going to say it doesn't necessarily apply here.
Driders in Golarion setting are a result of fleshwarping on Drow for their failures, it doesn't specify only noble drow.
I think at most if there was a difference they might have a few SLAs that regular driders don't get and that would be it.
Sandslice |
So... In Pathfinder, driders are the result of "fleshwarping," a theory of drow alchemy that creates aberrations. By RAW, there's no mechanical difference between a drider created from a noble drow vs. a common drow.
In terms of their capabilities, a drider lies between common and noble, tending closer to noble.
SR (common 6+HD, drider 9+HD, noble 11+HD). Drider is based on the stock 9-HD drider have SR 18.
SLAs:
Noble: " Drow nobles can cast dancing lights, deeper darkness, faerie fire, feather fall, and levitate each at will, and have detect magic as a constant spell-like ability. A drow noble can also cast divine favor, dispel magic, and suggestion once per day each."
Drider: "Constant—detect good, detect law, detect magic
At will—dancing lights, darkness, faerie fire
1/day—clairaudience/clairvoyance, deeper darkness, dispel magic, levitate, suggestion"
The drider's at-wills are the common drow's 1/days.
I think we can stop there?
Sandslice |
Being a drider is an alchemical punishment for drow, developed by, i think its haagenti? though i think they mention that they can breed true.
Beyond that fleshwarps are basically their own race with very little in common with what they came from.
Yeah, driders can breed true in Pathfinder. (In D&D, where they're created by Lolth instead, she intentionally creates them sexless so that they can't breed, become more powerful, and attempt to challenge her.)