Where can I find information about Greyhawks' Drow population, empires, etc. Thanks in advance.
Your best source of informtion would be the D series modules. Probably nowhere near the detail you might be looking for, but the Drow are not a very visable force in the regular Greyhawk campaign.
I was trying to track their references in published material but this list is far from complete.
Drow {Black Elf}{Dark Elf}[MON]
A1-4 - 89,122
A2 - 35
A4 - 22
AOE - 33,92-94,96-98,189-193
ATG - 2,26,27,29,31,33-42,73,93
CED - 12,53,56,57,149,150,151
COG:C# - 3,24
COG:FFF - 17,52,53
COG:GOTF - 87
COLTM - 17,33
D1
D1-2
D2
D3
DOD - 13,14,15,69,70,71,75,85,88,97,102,103,105,106,109
,110,111,113,116,115,121,124,125,126,127,129,131,132,137
,138,139,143,152,157,160,161,163,165,175,183,185,187
,193,206,209,211,212,213,227,228,230,233,238,239,242,244
,245,246,254,320,322,331,373,420
DRG#209 - 13
DRG#225 - 50
DRG#230 - 10,15
DRG#236 - 13
DRG#241 - 42,44,45,46,75,76,95
DRG#294 - 96
DRG#AN4 - 70
DUN#70 - 49,50,51,54,57,59,60,61,62,69,78
FTAA - 29,56
G123 - 16,17,18,20,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30
GA - 43,44,750
GDQ - 2,3,4,8,15,35,37,39,40,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,50,52
53,55,56,57,60,61,62,63,65,68,69,70,71,73,74,75,76
77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93
,103,105,114,115,121,125,127
IVID
LGG - 17,88,127,128,143
MMII - 42,60
PGTG - 5,24,39
POLY#30 - 6,7
RT1-4 - 4,5,6,30,41,126,127
RWPM - 40,41
S4B2 - 10,12
SC - 2,7,8,10,11,15,19
SLV - 2,36,48,109,121,122
SOD - 17,27,84-88,90,92,94,134,136,140,180,187,190,195,196
198,200,207,211,213,215,226,230,232,233,235-237,239-243
246,248-254,256-258,263,265,266,268-271,273,280-285,288,
292,296,300,314,319-321,323,325,343,345-349,351-353,355,
357,358,360,361,368,369,371-373,381,382,384,387
T1-4 - 29
TAB - 2,38,70,79,87
TD - 31-33,40-44
TSB - 25
UA - 10,11
WG12 - 2,8,36
WGA3 - 47,59,60
WGA4 - 15,20,29,50
WGM1 - 3,25
WGQ1 - 25
WGR1 - 33
WGR2 - 75
WGR3 - 39
WGR5 - 6,16,17,24,25,64,84,91,92
WGR6 - IC,49
WOGG - 14,27,30,53
There was some Greyhawk Drow information in later Dragon magazines including a detail of the city Erelhei-Cinlu in Dragon #300
Erelhei-Cinlu (Drow)(Pop 27,000)[TWN]
SEE ALSO Vault of the Drow
A4 - 20
D3 - 8,12,15,16,18,20
DG - 78,79,80,81,82,83
DRG#225 - 50
DRG#241 - 75
DRG#298 - 73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,
DRG#300 - 90,91,92,93
DRG#AN4 - 70
DUN#70 - 49,54,71
DUN#72 - 84
GDQ - 3,4,73,77,81,82,88,90
LGG - 18
POLY#113 - 25
WGR5 - 16,17
There is probably a good deal of fan material available about them, but you are safe in creating, borrowing or transplanting any information at all about the Drow since there is so little in exact detail published.
There was some Greyhawk Drow information in later Dragon magazines including a detail of the city Erelhei-Cinlu in Dragon #300
300 has some drow detailed in "Denizens of Darkness" p90-94, 298 is the redone Erelhei-Cinlu p.72-87
Where can I find information about Greyhawks' Drow population, empires, etc. Thanks in advance.
jasonzavoda seems to have nailed most of the sources quite handily. The only thing I'd add is a quick mission statement I use in my campaigns: "Drow live hidden under the ground but surface everywhere to meddle in everything." ;)
Wow, jasonzavoda, I bow to your knowledge in Greyhawk, and I thank you for the time it must have took you to do that index. Thanks a bunch guys, I'll have to run around now and look for those resources, I have the latest issues of Dragon and Dungeon so I'll look there to start.
There used to be a TOC for it, but I don't see that on CF! now....
Mike
...One of which is under the Pomarj which is kinda cool for a campaign idea, the drow aiding Mak or the Slavers.
Hey, that makes sense. After all, don't forget Edralve from A4 In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords--if Turrosh Mak really is Theg Narlot, he already had experience dealing with the drow.
Hey, that makes sense. After all, don't forget Edralve from A4 In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords--if Turrosh Mak really is Theg Narlot, he already had experience dealing with the drow.
There was also the tunnel into the Underoerth in module A2. It was a trading station for drow merchants and leads deeper in the oerth. A drow merchant and drow guards were stationed there.
I may have not looked close enough, but there was a 3 story arc, Istivin: City of Shadows in Dungeon 117-119.
Yes, the third part is titled Wrath of the Abyss, as I mentioned above.
I personally am fond of the Drow of the Underdark sourcebook. Arguably out of date now, but probably one of the best sourcebooks I've ever seen.
They've also been appearing in some of the Living Greyhawk material, such as Assault on the Vault, which remain largely faithful to the 1st and 2nd ed series.
I personally am fond of the Drow of the Underdark sourcebook. Arguably out of date now, but probably one of the best sourcebooks I've ever seen.
I did like the concept of a more 3 dimensional approach to underoerth buildings. Defenses need to bee spherical protecting approaches from all sides, above and below.
Canonfire has several excellent articles on the drow especially the one outlining the various "drow vaults" found within the flanaess has been extermely helpful.
Btw Abysslin, followed your sig linked and saw your map, well done but I noticed two errors:
1) 2 Jalpa, the southern one should be Torrich
2) No city of Rel Deven?
But I still don't know who or what they are!
What are these Drow you speak of. I hear someone by the name of R.A. Salvatore talking about these myths. Then there's this guy in my campaign keeps saying his PC is one of them. I don't know who they are and I don't what to know. Apparently This Guy called Gygax created a game world with them then this guy R.A. Salvatore beat a bunch of fanboys over the head with them. Then I read a very intelligent individual eridicated them from a world Gygax created.
But I still don't know who or what they are!
I don't think this is what the original poster was looking for. Additionally, FR Drow and GH Drow are very different, and most Drow fanboys like FR Drow. I think GH Drow are handled with much more control. Leave the R.A. Salvatore soapbox for the FR forums.
Btw Abysslin, followed your sig linked and saw your map, well done but I noticed two errors:
1) 2 Jalpa, the southern one should be Torrich
2) No city of Rel Deven?
Thread-Jack
1. I know.
2. I modelled the map primarily after 80 folio Darlene. Wanted to keep it "old school meets new school."
3. You forgot that I spelled "Chathold," "Chathola."
Amazing what the mind does after mapping for 15+ hours straight.
And shhhhh... It is supposed to be a secret sig link! (forget the underline) I'm hiding!
A second thread concerning the Lostdark (the underdark beneath the Sea of Dust and Sulhauts) has been started here http://www.canonfire.com/htmlnew/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1006&sid=63cb1ec6b56e4cbf82e2c8b7aff48483. I've got a few more posts to make there, then I'll start on the Helldark (beneath the Hellfurnaces/Crystalmists).
As far as the drow go, their presence is strongest in the south and west (the Vault & the Sulhauts) and weakens from there. There is a considerable contingent in the Lortmil underdark, subservient to the drow of the Helldark, and another large grouping beneath the Sundark or Southdark (Sunndi/GK region). They are very rare in the Furyondian underdark and nonexistent in the Deephalls beneath the Griffs/Corusks/Rakers.
Cheers
Nell.
It's my birthday, my buh-buh-buh-birthday!... (No, really, it is.
)Btw Nell have you read the canonfire article on the various Drow vaults?
What about the drow presence in or rather under the Pomarj region?
Pomarj part and parcel of the Lormils.
Btw Nell have you read the canonfire article on the various Drow vaults?
Yep. I'm going to use some of it, and not use some of it.
Cheers,
Nell.