"Time to die for the Spider Queen."
The Drow are a type of elf that long ago turned away from the rest of elven society and moved deep underground. They've since adapted to underground life, and developed a rather different culture from that of the elven norm. The drow are an extremely stratified and matriarchal society, with priestesses of the spider goddess at the top, then the rest of the drow population, and then below that there's usually a large number of non-drow slaves.
Drow are slightly taller and slightly lighter than humans tend to be. Their skin can be any sort of colors, as long as it's some shade of black. Unlike most "black" humans which are actually a very dark brown, drow have skin that is actually black; "black as the night, black as coal", as some say. Drow hair is generally white, gray, or a very pale shade of some other color. Drow can live for centuries, and those with any sort of power have more to fear from assassination than they do from old age.
- Size: Medium
- Type: Humanoid (Elf)
- Movement: 30ft
- Vision: Darkvision (120ft)
- Ability Modifiers: +2 Dexterity, -2 Constitution.
- Extreme Daylight Sensitivity (Ex): Drow are Dazzled in bright sunlight or within the radius of a Daylight spell, but with twice the normal effect (-2 to Attacks/Search/Spot, instead of -1).
- Underdark Magic (Sp): Drow with a Charisma of at least 10 may cast Deeper Darkness (duration 4 hours), and Faerie Fire as spell-like abilities, once per day each.
- Spider's Blessing (Su): +2 bonus to saving throws against spells and spell-like abilities.
- Keen Senses (Ex): +2 bonus to Spot, and Listen checks.
- Elvish Metabolism (Ex): Drow never sleep and are immune to Sleep effects. Drow must still perform a 4 hour daily trance to stay coherent and rested, but they take no Listen check penalty while resting in this way.
- Drazit Durden (Ex): Drow live an exceedingly interesting life, and every drow has proficiency with one melee and one ranged weapon of their choice.
- Automatic Languages: Common and Elvish
- Suggested Bonus Language: Abyssal, Beholder, Common, Draconic, Drow Sign Language, Dwarvish, Gnome, Kuo-Toa, Terran, Undercommon