Drow Elves: Magic Muggers (Part 2: Stats)

Alright! We finished the two pages of lore! Now we just need to analyze two pages of combat statistics! Hooray!

Drow are divided into four categories. There are normal Drow, Drow Elite Warriors, Drow Mages, and Drow Priestesses of Lolth. The power scales up in that order; Drow are the weakest, a Drow Priestess is the strongest. But make no mistake: all four of these enemies can put up one hell of a fight.

All of them share in three traits. First is Fey Ancestry, which makes them immune to sleep and gives them advantage against being charmed. Next is Innate Spellcasting, which gives all four varieties access to the spells Dancing Lights, Darkness, and Faerie Fire. Then, finally, they have Sunlight Sensitivity, which gives them disadvantage on attack rolls and perception checks while in sunlight. Imagine that.

Regular drow aren’t all that impressive. They have a shortsword and a hand crossbow, the ladder of which can poison the target. Drow Elite Warriors are much the same, except that they have multiattack, their short swords have extra poison damage, and they can parry attacks.

Drow Mages are the real assholes. These guys have access to a whole slew of spells, making them a variety pack of deadly ability. They are as follows:

• Cantrips: mage hand, minor illusion, poison spray, ray of frost
• 1st level: mage armor, magic missile, shield, witch bolt
• 2nd level: alter self, misty step, web
• 3rd level: fly, lightning bolt
• 4th level: Evard’s black tentacles, greater invisibility
• 5th level: cloudkill

On top of that, it can summon one demon per day. These stick around for ten minutes, or until it/its summoner gets killed. Granted, it can only summon a quasit, maybe a shadow demon. So it can’t summon something really dangerous.

Oh, also, he can hit you with his staff. Not that it’ll do him much good. But hey! It’s also poisoned! For some reason!

Then, finally, there is the Drow Priestess of Lolth. She, being much better than the mage, has a completely different set of even deadlier spells. They are:

• Cantrips: guidance, poison spray, resistance, spare the dying, thaumaturgy
• 1st level: animal friendship, cure wounds, detect poison and disease, ray of sickness
• 2nd level: lesser restoration, protection from poison, web
• 3rd level: conjure animals (2 giant spiders), dispel magic
• 4th level: divination, freedom of movement
• 5th level: insect plague, mass cure wounds

Not only that, but they have a Scourge attack that they can use twice per turn. This isn’t all that deadly, so it really isn’t worth using over a spell. Still, when she runs out of options, she could be worse off.

She, too, has Summon Demon. But she can summon a Yochlol! Which is quite a bit deadlier than what the mage can do! So… use with caution!

Okay. You get all that? No? I don’t blame you. Four monsters at once is a bit much. Thankfully, after this, we can go back to normal, non-multi-article-long monsters for a while.

Now, let’s look at the complete package. Drow are pretty neat monsters! They have pretty deep and versatile lore and some great combat stats to boot! All in all, they’re pretty solid!

With all that in mind, let’s put the Drow on the Best of the Bestiary!

1. Beholder
2. Death Tyrant
3. Dragon Turtle
4. Green Dragons
5. Red Dragons
6. Blue Dragons
7. Black Dragons
8. White Dragons
9. Silver Dragons
10. Couatl
11. Behir
12. Aboleth
13. Bronze Dragons
14. Brass Dragons
15. Copper Dragons
16. Gold Dragons
17. Chuul
18. Chimera
19. Death Knight
20. Bone Devil
21. Dracolich
22. Ankheg
23. Drow (all four of ’em) <—————————–
24. Shadow Demon
25. Marilith
26. Drider
27. Aarackockra
28. Azer
29. Demilich
30. Spectator
31. Cambion
32. Animated Armor
33. Banshee
34. Basilisk
35. Yochlol
36. Bulette
37. Cloaker
38. Darkmantle
39. Doppelganger
40. Pit Fiend
41. Erinyes
42. Chain Devil
43. Bearded Devil
44. Barbed Devil
45. Spined Devil
46. Ice Devil
47. Nalfeshnee
48. Glabrezu
49. Chasme
50. Barlgura
51. Horned Devil
52. Balor
53. Shadow Dragon
54. Vrock
55. Dretch
56. Goristro
57. Hezrou
58. Manes
59. Duergar
60. Quasit
61. Dryad
62. Planetar
63. Imp
64. Displacer Beast
65. Carrion Crawler
66. Rug of Smothering
67. Bugbear Chief
68. Bugbear
69. Vine Blight
70. Twig Blight
71. Needle Blight
72. Bullywug
73. Cockatrice
74. Lemure
75. Solar
76. Deva
77. Cyclops
78. Centaur
79. Fire Elemental
80. Water Elemental
81. Air Elemental
82. Dinosaurs (All six of them)
83. Earth Elemental
84. Flying Sword
85. Crawling Claw