Monsters of Faerun: Half-Fiend Draegloth: Drow Abilities??

[Shin Okada]

According to the stats block in Monsters of Faerun P.59, Draegloth meant to have "drow abilities" special quality. What are they?

What kind of abilities of Drow race meant to be included? Does any other books or sources suggests something?

 

[Voadam]

MoF is a 3e book so looking at the 3.0 srd drow have:

Drow Traits (Ex): These are in addition to the basic elf traits, except where noted here. Drow do not get the usual elven weapon proficiencies.
Spell resistance 11 + class level.
+2 racial bonus to Will saves against spells and spell-like abilities.
Spell-Like Abilities: 1/day-dancing lights, darkness, and faerie fire. These abilities are as the spells cast by a sorcerer of the drow’s character level.
Darkvision up to 120 feet. This replaces elven low-light vision.
Light Blindness (Ex): Abrupt exposure to bright light (such as sunlight or a daylight spell) blinds drow for 1 round. In addition, they suffer a -1 circumstance penalty to all attack rolls, saves, and checks while operating in bright light.

I would think the half fiend drow would already have spell resistance and darkvision so probably the spell-like abilities is what is intended.

 

[Shin Okada]

MoF is a 3e book so looking at the 3.0 srd drow have:

I would think the half fiend drow would already have spell resistance and darkvision so probably the spell-like abilities is what is intended.

Actually, as written, Draegloth does not have spell resistance. Draegloth may have Darkvision (from Outsider type) but it is not specifically written. On the other hand, they do have spell-like abilities and those are written in separate paragraph.

 

[Ezequielramone]

I think (I'm almost sure) it's a typo. If you look where it says combat you see 3 special abilities: Spell-Like Abilities, Resistance and Inmunities.
In the stat block you can read 3 special qualities: Drow Abilities, Resistance and Inmunities.
The spell-like abilities are things that are commen in drow. So I'm almost sure that "drow abilities" means "spell-like abilities".

I wish this helps you.

I recommend you to use the Draegloth in the "Drow of the Underdark", it's updated to 3.5.

I hope your player get a bad time with this beauty.

 

[ksbsnowowl]

There are two more recent printings of Draegloth.

Champions of Ruin has them as a playable race with a Savage Species-style racial class (though it does mess up and list them as having d10 hit dice, which is wrong; outsiders have d8 hit dice).

Drow of the Underdark also has a stat block for them.

Both of those have the advantage of being 3.5

 

[delericho]

I thought (but don't have the book to hand) that Expedition to the Demonweb Pits also includes Draegloth? At least, I'm reasonably sure I've seen a 3.5e write-up, and I don't have either Champions... or Drow...

 

[ksbsnowowl]

I thought (but don't have the book to hand) that Expedition to the Demonweb Pits also includes Draegloth? At least, I'm reasonably sure I've seen a 3.5e write-up, and I don't have either Champions... or Drow...

A search of the PDF displays no instances of 'draegloth' anywhere in EttDwP.

Searching all my files, the only PDF's that have the word draegloth in it are:
Drow of the Underdark
Monsters of Faerun
City of the Spider Queen
Lords of Darkness
Magic of Faerun
Champions of Ruin
Shining South

I looked, Shining South is the only other one of those that is 3.5, and draegloth is only present in some random encounter tables.

 

[delericho]

A search of the PDF displays no instances of 'draegloth' anywhere in EttDwP.

Thanks for looking. It's weird - I'm sure I've seen it. Guess I must just be mis-remembering.

Out of interest, what book does Shining South point you to for the Draegloth stats?

 

[ksbsnowowl]

Out of interest, what book does Shining South point you to for the Draegloth stats?

Monsters of Faerun. But SS's publishing date is Oct 2004, so neither CoR (2005) nor DotU (2007) had been published yet.