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Having never read the R.A. Salvatore Drizzt book, to me the drow are a race of sadistic demon-worshiping slavers.  Yet everywhere I go I seem to encounter non-evil drow PCs. To quote MinMax "I'm starting to wonder if there might be more renegade drow than there are regular drow." http://www.goblinscomic.com/07112005/ What do you guys think?  Are drow still as prevalent as they were when the Drizzt book's first hit the shelves?  Are the books even the reason that drow are/were so popular?  Is there something else about the race that folks like so much: good abilities, cool concept, generally sexy race,