I wasn't sure what forum to put this under but I'm sure its fun to make up your own UnderDark races, you can make up nonsenseical ones or you can make them serious. I have two, both of which are serious:

Dracoder Height: 16.8 feet Weight: Lighter than you'd like Discription: Often times a dragon and an elf cross, occasionally a drow. But what if this drow half-dragon would later become a drider? The result is a beast called a Dracoder. A Dracoder shares elven and draconic blood giving it an amazingly long life span. It starts out resembling a normal half-dragon elf, elvish build, dragon wings. But over time it slowly becomes more and more like a dragon, however its lower half remains that of a spider. In fact 16.8 feet is a small Dracoder, they can grow taller than giants and often rival dragons in size.

They are a chimeresque creature growing more spider and dragon. Only keeping a mane of hair and coloration to show their drow heratige. Its wings eventually grow large enough for flight, which it employes to decend on its various preys in the UnderDark. It has the head like a dragon only smaller with an almost drow nature, but with large posion fangs coming out of their mouth. Horns curl backward and they breath fire too. Until after they have lived for nearly 222 years as a Dracoder their drow nature vanishes, until by 300 it is gone. Only a savage spider dragon beast is left. The final stage of a Dracoder is similar only its head is distinctally spidery with eight eyes. It retains humaniod hands which it uses to hold on to prey, while jabbing them with a stinger and covering them with webbing, but they are like the fore arms of a dragon.

Dracoders are rare and tend to live in abandonded drow cities that they have slaughtered with rage, hiding in the shadows, ashamed of their nature. Which later powers them to hunt and kill dragon, drow, and drider alike for food.

Uber-Illithid Height: Same height as a Balor Weight: ??? Discription: An Uber-Illithid is a speices of giant Mindflayer it is more stocky than a common Illithid and has a Balor like build. Short, not tall, muscular and not skinny. They dress much like giants and live in similar fashions: caves and ravaging villiages. They turn any race they come across into thralls, but they live alone in caves and use any race as slaves. They generallly were loose garmets and not robes, with long capes hiding their normally folded wings, which can be used for breif gliding between cliffs and caverns.

Uber-Illithids are extremely intellegent and should not be taken lightly when encountered, they have massive pisonic power at their disposal. Luckily they normally live alone and give birth to tadpole like young in the murky rivers of the UnderDark. ------- Heh, if somebody could make these I'd be mighty impressed, but my comp is goofy so I couldn't download them myself but hey I think they're cool...Pictures would work too :lol:

one thing with the first one.

driders arnt an evolution of drow. driders are a mutation of drow caused by magical influence they unlike most magically mutated creatures are able to reproduce hence their population that is believed is because Lloth or some other deity has granted this ability of transformation to the "Mutator".

now elves have a toughness against magic it is true but dragons Far surpass elves for their ability to shrug off magic so they wouldent be easly turned (the spawn would start between the elf and the dragon so it would have to be turned into a drider from there) and Dragons would never mate with a Drider because dragons are feircly proud and to do so would be an insult to themselves to lower themselves down to mating with some magically mutated creature would be like some one mating successfully with a lizzard both would be killed and used for medical research not even an evil dragon would mate with a drider the dragon would be more inclined to rip it apart and leave it for the carion because eating it to them would be repulsive

lol so yeah not meening to me mean or kill your idea or anything but it would be a fun idea to see but not serious due to the fact that the dragon side of things would throw a spanner into the works

Elytherin Dragonius driders arnt an evolution of drow. driders are a mutation of drow caused by magical influence they unlike most magically mutated creatures are able to reproduce hence their population that is believed is because Lloth or some other deity has granted this ability of transformation to the "Mutator".

my appologies about it being hard to follow i was in the shop and filled with distractions and thats exactaly what i ment and the tearm "Mutator" was the preistess if it was in referance to the drider itsself it would be "Mutatee" lol i should have used something easier to follow but was as i said i was Distracted and in a hurry

Erm... Even an Half Elf Half Dragon cannot resist the powers of a God. If Lolth punished it personally, it could quite easily make a Half Dragon a Drider. Not sure about the Dragon bit, but hey, it's D&D. Doesn't need to be realistic.

Oh, and Uber is over. You mean Umlaut-Ober if you don't want a l33t Ilithid.

Why would Lolth care for any life within the Underdark? If dealing with Driders is a disgrace for virtually any race, why would Lolth even bother transforming something into one? If someone has done something so bad, so horrible, so important Lolth feels the need to punish that person, surely an infinity of torture by her minions sounds like a far better alternative (from her point of view). Not to break down the idea of creating new Underdark races, I'm quite in favour of it myself, but it honestly doesn't have to be so far-fetched as these. I'll think on something myself, perhaps I'll be inspired and you'll see me post in this topic again!

Locking and re-directing a good idea to a new post.