Editing Drizzt (section)

==Ok, so why is this son of a bitch so popular?==
* Drizzt is a [[Twilight|unique and beautiful snowflake]] (well, he used to be unique).
** To his credit however, even Drizzt himself is [[FAIL|facepalming]] at the above line. ''Jesus.''
* He has [[Cadia|lavender eyes]], making him popular among the [[-4 Str|ladies]].
* Drow are hot, and Drizzt is a drow. Therefore we can safely conclude that Drizzt is hot. (Confirmed by our [[Gay Purple Man|on-staff homosexual.]])
* He occasionally hangs out with [[Dwarves|dorfs]] and helped them greatly, which basically means he cannot ''completely'' suck.
* [[Meme|I think Drizzt is a pretty cool gal, seh kills demons and doesn't afraid of anything.]]
* His name sounds exactly like the Russian word for "diarrhea" (was even renamed into Dzzirt in the official Russian translation, go figure).
* Because he's a male drow that doesn't get slapped for not GB2Kitchen. Indeed, he slaughtered his way across his [[Stupid Evil]] members to his well-earned freedom, got the fuck back to the Underdark, killed some more, blew up Lol'th's temple, got back to the surface and warned everyone to unite. Pretty much heroic.
* Has a badass black panther animal companion from the Astral Realms.
* Drizzt isn't a fan of his clones either. And to his credit, he gets shit done better than them.
* Though Chaotic Good, he isn't Chaotic Stupid. Uses chaotic things like lies, deceit and lawful things like principles and plain self-sacrifice to ensure his friends' safety, and good is preserved without resorting to Mary Sue killings like Kaldor Draigo did. In one tale, he uses a sack of flour to drown Crenshinibon, a world-threatening sentient crystal; in another he willingly takes blows from the now-grown hateful elf girl he once saved from death, who thought he was going to kill her. So he is a bro, bro'est of all Drow.
* We're reasonably sure he didn't cause [[4e]].
* <s>He's part of the elf master-race.</s> [[Dwarf|WHO LET THE ELVES IN HERE???]]
* He's a [[ranger]] and a bad motherfucker, two things that, in ''D&D'', have rarely blended well. Might have to do with being raised by a badass bearded blind ranger, and at least having a class of barbarian in the older editions for the "berserk" trance he used in the Dark Elf Trilogy.
* Did we mention he dual-wields scimitars like Baraka on crack? It's as good as it sounds.

...On a serious note, it's because people have always liked the idea of playing "monster" races.  From [[goblins]] to [[orcs]] to [[minotaur]]s, it's as old as ''D&D''. Literally; Gygax included notes expressing different opinions on the idea in different supplements over the years and reportedly once let someone bring a ''balrog'' to the table. Evil races are often kinda ''sweet''. Why else would [[Chaos]] have as many fans as it does? But bringing a monster attitude to a normal gaming table is often disruptive.  Gygax pointed out that having a balrog in the party made it hard to adventure, since it kept trying to dominate or abuse the other party members into line.

So, to the kind of mind that likes coming up with "unconventional" PC choices, playing a non-evil version of a traditionally-evil race is a good way to try to create a character with an adventuring-party-friendly personality without fully sacrificing the cool-factor that made the traditionally-evil race popular in the first place. And it was pretty good roleplay fodder too, before it got run into the ground: the player in question got to have angst while the party got to show how cool and not-racist they were for looking past the monster PC's race to see them for the good person they were inside.

Drizzt, bless his heart, was merely the first PROMINENT example of what people have always been doing to get lots of spotlight. In the Prequel explaining his backstory, he gets a considerable amount of fleshing out and has good explanation for his items and skills. It is learned that his father, Zaknafein, is a Drow so manly that he openly repudiates Lol'th in public, and yet is given leeway by his fuckbuddy, Matron Malice (Drizzt's mom who fucks him regularly because of his rejection of submission typical of Drow males). It is Drizzt's father that infuses his idealism and good heart, and subtly tells Drizzt that Drow are backstabbing sons of bitches who can't wait a split second before going on free-for-all a la [[Neogi]]. So Drizzt got saved from an evil Matriarchal society by a strong father figure; an evil, lawless society of dark skinned beings where fatherless, demonised, dark skinned-children go on cathartic murder sprees and enslave others and males are generally second-class.

Wow. Sort of makes it sound like a [[/pol/]] fantasy, doesn't it? Who'd have pegged Salvatore for the type?

He starts well enough in the Crystal Shard of the Icewind Dale trilogy. This trilogy came before he himself was a main character and Instead plays a hybrid Aragon/Gandalf role to the actual main character Wulfgar. But over time his plot relevance grew and the books go batshit [[Mary Sue]] by the time his Stupid Evil kin decide to attack the surface to enslave and murder. He infiltrates their city, complete with magic time bombs (Yes, magic C-4) to blow up Drow cathedrals and fight dozens of Drow at once like some Assassin's Creedfag on steroids and pointy ass elf ears. <s>Seriously Salvatore, you done fucked up.</s> Which is actually '''a lot''' more reasonable than most people realize since the difference in strength/power/speed/durability between people in a D&D world can be so huge that one person dies to an arrow while another can <s>headbutt</s> facetank meteors and dodge lightning with little effort so (while game mechanics cannot allow it for balance reasons) it '''does''' make sense that a "high level" charachter can solo armies of "low level" conscripts or soldiers that had less potential or needed more time to grow than them.

Afterwards, he kinda mellows and goes on a few adventures, fucks a light elf chick and saves her ass, that sort of comicbook shit.  He never really lets being the most popular and iconic drow ''and'' the most popular and iconic ranger in the gameline go to his head, stays reasonably kind, humble and cool and that makes him pretty tolerable.