Drow Magic Resistance

[jinath715]

Do the Drow enemies (or Drow player character) in this game have any resistances to magic.
Per the lore, I'm pretty sure they're supposed to have quite a lot.
But, I suppose that would imbalance the game.
Anyone know?

Thanks :)

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Just the usual (I think it's resistance to charm and immune to sleep).

[lejes]

Originally posted by pandariuskairos:

Just the usual (I think it's resistance to charm and immune to sleep).

You are right:
Fey Ancestry: The drow has advantage on Saving Throws against being Charmed, and magic can't put the drow to sleep.

[jinath715]

Awesome!
I thought it had to be something. And not over-powering.
Thanks much :)

[id795078477]

No magic resistance. I have no idea why though. It's certainly not because of the balance concerns - as there are plenty of other things that are much worse.

I remember NWN2 and it's selection of races.. Ah, those guys went ham with what was available. And of course, all the perks were there - racial resistances, racial spells. Deep gnomes had +4 racial AC if I remember it correctly.

[Panic Fire]

Originally posted by jinath715:

Do the Drow enemies (or Drow player character) in this game have any resistances to magic.
Per the lore, I'm pretty sure they're supposed to have quite a lot.
But, I suppose that would imbalance the game.
Anyone know?

Thanks :)

Spell resistance was removed from 5e. (Though some creatures do have something called spell resistance its a creature by creature basis and there isn't a universal rule for spell resistance. )


Long story short Drow don't have spell resistance in 5e.