haha carn no one listens to you, you gotta get the FIST empowered like the right hand of gond or something.
seize the power!!!
meldor the issue is not that you can't play on the surface, go build a surface race that's what they are for.
the issue is that UD races should be exceedingly rare on the surface, and deep gnomes even rarer than drow on the surface.
if not kept in check pretty soon the surface will be overrun with players UD race toons who have no idea what their race is about.
Deep gnomes have the word DEEP in their name for a reason.
their not SHALLOW gnomes..haha although a lot of cheese masters seem to play such shallow gnomes.
now i understand your frustration at being a deep gnome stuck in a drow city.
you gotta bow and scrape and what not to those nasty drow, however you are not and are far from a slave.
you're just a minority in a drow run city and should RP yourself appropriately.
stick out (as chloe was doing) and you're gonna get your head chopped off.
I have suggested to the devs that the put in the area of Sshamath called the darkwoods and use it as multi-racial ghetto.
a place where the duergar and deep gnomes and odd human can go to get away from drow racism and set their own rules, kina like gangs of new york but with deep gnomes and duergar instead of micks and paddies.
the conclave pays little attention the darkwoods and doesnt police them so if you were to run into a drow in the darkwoods who bad-mouthed you you could take him down a peg or two.
absent some specific exception on the dm staff's part you should keep your deep gnome in the UD and just deal.
i am happy to RP with you as long you don't ignore the realities of living in a city run by drow.
and highwayman i thought it was really good RP you were doing from a duergar's perspective.
they do dislike drow and their relationships tend towards ones of convenience.
I like the attitude you displayed and think it was IC for a duergar.
you shouldn't have to bow and scrape to drow IF you can establish a power relationship with one of the schools of magic or similar. with such a relationship in place most drow would just leave you alone. they try to order you around just tell them "talk to master blahblah im sure he would like to hear that YOU are stopping his emissary from conducting his business".
cheers and see you IG