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	Derro were based upon the ''Dero'', a race of sunlight-averse, psychic, sadistic, degenerate aliens that the legendarily insane pulp sci-fi writer [[wikipedia:Richard Sharpe Shaver\|Richard Sharpe Shaver]] asserted were secretly in control of the world. You will note then that this means that they do not fit under the Open game license the way other creatures are so you will see Derro popping up in other media.		Derro were based upon the ''Dero'', a race of sunlight-averse, psychic, sadistic, degenerate aliens that the legendarily insane pulp sci-fi writer [[wikipedia:Richard Sharpe Shaver\|Richard Sharpe Shaver]] asserted were secretly in control of the world. You will note then that this means that they do not fit under the Open game license the way other creatures are so you will see Derro popping up in other media.

	Derros are considered fucking hilarious in England's own Underdark, Australia, because 'Derro' is another word for "Bogan cunt" or “deadbeat” (from “derelict”) down t/here. (Bogan being the far more [[Manly Marines\|manly]] and [[Angry Marines\|badass]] equivalent of a Hoodlum or [[Britfag\|Chav]])		Derros are considered fucking hilarious in England's own Underdark, Australia, because 'Derro' is another word for "Bogan cunt" or “deadbeat” (from “derelict”) down t/here. (Bogan being the far more [[Manly Marines\|manly]] and [[Angry Marines\|badass]] equivalent of a Hoodlum or [[Britfag\|Chav]], or Australia's equivalent to Rednecks)

	==[[Greyhawk]]==		==[[Greyhawk]]==

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	==[[Forgotten Realms]]==		==[[Forgotten Realms]]==
	[[File:Izhkin.png\|thumb\|left\|150px\|Izhkin, a derro character from the ''Storm Coast Legends'' video game. Rather ~~skinny by Dwarf standards~~.]]		[[File:Izhkin.png\|thumb\|left\|150px\|Izhkin, a derro character from the ''Storm Coast Legends'' video game. Rather scrawny.]]
	As with most things, the Faerunian take on the Derro is pretty much the "generic" Derro fluff with some setting-unique names to their places of residence. At least, this was the case until the 5e update, seeing as how 5th edition basically uses the Realms as the "default" setting.		As with most things, the Faerunian take on the Derro is pretty much the "generic" Derro fluff with some setting-unique names to their places of residence. At least, this was the case until the 5e update, seeing as how 5th edition basically uses the Realms as the "default" setting.

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	==[[Forgotten Realms]]==		==[[Forgotten Realms]]==
	[[File:Izhkin.png\|thumb\|left\|150px\|Izhkin, a derro character from the ''Storm Coast Legends'' video game.]]		[[File:Izhkin.png\|thumb\|left\|150px\|Izhkin, a derro character from the ''Storm Coast Legends'' video game. Rather skinny by Dwarf standards.]]
	As with most things, the Faerunian take on the Derro is pretty much the "generic" Derro fluff with some setting-unique names to their places of residence. At least, this was the case until the 5e update, seeing as how 5th edition basically uses the Realms as the "default" setting.		As with most things, the Faerunian take on the Derro is pretty much the "generic" Derro fluff with some setting-unique names to their places of residence. At least, this was the case until the 5e update, seeing as how 5th edition basically uses the Realms as the "default" setting.

104.220.162.108: /* Further Reading */

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	[[Gary Gygax]] brought them into the [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1e module take on "[[S4: The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth]]", which entry the Monster Manual II basically reprinted. They were updated to 2nd edition in the Greyhawk modules "Greyhawk Ruins" and "Flames of the Falcon"; and, subsequently, ''[[From the Ashes]]'' and the Monstrous Manual. [[Dungeon Magazine]] #81 introduced a variety of derro mutants, including multiple-armed ones, derros with eyestalks, and derros conjoined with [[grimlock]]s. The baseline derro went on to 3e's Monster Manual. 4e held off until Monster Manual 3; 5e put 'em in adventure [[Out of the Abyss]].		[[Gary Gygax]] brought them into the [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1e module take on "[[S4: The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth]]", which entry the Monster Manual II basically reprinted. They were updated to 2nd edition in the Greyhawk modules "Greyhawk Ruins" and "Flames of the Falcon"; and, subsequently, ''[[From the Ashes]]'' and the Monstrous Manual. [[Dungeon Magazine]] #81 introduced a variety of derro mutants, including multiple-armed ones, derros with eyestalks, and derros conjoined with [[grimlock]]s. The baseline derro went on to 3e's Monster Manual. 4e held off until Monster Manual 3; 5e put 'em in adventure [[Out of the Abyss]].

	Derro were based upon the ''Dero'', a race of sunlight-averse, psychic, sadistic, degenerate aliens that the legendarily insane pulp sci-fi writer Richard Sharpe Shaver asserted were secretly in control of the world. You will note then that this means that they do not fit under the Open game license the way other creatures are so you will see Derro popping up in other media.		Derro were based upon the ''Dero'', a race of sunlight-averse, psychic, sadistic, degenerate aliens that the legendarily insane pulp sci-fi writer [[wikipedia:Richard Sharpe Shaver\|Richard Sharpe Shaver]] asserted were secretly in control of the world. You will note then that this means that they do not fit under the Open game license the way other creatures are so you will see Derro popping up in other media.

	Derros are considered fucking hilarious in England's own Underdark, Australia, because 'Derro' is another word for "Bogan cunt" or “deadbeat” (from “derelict”) down t/here. (Bogan being the far more [[Manly Marines\|manly]] and [[Angry Marines\|badass]] equivalent of a Hoodlum or [[Britfag\|Chav]])		Derros are considered fucking hilarious in England's own Underdark, Australia, because 'Derro' is another word for "Bogan cunt" or “deadbeat” (from “derelict”) down t/here. (Bogan being the far more [[Manly Marines\|manly]] and [[Angry Marines\|badass]] equivalent of a Hoodlum or [[Britfag\|Chav]])

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	When [[Pathfinder]] learned they could get away with bringing derros into their own game, they decided the best way to do it was to try and more explicitly use the themes of the original Dero stories, which is expanded upon in the sourcebook "Classic Horrors Revisted".		When [[Pathfinder]] learned they could get away with bringing derros into their own game, they decided the best way to do it was to try and more explicitly use the themes of the original Dero stories, which is expanded upon in the sourcebook "Classic Horrors Revisted".

	Derro on Golarion are actually corrupted fey, descendants of the same root-stock as the [[Pech]], but diverged from them centuries ago when they fled a civil war amongst their race that brought them towards the surface. A combination of starvation, struggle and addiction to the one source of nourishment they managed to find, the brain-altering and toxic fungus, cytillesh, caused them to mutate into their current forms, whilst also afflicting them with racial insanity and wide-spread infertility.		Derro on Golarion are actually corrupted fey, descendants of the same root-stock as the [[Pech]], but diverged from them centuries ago when they fled a civil war amongst their race that brought them towards the surface. A combination of starvation, struggle and addiction to the one source of nourishment they managed to find, the brain-altering and toxic fungus cytillesh, caused them to mutate into their current forms, whilst also afflicting them with racial insanity and wide-spread infertility.

	This keeps the derro a fairly rare race, and this is a mercy; obsessed with understanding why the residents of the "Overburn" are not affected by the sun's rays in the way that they are, the derro conduct a ceaseless campaign of experimentation, performing all manner of insane and unholy regimes of gaslighting, dissection, vivisection, grafting and other forms of [[fleshcrafting]] - worse, because of their insanity, derro do not pass on the fruits of their labors, meaning that the race's goal is impossible to achieve, as each generation dismisses the works of its predecessors and starts over from scratch. They conduct endless nocturnal raids on the cities under which they establish their lairs, covering up their depredations with crude brainwashing (surgical, [[psionics]], or both) and assassination. Vicious cannibals, the only races they typically interact with are [[grimlock\|morlocks]] and [[mongrelfolk]], whose flesh they regard as inedible.		This keeps the derro a fairly rare race, and this is a mercy; obsessed with understanding why the residents of the "Overburn" are not affected by the sun's rays in the way that they are, the derro conduct a ceaseless campaign of experimentation, performing all manner of insane and unholy regimes of gaslighting, dissection, vivisection, grafting and other forms of [[fleshcrafting]] - worse, because of their insanity, derro do not pass on the fruits of their labors, meaning that the race's goal is impossible to achieve, as each generation dismisses the works of its predecessors and starts over from scratch. They conduct endless nocturnal raids on the cities under which they establish their lairs, covering up their depredations with crude brainwashing (surgical, [[psionics]], or both) and assassination. Vicious cannibals, the only races they typically interact with are [[grimlock\|morlocks]] and [[mongrelfolk]], whose flesh they regard as inedible.

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Gallery

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	PF Derro Magister.jpg\|PF		PF Derro Magister.jpg\|PF
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Golarion

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	Locked away in the dark, trapped with their Far Realm rifts, the derro devolved into stunted, crazy horrors. In fact, they're known for being so absolutely batshit insane that even '''[[Drow]]''' find them horrifying and have a "kill on sight!" order about the whole race! Absolutely '''nothing''' humanoid will voluntarily work alongside a derro, and they exult in that fact. Rampantly insane, still in-thrall to Far Realm worshipping witch-priests called Savants, the derro pursue a life of deranged violence and suffering, seeking to enslave, kill, devour and experiment upon everything else with the vague ultimate goal of unleashing their [[aberration]] masters upon the world.		Locked away in the dark, trapped with their Far Realm rifts, the derro devolved into stunted, crazy horrors. In fact, they're known for being so absolutely batshit insane that even '''[[Drow]]''' find them horrifying and have a "kill on sight!" order about the whole race! Absolutely '''nothing''' humanoid will voluntarily work alongside a derro, and they exult in that fact. Rampantly insane, still in-thrall to Far Realm worshipping witch-priests called Savants, the derro pursue a life of deranged violence and suffering, seeking to enslave, kill, devour and experiment upon everything else with the vague ultimate goal of unleashing their [[aberration]] masters upon the world.

	==[[~~Golarion~~]]==		==[[Pathfinder]]==
	When [[Pathfinder]] learned they could get away with bringing derros into their own game, they decided the best way to do it was to try and more explicitly use the themes of the original Dero stories, which is expanded upon in the sourcebook "Classic Horrors Revisted".		When [[Pathfinder]] learned they could get away with bringing derros into their own game, they decided the best way to do it was to try and more explicitly use the themes of the original Dero stories, which is expanded upon in the sourcebook "Classic Horrors Revisted".

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	==Further Reading==		==Further Reading==
	[https://derropedia.wordpress.com\| Derropedia], the blog of some guy who is absolutely obsessed with Derro. ~~Still active as of~~ 2020.		[https://derropedia.wordpress.com/ The Derropedia], the blog of some guy who is absolutely obsessed with Derro. Last entry was 26 September 2020.

	[[Category: Dungeons & Dragons Races]] [[Category: Monsters]] [[Category: Greyhawk]] [[Category: Mixed Races]]		[[Category: Dungeons & Dragons Races]] [[Category: Monsters]] [[Category: Greyhawk]] [[Category: Mixed Races]]

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