[RPG] Are Drow Cities Illuminated

Super Genius Games’ definition of “witch” states that witches include any of the following sorts of creatures:

• All hags (green hags, night hags, sea hags, and any other creature who counts as a hag for purposes of creating a hag’s coven).

  Drow are not hags and do not count as hags for the purposes of joining hags’ covens. A drow could conceivably pick up such an ability, perhaps, but that would be unusual.
  
  

• Outsiders with the native subtype.

  Drow are humanoids. Oddly enough, this would make a 20th-level drow monk into a witch, just as an example off the top of my head and one of the reasons I’m not wild about this product. But drow more generally, no.
  
  

• Humanoids and monstrous humanoids with innate spellcasting ability (not gained from a class) that allows them to cast spells of 1st level or higher.

  (emphasis mine) Having spell-like abilities is not the same as having spellcasting ability, so drows’ spell-like abilities do not qualify them for this. This applies to creatures that say they cast spells as if they were some kind of spellcaster, for example, the lamia matriarch who “casts spells as a 6th-level sorcerer.”

• Characters with one or more levels in a class (including prestige classes) with “witch” in the title.

  A drow is certainly welcome to take such a class, but this is not true of drow in general.
  
  

• Clerics with one of the following domains: charm, death, destruction, evil, madness or trickery (and any other domains associated with evil gods, as determined by the GM).

  Again, a drow certainly can be such a cleric, but is not by default.
  
  

• Sorcerer with one of the following bloodlines: aberrant, abyssal, fey, infernal, undead (and any other domain linked with evil creatures, as determined by the GM).

  Repeating myself again; drow sorcerer with the appropriate bloodline, yes; drow in general, no.
  
  

• Wizards with the necromancy specialization.

  And one last time, not in general.

Super Genius Games does not list any other kinds of creatures as generally being witches, so no, drow are not inherently witches for the purposes of the witch hunter class according to Super Genius Games.

Given that this is a lore question, and not a specifically 5e one, I would strongly recommend the 2e product Forgotten Realms Adventures, as it has a section on 24 cities of the Heartlands with exactly the kind of information you are asking for. The catch with it is that a lot of the listed characters there are now dead (if you are playing past the Second Sundering). But even then, in terms of the social structures, most of the data are still remarkably intact. For each city in the FRA, the following information is provided: Who rules, who really rules behind the scenes, population, major products, armed forces, notable wizards, notable churches, notable rogues' and thieves' guilds, equipment shops, adventurer's quarters (lodging), important characters, important features in town, local lore and finally a small map.

As for the 3e, FR Campaign Setting (FRCS) is excellent. At 320 pages and with a small font, it is one of the most information packed D&D books ever published. (It received the Origins Award for Best Role-Playing Game Supplement of 2001.) It provides a decent amount of information on the cities, but not in the itemized format of FRA. Instead it has data on regions/countries and cities are given as individual paragraphs. So it covers a larger geography (significantly larger than FRA, or 5e Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide), but provides somewhat less detailed data on particular cities. One excellent thing in FRCS3e is a map of trade between regions.

The 4e Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide (FRCG) is structured in the same way as FRCS. However it lacks the level of detail FRCS provides. The 4e "Points of Light" philosophy is arguably reflected onto FRCG and the particular data on the cities are very limited. Moreover, 5e D&D (and the in-game mechanics of the Second Sundering) has mostly returned the setting to pretty much how it was in 2e/3e.

Finally, the 5e sourcebook Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide (SCAG) has partially returned to the style of FRA (cities are discussed explicitly), with a mix of FRCS3e. It covers more limited geography than FRCS3e, and the data on the cities is less organized than FRA (and some data are missing). Its main pro is that it happens to be the most recent published material. If one did not care about editions, FRCS3e and FRA are more suited to answer the question you have asked.

PS: Both FRA and FRCS3e are available as watermarked pdf downloads that you can buy on the web for less than half the price of SCAG.