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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sundragon2012" data-source="post: 2572631" data-attributes="member: 7624">Yes, yes a thousand times yes.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> I am part African American and the very thought that some artists see drow as brown skinned is stupid for a couple of reasons. For one thing, drow are black skinned, not racially black such as the humans of chult. It annoys me that the elves with my father's skin tone are nearly usiversally depraved. Obsidian black skin is alien but brown skin is tacky for a race defined by both its skin tone and its moral wickedness. One of my best friends, first noticed the cover of the Waterdeep setting book with the dark elven girl, the beholder and the the others. His skin tone was a little darker than hers and he laughed saying that he might not want to walk around in FR if drow have gone from black to brown skinned.I believe that the Illithiri (those who became drow) always had dark skin, they were tropical and thus likely brown skinned, but the magic that turned them into drow gave them black skin if I remember my Realms lore. Lets face it, the pale elves of goodness and light and the pitch black elves of darkness is more than a little cliche anyway. Why didn't Gary just make them wear white and black hats. Its tradition I know and I like drow, but it seems silly.Chris</blockquote>

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