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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 9802376" data-attributes="member: 18182">IMO, you can't do that. Well, you could, but it wouldn't work out very well.New D&D show starts up, with an African-American actor portraying the elf Drizzt. Someone in the media learns the backstory of Drizzt and the drow elves in D&D. Media funtime begins!To remove the embedded racist elements of the drow story, WotC would have to retcon it so hard, it wouldn't be the same at all anymore. Which might satisfy folks understandably uncomfortable with it, but then you have the opposite problem, the long-time fans freak out. It's a lose-lose for WotC.It's a minefield that would be very difficult for WotC to navigate successfully, and so it is very unlikely Drizzt or the drow will ever be a major component to a live-action or animated D&D TV show or movie.If they did attempt it . . . I would retcon the idea that the drow were cursed with jet-black skin when they rebelled against Correllon, in fact, I would retcon the idea they rebelled as a people at all. I would retcon the drow as a people who were already dark-skinned and fled unjust persecution by the followers of Corellon. And a subset of the drow who worshipped Lolth, turned to evil in their anger and trauma, and managed to take over the city of Menzoberranzan. I would turn Lolth and the drow's fall into a tragic story, rather than a story of good driving out evil.A lot of this has already been kinda-sorta worked into the drow story by WotC over the years, but it hasn't been fully retconned. But even if they do fully retcon the drow origin story, it's still there, like a landmine, waiting for the outrage machine to find it . . .</blockquote>

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