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<blockquote data-quote="ninjayeti" data-source="post: 8025821" data-attributes="member: 6789120">So to be clear when you said &quot;many illustrations&quot; you mean just the two from G3?&nbsp; Weren't you just pointing out how we shouldn't&nbsp; &quot;single source&quot; arguments about the origin of drow?I agree those illustrations are questionable.&nbsp; But they are also inconsistent with the descriptions of drow in the text of G3 which say drow have&nbsp; &quot;dead white&quot; or &quot;shining silvery&quot; hair.&nbsp; So either the the text or the art has it wrong.&nbsp; Given these are the first pics of drow in D&amp;D and every subsequent depiction goes with white (usually long and straight) hair it is pretty clearly a mistake on the part of the artist (or art department) rather than the smoking gun you make it out to be.&nbsp; By the same token I think our tendency to see drow as a racist depiction based on the thinnest of evidence has more do to with the mindset of our time than it does with the intent of Gygax et al.&nbsp; I'm glad we are more sensitive to issues of racial justice today then in the past, but I think we also need to be careful no to lose objectivity either.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ninjayeti, post: 8025821, member: 6789120"] So to be clear when you said "many illustrations" you mean just the two from G3? Weren't you just pointing out how we shouldn't "single source" arguments about the origin of drow? I agree those illustrations are questionable. But they are also inconsistent with the descriptions of drow in the text of G3 which say drow have "dead white" or "shining silvery" hair. So either the the text or the art has it wrong. Given these are the first pics of drow in D&D and every subsequent depiction goes with white (usually long and straight) hair it is pretty clearly a mistake on the part of the artist (or art department) rather than the smoking gun you make it out to be. By the same token I think our tendency to see drow as a racist depiction based on the thinnest of evidence has more do to with the mindset of our time than it does with the intent of Gygax et al. I'm glad we are more sensitive to issues of racial justice today then in the past, but I think we also need to be careful no to lose objectivity either. [/QUOTE]

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