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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8490023" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I still remember the moment when I realized Drow were &quot;problematic&quot; (even thought I didn't know the word then), not just the artists who depicted them (I'd already seen weird &quot;Drow as brown-skinned&quot; covers of adventures from the '80s, and put that down to &quot;artists ignoring the brief&quot;). It was when Jarlaxle was described in one of the early Drizzt books (which a friend had given me, not the same friend who gave me the Prism Pentad - I stopped talking to that guy!), and it just seemed obvious to me that he was basically intended to be dressed like a 1970s pimp (totally unlike any other character), and like, even if he wasn't, everything around the situation made it seem like he was, so it was still problematic. I was about 14-15. And then I thought about how they were dark-skinned and the &quot;bad guys&quot; and I started frowning a lot.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8490023, member: 18"] I still remember the moment when I realized Drow were "problematic" (even thought I didn't know the word then), not just the artists who depicted them (I'd already seen weird "Drow as brown-skinned" covers of adventures from the '80s, and put that down to "artists ignoring the brief"). It was when Jarlaxle was described in one of the early Drizzt books (which a friend had given me, not the same friend who gave me the Prism Pentad - I stopped talking to that guy!), and it just seemed obvious to me that he was basically intended to be dressed like a 1970s pimp (totally unlike any other character), and like, even if he wasn't, everything around the situation made it seem like he was, so it was still problematic. I was about 14-15. And then I thought about how they were dark-skinned and the "bad guys" and I started frowning a lot. [/QUOTE]

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