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<blockquote data-quote="Dessert Nomad" data-source="post: 7538396" data-attributes="member: 6976536"><p></p><p></p><p>I think that could be solved by giving them non-human skin tones, more like WOW night elves than the traditional jet-black drow. If they're shades of violet and deep blue, they probably avoid hitting the 'oh, so black people are evil' stereotype or otherwise getting mixed up in real-world human racial issues. IMO that distingusihes drow from the surface races better now that D&D's core backstory doesn't just ignore the existence of anyone darker than 'middle eastern'. In the old days, elves were just assumed to be basically white guys unless they were drow; it was never explicitly in the rules, but finding art of a high elf with dark skin and short, curly hair from before 1990 is going to take some effort. Now that the game explicitly rejects the idea that 'white guys are the basis for human-like fantasy races', drow that are just dark-skinned don't really stand out like they used to.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>While they're said to be rare, aren't they all over the place in published materials? It would be kind of weird to cut them out if they're using a published setting where they're common in the major characters like Forgotten Realms.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dessert Nomad, post: 7538396, member: 6976536"] [COLOR=#333333][/COLOR] I think that could be solved by giving them non-human skin tones, more like WOW night elves than the traditional jet-black drow. If they're shades of violet and deep blue, they probably avoid hitting the 'oh, so black people are evil' stereotype or otherwise getting mixed up in real-world human racial issues. IMO that distingusihes drow from the surface races better now that D&D's core backstory doesn't just ignore the existence of anyone darker than 'middle eastern'. In the old days, elves were just assumed to be basically white guys unless they were drow; it was never explicitly in the rules, but finding art of a high elf with dark skin and short, curly hair from before 1990 is going to take some effort. Now that the game explicitly rejects the idea that 'white guys are the basis for human-like fantasy races', drow that are just dark-skinned don't really stand out like they used to. While they're said to be rare, aren't they all over the place in published materials? It would be kind of weird to cut them out if they're using a published setting where they're common in the major characters like Forgotten Realms. [/QUOTE]
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