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Quick reminder to make your Drows/Dark Elves in DND purple shades to represent darkness. Purple is commonly used in color theory to color the night sky, or the darker areas of vibrant colors.
Don’t make them black/brown like the book says. And especially don’t make them blue black (A dark skin tone that reflects as blue in the sunlight, and is seen as a beautiful in African and Indian cultures.)
Black/Brown skin being used to show that a character is “evil” is racist and uncool.
My Dark Elves are always maroon / Dark red, does that work?
Maroon is good! Dark red is also good if it’s not imitating a caricature of natives!
I could always be wrong though, and it’s good to get second opinions! I just know that the black (especially pure black, or blue black) and brown transformation of Drow had racist undertones.
Also, unrelated, but I wanted to add on since this post got more attention than I thought it would:
Please don’t harass, or cyberbully people who have drawn dark elves this way in the tags and didn’t know that it was bad. If by any chance the racist undertones are getting out of hand the best way to approach it is by letting them know in a private message or in a way that won’t encourage dog-piling or harassment. 9/10 times they probably just didn’t know, and truly just meant to make an accurate character to the books.
Racist fantasy undertones need to be taught to some folks, because it’s glossed over so much by white players, or players that are unaware of the cultural and racial undertones. Scaring them with harassment will only make them panic and potentially never create a DND character again. Please give them time to fully learn, understand, and change before calling them racist.
Ornyou could just leave people draw whatever they like and if you don’t like that then don’t look at their art and leave them alone, there is also the option of blocking them so you’ll feel more safe. The ideas in this post are great, but you are forgetting that none of you is the fandom police and people didn’t sign to have personal, unannounced and not asked for, advices. Do your posts and make it travel around the internet, but let people alone, not because you are in the same fandom means they owe you something.
Exactly. How someone else portrays something isn’t up to you to decide. I’m black and I have no qualms about using literaly black, purple or whatever for skin tones. It’s just a stylistic choice and if someone finds it inherently racist or offensive, that’s their problem. They could be reading into it too much. And like the last person said, just block or ignore them if you find them problematic.
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