10: Their Natural Aversion To Sunlight
9: Their Creator, Lolth, Is Still Alive & Present
8: They're A Matriarchal Society
7: Their Society Runs On Slavery
6: The Drow Culture Is Counterproductive
5: They're More Attractive Than Other Elves
4: Some Become Disillusioned, Leading To Kindness
3: They're A Bit Short
2: Mind Flayers Fear Them
1: Attempts To Change The Racist Stereotype
If you remove what it is well known and what is wrong you have nothing left and this are the people who claim to be fans.
I hate how they make the connection that if the elves have dark skin then it must be a connection to black people.
They have obsidian black skin and not dark brown skin and culturally there is nothing in common. I assume they would make the same claim if they had dark green or dark purple skin, anything except white skins and even that, I bet yellow skin would imply something racist.
I hate SJW looking for offence where there is none to begin with. Drow as a concept was extremely fucking cool and the SJWs are going to ruin it to somehow save the Drow.
They're sometimes drawn this way. Like in that official comic about Drittz (or whatever his name) and his hot sisters.
Them being green or purple is just for artist reasons as well as print reasons. Much easier to see details in shading and whatnot instead of just a black blob.
Dark grey rather than green.
There are literally dark brown skinned elves... Which are known as a more savage and brutal and stronger, faster, but less mentally swift elf subspecies: The wood elves, compared to the high elves.
You'd think if they were ready to complain about racial stereotypes, it would be that the pale elves have int bonuses while the tan elves don't. Drow are one of the strongest elf subspecies, rivaled only by elemental elves and averiels (winged elves), complaining "we're literally leagues stronger than all other elves, because we're black, how tragic and racist" is so dumb, there's clearly better targets. But that would require the writer to actually know D&D, which I guess is too much to ask.
I think wild elves have brown skin and wood elves are described as tanned, or something stupid like that.
Thing is that drow elves are iconic, wild elves or wood elves are what ever, you can remove them entirely and no one would care. For the average guy, there are high elves and drow and that is about it.
Drow have lore, books and fans. You must hurt the fans.
Those who wanted to play as a drow played as one without issues, you had to wear a disguise or people would fear you, it was special and interesting. Now they want to remove the evil race stigma, which kind of sucks, it removes what was interesting to play as one to begin with.
Marvin the Martian had better watch out, I guess. He'll be next.