Anonymous6: To Schrodinger's Cat: Actually, if you go hy the original description from their first appearance in Dungeons and Dragons, they are supposed to have obsidian black skin.
I should know, I'm the one who commissioned this image ^_^ (as well as every other drow/illithid combination pic you find here).
Anonymous10: Pure black is actually what it is SUPPOSED to be, but its really dificult to pull of a full ebony color scheme without making it look like just a 'black elf'.
Anonymous12: Thought it was Jet Black Skin not a more nigro variety.
So yeah no brown, purple and crap like that. Later on they accepted bronish and greyish but still not attractive and successful African enough to make aventurers want to kill them, so most of the drow are described as jet black still which is more "hey, an attractive and successful African not picking its cotton, let's show it its place"
If its black is evil and moronic rule #3 of Fantasy, designed by Tolkien himself
Anonymous13: Drow are meant to be pitch black, like the darkness of the Underdark where they dwell. The purple crap is from artists deciding for some reason to do it that way.
>>19990 <--Doing it right.
This <-- Doing it wrong.
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I should know, I'm the one who commissioned this image ^_^ (as well as every other drow/illithid combination pic you find here).
"Chup@Cabra"
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Even if you do prefer the impossible-to-see Ed1 drow.
So yeah no brown, purple and crap like that. Later on they accepted bronish and greyish but still not attractive and successful African enough to make aventurers want to kill them, so most of the drow are described as jet black still which is more "hey, an attractive and successful African not picking its cotton, let's show it its place"
If its black is evil and moronic rule #3 of Fantasy, designed by Tolkien himself