The creator of popular drow character Drizzt Do’Urden has spoken about changes to Dungeons & Dragons lore made to move the elf subrace away from racist tropes. Earlier today, Polygon posted an interview with novelist R.A. Salvatore about his upcoming novel Starlight Enclave. As ComicBook.com reported earlier this year, Starlight Enclave will introduce two new cultures of drow that have firmly rejected the teachings and influence of the spider demon goddess Lolth, thus reversing the drow’s past depiction of being innately evil. During the interview, Salvatore noted that the drow, who have dark skin, needed to be updated because they inadvertently used racist tropes. “I did it because it’s the right thing to do,” Salvatore told Polygon. “It’s an update that was greatly needed - for things that I didn’t even know were a problem when I first wrote the books.”
