Aren't "Drows" supposed to be BLACK black

[IDKFA]

Like PITCH black? Wish they had made a darker skin tone.

[zero]

Originally posted by fr lore:

Drow skin tones ranged from dark grey,[28] jet-black,[22] and obsidian,[15] (with various shades of blue),[9][24][23] the albino drow known as the Szarkai being an exception.[22] Drow had white, black, or purple teeth, while their gums, tongues, and throats could be red, pink, or purple

pitch black is an option, so are greys

[Яeplicant]

Originally posted by zero:

Originally posted by fr lore:

Drow skin tones ranged from dark grey,[28] jet-black,[22] and obsidian,[15] (with various shades of blue),[9][24][23] the albino drow known as the Szarkai being an exception.[22] Drow had white, black, or purple teeth, while their gums, tongues, and throats could be red, pink, or purple

pitch black is an option, so are greys

Dark blue as well.

[videomike_Ultimate_Plushie]

I don't believe so? They can tend to be shades of dark and even light grey. Baldur's Gate 2 did it that way. In universe rules, I'm fairly sure it's always been varied.
Edit: As well as Dark blue, thank you replicant

[zero]

Originally posted by Geist:

Originally posted by zero:

pitch black is an option, so are greys

In the PC game not. I wanted to make it pitch black but you only get like lets say 80% gray as the darkest. The same with hair, it always seem to end up grey even if you use black :-(

game design choice is not something i have control over sorry, the question was about drow not game design however.

there is however a mod for character creation feature unlocker, i bet that will give you the pitch black colors you want.

[orthostatic]

Drow are born knowing their lives don't matter.

[[OTS]EchoZenLogos]

They are supposed to be quite dark-skinned in general, yeah.

Drizzt being the obvious example of a famous one.

Though you could argue that some of them in the time since 3rd or so and 5th edition (the setting has progressed by decades at least by then) would have lighter skin tones if they are descended from those living on the surface. Because their dark skin is very obviously implied to be either due to where they live and/or their worship of an evil God - not simply natural genetics or whatever.

[Cirrus]

Originally posted by IDKFA:

Like PITCH black? Wish they had made a darker skin tone.

Let's examine current source material: Book: D&D 5: Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
"Drow have the racial traits of dark elves in the Player’s Handbook. Drow characters can come from any background, though most have a history that links to one of the drow city-states of the Underdark."

Book: Player handbook:
"Your kin tend to have stark white hair and grayish skin of many hues."

TLDR; Answer is: No.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Cirrus:

Originally posted by IDKFA:

Like PITCH black? Wish they had made a darker skin tone.

Let's examine current source material: Book: D&D 5: Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
"Drow have the racial traits of dark elves in the Player’s Handbook. Drow characters can come from any background, though most have a history that links to one of the drow city-states of the Underdark."

Book: Player handbook:
"Your kin tend to have stark white hair and grayish skin of many hues."

TLDR; Answer is: No.

The dungeon master has spoken. End of discussion.

[.Master Jiren, The Strongest]

theres a mod that fixes this. check out jet black skin mod for drow

[Abisha]

Blue to black i think

[Vimas]

Oh, well, in the current edition (5E) Wizards of the Coast avoided giving a complete description of the drow race, and in 2021 they retconned the lore a little bit. But, if you look at the art, yeah, some of the drow are as black as a starless night

[victorvnv]

Only white races like High elves, dwarves and halflings are now allowed to be black because if they are not then the devs are racisist

[id795078477]

Drow can be gray and even "classic" brown (coffee).

[stun]

Yeah
The darkest purples and blues are on the extreme upper end of lighter skinned drow from altmedia but for some reason drow can't be dark ingame.
I've just been playing an albino since they always existed, at least

[jack_of_tears]

The most important thing here, however, is that "Drows" is not the plural of Drow - it's simply Drow.