>the creator of drizzt
Well yeah, he clearly knows what hes talking about. Drizzt is the modern hamlet.
If someones prime achievement is ruining the "good dark elf" trope forever, then im not gonna take his advice on how to write evil races seriously.
He doesn't need to be a genius writer to notice a general trend. I mostly used the quote because it neatly summarised what I was trying to say.
By your logic you cannot use any humanoid creature as a stand in for evil to create a better story.
Problem is not with human-like characters being evil, problem is with them being evil by nature rather than by choice/nurture.
