Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Please give Drow their proper skin color.

Speaking as a fairly long time realms player, while drow are described as having jet black skin, they've often been DEPICTED in imagery with purple or grey skin. this is mostly, because shading black can be difficult so pure black skin would be difficult to shade and add detail. (Eddiar's portrait is IMHO some of the better drow art in terms of skin tone, and even then the skin is more a dark grey) Also in quite a few bits of older art they're depicted as having purpleish skin, this isn't supposed to be literal nesscarily but an attempt to handle shading.

[img]http://https://miro.medium.com/max/849/0*eZmgFJ3yeGPMXr_p[/img] (see this image as an example)

presumably Larian is simply trying to give people the tools to apper like the drow they may have seen on the cover of books etc.