As a result of WotC's OGL fuckery, Drow have been permanently deleted from the Pathfinder setting (to the extent of a full retcon of all existing material). But the comments harp endlessly on the "problematic" elements of the material, like slavery and their divinely-engineered BDSM society.

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[–]UncleWillard56 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You'd think with all the oppression in the real world (except for us white straight guys), they'd have more pressing matters than the fantasy backstory of an evil bunch of elves. It's ironic they're erasing the black elves too, as they seem to want to shoehorn them in to fantasy whenever they make a shitty movie or tv show. Drow Lives Matter!

[–]LordoftheFlies[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Gaming was an easy entry and takeover for the sort of people most likely to be ctrl-left/authoritarian progressive. The hobby naturally gathers those who aren't really welcome anywhere else and those people in turn are open-minded even when they otherwise shouldn't be, even to their own detriment.

And it's not really ironic at all. Remember that drow are villains, and presenting dark-skins as bad guys--especially on the level of a racial majority like drow typically are--is absolutely verboten! If they were a race of Mary Sue/Gary Stu player-insert heroes who can never lose, never do wrong, and represent every flavor of chubbo, moron, and sperg (while still somehow being the most attractive, capable, and popular people in any situation), Paizo would quite probably have bent itself into knots to keep them while removing the aspects that would otherwise have Hasbro's lawyers lubing up their dicks and getting ready for a fucking.