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Am I the only person who likes removal of evil races? (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 months ago by TheGreatDarkness@ttrpg.network to c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network

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I really think people blow this crying about Orcs out of proportion, there was NEVER an actually interesting villain in this game whose reasons of being a villain boil down only to "I'm an Orc, Goblin, Drow or other evil race". And saying a whole species is inherently evil effectively diminishes all evil they do because you are saying they never could choose not to do it, which reduces them to children who don't know better. People should move on and stop flooding my yt feed with identical videos repeating the same points.

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[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

But... what about demons/devils?

That's actually why orcs in D&D were an evil race in the first place. At its core, D&D is derived from Lord of the Rings. Orcs in Tolkien's world were created from elves by an evil god/demigod to be his evil army. They had no choice to be good or evil in LotR so that property was inherited into D&D.

I'm okay with this change. Orcs in D&D lore have a different origin than in LotR and I don't see why they should always be evil. I consider this just one more reasonable change from the original game which had odd rules like dwarves can't be wizards and only humans could be clerics.